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Games like Harrowlands

If Harrowlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settletopia, Union Of Rivals and Breadoria — 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 Harrowlands: Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.

2026StrategySimulationEarly AccessWindowsby BashfulWolf Studio
Harrowlands — Steam game cover

Players who liked Harrowlands also play

Steam players who put hours into Harrowlands 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. Settletopia

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Union Of Rivals

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements in your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Breadoria

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.

    StrategySimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Here Comes The Swarm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Ascent of Ashes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation24.90 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Settlements Rising

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    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 ↗
  8. Dwarf Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Harrowlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  3. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  6. SCP – Containment Breach

    WHY THIS

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

    A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

    2026ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Muck

    WHY THIS

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

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Crusader Kings II

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harrowlands.

    Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Harrowlands

What games are most similar to Harrowlands?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Harrowlands are Settletopia, Union Of Rivals, Breadoria.
Who developed Harrowlands?
Harrowlands was developed by BashfulWolf Studio.

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 Harrowlands.

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