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Games Like Caravan

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Strategy, Indie, Simulation.

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Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 77% — of 1,033 reviews
Released: 2016-09-30
Developer: it Matters Games
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 11.5 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 90%

Overview

Caravan is a unique blend of turn-based strategy, resource management, and narrative-driven exploration set in a harsh desert landscape. These recommendations focus on games that capture the essence of managing a traveling party, balancing trade routes, and making difficult survival choices during long, perilous journeys.

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    Why similar: Trading 97.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

    Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the caravan management and desert survival mechanics found in the seed game.

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    Why similar: Trading 75%, Simulation 25%

    Why You'll Like It: A deep, post-apocalyptic trading simulation that emphasizes the logistics and survival aspects of caravan travel.

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    Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Simulation 36.5%, Trading 15.6%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

    Why You'll Like It: Combines trading, management, and journey-based survival as you navigate a dangerous world by rail.

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    95% matchVery Positive89% of 15,850 reviews2014
    Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

    Why similar: Strategy 74.1%, Indie 18%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1%

    Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for managing a traveling caravan through a narrative-heavy, turn-based world.

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    Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Simulation 36.4%, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Captures the feeling of being stranded and having to manage limited resources to survive a long, unpredictable journey.

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    Why similar: Strategy 89.6%, Indie 10.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that focuses on the tension of managing resources while traveling across a hostile landscape.

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    Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic delivery and management game that mirrors the trading and survival loops of the seed game.

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    Why similar: Strategy 43.3%, Simulation 34%, Adventure 20.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a mercenary company, offering similar party management and turn-based combat depth.

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    Why similar: Trading 59.2%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Offers a robust economic simulation focused on trading and managing routes across a vast, dangerous map.

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    Windows

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    Why similar: Trading 44%, Strategy 42.2%, Indie 13%, Singleplayer 0.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game where you must navigate the complexities of trade and survival in a medieval setting.

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    Dev: MicroProse Software, IncPub: Atari
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

    Why similar: Simulation 41.5%, Strategy 37.9%, Adventure 19.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

  54. #54 21 Days
    69% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2017
    Dev: Hardtalk Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.

    Why similar: Simulation 52.2%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 19.5%

  55. #55 Car Trader Simulator - Welcome to the Business
    68% matchMixed64% of 468 reviews2020
    Dev: Live Motion Games
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    Welcome to the prologue to Car Trader Simulator. Here you will learn all the most important in mechanics and economics in the game and you will play your first mission.

    Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, Simulation 31.6%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

  56. #56 Alaskan Road Truckers
    66% matchMixed62% of 3,202 reviews2023
    Dev: Road Studio S.A.Pub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

    Why similar: Simulation 50.1%, Adventure 29.8%, Indie 16.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

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