Games like Border Pioneer
If Border Pioneer is your kind of game, the closest matches are There Are No Orcs, Last Stand: Defense and Thronefall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Border Pioneer: As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!
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There Are No Orcs
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, build variety, action adventure and a whimsical mood with Border Pioneer.
Top pick for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!
Last Stand: Defense
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, indie and an atmospheric mood with Border Pioneer.
Second-strongest match for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Border Pioneer.
"Last Stand:Defense" is a tower defense-themed Rogue-like game. Players need to defend against waves of enemies by building bases, matching talents, and performing delicate operations during battles. Remember, every choice you make will affect the final outcome of the battle!
Thronefall
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Third-strongest match for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Border Pioneer.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Kingdom Of Force
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
KOF is a magic background real-time strategy game, which is based on the method of dispatching troops to occupy the city, and combines the elements of resource collection, construction, upgrading, tower defense and so on.
The King is Watching
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival, strategy and an atmospheric mood with Border Pioneer.
Ranked #5 for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
希望之城 The City Of Hope
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, meta progression, strategy and an atmospheric mood with Border Pioneer.
Ranked #6 for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
A light city-building game that combines elements of card games and tower defense, where players must survive daily enemy attacks and gradually grow their strength to ultimately defeat powerful invaders.
Diplomacy is Not an Option
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Ranked #7 for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Border Pioneer.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Border Pioneer.
Ranked #8 for Border Pioneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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.
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Orcs Must Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Border Pioneer.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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!
Super Fantasy Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, base building, strategy and a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Shares card based combat, replayability, dark fantasy and an atmospheric mood with Border Pioneer.
Reviewers of Border Pioneer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Border Pioneer at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Border Pioneer.
Priced ~58% under Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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 Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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 Border Pioneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Border Pioneer.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Border Pioneer.
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 Border Pioneer
- Does Border Pioneer run on Steam Deck?
- Border Pioneer 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 Border Pioneer cost?
- Border Pioneer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Border Pioneer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Border Pioneer are There Are No Orcs, Last Stand: Defense, Thronefall.
- Who developed Border Pioneer?
- Border Pioneer was developed by Yahzj Games and published by Yogscast Games, Gamersky Games.
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