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Games like Burned Land

If Burned Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thea: The Awakening, Fantasy General II and ENDLESS™ Legend — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, challenging 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.

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About Burned Land: Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.

2021ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Koya Game
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Deep population management with literacy devotion and nobilityEvery decision creates cascading consequencesGods escalate threats as your city growsBleakChallengingStressful

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Steam players who put hours into Burned Land 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.

  1. Thea: The Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Burned Land.

    Top pick for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burned Land.

    Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Fantasy General II

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Burned Land.

    Second-strongest match for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Burned Land.

    The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.

    2019Strategy39.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. ENDLESS™ Legend

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Burned Land.

    Third-strongest match for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Burned Land.

    ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

    2014StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Eador. Masters of the Broken World

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Burned Land.

    Ranked #4 for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burned Land.

    Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

    2013StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Myriads: Renaissance

    WHY THIS

    Shares turn based strategy and a tense mood with Burned Land.

    Ranked #5 for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burned Land.

    Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.

    2023StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Age of Wonders III

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Burned Land.

    Ranked #6 for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Burned Land.

    Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!

    2014StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Farabel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burned Land.

    Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!

    2016StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Scythe: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Burned Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Burned Land.

    Scythe transports you to an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, one ravaged by the First World War. Take up the role of leader by assuming command of one of 5 factions, and set out to conquer the coveted "Factory". Lead your mechs to war and your people to victory!

    2018Strategy19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Burned Land at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Burned Land.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Action with Burned Land.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burned Land.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Burned Land.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Burned Land.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Burned Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burned Land.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burned Land.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burned Land.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burned Land.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Burned Land

Does Burned Land run on Steam Deck?
Burned Land 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 Burned Land cost?
Burned Land is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Burned Land?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Burned Land are Thea: The Awakening, Fantasy General II, ENDLESS™ Legend.
Who developed Burned Land?
Burned Land was developed by Koya Game.

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