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40 Great Games Like The Settlings

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Settlings is a strategy management game where you give your tiny workforce tasks to create an ecosystem of production. Taking elements from the classic Lemmings and Settlers game, your challenge is to set up automated networks of workers to gather, deliver, build and fight.

Unfortunately, The Settlings is not available on Android, Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

The Settlings

Game Details

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Sequencing, Strategy (Brain Game, Collecting, Creative, Simulation and World Building)

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: The Settlings (@TheSettlings)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels

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Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On

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Release Date: 08/09/2022

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made

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Sons of Valhalla

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather

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Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

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Lemmings

Lemmings (Series)

Release Date: 14/02/1991, updated in 2018

Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS2, PS3, PSP and iOS

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Lemmings is a series of puzzle games where you guide small (suicidal) creatures to the end of the levels. Unusually, you don't control when or how a character jumps and navigates the areas, but instead, you assign them actions that change the level to...

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Tower Escape

Release Date: 15/02/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

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Calorie Defenders

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...

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Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made

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Release Date: 28/03/2023

Out Now: PC and iOS

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Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World

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Zoo Tycoon (Series)

Release Date: 17/10/2001, updated in 2017

Out Now: DS, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Zoo Tycoon is a zoo simulator series where you take charge of a zoo business, build the park, care for animals and attract visitors. You can build, expand, and upgrade the zoo by purchasing animals, creating suitable animal habitats, and allocate staff...

Viva Pinata

Release Date: 09/09/2006

Out Now: DS, PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Day and Night

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Out Now: Mac and PC

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Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made

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Clash of Clans

Release Date: 02/08/2012, updated in 2013

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

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Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Coming Soon: Mac

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Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks

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Bloons TD 6

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Coming Soon: PS4, Switch and Xbox One

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Components: 2D Overhead

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13 Younger Content Rating than The Settlings

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18 Easier Skill Rating than The Settlings

If you like the sound of The Settlings but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.

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16 Video Games Like The Settlings Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to The Settlings. This includes games from the World Building, Collecting, Simulation, Brain Game, Strategy, Sequencing and Creative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Kingdom

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FTL: Faster Than Light

Air Traffic Controller (Airport Hero)

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Chezzle

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40 Great Games Like The Settlings

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13 Younger Content Rating than The Settlings

18 Easier Skill Rating than The Settlings

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