Games like Northgard Battlegrounds
If Northgard Battlegrounds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Legion Draft, Idlemancer and Gridlords — 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 Northgard Battlegrounds: A city-building auto-battler set in the Viking world of Northgard, where every building you place shapes your clan’s fate. Develop your village, claim the Gods’ blessings, and send your warband to battle against rival players! Every move counts, only one clan will stand.

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Steam players who put hours into Northgard Battlegrounds 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.
Legion Draft
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Top pick for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Northgard Battlegrounds.
This is an async PvP card autobattler where each card represents a troop group that keeps growing. Draft cards, recruit soldiers, and build a legion that surpasses every opponent. Explore fantasy races with different synergies, and become a master strategist!
Idlemancer
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Second-strongest match for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Grow your slime army to LEGEND rank using upgrades from idle gains! Win battles against other idlemancers, perfect your build by selecting unique traits each run, and reach the top of the leaderboard - but lose 3 times and the run is over!
Gridlords
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Third-strongest match for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Gridlords is a strategic async-PvP autobattler set in a fantasy pixel-art world. Build your ultimate castle, command legendary heroes, and outsmart rivals to prove your strategy reigns supreme.
SkyShard: City Battler
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Ranked #4 for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
Starwood: Lantern
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Ranked #5 for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Heavily inspired by Hearthstone Battlegrounds & The Bazaar. Build a seven-slot warband from 238 minions and spells, shape it with hero powers and run-altering Blessings, then face asynchronous rivals in a day-based fantasy autobattler where every recruit, formation, and upgrade matters.
Fool King
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Ranked #6 for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Dethrone the Fool King in this tactical autobattler with asynchronous PvP! Amass your troops, apply powerful upgrades and set your battle formations. Watch your plans come together or fall apart in frantic simulated combat.
For The Forge
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Ranked #7 for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Build the ultimate PvP slot machine and battle rival dwarves for control of the last great dwarven forge!
13 柱庭 / Cabal 13
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Ranked #8 for Northgard Battlegrounds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Welcome to《Cabal 13》— an asynchronous roguelike auto-battler built around hero RPG progression! Every run is a fresh adventure, every choice shapes victory or defeat. Assemble your unique squad, clash with rivals on dynamic battlefields, and dive into deep, hero-focused roguelike auto-battler fun.
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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 Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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 Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
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!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Funday Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
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Another title from Funday Games, the studio behind Northgard Battlegrounds.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
Wild Indigo Ranch
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Another title from Funday Games, the studio behind Northgard Battlegrounds. Shares Indie with Northgard Battlegrounds.
Wild Indigo Ranch is a cozy cowboy-life RPG for 1-4 players. Start a new life on the prairie, explore the frontier, build the finest ranch in the West, and ride into the sunset.
The Margot Collapse
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Another title from Funday Games, the studio behind Northgard Battlegrounds. Shares Indie and Simulation with Northgard Battlegrounds.
The Margot Collapse is an incremental game wrapped inside an unsettling mystery. Part workplace simulator, part optimization game, and part surreal short story, it blends methodical progression with a growing sense that something behind the walls of TOPTECH Industries is deeply, profoundly wrong.
Frequently asked about Northgard Battlegrounds
- Does Northgard Battlegrounds have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Northgard Battlegrounds supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Northgard Battlegrounds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Northgard Battlegrounds are Legion Draft, Idlemancer, Gridlords.
- Who developed Northgard Battlegrounds?
- Northgard Battlegrounds was developed by Funday Games and published by Shiro Unlimited.
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