Games like Goblins of Elderstone
If Goblins of Elderstone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settlements Rising, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Dwarf Fortress — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, dark and stressful. 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 Goblins of Elderstone: This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
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Settlements Rising
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Top pick for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Second-strongest match for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 a stressful mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Third-strongest match for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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.
The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Ranked #5 for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Ranked #7 for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Goblins of Elderstone.
Ranked #8 for Goblins of Elderstone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Goblins of Elderstone at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 Goblins of Elderstone on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 Goblins of Elderstone.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 and Simulation with Goblins of Elderstone.
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 with Goblins of Elderstone.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Goblins of Elderstone.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
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Frequently asked about Goblins of Elderstone
- How much does Goblins of Elderstone cost?
- Goblins of Elderstone is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Goblins of Elderstone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Goblins of Elderstone are Settlements Rising, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Dwarf Fortress.
- Who developed Goblins of Elderstone?
- Goblins of Elderstone was developed by Outerdawn, Lost Goblin and published by Outerdawn.
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