Games like Paragon Pioneers
If Paragon Pioneers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Foundation, Founders' Fortune and Prison Architect — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and peaceful. 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 Paragon Pioneers: Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
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Steam players who put hours into Paragon Pioneers 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
Shares a cozy mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Top pick for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Ranked #4 for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Ranked #5 for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Ranked #6 for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Ranked #7 for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paragon Pioneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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The Settlers Online
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Reviewers of Paragon Pioneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Build a medieval kingdom in The Settlers Online!
Sky Settlers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paragon Pioneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares population management and a chill mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Reviewers of Paragon Pioneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Paragon Pioneers.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Annor
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paragon Pioneers cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Annor is a puzzle adventure where the player incarnate an explorer progressing through a city mined by hidden enemies to reach the stone of Annor. Illuminate your environment with your scepter to detect the keys of the puzzle and the threat in order to fight it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paragon Pioneers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paragon Pioneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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 Paragon Pioneers.
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 Paragon Pioneers.
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 Paragon Pioneers.
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 Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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 with Paragon Pioneers.
『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 Paragon Pioneers.
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 Paragon Pioneers.
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!
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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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.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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.
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Paragon Pioneers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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.
Frequently asked about Paragon Pioneers
- Does Paragon Pioneers work on Steam Deck?
- Paragon Pioneers is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Paragon Pioneers cost?
- Paragon Pioneers is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paragon Pioneers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paragon Pioneers are Foundation, Founders' Fortune, Prison Architect.
- Who developed Paragon Pioneers?
- Paragon Pioneers was developed by Tobias Arlt.
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