Games like The Fool's Apprentice
If The Fool's Apprentice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Icetwine, A Planet of Mine Legacy and Planetary Life — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Fool's Apprentice: A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!
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Steam players who put hours into The Fool's Apprentice 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.
Icetwine
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Top pick for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
A Planet of Mine Legacy
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Second-strongest match for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Planetary Life
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Third-strongest match for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Ecosystem
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Ranked #4 for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Fata Deum - The God Sim
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Ranked #5 for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Frostpunk
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Ranked #6 for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Lifecraft
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Ranked #7 for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Lethis - Path of Progress
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Ranked #8 for The Fool's Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Fool's Apprentice at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~71% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~41% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Fool's Apprentice.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Fool's Apprentice.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~56% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Fool's Apprentice.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~41% under The Fool's Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Fool's Apprentice.
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.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
『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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Fool's Apprentice.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Fool's Apprentice.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about The Fool's Apprentice
- Does The Fool's Apprentice work on Steam Deck?
- The Fool's Apprentice is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Fool's Apprentice cost?
- The Fool's Apprentice is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Fool's Apprentice?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Fool's Apprentice are Icetwine, A Planet of Mine Legacy, Planetary Life.
- Who developed The Fool's Apprentice?
- The Fool's Apprentice was developed by The Planar Danse.
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