Games like Folklands
If Folklands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Northgard: Definitive Edition and Stronghold HD (2012) — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Folklands: Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folklands.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folklands.
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 HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folklands.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Kingdoms Reborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folklands.
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.
The Colonists
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Folklands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Folklands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Folklands.
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.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Folklands.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
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 Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
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 Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folklands.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Folklands.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Folklands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Folklands.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Folklands.
『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.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Folklands.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Folklands.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Folklands
- Does Folklands work on Steam Deck?
- Folklands is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Folklands cost?
- Folklands is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Folklands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Folklands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Folklands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Folklands are Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Northgard: Definitive Edition, Stronghold HD (2012).
- Who developed Folklands?
- Folklands was developed by Bromantic Games and published by Light Up 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 Folklands.
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