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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, City Builder, Simulation, Base Building.

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Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Reviews: Very Positive — 91% — of 688 reviews
Released: 2025-01-13
Developer: The Wandering Band LLC
Publisher: Stray Fawn Publishing
Genres: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 2.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 6.9 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 62%

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  1. #1 Airborne Kingdom
    97% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
    Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%

  2. #2 Foundation
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 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 29.6%, Medieval 11.4%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.9%

  3. #3 Kingdoms Reborn
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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 27.3%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Medieval 7.2%, Resource Management 6.8%

  4. #4 Noble Fates
    95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
    Dev: Xobermon, LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.9%

  5. #5 Kingdoms and Castles
    94% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 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: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 24.2%, Medieval 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 6.3%

  6. #6 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
    94% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 7.9%

  7. #7 Ratopia
    92% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 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 23.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 7.6%

  8. #8 Stonehearth
    93% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 33.7%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 5.4%

  9. #9 Settlement Survival
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 21.1%, Building 11.7%, Medieval 11.2%, Sandbox 7.4%

  10. #10 Flotsam
    90% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 22.5%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.7%

  11. #11 Buoyancy
    91% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 6%, RTS 5.9%

  12. #12 Astro Colony
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%

  13. #13 Songs of Syx
    88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
    Dev: Gamatron AB
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

  14. #14 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    89% matchMixed66% of 5,984 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.

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  15. #15 Norland
    86% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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.

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  16. #16 Edge Islands
    87% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

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  17. #17 The Universim
    86% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 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 29.1%, City Builder 22.5%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 6.1%

  18. #18 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    85% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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?

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  19. #19 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    84% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 9.5%, RTS 9.3%, Building 9.1%

  20. #20 Space Haven
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%

  21. #21 Settlements Rising
    82% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    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.

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  22. #22 Blacksmith Master
    81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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.

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  23. #23 Surviving the Aftermath
    83% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 7.5%, Simulation 7%

  24. #24 Patron
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 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: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Medieval 8%, Base Building 7.8%, Building 7.7%

  25. #25 The Wandering Village
    78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 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: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 21.5%, Resource Management 11%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%

  26. #26 Outland Kingdoms
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
    Dev: GBL
    Windows

    Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

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  27. #27 Captain of Industry
    79% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

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  28. #28 Whiskerwood
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
    Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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  29. #29 Going Medieval
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 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.

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    77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac
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    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.

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    79% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
    Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows

    Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

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    74% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
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    Windows
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  33. #33 Aven Colony
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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  34. #34 Empires and Tribes
    76% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
    Dev: White Vertex Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

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  35. #35 Bellwright
    73% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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  36. #36 Oxygen
    75% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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!

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    73% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    74% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
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    73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,027 reviews2023
    Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
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    75% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
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  43. #43 Noble Legacy
    71% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
    Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive89% of 615 reviews2025
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    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
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    71% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
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    68% matchVery Positive85% of 1,315 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    68% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 24.9%, City Builder 21.3%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

  54. #54 Fata Deum - The God Sim
    68% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
    Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
    Windows

    Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%, RTS 8.7%

  55. #55 Nova Roma
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
    Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac

    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: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

  56. #56 Planetbase
    69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 30.8%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 5.8%, Resource Management 5.8%

  57. #57 Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 1,398 reviews2024
    Dev: Tomas SalaPub: Wired Productions
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 18%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 13.3%

  58. #58 Timberborn
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 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: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.4%

  59. #59 Becastled
    64% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
    Dev: Mana Potion Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

    Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 18.3%, RTS 10.9%, Building 10.6%

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