Games like Against the Storm
If Against the Storm is your kind of game, the closest matches are RimWorld, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Timberborn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive core loop, cyclical roguelike progression and dark fantasy atmosphere. 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 →Against the Storm is a dark fantasy city-builder released in 2023 that tasks players with rebuilding civilization amid apocalyptic conditions. Taking on the role of the Queen's Viceroy, players guide multiple species including humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies through challenging survival scenarios. The game combines resource management and intricate crafting chains with roguelite progression systems, meta-upgrades, and procedural generation, creating a demanding strategy experience. Players describe the atmosphere as both contemplative and whimsical, with mastering survival economics cited as a core hook across reviews. The game holds a 95% positive rating from over 18,000 Steam reviews and a 91 Metacritic score, reflecting broad critical acclaim. Priced at $29.99 and verified for Steam Deck, Against the Storm offers substantial depth for strategy enthusiasts seeking a lengthy and engaging experience.
About Against the Storm: A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Against the Storm.
Top pick for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Second-strongest match for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Against the Storm.
Third-strongest match for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Ranked #4 for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Ranked #5 for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Ranked #6 for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Ranked #7 for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Ranked #8 for Against the Storm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Against the Storm
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Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
IXION
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Against the Storm.
Reviewers of Against the Storm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Against the Storm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Against the Storm.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Against the Storm.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Against the Storm.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Against the Storm on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Against the Storm.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Against the Storm.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
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 Simulation with Against the Storm.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Against the Storm
- Is Against the Storm verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Against the Storm 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 Against the Storm cost?
- Against the Storm is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Against the Storm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Against the Storm are RimWorld, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Timberborn.
- Who developed Against the Storm?
- Against the Storm was developed by Eremite Games and published by Hooded Horse.
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 Against the Storm.
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