Games like Airborne Kingdom
If Airborne Kingdom is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frostpunk, Cartel Tycoon and Kingdoms and Castles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its citizens behave exceptionally well, atmospheric and chill. 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 →Airborne Kingdom is a 2022 indie city builder from The Wandering Band LLC in which players construct and manage a floating metropolis navigating an expansive world. The core gameplay centers on maintaining equilibrium through weight distribution management, propulsion balancing, and preventing structural tilt, while satisfying citizen needs and gathering resources. Players describe the visual presentation as atmospheric, with the progression system rewarding players who master the initial harsh constraints to ultimately achieve a state of self-sufficiency. Reviewers highlight the hypnotic quality of the soundtrack. The game is available for $24.99 and runs on Steam Deck, holding an 88% positive rating from 1,180 reviews.
About Airborne Kingdom: The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Players who liked Airborne Kingdom also play
Steam players who put hours into Airborne Kingdom 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.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Top pick for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Cartel Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Second-strongest match for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Third-strongest match for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
IXION
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Ranked #5 for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Ranked #6 for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Merchant of the Skies
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Ranked #7 for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Pan'orama
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Airborne Kingdom.
Ranked #8 for Airborne Kingdom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Airborne Kingdom at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Airborne Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
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 Airborne Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airborne Kingdom.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Airborne Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Airborne Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Airborne Kingdom.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Airborne Kingdom on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airborne Kingdom.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Airborne Kingdom.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Airborne Kingdom.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Airborne Kingdom.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airborne Kingdom.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Airborne Kingdom.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airborne Kingdom.
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.
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Frequently asked about Airborne Kingdom
- Does Airborne Kingdom run on Steam Deck?
- Airborne Kingdom 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 Airborne Kingdom cost?
- Airborne Kingdom is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Airborne Kingdom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Airborne Kingdom are Frostpunk, Cartel Tycoon, Kingdoms and Castles.
- Who developed Airborne Kingdom?
- Airborne Kingdom was developed by The Wandering Band LLC.
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 Airborne Kingdom.
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