Games like Odd Realm
If Odd Realm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Dwarf Fortress and Rise to Ruins — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Odd Realm: Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Players who liked Odd Realm also play
Steam players who put hours into Odd Realm 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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Odd Realm.
Top pick for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Odd Realm.
Second-strongest match for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Rise to Ruins
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Odd Realm.
Ranked #4 for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Odd Realm.
Ranked #6 for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Ruinarch
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Odd Realm.
Ranked #7 for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
After the Collapse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Odd Realm.
Ranked #8 for Odd Realm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Odd Realm
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Odd Realm.
Reviewers of Odd Realm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Rise to Ruins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Odd Realm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Odd Realm.
Reviewers of Odd Realm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Hero's Hour
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Odd Realm.
Reviewers of Odd Realm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Odd Realm.
A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Odd Realm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Odd Realm.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Odd Realm.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Odd Realm.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Odd Realm.
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 ~60% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Odd Realm.
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 ~63% under Odd Realm on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Odd Realm.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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 with Odd Realm.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Odd Realm.
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?
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Odd Realm.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Odd Realm.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Odd Realm.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Odd Realm.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Odd Realm.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Odd Realm
- Does Odd Realm run on Steam Deck?
- Odd Realm 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 Odd Realm cost?
- Odd Realm is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Odd Realm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Odd Realm are Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Dwarf Fortress, Rise to Ruins.
- Who developed Odd Realm?
- Odd Realm was developed by Unknown Origin Games 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 Odd Realm.
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