Games like Gateworlds
If Gateworlds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settletopia, Icetwine and Dwarf Things — 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 Gateworlds: Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Players who liked Gateworlds also play
Steam players who put hours into Gateworlds 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.
Settletopia
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Top pick for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Icetwine
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Second-strongest match for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Dwarf Things
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Third-strongest match for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Ranked #4 for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Ascent of Ashes
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Ranked #5 for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
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
After Long Night
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Ranked #6 for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
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.
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #7 for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
The Last Haven
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Ranked #8 for Gateworlds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
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.
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 Gateworlds.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gateworlds.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gateworlds.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gateworlds.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gateworlds.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gateworlds.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gateworlds.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
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Frequently asked about Gateworlds
- What games are most similar to Gateworlds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gateworlds are Settletopia, Icetwine, Dwarf Things.
- Who developed Gateworlds?
- Gateworlds was developed by Hydrarch.
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 Gateworlds.
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