Games like Craft The World
If Craft The World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stonehearth, Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 →Craft The World is a strategy and simulation game with RPG elements released in 2014, currently priced at $18.99 USD. The core experience centers on colony management, procedural excavation, resource gathering, and extensive crafting systems, with dwarves operating autonomously to dig, build, and defend. Players describe the game as chill, cozy, relaxing, and whimsical, finding the loop of digging, crafting, and defending satisfying during long sessions. Reviewers highlight the sandbox creativity enabled by endless crafting options, and the title supports online cooperative play alongside robust mod support and substantial DLC expansions. The game runs as playable on Steam Deck and holds an 83% positive rating from 4576 Steam reviews.
About Craft The World: Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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Steam players who put hours into Craft The World 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.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Craft The World.
Top pick for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Dwarf Fortress
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Second-strongest match for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Craft The World.
Third-strongest match for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
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.
Castle Story
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Ranked #4 for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Force of Nature
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Ranked #5 for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Kenshi
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Ranked #6 for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Craft The World.
Ranked #7 for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Craft The World.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Banished
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Shares mod support, resource management and a cozy mood with Craft The World.
Ranked #8 for Craft The World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft The World.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Craft The World
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Craft The World.
Reviewers of Craft The World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Craft The World.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and resource management with Craft The World.
Reviewers of Craft The World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craft The World.
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.
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Craft The World.
Reviewers of Craft The World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Craft The World.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Craft The World at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Craft The World.
Priced ~47% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Craft The World.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craft The World.
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
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Priced ~47% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craft The World.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craft The World.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~47% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Craft The World.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~74% under Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Craft The World.
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 Craft The World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Craft The World.
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?
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 Craft The World.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craft The World.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craft The World.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craft The World.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Craft The World.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Craft The World.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Craft The World.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Craft The World
- Does Craft The World run on Steam Deck?
- Craft The World 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 Craft The World cost?
- Craft The World is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Craft The World have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Craft The World supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Craft The World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Craft The World are Stonehearth, Dwarf Fortress, RimWorld.
- Who developed Craft The World?
- Craft The World was developed by Dekovir Entertainment and published by Dekovir Ltd.
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