Games like Mountaincore

Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Mountaincore does? These games line up well for what comes next.

DwarfCorp
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
55% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress into a generated mountain and try to keep your dwarves fed, watered, and mostly sane. They have their own personalities, strange art tastes, and strong opinions about beer. It will go wrong, probably spectacularly, and that is half the point.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro
94% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$29.99
Stonehearth
Lead a small band of settlers through a voxel world full of warmth and mystery. Assign jobs, raise a town from a few tents, keep everyone fed and defend them from raiders. It plays at your own pace, every map is new, and the modding tools go deep.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 10,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$19.99
Hammerting
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable
57% of 1,735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$4.99
Undholm
A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.
Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
62% of 82 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Embark
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable
58% of 360 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro
79% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a colorful village builder where every settler has a name, a mood and opinions about their bedroom. Design houses wall by wall, farm through the seasons, trade with travelers, and defend your little town from goblins and pirates. Gentle pace, plenty of charm, and a lot of small people to keep happy.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Relaxing, Cute
81% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Beneath the Mountain
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Also in City builder · Replayable
64% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Craft The World
Lead a tribe of dwarves in a sandbox strategy game that mixes digging, building, crafting and godly powers. Dig from treetops down to lava, craft everything from pickaxes to armor, and keep the walls strong when portals spit out monsters. Every world is random, every colony plays out differently.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Cute
88% of 15,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 421$18.99
Gnomoria
Lead a small band of gnomes from a lonely start to a bustling kingdom. Mine, chop, build and rebuild anything you see, craft at workshops, wire up levers and steam engines, and stockpile enough wealth to attract wandering gnomads. A cozy-looking colony sim with teeth: the world is procedurally generated, and so are your problems.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Retro, Cute
75% of 2,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99

Hidden gems like Mountaincore

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.

$29.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Grow a dozen hungry villagers into a kingdom of thousands. Assign jobs, keep everyone fed through winter, trade for silver, and raise walls against…

$11.99

Dungeon Settlers

Raise a settlement in barren land, form a party of four, and take them into a shifting dungeon where death is forever.

$24.99

Havendock

Turn a lonely raft into a cozy ocean colony, fishing debris from the waves and automating your way up to submarines and a rocket.

$19.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

$19.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

Going Medieval

Raise three plague survivors into a walled medieval town in a wilderness reclaimed by nature.

$29.99

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

$14.99

Necesse

Necesse drops you into an endless pixel world with bare hands and a big idea: build a settlement, recruit settlers to run it, then head out to fight…

$14.99

Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?

$14.99

First Dwarf

Pilot a dwarven mech and fly a dragon as you build and defend outposts across a shattered magical realm.

$24.99

Newest games like Mountaincore

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

$19.99

Folklands

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world.

$8.99

Dungeon Settlers

Raise a settlement in barren land, form a party of four, and take them into a shifting dungeon where death is forever.

$24.99

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

$13.99

Going Medieval

Raise three plague survivors into a walled medieval town in a wilderness reclaimed by nature.

$29.99

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

$14.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Grow a dozen hungry villagers into a kingdom of thousands. Assign jobs, keep everyone fed through winter, trade for silver, and raise walls against…

$11.99

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.

$29.99

Farthest Frontier

Grow a handful of settlers into a walled medieval town at the edge of the map.

$34.99

Necesse

Necesse drops you into an endless pixel world with bare hands and a big idea: build a settlement, recruit settlers to run it, then head out to fight…

$14.99

Noble Legacy

A medieval kingdom builder set before the Norman Conquest. Build Greenwood your way, piece by piece, win over villagers with furnished homes and…

$24.99

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49