Games like Clanfolk

Clanfolk is a multi-generational settlement simulation game focused on survival and legacy building. Players manage a family's daily life, resource gathering, and crafting to endure harsh winters and grow their homestead.

92% positive from 3,917 · 2022 · Steam Deck Playable · $29.99 $14.99 -50% · Lowest ever $7.49 (2023-11-29)

StrategySimulationCity Builder Colony Sim Base-Building RTS

Six games like Clanfolk

Kingdoms Reborn

91% positive from 9,646 reviews20201% finish itDeck Playable

City builder with simulated citizens and procedural generation. Players research technologies and draw cards to expand their kingdom through different eras and biomes.

What players likedPlayers praise its blend of city-building and resource management, feeling like a mix of Cities Skylines and Civilization, offering a satisfying rags-to-riches progression.

The catchEarly access development has crawled for years with rare updates that add little.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, City Builder and Base-Building.

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Flotsam

81% positive from 4,450 reviews20258% finish itDeck Verified

A survival city-builder where you recycle ocean trash into a thriving floating town. Explore, rescue survivors, and research tech to create a sustainable, feel-good apocalypse.

What players likedFlotsam is a charming and relaxing city builder with unique ocean-based survival, exploration, and resource management.

The catchVillagers get stuck doing nothing, forcing constant saves and reloads to unstick them.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, City Builder and Base-Building.

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Sapiens

83% positive from 2,137 reviews2022Deck Unsupported

A civilization-building simulation game where players manage individual sapiens to research, gather, and build. It features cooperative multiplayer and procedural generation for a sandbox experience.

What players likedPlayers praise its unique, relaxing, and playable nature, offering plenty to do and advance, similar to other survival/crafting games.

The catchDevelopment has stalled and the dev moved on, leaving it unfinished in early access.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, City Builder and Base-Building.

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From Glory To Goo

96% positive from 1,811 reviews202428% finish itDeck Playable

Colony survival strategy game with base building and wave defense. Expand your colony and manage resources against alien goo on procedurally generated maps.

What players likedPlayers praise "From Glory To Goo" as a superior survival RTS, like "They Are Billions" and "Starcraft," for its deep mechanics, campaign, and replayability.

The catchMissions drag for hours and the loop turns grindy and repetitive early on.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, Base-Building and RTS.

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Academia : School Simulator

86% positive from 3,037 reviews202115% finish itDeck Playable

School management sim where you lay out classrooms, labs and toilets, hire teachers by subject and degree, and keep students fed, clean and disciplined without blowing the budget.

The catchDepth runs out fast; once the school is built there is little left to manage.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, City Builder and Base-Building.

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Founders' Fortune

80% positive from 2,184 reviews20203% finish itDeck Verified

A settlement simulation game where players design custom buildings, manage villager needs and emotions, and raise families. The core loop involves resource gathering, construction, and ensuring villager survival and happiness.

What players likedPlayers praise its building, farming, and research, comparing it to The Sims for its village expansion and micromanagement.

The catchColonists ignore assigned jobs, wandering far off or starving next to food.

Both are tagged Colony Sim, City Builder and Base-Building.

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More about Clanfolk

What players liked

Clanfolk is a cozy, combat-free colony sim like RimWorld, praised for its deep survival, family management, and active developer.

The catch

The pace is a crawl, with long stretches of gathering before anything gets built.

Reviews: 92% positive from 3,917
Released: 2022
Steam Deck: Steam Deck Playable
Price: $29.99 $14.99 -50% · Lowest ever $7.49 (2023-11-29)
Play: Single-player

It is here because it sits in the band this site looks at: well reviewed at 92% positive, but with 3,917 reviews, far fewer than the household names carry.

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