Games like Anvil Saga
If Anvil Saga is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hammerting, Foundation and Founders' Fortune — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its intimate colony management loop, challenging and comedic. 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 Anvil Saga: Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Players who liked Anvil Saga also play
Steam players who put hours into Anvil Saga 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.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Anvil Saga.
Top pick for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Anvil Saga.
Second-strongest match for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Anvil Saga.
Third-strongest match for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
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.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Anvil Saga.
Ranked #4 for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Anvil Saga.
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?
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Anvil Saga.
Ranked #5 for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
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!
Travellers Rest
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Anvil Saga.
Ranked #7 for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Anvil Saga.
Ranked #8 for Anvil Saga fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anvil Saga at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anvil Saga.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Anvil Saga.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil Saga.
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 ~60% under Anvil Saga on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anvil Saga.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anvil Saga.
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 Anvil Saga.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anvil Saga.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil Saga.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil Saga.
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.
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Frequently asked about Anvil Saga
- Does Anvil Saga run on Steam Deck?
- Anvil Saga 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 Anvil Saga cost?
- Anvil Saga is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anvil Saga?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anvil Saga are Hammerting, Foundation, Founders' Fortune.
- Who developed Anvil Saga?
- Anvil Saga was developed by Pirozhok Studio and published by HeroCraft PC.
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 Anvil Saga.
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