Games like Havendock
If Havendock is your kind of game, the closest matches are Autonauts, Timberborn and Catizens — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cute fun resource management, many islands to explore and pretty good progression. 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 Havendock: Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Players who liked Havendock also play
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Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Top pick for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Second-strongest match for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
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.
Catizens
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Havendock.
Third-strongest match for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Ranked #5 for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Havendock.
Ranked #7 for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Havendock.
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.
No Place Like Home
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Ranked #8 for Havendock fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
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Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Havendock.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
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.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Havendock.
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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?
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Havendock.
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Havendock.
Reviewers of Havendock cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Havendock at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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 Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Havendock.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Havendock.
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 Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Havendock.
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 Havendock on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Havendock.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Havendock.
『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 and Indie with Havendock.
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 Indie and Simulation with Havendock.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Havendock.
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.
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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.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Havendock.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Havendock.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Havendock.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Havendock.
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.
Frequently asked about Havendock
- Does Havendock run on Steam Deck?
- Havendock 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 Havendock cost?
- Havendock is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Havendock?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Havendock are Autonauts, Timberborn, Catizens.
- Who developed Havendock?
- Havendock was developed by YYZ Studio and published by Pretty Soon, IndieArk.
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 Havendock.
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