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Games like The Promised Land

If The Promised Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wildwood: A Town Building Game, Halloween Store Simulator and Keeping It Shrimple — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 The Promised Land: The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

2014StrategyAdventureCasual1.74 USDWindows · macOSby Boolat Games, Alawar Entertainment
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Angry birds style pirate battlesGame plays itself with minimal inputNo way to fail or starve villagersChillCozyRelaxing

Players who liked The Promised Land also play

Steam players who put hours into The Promised Land 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. Wildwood: A Town Building Game

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Promised Land.

    Welcome to Wildwood, the ultimate town building game. Start from nothing. Provide food, shelter and protection for your settlers. Forage for resources, research new technologies, Craft new items, construct new buildings and grow from a surviving colony into a thriving one.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Halloween Store Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Keeping It Shrimple

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    "Keeping It Shrimple" is a management game where you breed, feed, and care for your adorable shrimp. Experiment with breeding pairs. Manage the water properties of your tanks. Sell rare breeds on the market. With planning, experimentation, and a dose of luck, you may just breed the perfect shrimp!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. SimPocalypse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Promised Land.

    A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STARIO: Haven Tower

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a cozy mood with The Promised Land.

    Ranked #5 for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

    2025StrategySimulationCasual12.59 USDSteam ↗
  6. Mars Attracts

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with The Promised Land.

    Ranked #6 for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Promised Land.

    Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Love Tavern

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with The Promised Land.

    Ranked #7 for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Promised Land.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Ratopia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Promised Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Promised Land.

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure22.00 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Promised Land

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Happy Hereafter

    WHY THIS

    Shares worker assignment, resource management and a cozy mood with The Promised Land.

    Reviewers of The Promised Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!

    2014StrategyCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Gemini Lost™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with The Promised Land.

    Reviewers of The Promised Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    While walking home with a group of friends, you discover a mysterious beam of light coming from an unexpected solar eclipse. The light leads you to an ancient astrological site that suddenly transports you all to an unfamiliar world!

    2010Casual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Virtual Villagers Origins 2

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Promised Land cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Craft, build, farm, breed and solve puzzles in a village right on your computer!

    2018SimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. Dwarf Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Promised Land cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Promised Land.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Promised Land cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.

    2020Sports9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Promised Land at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Promised Land.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Promised Land.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with The Promised Land.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under The Promised Land on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promised Land.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promised Land.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promised Land.

    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 ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Promised Land.

    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 ↗

More from Boolat Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Boolat Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Subliminal Realms: The Masterpiece Collector's Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Boolat Games, the studio behind The Promised Land. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Promised Land.

    Albert's worst nightmare becomes reality when a creature from his grim paintings kidnaps his family. What does she want?

    2016AdventureCasualSteam ↗
  2. Dark Cases: The Blood Ruby Collector's Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Boolat Games, the studio behind The Promised Land. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Promised Land.

    Your father was murdered while he was investigating a crime. Travel back through time to save him!

    2017AdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Timeless: The Forgotten Town Collector's Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Boolat Games, the studio behind The Promised Land. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Promised Land.

    Escape from a town that is lost in time and space! Explore the mysterious city and solve its riddles to make it home!

    2017AdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Timeless: The Lost Castle

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Boolat Games, the studio behind The Promised Land. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Promised Land.

    A mysterious man in red summons you, sending you to a flying ship where a little girl needs your help!

    2017AdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Promised Land

How much does The Promised Land cost?
The Promised Land is listed on Steam at 1.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Promised Land?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Promised Land are Wildwood: A Town Building Game, Halloween Store Simulator, Keeping It Shrimple.
Who developed The Promised Land?
The Promised Land was developed by Boolat Games, Alawar Entertainment and published by ESDigital Games.

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 The Promised Land.

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