- #1 Foundation
80% 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 36.2%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★, Medieval 10.4%, Management 6.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #2 Banished
82% 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: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Strategy 6.1%, Medieval 5.4%, Simulation 5.1%
- #3 Kingdoms and Castles
80% 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 32.6%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Medieval 9.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 5%
- #4 Blueprint Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.3%
- #5 Lords and Villeins
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Management 9.4%, Medieval 9.3%, Economy 6.5%
- #6 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
76% 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 33.1% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Medieval 7.5%
- #7 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
75% matchMixed66% of 5,983 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Colony Sim 34.3% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, Medieval 7.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #8 Kingdoms Reborn
74% matchVery Positive91% of 9,521 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Management 8.5%, RTS 7.1%, Medieval 6.8%
- #9 Gnomoria
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 28%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%
- #10 Dawn of Man
73% 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 40.5%, Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Strategy 6.2%, RTS 4.1%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #11 Settlement Survival
73% matchVery Positive86% of 7,838 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Medieval 11.2%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #12 Patron
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,135 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Medieval 8%, Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #13 Founders' Fortune
69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,165 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Management 6.2%, Sandbox 6%, Strategy 5.2%
- #14 Fabledom
68% matchVery Positive85% of 7,336 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Economy 7.9%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #15 Nebuchadnezzar
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Nepos GamesPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, RTS 10.3%, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.9%
- #16 Stronghold HD (2012)
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,246 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 22.4%, RTS 12.7%, Medieval 9.8%, Economy 8.5%
- #17 Aven Colony
67% 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 40% ★, City Builder 36.8%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 2.8%
- #18 Stonehearth
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,966 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 34.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 3.8%
- #19 Ostriv
65% matchVery Positive95% of 7,345 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.9%, Economy 7.1%
- #20 The Guild II Renaissance
66% 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 31.2% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Medieval 13%, Economy 11.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #21 The Universim
64% matchVery Positive80% of 10,477 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 26.6%, God Game 15.7% ★, Management 8.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #22 Prison Architect
64% matchVery Positive89% of 73,086 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 6.5%
- #23 Tropico 5
65% 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 45%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Economy 7.7%
- #24 Anno 2070™
65% 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 46.3%, Strategy 12.3%, RTS 12%, Resource Management 7.3%, Economy 7.3%
- #25 Tropico 4
63% 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 48.7%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.5%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #26 Cartel Tycoon
62% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,714 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, RTS 14.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 9.1%
- #27 Stronghold 3 Gold
65% 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 33.7%, Strategy 15.7%, RTS 14.8%, Medieval 14.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #28 The Wandering Village
59% matchVery Positive92% of 8,057 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Management 11.4%, RTS 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #29 Ratopia
59% matchVery Positive88% of 4,642 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 24%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 8%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #30 Planetbase
61% 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 36.5% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 6.7%, Resource Management 6.1%, Management 5.5%
- #31 Rise to Ruins
60% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, City Builder 31.4%, God Game 12% ★, Strategy 6.6%, Sandbox 4.5%
- #32 The Promised Land
61% matchVery Positive87% of 776 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 4.5%, Simulation 4.4%
- #33 Cities XL Platinum
62% 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 56.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #34 Cliff Empire
59% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Economy 9.7%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #35 Rise of Industry
60% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,153 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Management 14.8%, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 7.9%
- #36 Northgard: Definitive Edition
59% matchVery Positive85% of 67,966 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, RTS 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.6%
- #37 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
55% matchVery Positive91% of 25,087 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 72.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, Management 9.3%, Economy 8.5%
- #38 1849
58% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2014
Dev: SomaSim
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Management 11%, RTS 9.9%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #39 Academia : School Simulator
56% matchVery Positive86% of 3,006 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Management 11.9%, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #40 Sapiens
55% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 27.7%, God Game 16.4% ★, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #41 Timberborn
51% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,637 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Colony Sim 31% ★, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 6%
- #42 Towns
59% matchMostly Negative27% of 2,812 reviews2012
Dev: Xavi Canal, Ben PalgiPub: SMP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Why similar: City Builder 50.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.5%, Resource Management 5%
- #43 Going Medieval
51% matchVery Positive90% of 20,101 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Management 11.5%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #44 Endzone - A World Apart
54% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,806 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 45.9%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Management 5.5%
- #45 Tropico 6
54% matchVery Positive88% of 28,754 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 42.8%, Management 12.4%, Economy 12%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 7.8%
- #46 Against the Storm
52% matchVery Positive95% of 35,439 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #47 Black Myth: Wukong
51% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,196,527 reviews2024
Dev: Game Science
Windows
Median: 41.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Why similar: Fantasy 66.4%, Singleplayer 33.6%
- #48 Resident Evil Requiem
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 149,009 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 19.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #49 Stellar Blade™
51% matchVery Positive94% of 84,027 reviews2025
Dev: SHIFT UP CorporationPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC (excluding China)
Windows
Median: 26.9 hrsMean: 40.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Save humanity from extinction in post-apocalyptic action-adventure Stellar Blade™. Experience blistering combat and a twisting storyline as you unravel the mysteries of Earth’s downfall.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #50 Farthest Frontier
51% matchVery Positive87% of 23,572 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, RTS 12.4%, Medieval 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #51 Escape the Backrooms
50% matchVery Positive91% of 134,051 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy GamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Why similar: Indie 60.8%, Singleplayer 39.2%
- #52 Startopia
55% matchVery Positive90% of 962 reviews2013
Dev: My Little Planet Ltd
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 12.5%, Management 11.8%, God Game 9.6% ★
- #53 City Builder Pro
53% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%
- #54 Split Fiction
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 116,529 reviews2025
Dev: Hazelight StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Why similar: Fantasy 100%
- #55 The Colonists
54% matchVery Positive86% of 1,203 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Management 10.4%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #56 ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
51% matchVery Positive82% of 178,648 reviews2025
Dev: FromSoftware, Inc.
Windows
Median: 41.3 hrsMean: 88.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #57 Necesse
50% matchVery Positive93% of 26,732 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #58 Block'hood
55% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,256 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: City Builder 52.5%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 9%, Isometric 7.2%