Games like Ostriv
If Ostriv is your kind of game, the closest matches are Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Foundation and Manor Lords — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and peaceful. 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 →Ostriv is a strategy and simulation game set in an 18th-century Ukrainian village, developed by yevhen8 and released in 2020 at $24.99 USD. Players manage a historical settlement through micromanagement of population dynamics, village economy, and supply chain simulation, transforming raw materials like logs into finished structures. The game features seasonal challenges that affect daily life and long-term planning. Reviewers highlight Ukrainian cultural and historical authenticity woven throughout the experience. Players describe it as atmospheric, peaceful, and relaxing, with villagers following realistic daily routines and aging through the years, eventually leaving tombstones with epitaphs. Frequent updates continue to expand the simulation. The game holds a 93% positive rating from 2755 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Ostriv: Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Players who liked Ostriv also play
Steam players who put hours into Ostriv 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.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Top pick for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ostriv.
Second-strongest match for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Third-strongest match for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Land of the Vikings
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ostriv.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Ranked #5 for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ostriv.
Ranked #6 for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Patron
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ostriv.
Ranked #7 for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
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.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ostriv fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ostriv
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Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Going Medieval
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Founders' Fortune
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Fabledom
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ostriv.
Reviewers of Ostriv cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ostriv at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ostriv.
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 Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Ostriv.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ostriv.
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 Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ostriv.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ostriv.
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 Ostriv on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Ostriv.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ostriv.
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 Ostriv.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ostriv.
『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 Ostriv.
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 Ostriv.
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 Ostriv.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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.
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Frequently asked about Ostriv
- Does Ostriv run on Steam Deck?
- Ostriv 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 Ostriv cost?
- Ostriv is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ostriv?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ostriv are Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Foundation, Manor Lords.
- Who developed Ostriv?
- Ostriv was developed by yevhen8.
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