Games like Sapiens
If Sapiens is your kind of game, the closest matches are Colony Survival, Clanfolk and Per Aspera — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiplayer adds unexpected depth, chill and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Sapiens is a prehistoric tribe management simulation released in 2022 by Majic Jungle. Players establish and grow a prehistoric civilization across thousands of years of technological advancement, building towns and developing industry from humble beginnings. The game features automated task assignment, resource management, population growth, and a research system that reviewers describe as deeply satisfying. Online co-op allows multiple players to guide their tribes together, with players noting that the multiplayer mode adds unexpected depth. The experience carries an 82% positive rating from 1,336 Steam reviews, and players describe it as a chill and relaxing journey where progression feels smooth and rewarding. Sapiens is priced at $24.99 USD and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Sapiens: Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Players who liked Sapiens also play
Steam players who put hours into Sapiens also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Sapiens.
Top pick for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Sapiens.
Second-strongest match for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sapiens.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Sapiens.
Third-strongest match for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Sapiens.
Ranked #4 for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Primitive Society Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Sapiens.
Ranked #7 for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Sapiens.
Ranked #8 for Sapiens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sapiens.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sapiens at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Sapiens.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sapiens.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Sapiens on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Sapiens.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sapiens.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sapiens.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about Sapiens
- Does Sapiens work on Steam Deck?
- Sapiens is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Sapiens cost?
- Sapiens is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Sapiens have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sapiens supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Sapiens?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sapiens are Colony Survival, Clanfolk, Per Aspera.
- Who developed Sapiens?
- Sapiens was developed by Majic Jungle.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Sapiens.
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