Games like Citadel: Forged with Fire
If Citadel: Forged with Fire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark and Light, Boundless and Wild Terra 2: New Lands — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 →Citadel: Forged with Fire is a 2019 open-world multiplayer survival RPG set in the fantasy realm of Ignus, priced at $14.99 USD. Players engage with mechanics including resource farming, castle-building, base defense, a magic system, and creature taming within a server-community structure. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, melancholic, and nostalgic, and reviewers highlight the creature taming and magic system as standout features within the survival genre. The game is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 65% positive rating from approximately 3,050 Steam reviews.
About Citadel: Forged with Fire: This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Players who liked Citadel: Forged with Fire also play
Steam players who put hours into Citadel: Forged with Fire 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.
Dark and Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Top pick for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Boundless
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Second-strongest match for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Wild Terra 2: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Third-strongest match for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Valnir Rok Survival RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Ranked #4 for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
ATLAS
WHY THIS
Shares creature taming with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Ranked #5 for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Black Desert
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
Tree of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Ranked #8 for Citadel: Forged with Fire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
SHROUD OF THE AVATAR: FORSAKEN VIRTUES is a multiplayer fantasy RPG that sets the player on a path filled with peril and tough choices as they explore a persistent realm that can be shared with other Avatars. It is the spiritual successor to Richard Garriott’s Ultima games.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Citadel: Forged with Fire
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.
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Dark and Light
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Reviewers of Citadel: Forged with Fire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Citadel: Forged with Fire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citadel: Forged with Fire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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 Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Blue Isle Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Blue Isle Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Another title from Blue Isle Studios, the studio behind Citadel: Forged with Fire. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Valley
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Another title from Blue Isle Studios, the studio behind Citadel: Forged with Fire. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.
LEAP
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Another title from Blue Isle Studios, the studio behind Citadel: Forged with Fire. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
LEAP is a fast-paced, multiplayer first-person shooter featuring epic large scale battles, each with players armed to the teeth. Fight for either the United Earth Defense Coalition (UEDC) or the rebel Exo-Terrans - whoever pays the most, wins your trigger finger and excessive arsenal.
Guardians of the Wild Sky
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Isle Studios, the studio behind Citadel: Forged with Fire. Shares Action and Indie with Citadel: Forged with Fire.
Survive, build, craft and explore a vast magical world as you capture and bond with powerful Guardians. Captain your own airship and sail the cloud seas. Build everything from cozy homes to flying castles. Explore this world solo or with friends; the skies are yours to conquer!
Frequently asked about Citadel: Forged with Fire
- Does Citadel: Forged with Fire run on Steam Deck?
- Citadel: Forged with Fire 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 Citadel: Forged with Fire cost?
- Citadel: Forged with Fire is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Citadel: Forged with Fire have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Citadel: Forged with Fire supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Citadel: Forged with Fire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citadel: Forged with Fire are Dark and Light, Boundless, Wild Terra 2: New Lands.
- Who developed Citadel: Forged with Fire?
- Citadel: Forged with Fire was developed by Blue Isle Studios and published by Blue Isle Publishing.
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 Citadel: Forged with Fire.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.