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A dwarven colony sim with peaceful building or monster-survival modes, delivering a modestly-sized ~9-hour management experience.

Dwarf Eats Mountain
A whimsical single-player incremental mining game where dwarf upgrades drive you to devour ever-larger mountains, with a sticky core loop and occasionally opaque prestige choices.
2026-05-18
- Strategy
- Fantasy

Indie

Side view

Simulator

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Drill Core

A strategic planet-mining colony sim that mixes base management with tower defense, balancing resource extraction against escalating alien attacks.

2025-07-17

Science fiction
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Sandbox

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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

A free medieval fantasy strategy prequel focused on settlement building, army raising, and horde defense, with very positive reviews and about five hours of typical reviewer playtime.

2025-04-30

Strategy
Simulator

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Dingletopia: Nation Under Siege (by Orcs)

A comedic single-player fantasy strategy game where a prince's conquest plans are interrupted by orcs, offering a light, short experience (about 4-5 hours).

2020-07-15

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Exodus Borealis

A straightforward, addictive city-builder and tower-defense hybrid about guiding shipwrecked colonists from survival to a demon-repelling kingdom.

2021-11-18

Strategy
Fantasy
Third person

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Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim about surviving the undead and choosing between redemption or dark powers.

2024-03-16

Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator

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Mind Over Magic

A whimsical colony sim about building a magic academy, training mages, and raiding an underground dungeon.

2025-02-12

Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Sandbox

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Going Medieval

A medieval colony sim about building and managing a castle settlement in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, with a moddable sandbox and dozens of hours of play.

2026-03-17

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Open world
Sandbox

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Founders' Fortune

A single-player fantasy village builder with creative construction, colonist psychology, and base defense, offering relaxed yet micromanagement-heavy play.

2020-12-18

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

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Viking Frontiers: Prologue

A compact single-player Viking survival-strategy prologue focused on settlement building, resource gathering, hunting, raiding, and crafting, with reviewers reporting short play sessions and mixed polish.

2025-02-19

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Stonehearth

A medieval voxel city-builder with real-time combat, co-op, and mod support, offering a warm but abandoned sandbox that players sink dozens of hours into.

2018-07-25

Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Historical
Sandbox

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Hammerting

Manage a dwarven mining colony in a dark fantasy mountain, digging, crafting, and trading amid a surface war, with procedural maps and a roughly 10-hour campaign.

2021-11-16

Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox