Games Like Against the Storm

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 24.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It matches Against the Storm's harsh-environment settlement management, constant pressure, and tough choices about balancing survival with the needs of your people.

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 34.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Colony Sim 7.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale societal management, scarcity-driven decision making, and relentless environmental pressure make it one of the closest modern alternatives.

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Against the Storm, it revolves around adapting your settlement to cyclical environmental threats while optimizing layered production chains.

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 21.1%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is another survival city-builder built around hostile-world adaptation, careful resource planning, and keeping a vulnerable population stable.

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 15.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Building 10%, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on settlement survival, supply chains, and protecting a growing town from an unforgiving world makes it a strong fit.

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 16.3%, Roguelite 11.6%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite village-building structure and constant struggle against unpredictable disasters echo Against the Storm's run-based pressure and adaptation.

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 19.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly deep colony management, emergent settlement stories, and the challenge of keeping a complicated economy functioning under mounting threats.

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 22.6% ★, Moddable 14.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although more character-driven, it delivers the same addictive loop of managing a colony's needs, responding to random crises, and improvising around scarcity.

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 13.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, City Builder 11%, Moddable 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: It captures the appeal of building a multi-species settlement with demanding logistics, expansion pressure, and lots of moving economic parts.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the same crisis-management city-builder formula into space, with tight resource loops, population needs, and constant strategic pressure.

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 30.4% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This classic nails the same settlement-first challenge of surviving seasonal pressure, avoiding resource collapse, and growing carefully from a fragile start.

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 28.1%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.4%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic colony management emphasizes survival, production efficiency, and adapting to harsh external conditions much like Against the Storm.

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 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Building 10.4%, Management 8.7%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches a very similar itch with compact settlement planning, worker assignment, survival systems, and steady resource-chain optimization.

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: Diplomacy 10.2% ★, Grand Strategy 9.6% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 9.2% ★, Moddable 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with social instability and survival pressure, creating the same sense that every new settlement problem can cascade.

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 18.7% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Behind the 2D presentation is a demanding colony sim with layered economy management, survival pressure, and constant expansion tradeoffs.

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 24.7%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong survival-focused builder where expansion, logistics, and disaster readiness matter more than pure sandbox creativity.

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: Diplomacy 10.6% ★, 4X 9.8% ★, Grand Strategy 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 8.8% ★, Moddable 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: While more grounded and historical, it delivers similarly satisfying town-building, logistics, and careful growth under economic constraints.

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 20.7% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It leans hard into rebuilding under pressure, where survival, workforce management, and efficient infrastructure all matter from the start.

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 15.8% ★, Moddable 14.1% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a more intimate colony-building take with strong base planning, resource chains, and defense against recurring threats.

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 25%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedural maps, settlement specialization, and card-driven progression give it some of the same replayable strategic texture.

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: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on building resilient settlements against nightly assaults mirrors the high-pressure defensive side of Against the Storm.

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 25.1%, City Builder 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tense build-under-threat rhythm of expanding a settlement while knowing external pressure can punish every mistake.

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 36.2%, Roguelite 18.4%, Resource Management 17.4%, Management 11%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite structure, randomized runs, and adaptation-heavy village building make it one of the few games that resembles Against the Storm's run-to-run freshness.

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 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on reading the environment, adapting your city to scarcity, and surviving through smart planning fits the strategic feel well.

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: Grand Strategy 9.8% ★, Diplomacy 9.7% ★, Colony Sim 9.3% ★, 4X 9.1% ★, City Builder 7.8%

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, 4X 12.2% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the procedural, run-based management feel by making you guide a mobile settlement through difficult tradeoffs and changing map conditions.

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 9.9% ★, Diplomacy 9.5% ★, 4X 9.4% ★, Colony Sim 9% ★, Moddable 7.8% ★

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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 9.3% ★, Survival 7.2%, Economy 7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a strong Banished-style city-builder with survival management and population needs that will appeal if you like Against the Storm's settlement layer.

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 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 9.1%, Historical 8.1%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its primitive survival loop centers on settlement growth, resource bottlenecks, and environmental adaptation in a way that feels very adjacent.

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 37.2% ★, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 18%, Open World 15.1%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a smaller-scale but excellent survival colony sim where weather, labor, and basic needs create the same satisfying problem-solving pressure.

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 30.6% ★, Historical 20.7%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 6.5%

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 10.5% ★, Colony Sim 9.4% ★, City Builder 9%, Diplomacy 8.8% ★, 4X 8.1% ★

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 30.3%, Base Building 26.2%, Resource Management 19.5%, Roguelite 15.3%, Strategy 8.8%

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 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 17.2% ★, Diplomacy 17% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.8% ★, Historical 9.9%

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 28.3%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 7.3%

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% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%

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: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

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 9.4% ★, 4X 9.2% ★, Colony Sim 8.7% ★, City Builder 7.9%

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: Roguelite 59.5%, Strategy 32%, Singleplayer 8.5%

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 37.2%, Economy 17.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.4%

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 19.4%, 4X 13.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Moddable 10.5% ★, Base Building 8.3%

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 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Diplomacy 10.4% ★, Grand Strategy 9.9% ★, 4X 9.3% ★, Colony Sim 8.7% ★, Moddable 8% ★

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 15.4%, Management 11.1%, Survival 9.1%

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 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Historical 13.4%, Strategy 9%

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 9.6%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Economy 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, 4X 19.2% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7.7%

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Historical 9.7%, Economy 9.3%

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 29% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 11.5%

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 31.7% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 5.9%

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 30.5%, Building 22.3%, Resource Management 18.8%, Survival 17.3%, 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 31.8%, Strategy 21%, Singleplayer 6%

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Roguelite 9.1%, Historical 8.4%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Historical 13%, 4X 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.1%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 13.7% ★, City Builder 12%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.7%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Economy 13.5%, Historical 12%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%