Games like Farlanders
If Farlanders is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, Farlanders: Prologue and Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — 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 Farlanders: Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Players who liked Farlanders also play
Steam players who put hours into Farlanders 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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Farlanders.
Top pick for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Farlanders.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Farlanders: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Farlanders.
Second-strongest match for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Farlanders.
Third-strongest match for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Farlanders.
Ranked #4 for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Farlanders.
Ranked #5 for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Farlanders.
Ranked #6 for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Reus 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Farlanders.
Ranked #7 for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlanders.
Ranked #8 for Farlanders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Farlanders at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlanders.
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 ~67% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
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 ~47% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
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 ~50% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Farlanders.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Farlanders on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Indie with Farlanders.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Farlanders.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlanders.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farlanders.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farlanders.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Farlanders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Reus 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Farlanders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Farlanders.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farlanders.
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.
Frequently asked about Farlanders
- Is Farlanders verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Farlanders is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Farlanders cost?
- Farlanders is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Farlanders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Farlanders are Surviving Mars, Farlanders: Prologue, Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
- Who developed Farlanders?
- Farlanders was developed by Andriy Bychkovskyi and published by Crytivo.
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