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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.

  • Resources and survival
  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Pixel art
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Age of Darkness: Final Stand

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2025PCSteam Deck playable74 % positive26.99 €

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A dark fantasy real-time strategy survival game where you build and light up humanity's last stronghold and defend it against waves of nightmarish creatures lurking in a deadly fog.

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Kingdom Two Crowns

  • Combat like Grim Realms
  • Mood like Grim Realms

As a mounted monarch you gather coins, recruit subjects and grow a realm that you must defend each night from greedy creatures. This minimalist side-scroller pairs moody pixel art with a calm yet demanding build-and-defend rhythm.

Cataclismo

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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.

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.

Dwarf Fortress

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  • 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.

Kingdom: New Lands

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  • Mood like Grim Realms

A minimalist pixel-art kingdom builder where you ride on horseback, collect coins, recruit subjects and defend your realm from nightly monster hordes. New Lands adds island hopping by boat and new mounts to discover.

Pyramida

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  • Mood like Grim Realms

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.

Odd Realm

  • Combat like Grim Realms
  • 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.

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.

Dwarf Fortress

  • Combat like Grim Realms
  • Mood like Grim Realms

You build and manage a dwarven fortress in a deeply simulated world where every dwarf has its own personality and every system interacts. Watch your civilization decline and use the lessons for your next attempt.

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