Games like Nested Lands
If Nested Lands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bellwright, Primal Survival Wars and Sengoku Dynasty — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Nested Lands: Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
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Steam players who put hours into Nested Lands 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.
Bellwright
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Top pick for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Nested Lands.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Primal Survival Wars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
Build your own Settlement of Ancient People. Survive, Hunt, Gather, Craft Tools, Fight, Research new technologies and face the challenges that the environment throws at you.
Sengoku Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a challenging mood with Nested Lands.
Third-strongest match for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Nested Lands.
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Autonomica
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nested Lands.
Autonomica is an open-world survival automation game driven by time travel. Explore a fractured island, build automated farms and machinery, and travel into the future to extract rare technology and resources. Work with surviving engineers to unravel temporal anomalies and capture dangerous Phantoms
Ars Notoria
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Ranked #5 for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nested Lands.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Ranked #6 for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a tense mood with Nested Lands.
Ranked #7 for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nested Lands.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
ENDALOR
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource gathering, survival and an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Ranked #8 for Nested Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
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Medieval Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares village management and an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Reviewers of Nested Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Noble Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, base building, medieval and an atmospheric mood with Nested Lands.
Reviewers of Nested Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Nested Lands.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, base building and a tense mood with Nested Lands.
Reviewers of Nested Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nested Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Nested Lands.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nested Lands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nested Lands.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Nested Lands.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nested Lands.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nested Lands.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nested Lands.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nested Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nested Lands.
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.
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 Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
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 Nested Lands.
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 Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
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 Nested Lands.
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 Adventure with Nested Lands.
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!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nested Lands.
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.
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Frequently asked about Nested Lands
- Does Nested Lands work on Steam Deck?
- Nested Lands is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Nested Lands cost?
- Nested Lands is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Nested Lands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Nested Lands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Nested Lands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nested Lands are Bellwright, Primal Survival Wars, Sengoku Dynasty.
- Who developed Nested Lands?
- Nested Lands was developed by 1M Bits Horde and published by META Publishing.
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