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Games Like Alpha Lyrae Discovery

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

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Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."

Reviews: Positive — 83% — of 18 reviews
Released: 2019-08-08
Developer: xe2050
Publisher: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Genres: Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.

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  2. #2 Rise to Ruins
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 7,752 reviews2019
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    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.

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  3. #3 Planeta
    96% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
    Dev: Tomas Daugela
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    Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!

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    95% matchNo user reviews2027
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    Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?

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    94% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,043 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
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    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    94% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!

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    93% matchVery Positive87% of 305 reviews2021
    Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
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    In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

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    92% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Artur Kasimov
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    Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.

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    91% matchMostly Positive78% of 240 reviews2026
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    91% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
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    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    90% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

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    89% matchNo user reviews
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    Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

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    88% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,954 reviews2025
    Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
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    89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
    Dev: Tomas Daugela
    Windows

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    87% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    73% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
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    71% matchNo user reviews
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    72% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    73% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
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    70% matchNo user reviews
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    72% matchMixed66% of 6,003 reviews2017
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    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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    69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
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    69% matchMixed65% of 10,591 reviews2017
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    64% matchVery Positive92% of 733 reviews2025
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