Games like Dwarf Things
If Dwarf Things is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settletopia, Gateworlds and Arc of Icarus — 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 Dwarf Things: Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
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Settletopia
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Top pick for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
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.
Gateworlds
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Second-strongest match for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Arc of Icarus
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Third-strongest match for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Icetwine
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Ranked #4 for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Union Of Rivals
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Ranked #5 for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Build the railroad from East to West across an untamed frontier. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements blocking your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. The rails are coming. Build, trade, or break them.
Gnomoria
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Ranked #6 for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Ranked #7 for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Machine Mind
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Ranked #8 for Dwarf Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dwarf Things.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
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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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Dwarf Things.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dwarf Things.
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 Simulation with Dwarf Things.
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.
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 with Dwarf Things.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dwarf Things.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dwarf Things
- What games are most similar to Dwarf Things?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dwarf Things are Settletopia, Gateworlds, Arc of Icarus.
- Who developed Dwarf Things?
- Dwarf Things was developed by Alex Makes 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 Dwarf Things.
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