Games like Clanfolk
If Clanfolk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Norland, Against the Storm and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. 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 →Clanfolk is a colony simulation game set in the Scottish Highlands, developed by MinMax Games Ltd. and published by Hooded Horse. Released in 2022 and currently in Early Access, the game tasks players with guiding a family clan through generations, managing village layouts, researching technologies, and surviving seasonal challenges in a historically detailed setting. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, cozy, and contemplative, with villagers developing distinct personalities and family lore over time. Reviewers highlight the smooth gameplay and charming art style alongside regular developer updates. The game features a character personality system and generation-based progression where children grow up, marry, and continue the family line. Clanfolk runs at a challenging difficulty across a massive session shape and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. The game holds a 93% positive rating from 2,028 Steam reviews at $29.99.
About Clanfolk: 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.
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Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Top pick for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Second-strongest match for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Third-strongest match for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Ranked #4 for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression and an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Ranked #6 for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Clanfolk.
Ranked #7 for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Ranked #8 for Clanfolk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clanfolk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Clanfolk.
Reviewers of Clanfolk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Reviewers of Clanfolk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Clanfolk.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clanfolk.
Reviewers of Clanfolk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Clanfolk at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Clanfolk.
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 Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Clanfolk.
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?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Clanfolk.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Clanfolk.
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 Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Clanfolk.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Clanfolk on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Clanfolk.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
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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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Clanfolk.
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 Clanfolk.
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 Clanfolk.
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!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Clanfolk.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Clanfolk.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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More from MinMax Games Ltd.
Other recommendable Steam games by MinMax Games Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Space Pirates And Zombies 2
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Clanfolk. Shares Strategy with Clanfolk.
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
Space Pirates and Zombies
WHY THIS
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Clanfolk. Shares Strategy and RPG with Clanfolk.
Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.
GolfTopia
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Clanfolk.
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Clanfolk. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clanfolk.
DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Clanfolk.
Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind Clanfolk. Shares Strategy with Clanfolk.
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Frequently asked about Clanfolk
- Does Clanfolk run on Steam Deck?
- Clanfolk 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 Clanfolk cost?
- Clanfolk is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Clanfolk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Clanfolk are Norland, Against the Storm, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.
- Who developed Clanfolk?
- Clanfolk was developed by MinMax Games Ltd. and published by Hooded Horse.
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