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2024PCSteam Deck playable79 % positive14.79 €

A side-scrolling pixel art colony sim where you keep a village alive against the undead. Resource management and survival take center stage in a bleak fantasy world.

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  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Pixel art
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Cataclismo

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2025PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive29.99 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Grim Realms and Mood like Grim Realms.

Cataclismo blends tower defense with real-time strategy: you build fortresses piece by piece and fend off waves of Horrors while reclaiming mist-shrouded ruins.

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Dwarf Fortress

  • Combat like Grim Realms
  • Mood like Grim Realms

An immensely deep simulation where you build and manage a dwarven fortress or roam a procedurally generated, persistent world as an adventurer. Its interlocking systems produce chaotic, memorable stories, though the learning curve is notoriously steep.

Exodus Borealis

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A blend of city building and tower defense where you guide shipwrecked colonists from scraping by to a thriving kingdom that must repel demon hordes.

Odd Realm

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  • Mood like Grim Realms

A pixel-art colony simulation in a procedurally generated fantasy world where you guide settlers to build, explore and survive threats. Reminiscent of Dwarf Fortress but more approachable, with a quirky sense of humor.

Necrosmith 2

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As a necromancer you stitch together custom undead from body parts, explore a generated world by night and fend off enemy hordes by day. The sequel adds flying and swimming creatures to your army.

Rise to Ruins

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  • Mood like Grim Realms

A tough village builder where you act as a godlike force guiding settlers and defending against nightly monster waves. It blends resource management with 90s-style real-time strategy.

DarkSwitch

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A vertical survival city builder where you grow a settlement on a giant tree and defend it against the Fog. Limited space, scarce resources and tough moral decisions drive the experience.

Against the Storm

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  • Mood like Grim Realms

A roguelite city builder where you found new settlements in the endless rain, juggling resources, species needs and looming storms. Randomized maps and conditions keep each run fresh, while meta-progression steadily expands your options.

Pyramida

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You grow a small town center in a desert landscape into a thriving village with farms, windmills and hunting. At night monsters lurk, so you have to keep your settlement safe.

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