Games like Scorchlands
If Scorchlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Imagine Earth, Ratopia and Pan'orama — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and relaxing. 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 Scorchlands: Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Players who liked Scorchlands also play
Steam players who put hours into Scorchlands 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.
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Scorchlands.
Top pick for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Ratopia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Pan'orama
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Scorchlands.
Third-strongest match for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
Farlanders
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Scorchlands.
Ranked #4 for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Reus 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Scorchlands.
Ranked #5 for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Scorchlands.
Ranked #7 for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Scorchlands.
Ranked #8 for Scorchlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Scorchlands.
Reviewers of Scorchlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Scorchlands.
Reviewers of Scorchlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Dorfromantik
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Scorchlands.
Reviewers of Scorchlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Blue Prince
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Scorchlands.
Reviewers of Scorchlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scorchlands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scorchlands.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Scorchlands.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Scorchlands.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scorchlands.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Scorchlands.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Scorchlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scorchlands.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scorchlands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scorchlands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Scorchlands.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scorchlands.
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!
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Scorchlands.
『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 and Indie with Scorchlands.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Scorchlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Farlanders
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Scorchlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Reus 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Scorchlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Frequently asked about Scorchlands
- How much does Scorchlands cost?
- Scorchlands is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scorchlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scorchlands are Imagine Earth, Ratopia, Pan'orama.
- Who developed Scorchlands?
- Scorchlands was developed by Ringlab and published by Star Drifters.
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