Games like Land of the Vikings
If Land of the Vikings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Foundation, Ostriv and Frozenheim — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dynamic people jobs system, tactical depth to raids and challenging. 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 →Land of the Vikings is a strategy city-builder released in 2023 by Laps Games and published by Iceberg Interactive. Set in a Viking settlement, the game tasks players with managing resources, developing their village into a thriving city, and navigating social dynamics among their people. The core systems include an economy simulation, a raid system, a technology tree, and a dynamic people-and-jobs system that reviewers highlight as a notable hook. Players describe the experience as challenging and sometimes stressful, requiring careful planning and tactical depth to raids. The game supports solo play only, runs at a normal difficulty with medium-length sessions, and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. It currently holds a 71% positive rating based on 1115 Steam reviews.
About Land of the Vikings: Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
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Steam players who put hours into Land of the Vikings 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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Top pick for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Frozenheim
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Land of the Vikings.
Ranked #4 for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Land of the Vikings.
Ranked #5 for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Land of the Vikings.
Ranked #6 for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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.
Settlements Rising
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Land of the Vikings.
Ranked #7 for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Land of the Vikings.
Ranked #8 for Land of the Vikings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Land of the Vikings
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Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Land of the Vikings.
Reviewers of Land of the Vikings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Medieval Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Land of the Vikings.
Reviewers of Land of the Vikings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Land of the Vikings.
Reviewers of Land of the Vikings cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Land of the Vikings at current Steam store prices.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~46% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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.
Balatro
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Priced ~54% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~71% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~76% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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!
Inscryption
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Priced ~69% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~81% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~62% under Land of the Vikings on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
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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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Land of the Vikings.
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.
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Frequently asked about Land of the Vikings
- Does Land of the Vikings run on Steam Deck?
- Land of the Vikings 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 Land of the Vikings cost?
- Land of the Vikings is listed on Steam at 25.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Land of the Vikings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Land of the Vikings are Foundation, Ostriv, Frozenheim.
- Who developed Land of the Vikings?
- Land of the Vikings was developed by Laps Games and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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