Games like Lord of Dwarves
If Lord of Dwarves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Factory Town — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Lord of Dwarves: Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Players who liked Lord of Dwarves also play
Steam players who put hours into Lord of Dwarves 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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Top pick for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Second-strongest match for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Ranked #4 for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Ranked #5 for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Space Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Ranked #6 for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Ranked #7 for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Ranked #8 for Lord of Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
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.
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Towns
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lord of Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Reviewers of Lord of Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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.
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Reviewers of Lord of Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lord of Dwarves.
Reviewers of Lord of Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lord of Dwarves at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Lord of Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Lord of Dwarves.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 Lord of Dwarves.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
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
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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 and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Lord of Dwarves
- How much does Lord of Dwarves cost?
- Lord of Dwarves is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lord of Dwarves?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lord of Dwarves are Dwarf Fortress, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Factory Town.
- Who developed Lord of Dwarves?
- Lord of Dwarves was developed by Stellar Sage Games.
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 Lord of Dwarves.
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