Games like Tenants of the Shade
If Tenants of the Shade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Farthest Frontier, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and Whiskerwood — 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 Tenants of the Shade: Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
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Farthest Frontier
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Top pick for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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Second-strongest match for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
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.
Whiskerwood
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Third-strongest match for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Nova Roma
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Ranked #4 for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Ground of Aces
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Ranked #5 for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Humanica
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Ranked #6 for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Fata Deum - The God Sim
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Ranked #7 for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
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.
After Inc: Revival
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Ranked #8 for Tenants of the Shade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
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 Indie and Simulation with Tenants of the Shade.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tenants of the Shade.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Tenants of the Shade
- What games are most similar to Tenants of the Shade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tenants of the Shade are Farthest Frontier, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Whiskerwood.
- Who developed Tenants of the Shade?
- Tenants of the Shade was developed by Stormjest.
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 Tenants of the Shade.
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