Games like Bastide
If Bastide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdoms Reborn, Founders' Fortune and Life is Feudal: Forest Village — 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 Bastide: Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.
Players who liked Bastide also play
Steam players who put hours into Bastide 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.
Kingdoms Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Bastide.
Top pick for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Bastide.
Second-strongest match for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Third-strongest match for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Mars Attracts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Ranked #4 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bastide.
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Of Life and Land
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Ranked #5 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Bastide.
Ranked #6 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Bastide.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Grand Ages: Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Bastide.
Ranked #7 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bastide.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Ranked #8 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Bastide
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Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Reviewers of Bastide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Reviewers of Bastide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bastide.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares population growth and a relaxing mood with Bastide.
Reviewers of Bastide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bastide.
Reviewers of Bastide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bastide at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bastide.
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 ~62% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bastide.
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 ~46% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Bastide.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bastide.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bastide.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bastide.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Bastide on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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.
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 Action and Indie with Bastide.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bastide.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Bastide.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bastide.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bastide.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bastide.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Bastide.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Bastide
- How much does Bastide cost?
- Bastide is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bastide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bastide are Kingdoms Reborn, Founders' Fortune, Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
- Who developed Bastide?
- Bastide was developed by MedievalNexus.
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 Bastide.
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