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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.

  • Economy and management
  • Building and crafting
  • Fantasy setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Grim Realms are Cataclismo, Age of Darkness: Final Stand and Rise to Ruins. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Grim Realms special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cataclismo

91 %Match

2025PCSteam Deck playable88 % positive29.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Grim Realms: building and crafting, a fantasy setting as well as tactical depth.

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

Building and crafting

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

Building and crafting

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.

Pyramida

Pure single-player experience

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

Building and crafting

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.

Dungeon Keeper 2

Building and crafting

You play the villainous dungeon keeper, digging tunnels, building rooms, attracting monsters and fending off invading heroes. Its dark humor and the chance to be the bad guy make it memorable.

Necrosmith 2

Tactical depth

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.

Gnomoria

Economy and management

A Dwarf Fortress-style colony management sandbox where you lead a small band of gnomes, dig deep, craft goods and defend your settlement as it grows into a kingdom.

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