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24 alternatives to Blacksmith Lab
AdVenture Capitalist set in medieval times.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blacksmith Lab launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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Explore, collect, craft, sell, upgrade, grow your business
2020 · its alternatives →
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I was addicted to game mechanics, so we made our own game.
2016 · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · dominusgame.net · its alternatives →
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2012 · questcompanions.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · aperocky.com · its alternatives →
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I'm working on the Survival Crafting RPG that you would have played on your Apple II back in the '80s. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based UI of the old Ultima games. It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some good old fashioned dungeon crawling to boot. I've been working on it off and on for the last several months. It's complete up through the Bronze Age (in Valheim terms). Let me know what you think!…
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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2012 · clay.io · its alternatives →
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