Games Like Dwarfs!?

Cut the trees, catch some fish, upgrade your castle and environment. Guard the treasure against waves of enemies and lead your dwarves on their way to victory!

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.3%, Management 16.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Fantasy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game closely mirrors the arcade-style tower defense and mining mechanics found in the seed title.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Dwarves 55.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 3.8%, Tower Defense 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deep colony management with extensive mining and base-building elements in a similar 2D perspective.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Dwarves 44.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 7.9%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive deep-simulation colony builder that provides the ultimate experience in managing dwarven life and underground expansion.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Mining 25.8% ★, Base Building 14%, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the dwarven experience of mining, automation, and managing a growing underground colony.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.7%, Tower Defense 22.7%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 14.9%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival and tower defense mechanics where you must constantly dig and fortify against waves of enemies.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging mix of colony simulation and tower defense that forces players to manage resources while defending against constant attacks.

A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Why similar: Dwarves 88.6% ★, Strategy 5.5%, Fantasy 3.7%, Simulation 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the management of a dwarven colony with a strong emphasis on digging and base construction.

Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.

Why similar: Dwarves 81.4% ★, Colony Sim 11%, Base Building 2.3%, Strategy 2.3%, Simulation 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a 3D take on dwarven colony management, focusing on resource gathering and defending your base from invaders.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 6.5%, Fantasy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar side-scrolling base management and defense experience that emphasizes protecting your people from encroaching threats.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 10.4%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you manage a base and defend it against waves of enemies in a harsh environment.

Delve Deeper is a turn-based Adventure/Strategy game for Windows that combines HD pixel art, tile placement, and RPG elements in a bright and humorous atmosphere. Up to four players take command of Dwarf mining teams in this fast and furious dungeon adventure meets devious puzzler, building the map as you play for an ever-changing,...

Why similar: Dwarves 84.7% ★, Mining 7.8% ★, Strategy 5.5%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that captures the essence of exploring and mining deep caverns with a team of dwarves.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends roguelike exploration with tower defense and resource management in a way that captures the chaotic survival feel.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Mining 16.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Management 8.8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric colony-sim that emphasizes survival, resource management, and building in a procedurally generated world.

Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of Auto Battler, Strategy, and RPG. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid party through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!

Why similar: Dwarves 86.2% ★, Procedural Generation 3.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, Fantasy 2.4%, Strategy 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the chaotic, combat-heavy side of dwarven life through an auto-battler format.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony-sim that allows for complex base building and management of a subterranean society.

Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.

Why similar: Dwarves 62.3% ★, Mining 18.6% ★, Top-Down 5.6%, Procedural Generation 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike focused on the mining and exploration aspects of the dwarven experience.

Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

Why similar: Mining 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base building and resource management with a heavy emphasis on defending your territory.

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Base Building 19.4%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building colony sim that centers on managing resources and survival in a dangerous underground setting.

Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?

Why similar: Dwarves 51.3% ★, Mining 21.3% ★, Tower Defense 16.2%, Procedural Generation 6.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that specifically focuses on the mining and defensive mechanics found in the seed game.

Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.

Why similar: Dwarves 92.7% ★, Mining 2.2% ★, 2D Platformer 1.4%, Pixel Graphics 1.1%, Procedural Generation 1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented take on the dwarven theme that emphasizes exploration and combat in deep caverns.

Mine. Maze. Merge. Survive. Dig for powerful gems, merge them into game-breaking towers, stack buffs, and pick roguelike perks to build wild synergies. Do not let enemies drag your miner to the lava!

Why similar: Dwarves 45.7% ★, Mining 22.2% ★, Tower Defense 16%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Strategy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense title that incorporates mining elements and replayability.

Dwarf Tower is a turn-based tactics game of tower building and spellcasting. Each turn you develop your tower by placing blocks, constructing rooms, and play various spells. Your tower can have Libraries (store spells), Crystals (generate mana), Dwarf Dwellings (give you dwarves to repair the tower) and some other rooms.

Why similar: Dwarves 88% ★, Sandbox 5%, Tower Defense 2.8%, Strategy 2.8%, Indie 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game that involves building and defending a tower, mirroring the defensive needs of the seed game.

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Why similar: Dwarves 40.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game with procedural generation that offers a similar defensive challenge to the seed game.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Sandbox 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Survival 17.1%, 2D 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim that includes mining, building, and defending against waves of enemies.

Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.

Why similar: Dwarves 51% ★, Mining 20.1% ★, Tower Defense 11.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the defensive aspect of mining operations, requiring players to hold their ground against enemies.

Dwarf Shop is a Shop Simulator with, you guessed it, Dwarves! Help the Dragon Clan lure their very own dragon by amassing piles and piles of glorious gold. Send one dwarf deep into the caves to find ingredients while the others craft various equipment and sell them to unsuspecting customers!

Why similar: Dwarves 58.1% ★, Mining 17.1% ★, Management 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Simulation 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economy and management side of a dwarven business, providing a different perspective on the theme.

Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Why similar: Dwarves 49.7% ★, Mining 21.3% ★, Base Building 7.3%, Management 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 4%

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.7%, Fantasy 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 12.5%, 2D 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced strategy game that requires quick thinking to manage a base and defend against incoming threats.

Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Why similar: Dwarves 60.6% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation game that involves managing a colony and dealing with the harsh realities of survival.

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Dwarves 43.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Management 7.4%, Sandbox 4.9%

Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.

Why similar: Dwarves 75.6% ★, Mining 10.8% ★, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 2.7%, Indie 2.2%

Fight big battles in the mines, get to mining and collecting gold and minerals. build and upgrade your towers, power up with treasure chests. Defend your base from looting goblins! using variety of weapons and tower, from RPG, ak47, canons towers, to sawblade towers and more!

Why similar: Dwarves 44.6% ★, Tower Defense 19.5%, Mining 15.7% ★, Top-Down 7.8%, Strategy 4.7%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarves 79.8% ★, Colony Sim 5.1%, Base Building 2.8%, Strategy 2%, Sandbox 1.8%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Mining 15.2% ★, 2D Platformer 11%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Tower Defense 23.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Dig up the Adamant Core from a procedurally generated mine, extract ores, sell them for profit, upgrade your equipment, and keep the King happy by sending him tributes before he loses his temper!

Why similar: Dwarves 55.9% ★, Mining 26.2% ★, Procedural Generation 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%, 2D 2.7%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.8%, 2D Platformer 7.3%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%

A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.

Why similar: Dwarves 91.3% ★, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 3.2%

It`s impossible to refuse to help Odin when he asks to find his pet, Fenris, the hound of Hell. A mix of cinematic adventure and a colony building strategy that will take you deep down to the underground world of dwarfs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Mining 36.4% ★, Management 12.1%, Strategy 7%, Dwarves 6.2% ★

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Survival 7.4%

Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.

Why similar: Dwarves 55.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Fantasy 5.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.

Why similar: Dwarves 69.1% ★, Top-Down 7.3%, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%, Strategy 4.5%

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Mining 44.4% ★, Management 20.4%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Strategy 5.7%

Reunite the kingdom of Adventuria and defeat the evil Illusionist Miraj by recruiting Adventurers to send on Adventures for epic loot and rewards in this RPG/Management Sim with tons of depth, randomization, and customization options!

Why similar: Dwarves 56.3% ★, Management 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Indie 6%, Simulation 4.7%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.3%, Management 17.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Fantasy 8.4%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 15.5%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.3%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Survival 5.6%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Management 14.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Top-Down 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 6.9%

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.2%, Management 16%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Fantasy 9.9%, Simulation 4.1%

Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.

Why similar: Dwarves 67.7% ★, Mining 19.9% ★, Procedural Generation 6%, Fantasy 3.3%, Pixel Graphics 2.6%

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Keep your dragon and city of Woodwarf safe with the help of your dwarven army. Upgrade your home and environment while you fight epic battles underground! Use special abilities and items and overcome waves of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Fantasy 15.1%, Management 14.4%, Indie 7.9%

Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge is a mix of a simulator, strategy, and auto-battler. Become a master smith, craft various weapons, and enhance them with magical runes. Equip a team of adventurers with your hand-made tools, send them on missions, gather loot to upgrade your forge, and save the land!

Why similar: Dwarves 88.3% ★, Simulation 5.2%, 2D 3.6%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Mining 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 10.7%, Top-Down 8.5%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Top-Down 7.2%

Cave Crawlers is a 1-10 player rogue lite set deep underground in a system of randomly generated caves. Players use weapons, spells, and talents to defeat the unique bosses and enemies found in each biome.

Why similar: Dwarves 75.6% ★, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Fantasy 5.5%, Strategy 4.3%