Games like Bastide
Below are 12 hand-picked alternatives to Bastide for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Bastide also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Foundation
Top pick for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.
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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Kingdoms Reborn
Second-strongest match 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.
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Founders' Fortune
Third-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.
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First Feudal
Ranked #4 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.
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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Ranked #5 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.
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Grand Ages: Medieval
Ranked #6 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.
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Tavern Master
Ranked #7 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bastide.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
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The Crust
Ranked #8 for Bastide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bastide.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Bastide
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Banished
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.
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Ostriv
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.
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Farthest Frontier
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.
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Manor Lords
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.
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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 Foundation, Kingdoms Reborn, Founders' Fortune.
- 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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