Games like Ratopia
If Ratopia is your kind of game, the closest matches are RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress and Against the Storm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical economic management matters, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 Ratopia: Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Players who liked Ratopia also play
Steam players who put hours into Ratopia 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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Ratopia.
Top pick for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ratopia.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Second-strongest match for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ratopia.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Third-strongest match for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
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.
Empires of the Undergrowth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Ranked #4 for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Ranked #5 for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Ranked #6 for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Ranked #7 for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Ranked #8 for Ratopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ratopia.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ratopia
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Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ratopia.
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.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Ratopia.
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratopia.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with Ratopia.
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ratopia.
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.
Ratropolis
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ratopia.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Rune Factory 5
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Ratopia.
As the newest ranger of a peacekeeping organization known as SEED, protect your community by rounding up rowdy monsters and going on special missions. Cultivate your farm and friendships alike while unravelling rune-related mysteries!
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ratopia.
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ratopia.
Welcome to the eastern nation of Azuma! In this fresh take on Rune Factory, use your powers as an Earth Dancer to restore the land, its people, and even its gods. Along the way, battle corrupted monsters, rebuild seasonal farms and villages, and form bonds with the colorful locals.
Spelunky
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ratopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Ratopia.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ratopia at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Ratopia.
Priced ~55% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ratopia.
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 ~55% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ratopia.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ratopia.
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 ~64% under Ratopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ratopia.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ratopia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ratopia.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ratopia.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ratopia.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ratopia.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Ratopia
- Does Ratopia run on Steam Deck?
- Ratopia 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 Ratopia cost?
- Ratopia is listed on Steam at 22.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ratopia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ratopia are RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, Against the Storm.
- Who developed Ratopia?
- Ratopia was developed by Cassel Games.
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