Games like Bleak Frontier
If Bleak Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pan's Permia, Mandate Order and After Long Night — 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 Bleak Frontier: Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
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Steam players who put hours into Bleak Frontier 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.
Pan's Permia
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Top pick for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Bleak Frontier.
Pan's Permia is a planetary city builder survival game, with intricate building mechanics, villager survival, in depth army combat, and tower defense mechanics!
StrategySteam ↗Mandate Order
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Second-strongest match for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
After Long Night
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Third-strongest match for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Ascent of Ashes
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Ranked #4 for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Project Rebearth
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Ranked #5 for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth. The game is set 1000 years into the future where you rebuild society. Grow your town, trade with other players, face challenges and discover the rich history of this suspiciously empty planet.
Rebirth evolution
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Ranked #6 for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Here Comes The Swarm
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Ranked #7 for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Frozen Ship
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Ranked #8 for Bleak Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Bleak Frontier.
Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bleak Frontier at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleak Frontier.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleak Frontier.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleak Frontier.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bleak Frontier.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Bleak Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bleak Frontier.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bleak Frontier.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bleak Frontier.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Bleak Frontier.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Frequently asked about Bleak Frontier
- Does Bleak Frontier run on Steam Deck?
- Bleak Frontier 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 Bleak Frontier cost?
- Bleak Frontier is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bleak Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bleak Frontier are Pan's Permia, Mandate Order, After Long Night.
- Who developed Bleak Frontier?
- Bleak Frontier was developed by Paladite Games, LLC.
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