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Games like Village & Monsters

If Village & Monsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hexity, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Floodland — 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.

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About Village & Monsters: Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.

2023StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDWindowsby Ilya873
Village & Monsters — Steam game cover

Players who liked Village & Monsters also play

Steam players who put hours into Village & Monsters 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.

  1. Hexity

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Floodland

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

    2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Catizens

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation17.77 USDSteam ↗
  5. Autonauts vs Piratebots

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Last Haven

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Oxygen

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. After the Collapse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Village & Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Village & Monsters at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Village & Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Ilya873

Other recommendable Steam games by Ilya873, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Glory to the Robots!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ilya873, the studio behind Village & Monsters. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    A game in the genre of management strategy. Here you can build your own factory for the production of robots, and on another planet, and extract resources and test robots on other different planets.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. THE ABYSS

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ilya873, the studio behind Village & Monsters.

    THE ABYSS is a 2D puzzle about descent, in order to pass the levels you need to score a certain number of points and choose the right ways to pass the level.

    2023AdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hearth & Shadow

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ilya873, the studio behind Village & Monsters. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions. Try different combinations, unlock new buildings and outposts, or upgrade them, and monitor your settlement's and defenses to defeat the monsters and save your human settlement!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation1.39 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Village & Monsters

How much does Village & Monsters cost?
Village & Monsters is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Village & Monsters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Village & Monsters are Hexity, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Floodland.
Who developed Village & Monsters?
Village & Monsters was developed by Ilya873 and published by Piece Of Voxel.

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 Village & Monsters.

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