Games like Grim Realms
If Grim Realms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grim Nights, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Founders' Fortune — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 Grim Realms: A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Players who liked Grim Realms also play
Steam players who put hours into Grim Realms 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.
Grim Nights
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a grim mood with Grim Realms.
Top pick for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grim Realms.
Second-strongest match for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Grim Realms.
Third-strongest match for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Grim Realms.
Ranked #4 for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grim Realms.
Ranked #6 for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grim Realms.
Ranked #8 for Grim Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Grim Realms
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Craft The World
WHY THIS
Shares colony management with Grim Realms.
Reviewers of Grim Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Grim Realms.
Reviewers of Grim Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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.
Grim Nights
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a grim mood with Grim Realms.
Reviewers of Grim Realms cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grim Realms at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grim Realms.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
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 Grim Realms.
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 Indie and Simulation with Grim Realms.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Grim Realms.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grim Realms.
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. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Edym Pixels
Other recommendable Steam games by Edym Pixels, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Grim Nights
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a grim mood with Grim Realms.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Realms. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Break the Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Grim Realms.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Realms. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.
Hollow Island
WHY THIS
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Realms. Shares Indie with Grim Realms.
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
WHY THIS
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Realms.
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Grim Realms.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
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.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Grim Realms.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Realms.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Frequently asked about Grim Realms
- How much does Grim Realms cost?
- Grim Realms is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grim Realms?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grim Realms are Grim Nights, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Founders' Fortune.
- Who developed Grim Realms?
- Grim Realms was developed by Edym Pixels.
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 Grim Realms.
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