Games like Hearthlands
If Hearthlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are RimWorld, Going Medieval and Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaign teaches mechanics gradually, chill and contemplative. 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 Hearthlands: Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Players who liked Hearthlands also play
Steam players who put hours into Hearthlands 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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hearthlands.
Second-strongest match for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Hearthlands.
Ranked #4 for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hearthlands.
Ranked #5 for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
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.
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hearthlands.
Ranked #7 for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hearthlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hearthlands
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hearthlands.
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Majesty 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Hearthlands.
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
Cultures - Northland
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Shares a chill mood with Hearthlands.
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Hearthlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hearthlands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearthlands.
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 ~69% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hearthlands.
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 ~50% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hearthlands.
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 ~53% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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 ~50% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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 ~69% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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 ~69% under Hearthlands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearthlands.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Mr.Mine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Revolution Idle
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearthlands.
Join an experience where each revolution takes you further into the unknown! Revolution Idle challenges you to multiply your accumulators to reach unimaginable heights. Will you manage to reach infinity?
Realm Grinder
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hearthlands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Frequently asked about Hearthlands
- Does Hearthlands run on Steam Deck?
- Hearthlands 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 Hearthlands cost?
- Hearthlands is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hearthlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hearthlands are RimWorld, Going Medieval, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation.
- Who developed Hearthlands?
- Hearthlands was developed by Four White Cats.
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 Hearthlands.
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