Games Like Anno 1800

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 38.2%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 8.6%, RTS 6.9%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the series' signature population needs, production chains, trade routes, and territorial expansion to the Roman Empire.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 51.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest earlier Anno formula, combining interconnected islands, detailed citizen tiers, trade, diplomacy, and medieval production networks.

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 53%, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 9.6%, RTS 5.3%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: It retains Anno's intricate supply chains and island logistics while adding futuristic factions and environmental management.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 52%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its streamlined but expansive city building, sector-wide resource networks, and multi-region production make it a natural Anno alternative.

Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 43%, Economy 12.1%, Strategy 10%, RTS 9%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the classic colonial-era Anno loop of settling islands, meeting citizens' needs, developing trade, and managing a growing economy.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 49.7%, Economy 16%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Build and govern an island nation through multiple eras while balancing exports, infrastructure, politics, and the needs of distinct social groups.

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: City Builder 41.4%, Economy 16.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper, more simulation-heavy city builder centered on constructing every industrial supply chain and transport system yourself.

Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 9.3%, RTS 9.1%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its elaborate goods chains, colonization, shipping, and multiple cultures established many of the economic systems Anno 1800 builds upon.

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: City Builder 34.8%, Economy 15.6%, RTS 8%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic medieval town building, regional trade, farming, and resource extraction capture Anno's gradual settlement-to-economy progression.

Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.

Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 10.4%, RTS 9.1%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The original Anno delivers a simpler but still compelling version of island settlement, production balancing, exploration, and trade.

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 56.4%, Economy 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxed medieval builder emphasizes attractive organic cities, citizen needs, trade, and production-chain planning without rigid grids.

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: City Builder 35.1%, Economy 15.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, RTS 8.2%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on connecting settlements through extensive gathering, crafting, transport, exploration, and trade networks in a colorful historical setting.

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: City Builder 43.3%, Economy 16.2%, Resource Management 8.4%, RTS 8.3%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Develop a self-sufficient frontier settlement through farming, resource processing, trade, and careful management of a growing population.

Let yourself be enchanted by the new world of Settlers with this modernized History Edition – in the midst of green forests and lush meadows, it will bustle again. You alone hold the fate of your kingdom in your hands. Which strategy will you choose?

Why similar: City Builder 72.8%, Strategy 19.9%, RTS 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs historical settlement building with resource networks, territorial control, and strategic competition between expanding economies.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Economy 20%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: Create industrial supply networks across a changing map by extracting resources, processing goods, building transport links, and serving cities.

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: City Builder 32.9%, Economy 21.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding extraction, manufacturing, vehicle logistics, and settlement management offer a more hands-on take on industrial expansion.

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 53.3%, Economy 10.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Strategy 6%, Resource Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines accessible multiplayer city building with resource logistics, trade, technology progression, and expanding settlement economies.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Economy 15%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 7.6%, RTS 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite structure changes the pace, but its core is still satisfying production-chain planning, trade, citizen needs, and difficult resource choices.

Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Economy 21.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 10.1%, RTS 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: The Caribbean setting, colonial development, sea trade routes, and production-based island economies closely complement Anno 1800's merchant side.

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 44%, Economy 16.1%, RTS 6.3%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its ancient-city setting hides a very Anno-like focus on specialized housing classes, layered production chains, trade, and city services.

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Economy 16.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the Industrial Revolution through route planning, regional industries, resource deliveries, and a growing transportation empire.

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: City Builder 64.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7%, Economy 5.5%, Sandbox 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This austere settlement builder makes every workforce assignment, food source, material chain, and trading decision matter to a growing town.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 45%, Economy 13%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This detailed 18th-century Ukrainian town builder emphasizes realistic agriculture, workshops, markets, labor, and regional commerce.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 60.2%, Economy 10%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although less focused on goods production, it offers the same satisfying large-scale urban planning, infrastructure building, and economic balancing.

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 50.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Economy 10%, Simulation 7.5%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its era-spanning island management, export economy, faction demands, and infrastructure planning make it a lighter but fitting counterpart.

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 56.4%, Economy 8.3%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 5.9%, Building 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a developing settlement through agriculture, manufacturing, labor allocation, trade, and disasters in a classic colony-sim format.

As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.

Why similar: City Builder 59%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Historical 7.1%, RTS 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build a Roman province through farms, industry, construction, and trade while expanding infrastructure across a historical landscape.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Economy 20.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.2%, Sandbox 7.8%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 60.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 7.9%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its Victorian-inspired world centers on housing classes, public services, decorative urban growth, and interconnected manufacturing chains.

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: City Builder 50.6%, Strategy 20.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Historical 8%, Management 3.8%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 53.7%, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 8%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 5.7%

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: City Builder 40.1%, Economy 16.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 6.2%

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Economy 19.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Historical 7.5%

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 58.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Economy 6.5%, Building 3.3%

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Economy 16.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 8.6%, RTS 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its broad map economy revolves around founding towns, producing goods, linking trade routes, and growing a commercial empire.

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: Economy 26.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Historical 10.6%

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Strategy 25.1%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Historical 9.3%, Simulation 5.9%

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

Why similar: Economy 33%, Strategy 28%, Resource Management 19.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Historical 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This Hanseatic trade simulation is ideal for players who most enjoy Anno's merchant fleets, production planning, and city-to-city commerce.

Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Strategy 18.1%, RTS 15.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Resource Management 9%

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 66.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 4.5%, Management 2.4%

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 66%, Strategy 8.6%, Economy 6.3%, Simulation 4.8%, Historical 3.7%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Economy 30.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Historical 11.3%, Simulation 11%

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 44%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 7.5%, RTS 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%

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 60.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%

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 33.4%, Economy 14.9%, RTS 8%, Strategy 7.3%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 44.1%, Economy 10.3%, RTS 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 6.8%

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 56.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Historical 6%, Simulation 5.6%

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 42%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 8.6%, RTS 7.7%, Resource Management 5.7%

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Economy 29.4%, Strategy 16.7%, Historical 12.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 10.6%

Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.

Why similar: Economy 26.6%, Strategy 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Historical 10.1%

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 52.8%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 5.1%

The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Economy 17.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 5.8%

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: City Builder 38.4%, Economy 16.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 6.4%

In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Economy 21.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Management 6.7%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Economy 18.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Sandbox 7.1%, Simulation 6.1%

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 48.9%, Economy 16.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Strategy 6%

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

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: City Builder 39.2%, Economy 16.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 7.9%, Simulation 6.5%

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Economy 19.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.4%