Games like Village 51
If Village 51 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planetation, Away From Life and The Ranchers — 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 Village 51: Village 51 is a Farm manager RPG where peace and danger grow side by side. Build your farm, explore the land, and defend your home from the threats lurking beyond your fields.
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Steam players who put hours into Village 51 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.
Planetation
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Top pick for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
On the harmstead you sow crops by day, plough hordes of alien pests by night, and spelunk the “Very Dark” depths whenever you damn well please. This bloodthirsty alien planet doesn’t want you here, but you’re a farmer in a tractormech so what do you care?
Away From Life
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Second-strongest match for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
The Ranchers
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Third-strongest match for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
Crazy Caveman
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Ranked #4 for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
Become a caveman, survive by building, fishing, and hunting.
Landiscape
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Ranked #5 for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
Landiscape is a relaxed 1–4 player open-world survival sandbox set on a zombie-infested island. Build bases, scavenge resources, explore dangerous landmarks, grow crops, and survive together — or turn on your friends.
Last Harbor
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Ranked #6 for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Village 51.
Zombie Apocalypse On A Boat. You’re stranded on a boat during a zombie outbreak in the beautiful San Juan islands of Washington State. How will you survive an open-world archipelago, where the living are just as much of a threat as the dead?
Woodland Rebels
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Ranked #7 for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village 51.
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Vitality
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Ranked #8 for Village 51 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
Explore, build, and survive in a 2D sandbox where settlers gather, construct, and fight alongside you. Grow your settlements and guide civilization through the Stone, Medieval, and Industrial Ages in one persistent, simulated world.
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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 Action and Indie with Village 51.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Village 51.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Village 51.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Village 51.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Village 51.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Village 51.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
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Frequently asked about Village 51
- Does Village 51 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Village 51 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Village 51?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Village 51 are Planetation, Away From Life, The Ranchers.
- Who developed Village 51?
- Village 51 was developed by Karman Studios.
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 Village 51.
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