Games like Exodus Borealis
If Exodus Borealis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Liftlands, Night is Coming and Scarecropia — 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 Exodus Borealis: In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
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Steam players who put hours into Exodus Borealis 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.
Liftlands
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Top pick for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
StrategySteam ↗Night is Coming
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exodus Borealis.
Second-strongest match for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Scarecropia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Planeta
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Ranked #4 for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Alpha Lyrae Discovery
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Ranked #5 for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."
Alien Land
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
These Doomed Isles
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Shares a whimsical mood with Exodus Borealis.
Ranked #7 for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Deisim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exodus Borealis.
Ranked #8 for Exodus Borealis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
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Tropico 4
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Shares a whimsical mood with Exodus Borealis.
Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Exodus Borealis.
Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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 a challenging mood with Exodus Borealis.
Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Exodus Borealis.
Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Aircraft War
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Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fight against enemy planes with the fun Aircraft War! Challenge your friends with single and double player modes. Conquer the sky, enjoy the victory!
Outpost
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Shares a contemplative mood with Exodus Borealis.
Reviewers of Exodus Borealis cross-mention this title as a similar play.
this is a tower defence game,we need upgrade our weapons to fight waves of enemies,robots can mining diamonds,and we need spent those in many aspect，features of this game: 1 return back before dager comes,2tempory upgrade are important but permanent upgrade are better
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exodus Borealis at current Steam store prices.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~69% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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
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Priced ~60% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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
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Priced ~75% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~50% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~75% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~75% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
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Priced ~75% under Exodus Borealis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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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!
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
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
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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!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Exodus Borealis.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Exodus Borealis
- Does Exodus Borealis run on Steam Deck?
- Exodus Borealis 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 Exodus Borealis cost?
- Exodus Borealis is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exodus Borealis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exodus Borealis are Liftlands, Night is Coming, Scarecropia.
- Who developed Exodus Borealis?
- Exodus Borealis was developed by Smug Marmot Studios.
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