Games like Life is Feudal: Forest Village
If Life is Feudal: Forest Village is your kind of game, the closest matches are Banished, First Feudal and Founders' Fortune — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep seasonal survival mechanics, mods fix janky systems and atmospheric. 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 →Life is Feudal: Forest Village is a medieval village-builder with survival elements, developed by Mindillusion and published by Bitbox Ltd. The game tasks players with shaping and expanding a settlement on an island, managing resources and preventing villagers from starvation and avitaminosis through diverse food production. A morale system and disaster management add strategic layers, while a first-person mode allows players to directly control individual villagers or simply explore their settlement on foot. Mod support extends the game's longevity, and reviewers note the ability to terraform the island landscape. Released in 2017 at $24.99, the game holds a 63% positive rating from over 2,100 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric, relaxing nature of the experience, and players appreciate the seasonal survival systems that provide long-term engagement.
About Life is Feudal: Forest Village: LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a relaxing mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Top pick for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Second-strongest match for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Ranked #4 for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Ranked #5 for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Planetbase
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Ranked #6 for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Ranked #7 for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Ranked #8 for Life is Feudal: Forest Village fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Life is Feudal: Forest Village
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Rust
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Shares an immersive mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a relaxing mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
RP7: Spin Your Own Encounter
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Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Control the world, not the hero. Spin the slots and beat the odds in this RPG adventure!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Save the settlers
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Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
Hearthlands
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Folk Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Reviewers of Life is Feudal: Forest Village cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life is Feudal: Forest Village at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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
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Priced ~60% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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
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Priced ~68% under Life is Feudal: Forest Village on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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?
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
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
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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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Feudal: Forest Village.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Life is Feudal: Forest Village
- Does Life is Feudal: Forest Village work on Steam Deck?
- Life is Feudal: Forest Village is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Life is Feudal: Forest Village cost?
- Life is Feudal: Forest Village is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life is Feudal: Forest Village?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life is Feudal: Forest Village are Banished, First Feudal, Founders' Fortune.
- Who developed Life is Feudal: Forest Village?
- Life is Feudal: Forest Village was developed by Mindillusion and published by Bitbox Ltd..
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