Games Like Against the Storm

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 20.7%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 10.9%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city builder asks you to sustain a small settlement through dangerous biomes while balancing food, resources, pollution, and the needs of a living world.

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the relentless survival pressure, hard population decisions, resource chains, and grim atmosphere of leading a settlement through an unforgiving catastrophe.

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 25.3%, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Building 11.8%, Roguelite 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based roguelite village building, escalating disasters, worker allocation, and randomized challenges closely capture Against the Storm's tense run-by-run survival planning.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed production chains, water management, distinct faction traits, and environmental hazards make it an excellent fit for players who enjoy adaptive settlement logistics.

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% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Building 9.5%, RTS 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This demanding frontier builder focuses on transforming hostile wilderness into a functioning town through careful labor, food, disease, and supply management.

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 10.1% ★, 4X 9.3% ★, Grand Strategy 9.2%, Colony Sim 8.2%, Moddable 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines strategic settlement construction, scarce-resource decisions, and regular defensive crises in a dark fantasy setting.

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 10.2% ★, Grand Strategy 9.7%, 4X 9.4% ★, Colony Sim 9.2%, Moddable 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colony management centers on layered production chains, workforce logistics, and keeping an expanding animal society supplied in a challenging world.

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 15%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Colony Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While larger in scale, it retains the first game's harsh climate, fraught societal choices, and need to keep a desperate city functioning under constant 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%, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers satisfying interconnected resource networks, exploration, and gradually expanding settlements in a colorful fantasy world.

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 15.7%, 4X 13% ★, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its procedural roguelite journeys revolve around building temporary settlements, managing limited supplies, completing objectives, and leaving before disaster catches up.

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 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Building self-sufficient mountain settlements amid avalanches, limited land, and difficult transport creates the same kind of constrained logistical puzzle.

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 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-focused colony builder with substantial production planning, weather threats, population needs, and frontier expansion.

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 28.8%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a colony amid contaminated terrain, droughts, radiation, and scarce essentials delivers a similarly stressful survival-builder loop.

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 20.5%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This post-disaster city builder emphasizes rebuilding industry, surviving severe weather, and making a fragile settlement self-sufficient.

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 13.6%, Colony Sim 13.6%, 4X 12.9% ★, RTS 7.4%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides approachable but engaging medieval resource management, citizen happiness, expansion, and defenses against recurring threats.

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 12.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Moddable 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%, RTS 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlements must work with changing seasons, wildlife, terrain, and intricate material flows rather than simply expanding without consequences.

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 19.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers exceptionally deep fortress simulation, procedural worlds, distinctive inhabitants, and cascading logistical disasters for players wanting far more complexity.

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 29.6%, City Builder 27.2%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational harsh-settlement builder, it demands careful control of labor, food, fuel, seasonal preparation, and growth from very limited beginnings.

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 14.3%, Moddable 13.4%, City Builder 11.6%, RTS 9.5%, Historical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim mixes individual settler management, production chains, environmental survival, and defensive building in a hostile medieval frontier.

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 9.8% ★, 4X 9.2% ★, Grand Strategy 9.1%, Colony Sim 8.5%, Moddable 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a noble household, workers, resources, social instability, and a growing settlement provides a more character-driven take on colony strategy.

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 27.5%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Economy 7.7%, Building 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic medieval settlements and resident-driven economy reward thoughtful district planning and sustainable supply networks.

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 22.2%, Moddable 14.9%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent colony stories, varied colonist needs, crises, and difficult resource decisions appeal to the same people-management side of Against the Storm.

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 21.1%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its desperate space-station city building requires strict resource logistics, exploration, difficult priorities, and survival under a looming existential threat.

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 10.4% ★, 4X 9.8% ★, Grand Strategy 8.9%, Moddable 8%, Colony Sim 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded medieval village economy, seasonal farming, trade, labor allocation, and gradual regional expansion suit players who enjoy methodical settlement growth.

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 37.5%, Roguelite 18.1%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its short, randomized village-building challenges, changing environmental conditions, and civilization traits give it a particularly roguelite-like settlement feel.

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 25.4%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony construction with scavenging expeditions, disaster preparation, specialist management, and rebuilding after civilization's collapse.

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 17%, RTS 13.7%, 4X 12.3% ★, Colony Sim 10.4%, Moddable 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its Norse clans expand through dangerous territory while balancing winter survival, specialized workers, resources, and faction-specific advantages.

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 30.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its dense simulation of gases, heat, water, food, and labor makes every expansion a careful exercise in self-sustaining colony engineering.

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 11%, Colony Sim 9%, City Builder 8.9%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, 4X 7.7% ★

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: Diplomacy 9.9% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8%, 4X 9.8% ★, Colony Sim 8.9%, Moddable 8.1%

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 18.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 9.7%, Survival 7.3%, Economy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval city builder puts unusual emphasis on meeting citizen class needs, navigating social tensions, and surviving resource shortages.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Economy 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its gentle presentation still hides a satisfying puzzle of linked settlements, finite resources, production chains, and environmental dangers.

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 26%, Historical 19.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, RTS 11.2%

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 18.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.4%

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 25.7%, Base Building 21.5%, RTS 15.5%, City Builder 10.5%, Survival 9.2%

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 14% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Grand Strategy 12.5%, City Builder 11.2%, Moddable 10.6%

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 24%, RTS 22.7%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Roguelite 11.7%

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 35.3%, Economy 15%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 7.6%, RTS 7.6%

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 10.3%, Diplomacy 9.4% ★, 4X 9% ★, Colony Sim 8.6%, City Builder 8.3%

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 7.6%, Management 7.5%

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%, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, City Builder 9.4%, 4X 8.5% ★, Colony Sim 7.7%

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 18.4% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2%, Moddable 11.8%, Historical 10.1%

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 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%

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 59.2%, Strategy 32.4%, Singleplayer 8.4%

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 16.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.5%

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 27.2% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Historical 13.4%, Strategy 8.6%

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 18.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.9%

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: RTS 25.9%, Base Building 22.8%, Building 17.1%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 13%

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 24.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 13%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11%

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Survival 16.3%, Management 9%, Resource Management 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 14.5%, City Builder 13%, Historical 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 8.5%

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 28.7%, Colony Sim 27.2%, Survival 9%, Historical 7.9%, Sandbox 4.8%

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 16.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

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: 4X 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 41.9%, Roguelite 31.2%, Strategy 20.8%, Singleplayer 6%

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 21% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 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 10.9% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8%, 4X 9.8% ★, Colony Sim 8.5%, Moddable 8.3%

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 21.4%, RTS 13.4%, Economy 11.2%, Historical 10.7%, Building 9.8%

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 16.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 7.9%