Games like Blacksmith Master
If Blacksmith Master is your kind of game, the closest matches are Norland, Captain of Industry and Clanfolk — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 →Blacksmith Master is a strategy and simulation game released in 2025 by Untitled Studio and published by Hooded Horse, available for $19.99. Set in a medieval workshop, it tasks players with managing the complete smithy operation from mining raw materials to designing and selling finished products. The game features mechanics including base-building, blueprint-unlocking, crafting, automation, employee management, and layout optimization, progressing through a business-management structure with grind-based progression. Reviewers highlight the medieval craft aesthetic and sounds, the beautiful environment with detailed paintings, and smooth performance on low-end machines. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, cozy, and immersive, with the satisfying hook of designing efficient factory-like workshop systems and unlocking new content through constant updates. It is playable on Steam Deck, supports solo play only, and holds 85% positive reviews from 1169 Steam users.
About Blacksmith Master: 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.
Players who liked Blacksmith Master also play
Steam players who put hours into Blacksmith Master 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.
Norland
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Top pick for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Blacksmith Master.
Second-strongest match for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Clanfolk
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Shares tech tree progression and an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Third-strongest match for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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.
Manor Lords
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Ranked #4 for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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.
Whiskerwood
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Shares tech tree progression, resource gathering, grind based progression and an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Ranked #5 for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Against the Storm
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Ranked #6 for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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.
Corsair Cove
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Ranked #7 for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blacksmith Master.
Ranked #8 for Blacksmith Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blacksmith Master at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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 ~50% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Blacksmith Master.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Blacksmith Master.
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
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Priced ~63% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blacksmith Master.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~50% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blacksmith Master.
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 ~60% under Blacksmith Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blacksmith Master.
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...
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Blacksmith Master.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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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 Blacksmith Master.
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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 Blacksmith Master.
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!
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Frequently asked about Blacksmith Master
- Does Blacksmith Master run on Steam Deck?
- Blacksmith Master 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 Blacksmith Master cost?
- Blacksmith Master is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blacksmith Master?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blacksmith Master are Norland, Captain of Industry, Clanfolk.
- Who developed Blacksmith Master?
- Blacksmith Master was developed by Untitled Studio and published by Hooded Horse.
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