Games like TFM: The First Men
If TFM: The First Men is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, Against the Storm and Sapiens — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 TFM: The First Men: An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
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Steam players who put hours into TFM: The First Men 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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Top pick for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Second-strongest match for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Empires of the Undergrowth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Ranked #4 for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Ranked #5 for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TFM: The First Men.
Ranked #6 for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Ranked #7 for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Ranked #8 for TFM: The First Men fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TFM: The First Men.
Reviewers of TFM: The First Men cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Noble Fates
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Reviewers of TFM: The First Men cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TFM: The First Men.
Reviewers of TFM: The First Men cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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 Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TFM: The First Men.
Reviewers of TFM: The First Men cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below TFM: The First Men at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
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 ~60% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with TFM: The First Men.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with TFM: The First Men.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under TFM: The First Men on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with TFM: The First Men.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
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 TFM: The First Men.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with TFM: The First Men.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TFM: The First Men.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with TFM: The First Men.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with TFM: The First Men.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Frequently asked about TFM: The First Men
- Does TFM: The First Men run on Steam Deck?
- TFM: The First Men 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 TFM: The First Men cost?
- TFM: The First Men is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to TFM: The First Men?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TFM: The First Men are Dwarf Fortress, Against the Storm, Sapiens.
- Who developed TFM: The First Men?
- TFM: The First Men was developed by Gathering Tree.
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