Games like Stonehearth
If Stonehearth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Castle Story, Craft The World and Colony Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active modding community, charming graphics and fantasy elements. 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 →Stonehearth is a strategy and simulation game released in 2018 by Radiant Entertainment. Players build and manage a settlement in a voxel fantasy world, establishing resources, shelter, and defending their settlers. The game supports extensive modding, which has kept the community active following the developer's departure. Priced at $19.99 USD, it holds a 72% positive rating from over 5,800 Steam reviews and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as nostalgic and retro, highlighting charming graphics and an active modding community that continues to expand its fantasy elements.
About Stonehearth: 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.
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Castle Story
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Stonehearth.
Top pick for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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.
Craft The World
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Stonehearth.
Second-strongest match for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
StarMade
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
PixARK
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Stonehearth.
Ranked #5 for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Stonehearth.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Stonehearth.
Ranked #6 for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Stonehearth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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 Stonehearth.
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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.
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Stonehearth.
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Stonehearth.
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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.
Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Timber and Stone
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Stonehearth.
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
KeeperRL
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Stonehearth.
Reviewers of Stonehearth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stonehearth.
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Stonehearth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
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 ~50% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
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 ~60% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
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 ~63% under Stonehearth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Stonehearth.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stonehearth.
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 Stonehearth.
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 Stonehearth.
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Frequently asked about Stonehearth
- Does Stonehearth run on Steam Deck?
- Stonehearth 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 Stonehearth cost?
- Stonehearth is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Stonehearth have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Stonehearth supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Stonehearth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stonehearth are Castle Story, Craft The World, Colony Survival.
- Who developed Stonehearth?
- Stonehearth was developed by Radiant Entertainment and published by (none).
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