Games like Folk Tale
If Folk Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Towns, Banished and Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its defend against expanding threats, equip colonists with gear 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 →Folk Tale is an indie strategy and simulation game developed by Games Foundry that combines city-building with RPG elements in a fantasy setting. Players manage a growing colony while recruiting heroes who venture into instanced dungeons to battle bosses and collect loot. The core systems include crafting, equipment management, and a research tree that drives progression, alongside colony management and modding support for custom content. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with reviewers highlighting hero quests in instanced dungeons, equipping colonists with gear, and defending against expanding threats as key hooks. The game is playable on Steam Deck and has received a mixed reception with 37% positive reviews from over 2,200 Steam users.
About Folk Tale: Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.
Players who liked Folk Tale also play
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Towns
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Top pick for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Banished
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Shares a contemplative mood with Folk Tale.
Second-strongest match for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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.
Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Folk Tale.
Third-strongest match for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Kingdom Wars
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Ranked #4 for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
Foundation
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Shares a contemplative mood with Folk Tale.
Ranked #5 for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Folk Tale.
Ranked #6 for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Grand Ages: Medieval
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Shares a contemplative mood with Folk Tale.
Ranked #7 for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folk Tale.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Spacebase DF-9
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Shares a challenging mood with Folk Tale.
Ranked #8 for Folk Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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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. Shares Indie with Folk Tale.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Folk Tale.
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NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Folk Tale.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Folk Tale.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Folk Tale.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Folk Tale.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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!
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Frequently asked about Folk Tale
- Does Folk Tale run on Steam Deck?
- Folk Tale is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to Folk Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Folk Tale are Towns, Banished, Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim.
- Who developed Folk Tale?
- Folk Tale was developed by Games Foundry and published by Games Foundry .
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 Folk Tale.
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