Games like It Takes a Tribe
If It Takes a Tribe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Folk Emerging, Old World and Songs of Silence — 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 It Takes a Tribe: A turn-based strategy where you build culture, not cities. Migrate your hunter-gatherer tribe across a simulated ecosystem, survive harsh seasons and awaken mythical beings. Design powerful art inspired by your journey. What stories will your tribe tell?
Players who liked It Takes a Tribe also play
Steam players who put hours into It Takes a Tribe 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.
Folk Emerging
WHY THIS
Top pick for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Old World
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Songs of Silence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
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.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for It Takes a Tribe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
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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.
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Simulation and RPG with It Takes a Tribe.
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
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DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
『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 with It Takes a Tribe.
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 Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Songs of Silence
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with It Takes a Tribe.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Frequently asked about It Takes a Tribe
- What games are most similar to It Takes a Tribe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Takes a Tribe are Folk Emerging, Old World, Songs of Silence.
- Who developed It Takes a Tribe?
- It Takes a Tribe was developed by Bad Cog.
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 It Takes a Tribe.
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