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Games like Settler's Domain

If Settler's Domain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Settlements Rising — 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.

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About Settler's Domain: Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

2026StrategyIndieWindowsby rick
Settler's Domain — Steam game cover

Players who liked Settler's Domain also play

Steam players who put hours into Settler's Domain 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. Dwarf Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    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 ↗
  2. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Settlements Rising

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Eastern Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settler's Domain.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Against the Storm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Settler's Domain.

    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.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Settler's Domain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Settler's Domain.

    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.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    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 ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

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

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Settler's Domain.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Settler's Domain

What games are most similar to Settler's Domain?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Settler's Domain are Dwarf Fortress, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Settlements Rising.
Who developed Settler's Domain?
Settler's Domain was developed by rick.

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 Settler's Domain.

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16 Games Like Settler's Domain — Ranked for 2026 · imho.run