Games like Dwelvers
If Dwelvers is your kind of game, the closest matches are War for the Overworld, KeeperRL and MachiaVillain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creature cosmetics are adorable, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Dwelvers: Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
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War for the Overworld
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwelvers.
Top pick for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
KeeperRL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Second-strongest match for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwelvers.
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.
MachiaVillain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Third-strongest match for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
STATIONflow
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dwelvers.
Ranked #4 for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwelvers.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Ranked #5 for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwelvers.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dwelvers.
Ranked #7 for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Ranked #8 for Dwelvers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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.
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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwelvers.
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dwelvers.
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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dwelvers.
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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.
Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!
Save the settlers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dwelvers.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
War for the Overworld
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dwelvers.
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
The Settlers: New Allies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dwelvers.
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dwelvers.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dwelvers cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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 Dwelvers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dwelvers.
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 Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelvers.
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 ~47% under Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelvers.
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 ~50% under Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dwelvers.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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 Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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 Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dwelvers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dwelvers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Dwelvers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelvers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dwelvers.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dwelvers.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Dwelvers.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dwelvers.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dwelvers.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Dwelvers
- Does Dwelvers run on Steam Deck?
- Dwelvers 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 Dwelvers cost?
- Dwelvers is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dwelvers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dwelvers are War for the Overworld, KeeperRL, MachiaVillain.
- Who developed Dwelvers?
- Dwelvers was developed by Rasmus Ljunggren and published by Dancing Devils.
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