Games like RimWorld
If RimWorld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Against the Storm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its mods are amazing, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →RimWorld is a sci-fi colony simulation and strategy game developed by Lodeon Studios that released in 2018. The game costs $34.99 USD and runs verified on Steam Deck. Players manage a colony of survivors on a distant world, with gameplay driven by an intelligent storyteller system that generates narrative events. The simulation encompasses multiple interconnected systems including ecology, combat, interpersonal relationships, medicine, trade, and art. RimWorld features ideology mechanics and deep mod support that allows players to customize and expand their experience. Players describe the game as challenging and immersive, with tactical positioning matters cited as a key element. The title holds a 98% positive review score from over 116,000 Steam reviews.
About RimWorld: 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.
Players who liked RimWorld also play
Steam players who put hours into RimWorld 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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Top pick for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RimWorld.
Second-strongest match for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with RimWorld.
Third-strongest match for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with RimWorld.
Ranked #4 for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RimWorld.
Ranked #5 for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Ranked #6 for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Ranked #7 for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Norland
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for RimWorld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to RimWorld
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Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with RimWorld.
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of RimWorld 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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of RimWorld cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below RimWorld at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with RimWorld.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with RimWorld.
Priced ~57% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with RimWorld.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with RimWorld.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under RimWorld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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 RimWorld.
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 RimWorld.
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?
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with RimWorld.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with RimWorld.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RimWorld.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about RimWorld
- Is RimWorld verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — RimWorld is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does RimWorld cost?
- RimWorld is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to RimWorld?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RimWorld are Factorio, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Against the Storm.
- Who developed RimWorld?
- RimWorld was developed by Ludeon Studios.
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 RimWorld.
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