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2019PC48 % positive16.79 €

An indie life-sim RPG about surviving in America, starting a family and rising to become President, Sheriff, tribal Chief or Governor. I know little about this game, so the rating is conservative and based mostly on the metadata.

  • Historical setting
  • Resources and survival
  • Strong character progression

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In short: Games like Heat

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

Similar in what way?

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

Not for me Exclude horror, turn-based combat, pixel art …

Games where this is clearly part of it are left out, no matter how well the rest fits.

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Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

84 %Match

2022PC96 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Heat: a historical setting, scarce resources and survival as well as deep character progression.

A story-focused farming and survival game set in 1860s Oregon, where you rebuild your life after loss. You work the homestead, forage, hunt, craft and build relationships with the people around you.

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Dawn of Man

Resources and survival

A settlement-building survival sim where you lead a prehistoric tribe from the Stone Age toward the Bronze Age, managing resources, researching technologies and weathering hunger, seasons and predators.

Patron

Calm and deliberate

Patron is a survival city builder where you grow a small village into a city while managing resources. Its standout feature is a social dynamics system: you must keep tensions among citizens in check before they boil over.

Clanfolk

Calm and deliberate

A colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands where you guide your clan through harsh winters, trade with neighbours and raise families across generations.

Sapiens

Calm and deliberate

You guide a small tribe from a first-person view through millennia of progress, building settlements and industries in a living simulated world where your people work on their own.

Medieval Dynasty

Historical setting

A medieval survival and village-building sim where you grow from a lone hunter-gatherer into the head of a thriving settlement and pass it on through generations. Hunting, building, crafting and farming interlock across the seasons, with optional co-op.

Life is Feudal: Forest Village

Calm and deliberate

A medieval city builder with survival elements: you lead new settlers through harsh conditions, keep them fed with varied crops, and expand your village step by step. You can also possess villagers to micromanage them directly.

Banished

Calm and deliberate

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

Polylithic

Resources and survival

A prehistoric survival crafting game where you craft tools, unlock technologies and build bases, either surviving alone or growing and leading a tribe and its settlement.

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