Games like Settlements Rising
If Settlements Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder, Of Life and Land and Settlement Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, 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 →About Settlements Rising: Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
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Steam players who put hours into Settlements Rising 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.
Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Top pick for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settlements Rising.
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Of Life and Land
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Settlements Rising.
Second-strongest match for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settlements Rising.
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Settlement Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Third-strongest match for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Settlements Rising.
Ranked #4 for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Land of the Vikings
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Ranked #5 for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Settlements Rising.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building and a relaxing mood with Settlements Rising.
Ranked #6 for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares raider defense and a challenging mood with Settlements Rising.
Ranked #7 for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Ranked #8 for Settlements Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settlements Rising.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Settlements Rising
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Settlement Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Reviewers of Settlements Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares seasonal cycles, resource management and a peaceful mood with Settlements Rising.
Reviewers of Settlements Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settlements Rising.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Settlements Rising.
Reviewers of Settlements Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
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.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Settlements Rising.
Reviewers of Settlements Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Settlements Rising.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Settlements Rising at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
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 ~47% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Settlements Rising.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Settlements Rising.
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 ~58% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Settlements Rising.
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 ~61% under Settlements Rising on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Settlements Rising.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settlements Rising.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settlements Rising.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
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 Settlements Rising.
『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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settlements Rising.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Settlements Rising.
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 Settlements Rising
- Does Settlements Rising run on Steam Deck?
- Settlements Rising 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 Settlements Rising cost?
- Settlements Rising is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Settlements Rising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Settlements Rising are Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder, Of Life and Land, Settlement Survival.
- Who developed Settlements Rising?
- Settlements Rising was developed by The Catalyst Crew.
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