Games like Gnomoria
If Gnomoria is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, Towns and Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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 →Gnomoria is a sandbox strategy and simulation game released in 2016 where players guide a small gnome settlement toward becoming a thriving kingdom. The game features deep crafting and construction systems, procedural colony management, terrain manipulation, workshop automation, and mod support, all presented in an isometric perspective. Players describe the experience as challenging yet relaxing and contemplative, with a whimsical tone throughout. Reviewers highlight the colorful isometric art style, the satisfaction of progression from basic survival to a prosperous kingdom, and how sandbox freedom allows players to define their own objectives. Mods further expand the systems for more complex playthroughs. Priced at $14.99, it holds a 74% positive rating from over 2,100 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Gnomoria: Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Players who liked Gnomoria also play
Steam players who put hours into Gnomoria 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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Top pick for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Towns
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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?
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Third-strongest match for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a relaxing mood with Gnomoria.
Ranked #4 for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a relaxing mood with Gnomoria.
Ranked #5 for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Gnomoria.
Ranked #6 for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Ranked #7 for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gnomoria.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Ranked #8 for Gnomoria fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Gnomoria
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a contemplative mood with Gnomoria.
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
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.
Towns
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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?
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gnomoria.
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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.
Evil Genius
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Gnomoria.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Timber and Stone
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gnomoria.
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
The Spatials
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Gnomoria.
Reviewers of Gnomoria cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gnomoria at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
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 ~47% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
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 ~50% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gnomoria.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gnomoria on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
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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 Gnomoria.
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Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
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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 Gnomoria.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Gnomoria.
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Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gnomoria.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Gnomoria
- Does Gnomoria run on Steam Deck?
- Gnomoria 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 Gnomoria cost?
- Gnomoria is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gnomoria?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gnomoria are Dwarf Fortress, Towns, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation.
- Who developed Gnomoria?
- Gnomoria was developed by Robotronic Games.
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 Gnomoria.
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