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Games like Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai

If Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corsair Cove, Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn and Offshore Prophets — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai: A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationWindowsby Ufuk Yurtman
Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai 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.

  1. Corsair Cove

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Offshore Prophets

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.

    StrategySteam ↗
  4. Steel Artery: Train City Builder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. Whiskerwood

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

    2025StrategySimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Nova Roma

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

    2026StrategySimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Here Comes The Swarm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai

What games are most similar to Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai are Corsair Cove, Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn, Offshore Prophets.
Who developed Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai?
Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai was developed by Ufuk Yurtman.

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 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai.

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