Games like Settletopia
If Settletopia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Colony Survival, Sapiens and Dwarf Fortress — 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 Settletopia: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Settletopia 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.
Colony Survival
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Top pick for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Settletopia.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Sapiens
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Second-strongest match for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Dwarf Fortress
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Third-strongest match for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Ranked #4 for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Stonehearth
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Ranked #5 for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
RimWorld
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Ranked #6 for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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
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Ranked #7 for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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
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Ranked #8 for Settletopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settletopia.
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settletopia.
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.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Settletopia.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Settletopia.
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!
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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.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Settletopia.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.
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.
Frequently asked about Settletopia
- Does Settletopia have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Settletopia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Settletopia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Settletopia are Colony Survival, Sapiens, Dwarf Fortress.
- Who developed Settletopia?
- Settletopia was developed by Pēteris Pakalns.
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