- #1 Dawnfolk
97% matchVery Positive95% of 716 reviews2025
Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Board Game 29.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Fantasy 5.6%
- #2 Cardboard Town
96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,270 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Card Game 17.3%, Tabletop 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Deckbuilding 10.5%
- #3 Aeon's End
96% matchVery Positive82% of 490 reviews2019
Dev: Handelabra Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!
Why similar: Board Game 25.4%, Deckbuilding 18.7%, Card Game 17.2%, Tabletop 16.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
- #4 Kingdom's Deck
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 504 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Card Game 24.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #5 Automatic Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Board Game 23%, Card Game 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 8%
- #6 Stacklands
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,809 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 25.4%, City Builder 24.5%, Tabletop 15.4%, Deckbuilding 10.2%, Management 9.7%
- #7 Overboss
94% matchMixed52% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: BlanketGamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a villain in this retro-inspired board game. Draft terrain tiles, recruit monsters, build your dungeon, and become the OVERBOSS!
Why similar: Board Game 21.1%, Tabletop 18.6%, Card Game 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, City Builder 9.9%
- #8 Rogue Hex
92% matchVery Positive87% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Card Game 16.1%, Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Deckbuilding 15.1%
- #9 TerraScape
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,184 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Board Game 22.8%, Hex Grid 15.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Deckbuilding 13.5%
- #10 These Doomed Isles
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 229 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Card Game 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Deckbuilding 15.2%, Strategy 8%
- #11 Hexagod
90% matchVery Positive89% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Tabletop 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Management 5.4%
- #12 Ratropolis
89% matchVery Positive88% of 5,505 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Card Game 30.3%, Deckbuilding 25.2%, City Builder 19.4%, Strategy 10.8%, 2D 7%
- #13 Transport Legion
88% matchVery Positive86% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 27.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Tabletop 12.2%, Hex Grid 10.9% ★
- #14 WitchHand
87% matchVery Positive91% of 631 reviews2024
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
Why similar: Card Game 23.2%, Tabletop 21.2%, Board Game 17.9%, Deckbuilding 14.5%, Management 9.2%
- #15 Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
89% matchMixed62% of 329 reviews2023
Dev: Black Eye Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Card Game 28.1%, Deckbuilding 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Strategy 8.5%
- #16 Wild City
86% matchVery Positive89% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Monka StudiosPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other. Place your cards on an expanding board to trigger satisfying chain reactions and shape an interconnected ecosystem.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Board Game 19.6%, Card Game 18.5%, Deckbuilding 15.3%, Hex Grid 14.7% ★
- #17 Super Fantasy Kingdom
85% matchVery Positive87% of 5,800 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Card Game 38.6%, Deckbuilding 28.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Fantasy 9.8%, 2D 7.2%
- #18 Frostpunk
86% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Steampunk 27.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #19 Technotopia
83% matchVery Positive85% of 667 reviews2024
Dev: YustasPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Card Game 23.6%, Deckbuilding 19.8%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8%
- #20 EVERDAWN
82% matchVery Positive98% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: SOLIDS Studio
Windows
EVERDAWN is a relaxing tile-based puzzle game where every placement shapes a living, evolving world. Stack scoring systems, combine biomes, unlock new and powerful Wonder tiles, and collect adorable Michis, little creatures that provide extra tiles.
Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Board Game 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 3.2%
- #21 Rise of Humanity: Prologue
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: Cybernetic Walrus
Windows
Experience the first events taking place in Rise of Humanity – a game that uniquely fuses turn-based strategy & deck-building. Build decks for each hero, collect, upgrade & merge powerful cards, and plan your strategy wisely to save humankind from the machines!
Why similar: Tabletop 18.8%, Card Game 16.8%, Board Game 15.5%, Deckbuilding 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%
- #22 Mystic Vale
84% matchVery Positive89% of 465 reviews2019
Dev: Nomad Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Why similar: Board Game 22.9%, Card Game 18.5%, Tabletop 17.1%, Deckbuilding 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%
- #23 Aurora Defense
82% matchMixed63% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Moka Games
Windows
A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Card Game 22.5%, Deckbuilding 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #24 Neuroshima Hex
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Baked Games
Windows
Neuroshima Hex is a post-apocalyptic tactical game from the designers of Neuroshima, the board game. It is all about strategy and tactics on one hexagonal battlefield. The game offers many different units, technologies and special abilities that can be used for an effective strategy.
