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Games like Kingdoms Reborn

If Kingdoms Reborn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Northgard: Definitive Edition, Frozenheim and Foundation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill gameplay, expand rapidly and manage population. 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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Kingdoms Reborn is a strategy and colony simulation game set in a procedurally generated world where players guide settlements from humble medieval origins through to prosperous empires. The title features a card-based system that shapes expansion and resource management alongside traditional city-builder mechanics. Players can engage in online co-op with friends or compete in multiplayer modes, managing growing populations across an escalating difficulty curve. The game runs on Steam Deck and carries a 90% positive rating from over 4,300 Steam reviews. Players describe the experience as a surprisingly chill take on the genre despite its challenging scope, with the unique card system cited as a distinctive hook for those who enjoy managing economies and expanding rapidly with friends.

About Kingdoms Reborn: 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.

2020StrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Earthshine
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Steam players who put hours into Kingdoms Reborn 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. Northgard: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Top pick for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Frozenheim

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Second-strongest match for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

    2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Foundation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Third-strongest match for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Kingdoms and Castles

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Ranked #4 for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Pioneers of Pagonia

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Ranked #5 for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

    2025StrategySimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Stronghold: Warlords

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Ranked #7 for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Anno 1800

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kingdoms Reborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

    2019StrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdoms Reborn

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Reviewers of Kingdoms Reborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdoms Reborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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 ↗
  3. Pharaoh™: A New Era

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Reviewers of Kingdoms Reborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

    2023StrategySimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sky Settlers

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdoms Reborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation1.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Settlers: New Allies

    WHY THIS

    Shares population management, resource management and a chill mood with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Reviewers of Kingdoms Reborn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Kingdoms Reborn.

    The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

    2024Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdoms Reborn at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Kingdoms Reborn.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kingdoms Reborn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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 ↗
  5. 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 ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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 Simulation with Kingdoms Reborn.

    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 Kingdoms Reborn

Does Kingdoms Reborn run on Steam Deck?
Kingdoms Reborn 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 Kingdoms Reborn cost?
Kingdoms Reborn is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Kingdoms Reborn have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Kingdoms Reborn supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Kingdoms Reborn?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdoms Reborn are Northgard: Definitive Edition, Frozenheim, Foundation.
Who developed Kingdoms Reborn?
Kingdoms Reborn was developed by Earthshine.

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 Kingdoms Reborn.

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