Games Like Against the Storm

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 22%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on intricate production chains, terrain-driven planning, and surviving recurring environmental cycles makes it a great fit for Against the Storm players.

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 25.4%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 11%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same tense loop of building a settlement under constant external pressure while forcing hard trade-offs between survival, efficiency, and your people’s needs.

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: 4X 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Historical 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same resource-management and colony-efficiency itch with a heavier emphasis on logistics, survival pressure, and settlement specialization.

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: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Against the Storm, it is a survival city builder about adapting your settlement to dangerous, shifting conditions rather than simply expanding peacefully.

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 14.3%, Roguelite 10.7%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its event-heavy village survival and roguelite structure capture a very similar feeling of making the best of randomized problems run after run.

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 16.2%, 4X 12.5% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches to Against the Storm’s run-based, replayable settlement management, with procedural runs and constant adaptation to changing constraints.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 9.9% ★, 4X 9.8% ★, Colony Sim 9.3%, City Builder 8.1%, Moddable 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with layered population needs, faction tension, and emergent instability in a way that echoes Against the Storm’s balancing act.

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 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.5%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong Banished-style alternative with survival pressure, worker assignment, and resource bottlenecks that feel very familiar to Against the Storm players.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: 4X 12.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Grand Strategy 12.1% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Moddable 9.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep supply chains, population management, and expansion choices on a larger scale while preserving the same fascination with complex settlement systems.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 15.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Historical 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Medieval 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded medieval city-building emphasizes supply chains, regional constraints, and deliberate expansion, all of which overlap well with Against the Storm’s management focus.

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 28.5%, City Builder 26.8%, Survival 7.5%, Medieval 5.6%, Sandbox 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its classic formula of carefully balancing labor, food, fuel, and growth under unforgiving conditions remains a clean match for the core survival-city-builder appeal.

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 15.9%, Moddable 14.5% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 10%, Historical 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony-sim management, base-building, and survival logistics in a way that will appeal to players who enjoy Against the Storm’s small-settlement problem solving.

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 26.9%, Medieval 10.2%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Economy 7.3%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying loop of growing a settlement through production planning and citizen needs, but with a more organic and relaxed presentation.

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 37.6%, Roguelite 18.5%, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite settlement-building structure and emphasis on adapting to unusual maps, leaders, and unlocks make it especially appealing to Against the Storm fans.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.8%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: If you love Against the Storm for emergent colony management and complex interlocking systems, this is one of the deepest versions of that experience on Steam.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Moddable 14.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 9.7%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into emergent storytelling, but the constant need to juggle worker priorities, threats, moods, and infrastructure is very much in the same spirit.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Colony Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: While broader in scale than the first game, it still focuses on difficult city-management decisions under relentless environmental and political pressure.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.6%, Medieval 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy setting and emphasis on worker-driven production networks make it a natural fit for players who enjoy Against the Storm’s supply-chain side.

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 29.4%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.4%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another survival-heavy city builder where scarce resources, hostile conditions, and careful planning matter more than decorative expansion.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Survival 16%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a familiar mix of colony survival, specialist colonists, and adapting your build order to whatever the world throws at you.

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 14.4%, Colony Sim 14.1%, 4X 12.8% ★, Base Building 6.9%, Economy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more approachable take on medieval settlement building that still delivers the same rewarding loop of expansion, defense, and resource balancing.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding resource loops, worker management, and environmental hazards provide a similarly intricate and high-pressure optimization challenge.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic settlement management emphasizes scarcity, hazards, and strategic development choices much like the harsher side of Against the Storm.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Historical 18.1%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 14.2%, Resource Management 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes town building, economy management, and constant external threats, appealing to players who like their settlement games more demanding and combat-focused.

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 20.3%, 4X 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines expansion, seasonal survival, and territory-based settlement management in a way that captures some of Against the Storm’s pressure and pacing.

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 7.6%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers colony growth, production planning, and regional adaptation with a lighter tone but plenty of familiar management depth.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Diplomacy 10% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 9.3%, City Builder 8.1%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Diplomacy 10.5% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 8.8%, Moddable 8.1% ★

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Survival 9.1%, Historical 7.9%, Strategy 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its prehistoric survival settlement gameplay revolves around long-term planning, labor allocation, and weathering recurring threats with limited resources.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10% ★, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 9.1%, City Builder 8%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Medieval 17.5%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is more intimate and domestic, yet its focus on surviving seasons, assigning labor, and building resilient production chains will resonate strongly.

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.6% ★, Colony Sim 9.2%, City Builder 9.1%, Diplomacy 8.1% ★, 4X 7.8% ★

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 22.6%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on survival, scarce resources, and keeping a fragile settlement functioning under worsening conditions lines up well with Against the Storm’s pressure-driven design.

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: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 15.8%, Moddable 9% ★, Survival 6.8%, Economy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong social-management city builder for players who enjoy not just producing goods, but also keeping different groups of citizens stable and satisfied.

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 15.4%, Medieval 15.2%, Roguelite 13.1%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.1%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.1%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.1% ★, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, 4X 9.3% ★, Colony Sim 8.7%, City Builder 8.6%

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 18.9%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10%, Management 7.6%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 25.4%, City Builder 12.7%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Diplomacy 18% ★, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: 4X 17.7% ★, Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Moddable 11.9% ★, Historical 9.8%

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: Grand Strategy 11% ★, City Builder 10%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, 4X 7.4% ★

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: Medieval 41.4%, Roguelite 35.1%, Strategy 18.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 13%, Moddable 11.6% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Economy 7.4%

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Economy 16.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.3%

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: Diplomacy 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Historical 13%, Strategy 8.8%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.2%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.5%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11.2%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Medieval 19.1%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 14.1%

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 31.5%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 5.7%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 8%, Medieval 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 9.3%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 9%

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Medieval 20.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 11%

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Base Building 41.2%, Roguelite 32%, Strategy 20.8%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, 4X 19.3% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.2%