Games like Black Forest
If Black Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) and Kingdoms and Castles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging difficulty rewards persistence, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Black Forest: Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Players who liked Black Forest also play
Steam players who put hours into Black Forest 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.
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Top pick for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Black Forest.
Second-strongest match for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Forest.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Black Forest.
Third-strongest match for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Of Life and Land
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Forest.
Ranked #4 for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Black Forest.
Ranked #5 for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Forest.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Black Forest.
Ranked #6 for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Black Forest.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Forest.
Ranked #7 for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
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.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Forest.
Ranked #8 for Black Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Black Forest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Black Forest.
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 Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Black Forest.
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 ~47% under Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Forest.
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 ~50% under Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Black Forest.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
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 Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
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 Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Black Forest.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Black Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Black Forest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 and Free To Play with Black Forest.
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 Indie and Free To Play with Black Forest.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Black Forest.
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.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Black Forest.
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 Black Forest.
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 with Black Forest.
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 and Casual with Black Forest.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Black Forest.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Black Forest
- How much does Black Forest cost?
- Black Forest is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Black Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Forest are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012), Kingdoms and Castles.
- Who developed Black Forest?
- Black Forest was developed by Lemuria.
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 Black Forest.
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