Games like Sumerians
If Sumerians is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ostriv, Land of the Vikings and Endzone - A World Apart — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Sumerians: Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
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Steam players who put hours into Sumerians 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.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Top pick for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Land of the Vikings
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Sumerians.
Second-strongest match for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Third-strongest match for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sumerians.
Ranked #4 for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Thriving City: Song
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Ranked #5 for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Citadelum
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Ranked #6 for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
Of Life and Land
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Ranked #7 for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Builders of Greece
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Ranked #8 for Sumerians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sumerians
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CivCity: Rome
WHY THIS
Shares campaign progression and a challenging mood with Sumerians.
Reviewers of Sumerians cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sumerians.
Reviewers of Sumerians cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Sumerians.
Reviewers of Sumerians cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Sumerians.
Reviewers of Sumerians cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sumerians at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sumerians.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Sumerians on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Sumerians.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Sumerians.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Sumerians
- Does Sumerians run on Steam Deck?
- Sumerians is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Sumerians cost?
- Sumerians is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sumerians?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sumerians are Ostriv, Land of the Vikings, Endzone - A World Apart.
- Who developed Sumerians?
- Sumerians was developed by Decumanus Games and published by Melqart Games.
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