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Games like Shipolis

If Shipolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Harvest Village, Imagine Earth and Anno 1800 — 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 Shipolis: Shipolis is a cozy minimalist city builder and resource management game where you explore unknown archipelagos with a ship and hopes of glory! Sail the seas, develop your cities, grow your population, set up production lines and collect tons of resources. How many great wonders will you build?

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindows · Linuxby Radiant Sloth
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Players who liked Shipolis also play

Steam players who put hours into Shipolis 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. Harvest Village

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Shipolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Imagine Earth

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shipolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Anno 1800

    WHY THIS

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

    Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

    2019StrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Pioneers of Pagonia

    WHY THIS

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

    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

    2025StrategySimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Fabledom

    WHY THIS

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

    Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

    2024StrategySimulationCasual20.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Nebuchadnezzar

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Shipolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Anno 2205™

    WHY THIS

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

    In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

    2015StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Going Medieval

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Shipolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 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 Indie and Simulation with Shipolis.

    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. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shipolis.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shipolis.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shipolis.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 Indie and Casual with Shipolis.

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

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

More from Radiant Sloth

Other recommendable Steam games by Radiant Sloth, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Skycliffs

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Radiant Sloth, the studio behind Shipolis. Shares Indie with Shipolis.

    Skycliffs is an action shooter roguelike dungeon crawler with fast-paced top-down platforming. Jump and dash across sky islands, fight loads of monsters, and get upgrades to survive the many dangers of your journey. Will you be strong enough to reach and defeat the keeper of this floating world?

    2022ActionIndieEarly Access6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Destroy The Monoliths

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Radiant Sloth, the studio behind Shipolis. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Explore. Mine. Build. Fight. Destroy The Monoliths is a single-player real-time mining tower offense roguelike where you explore a randomly generated map, mine the terrain to get resources, and build turrets to both protect your base and fight monoliths that keep spawning ever more minions.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Comet Force

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Radiant Sloth, the studio behind Shipolis. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.

    Comet Force is a Space Arena Shooter Action Roguelite. Build your camp, recruit to compose and grow your troop, collect upgrades and unique effects, fight enemies and bosses, and choose how the threat evolves. Keep your troop strong enough to survive all waves and close off the anomaly.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shipolis

What games are most similar to Shipolis?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shipolis are Harvest Village, Imagine Earth, Anno 1800.
Who developed Shipolis?
Shipolis was developed by Radiant Sloth.

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 Shipolis.

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