Games like Settlement Survival
If Settlement Survival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Banished, Foundation and Kingdoms and Castles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its micro management matters, slow but rewarding progression and challenging. 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 →Settlement Survival is a city-building strategy game released in 2022 by Gleamer Studio, published by Team17. It is a challenging colony survival sim with industry simulation at its core. Players manage blueprint crafting, resource logistics, and tech tree progression while navigating random disasters that keep the experience unpredictable. The trade system adds strategic depth, and reviewers describe the progression as slow but rewarding, with tech trees feeling synergistic. Players describe it as contemplative, immersive, and stressful at times, with micro-management mattering significantly. The game runs at a medium length with sit-down sessions and is playable on Steam Deck. It costs $19.99 and holds an 85% positive rating from 2987 Steam reviews.
About Settlement Survival: 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.
Players who liked Settlement Survival also play
Steam players who put hours into Settlement Survival 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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Top pick for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Second-strongest match for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlement Survival.
Third-strongest match for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlement Survival.
Ranked #4 for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Ranked #5 for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression and a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Ranked #6 for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Settlement Survival.
Ranked #7 for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Ranked #8 for Settlement Survival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Settlement Survival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Settlement Survival.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Settlement Survival.
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 ~60% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Settlement Survival.
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 ~75% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Settlement Survival on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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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!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settlement Survival.
『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.
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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.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlement Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Settlement Survival.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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.
Frequently asked about Settlement Survival
- Does Settlement Survival run on Steam Deck?
- Settlement Survival 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 Settlement Survival cost?
- Settlement Survival is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Settlement Survival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Settlement Survival are Banished, Foundation, Kingdoms and Castles.
- Who developed Settlement Survival?
- Settlement Survival was developed by Gleamer Studio and published by Team17, Gleamer Studio.
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