- #1 Banished
95% matchVery Positive90% of 42,976 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, City Builder 37.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Historical 0.9%
- #2 Grand Ages: Rome
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 805 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.
Why similar: Rome 37.2% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 9%, Historical 5.5%
- #3 CivCity: Rome
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 922 reviews2007
Dev: FireFly StudiosPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
Why similar: Rome 37.7% ★, City Builder 35.4%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Historical 3.5%
- #4 Dawn of Man
88% matchVery Positive87% of 17,626 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Colony Sim 37.2% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Historical 3.5%
- #5 City Life 2008
83% matchVery Positive81% of 244 reviews2008
Dev: Monte CristoPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
Why similar: City Builder 46.1%, Strategy 30.9%, Simulation 23%
- #6 Cities XL Platinum
83% matchMixed58% of 1,631 reviews2013
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...
Why similar: City Builder 60.1%, Simulation 23.5%, Strategy 15.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #7 Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
82% matchMixed60% of 449 reviews2014
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...
Why similar: Rome 44.8% ★, Strategy 37%, Simulation 10.3%, Historical 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #8 Kingdoms and Castles
79% matchVery Positive93% of 30,808 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Colony Sim 38.5% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #9 Planetbase
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,259 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43% ★, City Builder 36.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #10 Tropico 5
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 14,320 reviews2014
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Strategy 29.1%, Simulation 16.6%, Historical 2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #11 Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
76% matchVery Positive91% of 37,243 reviews2009
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Why similar: Strategy 74%, Historical 24.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #12 Caesar™ IV
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 842 reviews2016
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.Pub: Activision
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Rome 31.2% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Historical 4.3%
- #13 Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 35,418 reviews2006
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
Why similar: Strategy 70.2%, Historical 20.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #14 Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
74% matchVery Positive85% of 462 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 51.1%, Strategy 21.8%, Simulation 17.5%, Historical 9.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #15 Romopolis
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 147 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic ancient Roman city with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: Rome 35% ★, Colony Sim 34.7% ★, Simulation 11.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #16 Grand Ages: Rome - Reign of Augustus
76% matchNo user reviews2010
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Re-live the reign of Augustus in the official expansion pack for the hit PC title Grand Ages: Rome. Reign of Augustus includes a brand new campaign comprised of 12 missions, new maps and a wealth of enhanced gameplay features.
Why similar: Rome 31.5% ★, Strategy 29.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Simulation 17.3%
- #17 Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
71% matchVery Positive87% of 86,207 reviews2013
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 24.9 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
Why similar: Rome 52.5% ★, Strategy 35.3%, Historical 9.2%, Simulation 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #18 Foundation
68% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 53.4%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #19 Cookie Clicker
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 88,978 reviews2021
Dev: OrteilPub: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 89.4 hrsMean: 370.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 57.3%, Simulation 38.4%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #20 The Guild II Renaissance
71% matchVery Positive83% of 3,995 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44% ★, Strategy 19.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Historical 2.3%
- #21 SPQR:Shadows of The Legion
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1k1 studios
Windows
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Rome 24.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%
- #22 Caesar™ 3
69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,159 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Rome 34.1% ★, Strategy 16%, Simulation 8.9%, Historical 5.1%
- #23 My Colony
69% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7% ★, City Builder 38.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.1%
- #24 Stronghold 3 Gold
71% matchMostly Negative33% of 4,763 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!
Why similar: City Builder 43%, Strategy 39.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Historical 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #25 Glory of Rome
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Simon Codrington
Windows
Expand the Empire in the name of Rome. Build, manage and grow settlements in this resource driven city builder. You'll create resource, trade goods and cater to the needs of your citizens. The Senate calls administrator, don't keep them waiting.
Why similar: Rome 45.4% ★, City Builder 22%, Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Simulation 3.8%
- #26 Pax Augusta
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 626 reviews2025
Dev: Roger GassmannPub: Senatis
Windows
Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!
Why similar: Rome 42.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Historical 5.6%
- #27 Anno 2070™
69% matchMixed60% of 12,622 reviews2011
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Why similar: City Builder 57.4%, Strategy 30.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #28 Wargame: European Escalation
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,381 reviews2012
Dev: Eugen Systems
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Why similar: Strategy 75.9%, Simulation 19%, Historical 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #29 Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive92% of 26,793 reviews2010
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release
Why similar: Strategy 67.8%, Historical 25.1%, Simulation 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #30 Men of War™
67% matchVery Positive90% of 3,791 reviews2009
Dev: Best WayPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.
Why similar: Strategy 81.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Historical 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #31 Men of War: Assault Squad
67% matchVery Positive88% of 5,096 reviews2011
Dev: DigitalmindsoftPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.
Why similar: Strategy 76.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Historical 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #32 Tropico Reloaded
67% matchVery Positive88% of 970 reviews2009
Dev: PopTop SoftwarePub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.
Why similar: City Builder 55.6%, Strategy 24%, Simulation 19.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #33 BioShock™ Remastered
65% matchVery Positive83% of 62,481 reviews2016
Dev: 2K BostonPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #34 Tropico 4
65% matchVery Positive92% of 12,636 reviews2011
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 60.5%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #35 Cities in Motion
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,080 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, City Builder 38.1%, Strategy 21.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #36 Nova Patria
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sower InteractivePub: Judatone Studios
Windows
Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power. Manage intricate supply chains, expanding cities, and innovations in a hopeful, procedurally generated, isometric simulation of industrial antiquity.
Why similar: Rome 35.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.1%
- #37 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,338 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #38 Age of Pyramids
65% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Historical 4.9%
- #39 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
64% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Historical 4.6%
- #40 Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
64% matchVery Positive92% of 22,202 reviews2010
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 80.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
Why similar: Simulation 57.4%, Strategy 40.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #41 Pompeii: The Legacy
61% matchVery Positive86% of 186 reviews2025
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: Rome 35% ★, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #42 BioShock™ 2 Remastered
64% matchMostly Positive72% of 28,851 reviews2016
Dev: 2K MarinPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #43 Zeus + Poseidon
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,910 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 3.4%, Historical 2.7%
- #44 NOVA ATLANTIS
63% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, City Builder 33.8%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #45 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
62% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #46 Pharaoh + Cleopatra
63% matchVery Positive92% of 2,536 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Strategy 19.4%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Historical 7.4%
- #47 Aven Colony
64% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, City Builder 34.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #48 Knights of Honor
64% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2009
Dev: Black Sea Studios LtdPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.
Why similar: Strategy 84.3%, Historical 14.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #49 SugarMill
64% matchMixed50% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.
Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Strategy 27.1%, Simulation 19.9%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #50 Dishonored
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 85,230 reviews2012
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #51 Tropico 3
63% matchVery Positive89% of 1,903 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
Why similar: City Builder 51%, Strategy 26.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Singleplayer 1%
- #52 World Cruise Story
61% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, Strategy 24.1%, City Builder 21.7%, Simulation 18.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #53 BioShock Infinite
61% matchVery Positive94% of 143,881 reviews2013
Dev: Irrational GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #54 BioShock™
62% matchVery Positive94% of 31,704 reviews2007
Dev: 2K BostonPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #55 Beware of Light
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3% ★, City Builder 34.3%, Strategy 29.4%
- #56 Total War: ATTILA
61% matchVery Positive82% of 36,948 reviews2015
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...
Why similar: Rome 45.7% ★, Strategy 37.8%, Historical 13.1%, Simulation 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #57 Age of Empires II (Retired)
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 102,390 reviews2013
Dev: Skybox LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Why similar: Strategy 56.4%, City Builder 31.5%, Historical 10.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%