Games like The Five Monks
If The Five Monks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bloodthrone: Eternal Reign, License To Clone and Forsaken: Year One — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Five Monks: A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
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Bloodthrone: Eternal Reign
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Top pick for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
An immortal vampire lord's night begins. Hunt a living village where every victim is a choice — drain them for blood, or raise them as a soldier in your army. Manage your coven, endure the hunters' wrath, and reign across five ages.
License To Clone
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Second-strongest match for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
License To Clone is a challenging Open World Sandbox Survival RPG where you learn through survival. Explore a desert with a dynamic economy full of rogue factions. Experiment with powerful mutations. Tame creatures and extract powerful body parts to splice your DNA in your cloning lab.
Forsaken: Year One
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Order: The New Dawn
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Ranked #4 for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Gateworlds
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Ranked #5 for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Deep Rise
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Ranked #6 for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Colony management roguelite. After every combat, draft one of three cards to build your run. The surface world ended a thousand years ago. Now the road up is open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
Primage
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Ranked #7 for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
As the leader of a Stone Age tribe, gather resources, develop your settlement and lead your people through the challenges of a world full of danger and mystery. Your survival skills, strategic planning and decision-making will be key in this battle for survival.
Dungeon Settlers
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Ranked #8 for The Five Monks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Five Monks.
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
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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 The Five Monks.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Five Monks.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Five Monks.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Five Monks.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Five Monks.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Five Monks.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Five Monks.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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 The Five Monks.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Five Monks
- What games are most similar to The Five Monks?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Five Monks are Bloodthrone: Eternal Reign, License To Clone, Forsaken: Year One.
- Who developed The Five Monks?
- The Five Monks was developed by Mad Goblins and published by team BLACKCODE Inc..
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 The Five Monks.
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