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Games like Forsaken: Year One

If Forsaken: Year One is your kind of game, the closest matches are After the Collapse, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — 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 Forsaken: Year One: Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.

StrategyIndieSimulationRPGWindowsby Kymera Games
Forsaken: Year One — Steam game cover

Players who liked Forsaken: Year One also play

Steam players who put hours into Forsaken: Year One 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. After the Collapse

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    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. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Going Medieval

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dark Moon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Kenshi

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    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.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. After Long Night

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Forsaken: Year One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 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 Forsaken: Year One.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Forsaken: Year One.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Forsaken: Year One.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Forsaken: Year One.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    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 ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forsaken: Year One.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Lily's Well

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forsaken: Year One.

    It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

    2022IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Forsaken: Year One

What games are most similar to Forsaken: Year One?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forsaken: Year One are After the Collapse, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville.
Who developed Forsaken: Year One?
Forsaken: Year One was developed by Kymera Games.

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 Forsaken: Year One.

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