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Games like Hearth and Hamlet

If Hearth and Hamlet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Farming & Supermarket: Clicker, Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker and Dwarf Eats Mountain — 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 Hearth and Hamlet: Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a cozy incremental medieval citybuilder that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.

2026StrategySimulationCasualWindowsby Phorust Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Hearth and Hamlet 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. Farming & Supermarket: Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Click, harvest, and build your own retail empire! In Farming & Supermarket: Clicker, process raw crops into valuable goods, design your store, and sell to customers. Start with a simple click and grow into a massive supermarket tycoon!

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to made more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Dwarf Eats Mountain

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. IDLE BOSS RUSH

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Let Them Trade

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Let's Build a Zoo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

    2021StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Prison Architect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Village Tale

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Hearth and Hamlet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hearth and Hamlet.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hearth and Hamlet.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hearth and Hamlet.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hearth and Hamlet.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Hearth and Hamlet

What games are most similar to Hearth and Hamlet?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hearth and Hamlet are Farming & Supermarket: Clicker, Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker, Dwarf Eats Mountain.
Who developed Hearth and Hamlet?
Hearth and Hamlet was developed by Phorust Studios and published by Runic Forge.

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 Hearth and Hamlet.

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