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Games like Kingdom: New Lands

If Kingdom: New Lands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom Two Crowns, The Monarch and Castle Formers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fantastical style, management game and pixel graphics. 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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Kingdom: New Lands is a strategy and simulation game released in 2016 by developer Noio and published by Raw Fury. Players expand and manage their kingdoms across procedurally generated maps, utilizing boat mechanics to explore and employing roguelike mechanics with resource management and day-night cycles. The game supports local co-op and runs verified on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and tense, with reviewers highlighting the pixel graphics and soundtrack as standout elements. Currently priced at $14.99 USD, it holds an 85% positive rating from over 4,000 Steam reviews.

About Kingdom: New Lands: Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby Noio
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Players who liked Kingdom: New Lands also play

Steam players who put hours into Kingdom: New Lands 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. Kingdom Two Crowns

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Top pick for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Monarch

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

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

    Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Castle Formers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure10.00 USDSteam ↗
  4. Planet Barren Objective

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Citadelic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Citadelic is a base building and defending strategy game with roguelite elements. Survive against waves of constantly evolving enemies while expanding your base and managing resources.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdom: New Lands.

    As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Drill Core

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and a tense mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Ranked #7 for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    2025StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Landnama

    WHY THIS

    Shares winter survival, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Ranked #8 for Kingdom: New Lands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

    2023Strategy13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Kingdom: New Lands

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. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

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

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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 ↗
  5. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Subnautica

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Oxygen Not Included

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

    2019IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Kingdom Two Crowns

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Reviewers of Kingdom: New Lands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kingdom: New Lands at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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 ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Kingdom: New Lands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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 ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck 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 Kingdom: New Lands.

    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. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    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 ↗

More from Noio

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

  1. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Another title from Noio, the studio behind Kingdom: New Lands. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cloud Gardens

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Another title from Noio, the studio behind Kingdom: New Lands. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kingdom: New Lands.

    A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

    2021IndieSimulationCasual17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GARBAGE COUNTRY

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Noio, the studio behind Kingdom: New Lands. Shares Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Garbage Country is a post-apocalyptic exploration sim from the creator of Cloud Gardens and Kingdom: New Lands. Drive across a handcrafted wasteland. Repel waves of enemy bots in tense tower-defense battles. Upgrade your car to travel further into the forgotten world buried under the dust.

    2026IndieSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Kingdom Two Crowns

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Monarch

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Drill Core

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, resource management and a tense mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    2025StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Landnama

    WHY THIS

    Shares winter survival, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Kingdom: New Lands.

    Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

    2023Strategy13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kingdom: New Lands

Is Kingdom: New Lands verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Kingdom: New Lands is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Kingdom: New Lands cost?
Kingdom: New Lands is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Kingdom: New Lands?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kingdom: New Lands are Kingdom Two Crowns, The Monarch, Castle Formers.
Who developed Kingdom: New Lands?
Kingdom: New Lands was developed by Noio and published by Raw Fury.

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 Kingdom: New Lands.

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