Games like Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
If Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pico Islands, Cardboard Town and Power of the Ancients — 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 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization: Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
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Pico Islands
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.
Cardboard Town
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Second-strongest match for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Power of the Ancients
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
A mostly peaceful pixely isometric city builder with a bit of magic. Four different people live in the four quadrants of the pyramid. Fishermen, farmers, fire people, magicians. Gather resources, build homes, challenge demons and create a thriving city while preparing for winter.
Block Tower TD 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Block Tower TD 2 is a strategic game in the roguelike style with original innovations. Build worlds from blocks, choose random upgrades, each game will be unique.
Sunderborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
This is a multiplayer asynchronous sandbox with elements of puzzles, logic games, world exploration, and strategy. Take on the role of the Creator, shaping your own reality out of the surrounding Chaos. Manage your created world and compete with other Gods!
War for the Overworld
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Ranked #6 for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Skyward
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Build against the oncoming storm in an island hopping, rune collecting, roguelite citybuilder!
Firekeep
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Firekeep is a minimalist, relaxing strategy game about building a tiny, sustainable city in the cold void of space. Build, combine and upgrade dozens of unique buildings to overcome procedurally-generated islands and keep your fire burning.
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Populous™: The Beginning
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Reviewers of Kainga: Seeds of Civilization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood.
Settlement Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Reviewers of Kainga: Seeds of Civilization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Reviewers of Kainga: Seeds of Civilization cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kainga: Seeds of Civilization at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
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 ~50% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
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 Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
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!
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kainga: Seeds of Civilization.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Frequently asked about Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
- Does Kainga: Seeds of Civilization run on Steam Deck?
- Kainga: Seeds of Civilization 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 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization cost?
- Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kainga: Seeds of Civilization?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kainga: Seeds of Civilization are Pico Islands, Cardboard Town, Power of the Ancients.
- Who developed Kainga: Seeds of Civilization?
- Kainga: Seeds of Civilization was developed by Erik Rempen and published by Silk Softworks.
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