Why similar: Steampunk 19.8% ★, Board Game 18.8%, Tabletop 17%, Card Game 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%
- #25 Vertical Kingdom
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Card Game 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Deckbuilding 12.7%, Management 6.7%
- #26 Mistward
80% matchMixed62% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: City Builder 52.6%, Hex Grid 16.3% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Fantasy 7.3%, 2D 6.3%
- #27 Islantiles
78% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Thunderrock Innovations
Windows
Islantiles is a cozy but compulsive roguelike deckbuilder. Unlock powerful technology cards, shape your deck to craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory in this ultra-satisfying roguelike!
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Board Game 25.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18%, Deckbuilding 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #28 Terraformers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 3,713 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Board Game 34%, Card Game 27.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #29 Banners of Ruin
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,215 reviews2021
Dev: MonteBearoPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Why similar: Card Game 29.7%, Deckbuilding 21.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Strategy 9.6%
- #30 Everdell
79% matchVery Positive90% of 702 reviews2022
Dev: Dire Wolf
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
Why similar: Board Game 26.4%, Tabletop 22.6%, Card Game 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Strategy 7.3%
- #31 After Inc: Revival
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,338 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: City Builder 45.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Strategy 9%, Management 9%, Building 5.8%
- #32 Amberspire
76% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Lunar DivisionPub: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Board Game 26.1%, Tabletop 23.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #33 Moonsigil Atlas
74% matchVery Positive85% of 269 reviews2026
Dev: Snake Tower GamesPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Linux
The deckbuilding roguelike with no energy – play cards using physical space! Slot cards together, manipulate the shape of your cards, and create overpowered combos to break the game!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 24.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Card Game 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
- #34 The Last Hex
77% matchVery Positive80% of 218 reviews2021
Dev: That Indie Studio
Windows
The dead arise and only you can stand against them. Equip and train your character, grow your arsenal of cards, survive harrowing encounters and prepare for the final showdown with The Lost at ...The Last Hex! A RPG Deckbuilder with Roguelite elements.
Why similar: Board Game 30.4%, Card Game 27.7%, Deckbuilding 23%, Strategy 8.9%, Fantasy 6.4%
- #35 Grime&Gold
73% matchNo user reviews96% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Pemdora
Windows
Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!
Why similar: Card Game 33.9%, Deckbuilding 19.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.6%, Management 13.9%, Strategy 9.6%
- #36 Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
73% matchVery Positive81% of 267 reviews2026
Dev: Wanderlost Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
What if you combine the best of story-driven RPGs with the strategic decision-making of cardgames? Dawncaster was created to answer that question, containing over 1100 handcrafted cards and over 100 unique challenges designed by veterans of the cardgame genre.
Why similar: Card Game 33.9%, Deckbuilding 29.9%, Strategy 20.7%, Fantasy 8.1%, 2D 5.9%
- #37 Paper Kingdom
74% matchMixed60% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Card Game 21.6%, Tabletop 18.5%, Deckbuilding 11.4%, Management 8.1%
- #38 Lethis - Path of Progress
77% matchMixed68% of 1,214 reviews2015
Dev: Triskell Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Steampunk 35.5% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Building 6.2%, Resource Management 4%
- #39 As We Descend
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,308 reviews2025
Dev: Box DragonPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Card Game 31.3%, Deckbuilding 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Strategy 9.4%
- #40 Scrap Collector
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Wibert
Windows
Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.
Why similar: Tabletop 29.3%, Card Game 27.3%, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Management 11.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #41 Nadir: A Grimdark Deck Builder - Prologue
75% matchVery Positive81% of 214 reviews2022
Dev: Team NadirPub: Black Eye Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.
