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2025PEGI 7PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified94 % positive−35 % 14.79 € 9.61 €

A minimalist turn-based survival builder in pixel art where you rebuild a realm, manage resources and uncover the secrets of black monoliths. Its short sessions make it easy to play in small bites.

  • Building and crafting
  • Resources and survival
  • Economy and management
  • Pixel art

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In short: Games like Dawnfolk

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Dawnfolk special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Kingdom: Classic

84 %Match

2015PC, Steam Deck verified90 % positivefree

Brings what grabs you about Dawnfolk: scarce resources and survival, economy and management as well as pixel art.

A minimalist 2D side-scrolling strategy game where you ride as a monarch, collect coins, recruit subjects and defend your realm at night from greedy creatures. Atmospheric pixel art and a calm rhythm meet subtle pressure.

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Grim Realms

Resources and survival

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.

Kingdom: New Lands

Pixel art

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.

Timberborn

Cosy, great for unwinding

You build a beaver colony in a world abandoned by humans, managing water physics, droughts and vertical architecture. It blends charming city-building with tricky logistics puzzles.

Sandustry

Pixel art

Sandustry blends mining and factory automation in a fully destructible sand-physics world. You dig deeper, build logistics chains, and uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization along the way.

Dice Legacy

Resources and survival

A survival city builder where dice rolls drive resource gathering, growth and defense. You balance luck and planning to carry your settlement through harsh winters on a strange ringworld continent.

The Final Earth 2

Pixel art

A relaxed, vertical pixel-art city builder where you grow an exploration ship into a sprawling space colony. Gathering resources, researching tech and optimizing your city floor by floor is the core loop.

Kingdom Two Crowns

Resources and survival

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.

Settlement Survival

Building and crafting

A city-builder where you guide survivors to a new home: clear land, grow crops, hunt, gather resources and develop trade and professions until a large, thriving settlement emerges.

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