Games like Monastery Builder
If Monastery Builder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chinese Frontiers, KERF: Sawmill Tycoon and Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Monastery Builder: Become a monk in a medieval European monastery. Be diligent with your duties, and develop and expand your friary. Learn plenty of useful skills and contribute to raising the standard of living for the local community.
Players who liked Monastery Builder also play
Steam players who put hours into Monastery Builder 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.
Chinese Frontiers
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Top pick for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
KERF: Sawmill Tycoon
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Second-strongest match for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Fell trees with your own hands, saw logs into planks, chop firewood, craft furniture and sell it all to your customers. A first-person sawmill tycoon where you do the work yourself: take on commissions, hire a crew, replant the forest and grow a humble yard into a timber empire.
Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Trade horses, formulate feed, and breed generations of elite stallions, racehorses, draft mounts, war horses, and more. Train, auction, mine, forge, farm, run caravans, build a mercenary force, and deal with powerful lords. Dominate the medieval horse trade.
Fjordal
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Ranked #4 for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.
Waterpark Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Noble Legacy
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Ranked #6 for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Monastery Builder.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Littlewood
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Ranked #7 for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Monastery Builder.
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Cowboy Life Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Monastery Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Monastery Builder.
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Monastery Builder.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Monastery Builder.
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
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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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Monastery Builder.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Monastery Builder.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from SolidGames
Other recommendable Steam games by SolidGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Chinese Frontiers
WHY THIS
Another title from SolidGames, the studio behind Monastery Builder. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Monastery Builder.
Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.
Venice Master
WHY THIS
Another title from SolidGames, the studio behind Monastery Builder. Shares Simulation and RPG with Monastery Builder.
Become a craftsman in the Renaissance Venice. Develop business after business, be resourceful and creative. Many tasks can be completed only if you construct the most suitable machines first. No need to give it any more thought, just roll up your sleeves and get to work!
Spooky Ride
WHY THIS
Another title from SolidGames, the studio behind Monastery Builder. Shares Adventure with Monastery Builder.
Team up with friends to navigate treacherous trials on bikes while carrying a demanding passenger who literally holds the world together. Keep Little Foot happy and calm to survive the madness, or prepare to watch your friendship (and the universe) fall apart in spectacular fashion.
Frequently asked about Monastery Builder
- What games are most similar to Monastery Builder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monastery Builder are Chinese Frontiers, KERF: Sawmill Tycoon, Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator.
- Who developed Monastery Builder?
- Monastery Builder was developed by SolidGames.
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 Monastery Builder.
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