
Stoneborn combines classic colony simulation with a vibrant dwarven culture. Your dwarves celebrate weddings, hold grudges, and fight to survive. Build a multi-level fortress and shape the story of your colony in a procedurally generated world.
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Stoneborn combines classic colony simulation with a vibrant dwarven culture. Your dwarves celebrate weddings, hold grudges, and fight to survive. Build a multi-level fortress and shape the story of your colony in a procedurally generated world.

Dwarf Fortress
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.

Dwarf Block
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
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 43.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 4.2%
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
Why similar: Dwarves 57.6% ★, Colony Sim 35%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 1.7%
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Why similar: Dwarves 77.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 3%, Strategy 3%, Simulation 2.3%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Dwarves 23.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 6.9%
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 52.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 2.9%, Simulation 1.6%
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 80% ★, Colony Sim 6.6%, Base Building 3.8%, Sandbox 3.1%, Strategy 2.7%
Establish and grow a dwarven colony. Mine deep into the rock for precious ores and gems, then craft the finest wares to trade. Attract more dwarves as your renown spreads and your gold hoard increases.
Why similar: Dwarves 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 3.4%
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 43.6% ★, Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8%, Strategy 4.6%
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Why similar: Dwarves 47.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 7%, Fantasy 3.3%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Dwarves 32% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Simulation 4.9%, Strategy 4.5%
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 87.3% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Strategy 3.7%, Indie 0.8%
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 83.4% ★, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 5%, Indie 1.4%, 2D 1.4%
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 91.1% ★, Simulation 7%, Indie 1.9%
Dwarf Defense! An RTS Tower Defense game where you play as a dwarf trying to defend a brewery from thirsty invaders by using magical towers and spells.
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 86.6% ★, Strategy 7.2%, Fantasy 3.7%, Simulation 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Explore the 8-Biomes of Arxox. Live the life of a Dwarf, Elf, or Human folk hero. Hunt. Fish. Master spell runes of the ancients and defeat a powerful Arch Villain.
Why similar: Dwarves 83.5% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 5.2%, Indie 1.6%
Take part in a thrilling new adventure in the world of Ashan with the Hammers of Fate expansion. Discover uncharted territories and experience new ways of playing Heroes of Might & Magic V. Introducing a brand-new Dwarves faction, made up of heroic warriors and rune magic adepts who stalk the deepest mountains and most hostile regions of...
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 98.4% ★, Fantasy 0.7%, 2D 0.6%, Indie 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%
A top-down, action adventure rogue-lite. Each quest requires an oath, and bringing back one less flagon of ale than you promised brings dire consequence!
Why similar: Dwarves 95.7% ★, Fantasy 1.8%, Indie 1.3%, 2D 1.2%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 4.8%
You play a young beardless dwarf who dreams about adventures and heroic deeds. Usually dwarves have beards, but for some mystical reasons beard of our hero is not grows. So he decide to make a journey with his friend the bat to solve this problem. During the game you control a group of units each with its own specialties and features.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Dwarves 68.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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,...
Dungeon Marathon is a new style of game where you must run through Dungeons, no fighting allowed!
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.4%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
The Dwarf Run is an old-fashioned RPG featuring turn-based combat, elements of point-n-click adventure and intriguing story line.
Classic fantasy RPG about dwarves Non-linear storyline Sandbox Around 40 hours of gameplay
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 53.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Fantasy 5%, 2D 2.9%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.9%
It's a nice sunny day in Dingletopia and Prince Dingle Dorfen and his wise adviser Forlorn Gumpel are slurping up the gorpulsen and planning their next conquest. Their life of luxury is soon interrupted however when Orcs burst into the lands with rattling sabers.
Why similar: Dwarves 71.2% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Indie 3.1%
The Kingdom of Fairbridge is under attack by Goblins, Orcs and Trolls. Use your towers weapons and command your warriors to push the invading Goblins lead troops out of the kingdom. Take the battle from the castle walls to the mountains, caves and desert valleys that surround the kingdom.
Why similar: Dwarves 100% ★
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7%, Base Building 24.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 4.8%, Fantasy 3.9%
June 11, 2009 - Update Two new playable Orc classes: Lord (Warrior) or Shaman. Expanded gameplay: Orcs consume twice as much food, learn martial skills faster, manufacture items slower, and the Shaman uses totems to summon creatures. Several new items regardless of character class.
Why similar: Dwarves 83.2% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Fantasy 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4%, Base Building 26.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 3.5%, Simulation 3%
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Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Strategy 5.7%, 2D 3.1%
Warlords Battlecry III is the next installment in the award-winning Warlords Battlecry series. Builds upon the famous features of previous Battlecry titles such as the outstanding AI, innovative gameplay and hero system that has made this brand renowned throughout the RTS genre.
A medieval fantasy colony sim based on Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, MediAevi features multiple playable races in a procedurally generated world. Make a sustainable colony and keep your colonists alive through raids and attacks. Research and Advance, to make better weapons, armors, spells, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Fantasy 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Why similar: Dwarves 66.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, Simulation 5.1%, Strategy 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 56%, Base Building 21%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 4.7%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Sandbox 19.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 9.8%
New Age is a turn-based strategy-RPG with nonlinear quests, team PVP turn-based battles, coop mode and open world.
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Base Building 24.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.5%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 20.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%
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 42.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 4.7%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.5%, Strategy 12.2%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.7%, Fantasy 4.4%
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
Why similar: Dwarves 98.4% ★, Combat 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 79.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 79.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 9.2%
Five years after the epic events of Might & Magic Heroes VII, lead the new Fortress faction to define the destiny of the Dwarves and shed light on some of the darkest chapters of their history.
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Base Building 23.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 5.4%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46%, Base Building 22.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 5.8%
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Dwarves 45% ★, Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 4.4%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.5%, Base Building 26.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6%, Fantasy 4.3%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.7%, Base Building 25.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.9%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 7.1%
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.8%, Sandbox 20.4%, Base Building 17.8%, 2D 4.3%, Fantasy 4%