
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation.

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Isla Paradiso
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Make Your Kingdom
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 11.9%, Building 9.9%, Survival 6.5%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%
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 36.9% ★, City Builder 21%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 7.1%, Survival 6.6%
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 35.4% ★, City Builder 32.8%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 5%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Survival 8.3%, Economy 6.2%, Management 5.8%
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 32.4%, Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Building 8.8%, Strategy 5.4%, Base Building 3.9%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10%, Survival 7.3%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Economy 12.5%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.2%
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 23%, Economy 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.9%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 10.2%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.4%
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%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 8.9%, Building 6.8%
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 36.9%, Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Survival 10%, Strategy 5.2%, Economy 4.6%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 12%, Building 9%, Simulation 6.9%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 6.6%
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 27% ★, Building 12%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 7.2%
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Economy 13.4%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%
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 26.6%, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Building 10.7%, Survival 9%, Economy 7.4%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 22%, Economy 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.7%
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 26.3%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Economy 13.4%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.2%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Survival 11.1%, Economy 10.7%, Strategy 6.9%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Building 9%, Survival 8%, Strategy 5.9%
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 30%, Economy 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 5.9%
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Economy 11.3%, Building 9%, Survival 6.8%
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 36.1% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Building 10.8%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 4.7%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 7.8%
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 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Building 8.6%, Survival 6.5%, Economy 6.4%
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Economy 12.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 8.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
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 33.3%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Economy 9%, Base Building 6.6%, Building 5.6%
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 38.3%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Economy 9.3%, Building 7.5%, Simulation 5.7%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, City Builder 35.1%, Survival 7.1%, Building 7%, Strategy 5.1%
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 24.1% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.6%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Economy 12.2%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.1%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Economy 6.4%
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Survival 9.6%, Economy 8.2%, Building 6.6%
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Survival 6.1%
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 11.2%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.3%
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 34.2% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 5.2%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 11%, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.1%
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Economy 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Survival 6.6%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Base Building 8.2%
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 26.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11.4%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 7.2%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 7.8%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Economy 7.9%, Building 7.8%
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Survival 9.9%, Economy 9.4%, Building 9.2%
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Economy 13%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 6.1%
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Economy 13.5%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 7.5%
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 28.5%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.4%, Economy 7.5%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
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 31.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 7.5%
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.1%
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 24.9%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.7%, Survival 7.6%
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 41.3% ★, City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 6%, Simulation 5.6%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Economy 7.5%
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8%, Management 6.4%
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.1%, Simulation 7%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Economy 10.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.5%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Survival 10.4%, Economy 10%, Strategy 6.5%