Games like Craftlings
If Craftlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Wandering Village, Rail Route and Cog Foo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, nostalgic and relaxing. 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 Craftlings: Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.
Players who liked Craftlings also play
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The Wandering Village
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Top pick for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Cog Foo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Factory Town 2: Paradise
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Craftlings.
Ranked #6 for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Ranked #7 for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
STARIO: Haven Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Ranked #8 for Craftlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Craftlings
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Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Reviewers of Craftlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
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.
Zeus Begins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Craftlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
Pharaoh™: A New Era
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Craftlings.
Reviewers of Craftlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Save the settlers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Craftlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares production chains and a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Reviewers of Craftlings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Craftlings at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
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 Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
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 Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
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 ~63% under Craftlings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
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.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Mr.Mine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Revolution Idle
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?
Viridi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Nurture a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Viridi is a safe haven, a place you can return to for a moment of peace and quiet whenever you need it.
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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.
The Wandering Village
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Craftlings.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Craftlings.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Frequently asked about Craftlings
- Does Craftlings run on Steam Deck?
- Craftlings 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 Craftlings cost?
- Craftlings is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Craftlings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Craftlings are The Wandering Village, Rail Route, Cog Foo.
- Who developed Craftlings?
- Craftlings was developed by ARIANO Games GmbH.
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