Games like Pioneers of Pagonia
If Pioneers of Pagonia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Northgard: Definitive Edition, Stronghold: Warlords and Kingdoms Reborn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its great value for money, low friction gameplay and nice old settlers feeling. 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 →Pioneers of Pagonia is a strategy and simulation game released in 2025 by Envision Entertainment, available for $34.99 USD. Players rebuild civilization across a fog-shrouded archipelago by establishing settlements, managing production chains, and guiding economic systems through a story campaign. The game features campaign guidance, save-anywhere pacing suited to short play sessions, and supports long-form engagement with normal difficulty. Reviewers note the experience evokes a classic Settlers aesthetic, and players describe it as nostalgic and relaxing with low-friction gameplay that feels like good value for the price. The title runs as Playable on Steam Deck, offering a solo-only city-building experience.
About Pioneers of Pagonia: 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.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
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Top pick for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Stronghold: Warlords
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Second-strongest match for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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!
Kingdoms Reborn
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Shares a relaxing mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Third-strongest match for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Ranked #4 for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Blacksmith Master
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Shares a relaxing mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Ranked #5 for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
RimWorld
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Ranked #6 for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
Driftland: The Magic Revival
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Shares a relaxing mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Ranked #7 for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
Foundation
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Shares a relaxing mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Ranked #8 for Pioneers of Pagonia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Save the settlers
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Reviewers of Pioneers of Pagonia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
Sky Settlers
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Reviewers of Pioneers of Pagonia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
Banished
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Shares a relaxing mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Reviewers of Pioneers of Pagonia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
Manor Lords
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Reviewers of Pioneers of Pagonia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
The Settlers: New Allies
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Shares production chains, city building and a nostalgic mood with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Reviewers of Pioneers of Pagonia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pioneers of Pagonia at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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?
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~60% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
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Priced ~43% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~71% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Priced ~43% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Balatro
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Priced ~66% under Pioneers of Pagonia on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Counter-Strike 2
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Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Pioneers of Pagonia.
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Frequently asked about Pioneers of Pagonia
- Does Pioneers of Pagonia run on Steam Deck?
- Pioneers of Pagonia 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 Pioneers of Pagonia cost?
- Pioneers of Pagonia is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pioneers of Pagonia have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pioneers of Pagonia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pioneers of Pagonia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pioneers of Pagonia are Northgard: Definitive Edition, Stronghold: Warlords, Kingdoms Reborn.
- Who developed Pioneers of Pagonia?
- Pioneers of Pagonia was developed by Envision Entertainment.
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