Games Like Airborne Empire

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 23.3%, Real-Time with Pause 20.5% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%

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: Real-Time with Pause 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 7.7%

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 34.5%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 6%

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 33.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.5%

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 23.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.7%

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 23.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 12%, RTS 9.5%, Management 8.6%

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 24.4%, City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 13.9% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.5%

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: Real-Time with Pause 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 7.3%

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 31.1%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 7%

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 22.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.1%, Management 6.7%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.4%

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 19.8%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 10%, Open World 8.5%, Sandbox 7.8%

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 28.4%, City Builder 23.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.1%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Family Friendly 9%, Base Building 8.8%

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: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 20.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 40.5%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 7.8%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 7.9%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 26%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.1%

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 35.3%, City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.3%, Open World 4.6%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.9%

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 23%, City Builder 21.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.6%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%

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 23.1%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Family Friendly 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, City Builder 33.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Resource Management 3.9%

Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!

Why similar: Sandbox 30.3%, Open World 20.5%, Management 16.6%, RPG 15.9%, Strategy 9.5%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Resource Management 22.7%, Family Friendly 15.1%, Relaxing 11.8%, Strategy 8.6%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.6%, Family Friendly 6.3%

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 28.3%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

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.

Why similar: Resource Management 24.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Management 9.2%

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 28.7%, City Builder 25.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Open World 7%, Base Building 6.8%

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 24.5%, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 7%, Building 6.6%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Building 14.5%, RTS 12.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Open World 10.7%

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: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 25.7%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.5%

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!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.5%

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 27.3%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 8.9%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.2%

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 19.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.3%

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.5%

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 9.1%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 7.3%

Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.

Why similar: RPG 16.3%, City Builder 14%, Strategy 13.8%, RTS 9.2%, Open World 8.3%

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 28.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Open World 9.1%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.4%

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 11.7%

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Open World 30.1%, Sandbox 25.8%, Base Building 24.8%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 4%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 15%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.2%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.2% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Management 7.1%

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 20.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Resource Management 10%, RTS 10%, Base Building 8.8%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 20.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.6%

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: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 31.8%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 4.9%

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, RTS 16.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.2%

HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Open World 13.4%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Family Friendly 8.2%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.6%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 22.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.3%