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Games like Ragnorium

If Ragnorium is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Crust, Dwarf Fortress and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and dark. 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 Ragnorium: Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

2022ActionStrategySimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Vitali Kirpu
Ragnorium — Steam game cover
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Daily events force constant adaptationHandcrafted chaos feels like a dark comedyPlanets reset after failure but progression carries overChallengingContemplativeDark

Players who liked Ragnorium also play

Steam players who put hours into Ragnorium 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. The Crust

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

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

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access19.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dwarf Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

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

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

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

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Against the Storm

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Ragnorium.

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

    A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Frostpunk

    WHY THIS

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

    Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Endzone - A World Apart

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

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

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

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

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Founders' Fortune

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Ragnorium.

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

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Ragnorium

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Pixel Piracy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Ragnorium.

    Reviewers of Ragnorium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Ragnorium.

    Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.

    2014IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Counter-Strike 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Ragnorium.

    Reviewers of Ragnorium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Ragnorium.

    Reviewers of Ragnorium cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ragnorium.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ragnorium at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Ragnorium.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ragnorium.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Ragnorium.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Ragnorium on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ragnorium.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

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

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ragnorium

Does Ragnorium run on Steam Deck?
Ragnorium is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Ragnorium cost?
Ragnorium is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Ragnorium?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ragnorium are The Crust, Dwarf Fortress, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.
Who developed Ragnorium?
Ragnorium was developed by Vitali Kirpu and published by Devolver Digital.

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 Ragnorium.

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