Games like Flooded
If Flooded is your kind of game, the closest matches are COPA CITY, T-Minus 30 and Stronghold HD (2012) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and tense. 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 Flooded: Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Players who liked Flooded also play
Steam players who put hours into Flooded 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.
COPA CITY
WHY THIS
Top pick for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.
T-Minus 30
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Flooded.
Second-strongest match for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Stronghold HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Flooded.
Third-strongest match for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Timber
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Build and manage your industrial empire unlike ever before. Dive into Timber: where strategic resource management meets the forest.
Time's Up in Tiny Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Time's Up in Tiny Town is a fast-paced city-builder, in a pocket-sized world.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Flooded.
Ranked #6 for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Flooded.
Ranked #7 for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Flooded.
Ranked #8 for Flooded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Flooded.
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Flooded
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RollerCoaster Tycoon World™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flooded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flooded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
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.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Flooded.
Reviewers of Flooded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flooded cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Flooded.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Flooded at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Flooded.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Flooded.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Flooded.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Flooded.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Flooded.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Flooded.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Flooded.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Flooded on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Flooded.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Flooded.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Flooded.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Flooded.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Flooded.
『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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Flooded.
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 Flooded.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Flooded.
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 with Flooded.
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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Frequently asked about Flooded
- Does Flooded run on Steam Deck?
- Flooded 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 Flooded cost?
- Flooded is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Flooded?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Flooded are COPA CITY, T-Minus 30, Stronghold HD (2012).
- Who developed Flooded?
- Flooded was developed by Artificial Disasters and published by Artificial Disasters, Surefire.Games, better. publishing.
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