Games like DwarfHeim
If DwarfHeim is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold: Warlords, Northgard: Definitive Edition and Per Aspera — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.
Get personalized picks →About DwarfHeim: DwarfHeim is a class-based co-op RTS for 1-3 players. Survive against endless waves of trolls either alone or with friends, defeat enemy clans in Multiplayer Conquest, or build your Dwarven settlement in Sandbox mode.
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Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DwarfHeim.
Top pick for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with DwarfHeim.
Second-strongest match for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DwarfHeim.
Third-strongest match for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DwarfHeim.
Ranked #4 for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with DwarfHeim.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Frozenheim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with DwarfHeim.
Ranked #6 for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Conan Unconquered
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with DwarfHeim.
Ranked #7 for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with DwarfHeim.
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
Kingdoms Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with DwarfHeim.
Ranked #8 for DwarfHeim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DwarfHeim.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DwarfHeim.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DwarfHeim.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with DwarfHeim.
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!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about DwarfHeim
- Does DwarfHeim work on Steam Deck?
- DwarfHeim is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does DwarfHeim have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — DwarfHeim supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to DwarfHeim?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DwarfHeim are Stronghold: Warlords, Northgard: Definitive Edition, Per Aspera.
- Who developed DwarfHeim?
- DwarfHeim was developed by Pineleaf Studio and published by MG Publishing.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on DwarfHeim.
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