Games like Timber and Stone
If Timber and Stone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stonehearth, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Clanfolk — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. 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 Timber and Stone: Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

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Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Timber and Stone.
Top pick for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Second-strongest match for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Timber and Stone.
Third-strongest match for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Timber and Stone.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Towns
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Timber and Stone.
Ranked #4 for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Ranked #7 for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Timber and Stone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Timber and Stone.
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
SATUS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
SATUS - global fantasy strategy, in which you can lead one of the 4 fractions: magicians, dwarfs, dark side, hell virus. Every fraction is unique. Capture all the enemies, arrange the end of the world, build a great empire!
Abnormal Status ~Tattoo / Prohibited Books / Parasites~
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In the present day, the majority of the human race has become capable of using magic. The sudden rise of this power has not been met with adequate laws and regulations, and the world is rapidly becoming a wasteland as crimes and discrimination intensify.
Rise to Ruins
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Timber and Stone.
Reviewers of Timber and Stone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Timber and Stone at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Timber and Stone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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.
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Timber and Stone.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Frequently asked about Timber and Stone
- How much does Timber and Stone cost?
- Timber and Stone is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Timber and Stone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Timber and Stone are Stonehearth, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Clanfolk.
- Who developed Timber and Stone?
- Timber and Stone was developed by Games by Robert, LLC.
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