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Games like Paleon

2023PC81 % positive8.19 €

After your time machine breaks down, you are stranded in prehistory and must build your own civilization to find a way home. A small indie simulation and building game; available information is limited.

  • Building and crafting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Resources and survival
  • Cosy, great for unwinding

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In short: Games like Paleon

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Paleon 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.

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

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Best match

Settlement Survival

92 %Match

2022PC, Steam Deck playable85 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Paleon: building and crafting, a sandbox with your own goals as well as scarce resources and survival.

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.

Where to buy

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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.

The Sims Castaway Stories

Resources and survival

Your Sims are shipwrecked on an uncharted island and must build a new life: construct shelters, befriend animals, meet natives and uncover secrets. It offers a goal-driven Story mode and an open-ended Free Play mode.

The Sims 2: Castaway

Resources and survival

Your Sims are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island and must manage food, shelter and needs from scratch. You explore the island, gather resources and gradually uncover its secrets.

My Little Universe

Calm and deliberate

A relaxed worldbuilding game where you mine, craft and build up tiny planets with just a pickaxe, while fending off simple monsters. The loop of gathering, building and expanding is cozy and easy to pick up.

Pocket City

Sandbox with your own goals

A relaxed, approachable city-building sim where you act as mayor, zoning districts, building parks and handling crime and disasters. No microtransactions: everything is unlocked through play.

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