Games like The Fool's Apprentice
If The Fool's Apprentice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fata Deum - The God Sim, Lethis - Path of Progress and MachiaVillain — 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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Fata Deum - The God Sim
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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.
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.
Lethis - Path of Progress
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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.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
MachiaVillain
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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.
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!
Corsair Cove
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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.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Cities: Skylines
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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.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Against the Storm
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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.
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.
Prison Architect
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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.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Kenshi
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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.
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.
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.
No Results Found
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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.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
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.
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Apollyon: River of Life
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Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind The Fool's Apprentice. Shares Strategy with The Fool's Apprentice.
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
Skulltide
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Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind The Fool's Apprentice. Shares RPG with The Fool's Apprentice.
Skeletal mischief reigns as the Skulltide begins! Join the undead in co-op adventures as the skeleton of your dreams, or lead them yourself, and hunt down the necromancers who reanimated you. Build, throw, and enchant your bones... but try not to misplace them along the way!
Blight Doctors
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Another title from The Planar Danse, the studio behind The Fool's Apprentice. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
DISCOVER, DIAGNOSE, EXORCISE. You are a plague doctor paranormal investigator living in a rotten, gothic city at the end of an apocalypse. Banish ghosts, cure plagues, treat with monsters... all in co-op and proximity chat!
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 Fata Deum - The God Sim, Lethis - Path of Progress, MachiaVillain.
- Who developed The Fool's Apprentice?
- The Fool's Apprentice was developed by The Planar Danse.
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