Rank 01Why this
Also 4X and Hex Grid, like Burned Land.
- $4.99 (Price checked Nov 9)
- Deck Playable
- 2015
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Shares turn based strategy with Burned Land.
- $7.49 (Price checked Nov 8)
- Deck Playable
- 2010
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Chaos Reborn
Why this: Also Hex Grid and Turn-Based, like Burned Land.
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- Released: 2021
- Developer: Koya Game
- Price: $9.99checked Nov 7
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 46% of 59 reviews
- Genres: Action, Strategy, Indie
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Deep population management with literacy devotion and nobility
- Every decision creates cascading consequences
- Gods escalate threats as your city grows
- Bleak
- Challenging
- Stressful
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About Burned Land
The closest matches to Burned Land: Thea: The Awakening, Pandora: First Contact, Sid Meier's Civilization® V, ENDLESS™ Legend, and Chaos Reborn. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Burned Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thea: The Awakening, Pandora: First Contact and Sid Meier's Civilization® V — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as bleak, challenging and stressful, and single out its crisis management and divine curses. 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.
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.
Is Burned Land worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 46% of 59 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $9.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 7 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 5 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Deep population management with literacy devotion and nobility
- Every decision creates cascading consequences
- Gods escalate threats as your city grows
- Replayability through random events and multiple strategies
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“No rules. No tutorial. No tool tips. Poorly designed and basically unplayable. The overall game premise might be great but this a completely an unfinished product as the developer bit off more than they can chew.”
“Nope. 1. Total RNG. The bad way. Like a slots machine. Your decisions almost mean nothing. 2. Bugged. E.g. you can produce a building that should provide +X of something per turn, but it just doesn't. 3. Bad interface + bugs. 4…”
People who play it also play: Thea: The Awakening, Pandora: First Contact, Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Frequently asked about Burned Land
Can I run it?
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, Pandora: First Contact, Sid Meier's Civilization® V.
Who developed Burned Land?
Burned Land was developed by Koya Game.