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Games like Underground Nomads

If Underground Nomads is your kind of game, the closest matches are GearTopia, Dwarf Things and INCREMINER — 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.

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About Underground Nomads: You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

2026StrategySimulationWindowsby Funzen Games
Underground Nomads — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Underground Nomads 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.

  1. GearTopia

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Dwarf Things

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    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.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  3. INCREMINER

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Greedy Little Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Underground Nomads.

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  5. My Drug Cartel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

    2025StrategySimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Settletopia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    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.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  7. MineMogul

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hammerting

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Underground Nomads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Underground Nomads.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Underground Nomads

What games are most similar to Underground Nomads?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Underground Nomads are GearTopia, Dwarf Things, INCREMINER.
Who developed Underground Nomads?
Underground Nomads was developed by Funzen Games and published by Funzen Games, Spaghetti Cat.

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 Underground Nomads.

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