Why similar: Card Game 49.8%, Dark Fantasy 23.7%, Strategy 17.1%, 2D 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #42 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
75% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Card Game 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Management 6.2%
- #43 Decks of the Damned
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Thorian GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Raise an undead army in Decks of the Damned! Command your vampire minions, scavenge gear from fallen foes and craft powerful items to strenghten your forces. Defend by day, expand your domain by night, and shroud the land in darkness!
Why similar: Card Game 27.9%, Tabletop 18.3%, Deckbuilding 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Management 10.5%
- #44 Magibrick
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Fourth Front
Windows
An uniquely styled deck-building game. Assemnble a deck with the right Magibrick and challenge diverse enemies in different regions. Fill the board, destroy enemy bricks,play amazing combo, and occupy the entire board with your Magibricks, leaving no space for your enemy.
Why similar: Board Game 38.4%, Card Game 28.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Deckbuilding 8.8%, Fantasy 4.2%
- #45 EcoGnomix
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 298 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Hex Grid 21.1% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Building 7.4%
- #46 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Steampunk 29.4% ★, Management 8.9%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.9%
- #47 Paladin's Oath
70% matchVery Positive87% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: Fire Biscuit Games
Windows · Linux
Complex Strategy Fantasy card game RPG inspired by board games like Mage Knight or Gloomhaven. Combines elements of RPG, light deck-building, puzzle and strategy. Absolutely no micro-transactions, virtual currencies or any of that, ever. Text to speech support for visually impaired on Windows
Why similar: Board Game 26.5%, Card Game 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Deckbuilding 9.5%
- #48 Settlemoon
69% matchVery Positive86% of 284 reviews2023
Dev: Lepioid LLC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Why similar: City Builder 62.5%, Management 10.4%, Building 9.8%, Fantasy 8.2%, 2D 8%
- #49 SkyShard: City Battler
66% matchVery Positive99% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: ItsBen321Pub: RegisKillbin
Windows
City Building Auto Battler! Build your kingdom with powerful weapons, walls, houses, and endless synergies, then battle other players in asynchronous multiplayer, or overcome various solo challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 63.2%, Strategy 16%, Building 12.5%, 2D 8.3%
- #50 Charterstone: Digital Edition
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 253 reviews2020
Dev: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and discover in Charterstone - a digital board game campaign. Shape your village into the new Eternal City!☁️🏙️☁️
Why similar: Tabletop 24.6%, Board Game 23.8%, Card Game 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Deckbuilding 10.9%
- #51 The Spire of Mech Zero
67% matchVery Positive92% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: ZZ Game
Windows
A lite roguelike card deck building game inspired by Slay the Spire. You can experience battles of robots with cards and components! Try to conquer the spire with one perfect run, every choice matters!
Why similar: Card Game 40.8%, Deckbuilding 35.3%, Strategy 17.6%, Fantasy 5.6%, Indie 0.4%
- #52 Rising Lords
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 969 reviews2024
Dev: ArgonwoodPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 30%, Hex Grid 20.7% ★, Strategy 12.8%, 2D 4.1%
- #53 Thea: The Awakening
69% matchVery Positive88% of 3,773 reviews2015
Dev: MuHa Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.
Why similar: Card Game 25.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Hex Grid 13.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 9.2%
- #54 Aztecs: The Last Sun
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: City Builder 55.1%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #55 Rise of Humanity
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Cybernetic Walrus
Windows
Battle enemy bots, plan your strategy to complete missions, collect, upgrade and merge powerful cards to save humanity in this tactical turn-based game!
Why similar: Board Game 19.7%, Tabletop 18.5%, Card Game 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Deckbuilding 13.2%
- #56 Fantasy Village Simulator
68% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 35.4%, Card Game 24.3%, Strategy 18.4%, Fantasy 10.9%, Building 8.7%
- #57 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 765 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: City Builder 59.3%, Strategy 12%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 6.9%, Deckbuilding 6.5%
- #58 Clonizer
66% matchVery Positive87% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: Juicy PlumePub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!
Why similar: Card Game 26%, Hex Grid 24.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #59 River Towns
65% matchVery Positive92% of 246 reviews2025
Dev: Frogsong StudiosPub: Metaroot
Windows
Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Board Game 32.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 5.5%
- #60 Post-Apo Builder
68% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, Strategy 13%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.3%