Games Like Ascension

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Mythology 36.3%, Sandbox 25.7%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cultivation management game that mirrors the sect-building and spiritual progression found in Ascension.

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: 4X 29.7% ★, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulator that focuses on managing noble families and their political influence, similar to sect management.

Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.

Why similar: Mythology 32.4%, Strategy RPG 23.4%, Sandbox 17.8%, Management 17%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox RPG deeply rooted in Chinese mythology and the cultivation journey to immortality.

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: 4X 35.4% ★, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony builder that emphasizes resource management and the growth of a civilization from a small settlement.

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: 4X 28.8% ★, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that requires careful resource management and strategic adaptation to survive harsh environments.

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Why similar: 4X 58.1% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game set in ancient China that captures the scale and historical flavor of managing a growing empire.

To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game set in a martial arts world that requires building and managing a sect-like community.

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: Mythology 19.4%, Building 15.3%, Economy 14.2%, Sandbox 14%, Resource Management 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder set in ancient China that emphasizes mythology and the management of a growing society.

Create your Religion, raise your Disciples, and guide them to bring you glory! Inspire growth in your Disciples so they may challenge the false gods and convert their followers. Defeat your rivals, and become the One Truth!

Why similar: Strategy 52.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 43.6%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game simulation where you manage a religion and its followers, focusing on mythology and strategic growth.

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Strategy RPG 15.3%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.9%, Drama 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that offers deep resource management and strategic planning within a traditional Chinese setting.

玩家扮演一位家族老祖，开创一个家族，然后在一片海域中，占领一个修仙小岛，带领家族逐渐壮大发展的故事，在壮大过程中你可以攻占其他修真小岛，探索深海，秘境探宝等等。

Why similar: Strategy RPG 29.4%, Resource Management 20.5%, Management 13.7%, Drama 13.1%, Political Sim 11.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A management strategy game that focuses on the generational progression of a cultivation family.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 21.9%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Building 14.8%, Management 12%, Sandbox 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulator that blends base-building with survival and strategic combat elements.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

Why similar: Sandbox 44.9%, Strategy 34%, Top-Down 17.7%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world strategy RPG that combines martial arts themes with large-scale tactical battles and faction management.

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Mythology 15.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 4X strategy game that distills the core elements of empire-building into a manageable, addictive loop.

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: 4X 28.5% ★, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with grand-strategy elements that focuses on the expansion and management of an ancient civilization.

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 32% ★, Hex Grid 18.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that features deep customization and turn-based tactical combat on a planetary scale.

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Hex Grid 18% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that incorporates roguelike deckbuilding elements to create a unique tactical experience.

Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.

Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.4%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on base-building and exploration within a fantasy world.

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.6%, Management 20%, Economy 17.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox management game that emphasizes diplomacy and political maneuvering.

From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!

Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Hex Grid 20.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Strategy 12%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style 4X strategy game that focuses on the growth of a civilization from humble beginnings.

"Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms" is a single-player RPG where you shape the Three Kingdoms era. Choose to be a ruler, a loyal advisor, or a cunning mercenary. Marry, build homes, or train in martial arts. Restore peace through diplomacy or conquer with mighty armies.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 26.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.6%, Building 14.5%, Drama 12.9%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy simulation that focuses on the tactical management of historical figures and territories.

This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. （The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it）

Why similar: Mythology 62.7%, Strategy 21.8%, Fantasy 13.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual cultivation-themed game that focuses on the core progression loops of the genre.

Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.

Why similar: 4X 47.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Hex Grid 16.8% ★, Management 6.1%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X strategy game that emphasizes survival and resource management in a challenging world.

An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.

Why similar: Resource Management 17.5%, Hex Grid 16.3% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building game that features automation and resource management within a fantasy setting.

《天地归虚》是一款中国上古神话题材的修仙RPG+策略战棋游戏。玩家扮演一名落魄宗门的掌门人，游历神秘莫测的太初世界，经营门派培养弟子，寻仙求道提升修为，探索太初世界天道倾斜的原因，揭露诸仙背后隐藏的阴谋，打破命运的樊笼，谱写属于自己的神话传说。

Why similar: Mythology 33.5%, Strategy RPG 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Drama 15.4%, Exploration 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on mythology and narrative-driven decision making.

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Economy 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep 4X strategy game that focuses on diplomacy and resource management across a vast map.

This is an IDLE cultivation game. Rise from mortal to immortal! Explore a world inspired by Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions as you master swordplay, elemental magic, or Buddhist powers. Grow spirit crops, craft items, defeat monsters, and loot treasures. Your path to immortality awaits!

Why similar: Strategy RPG 54.7%, Strategy 43.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: An idle game that captures the progression and loot-gathering aspects of the cultivation genre.

This is a casual strategic placement game. In the aerial world set in ancient China, players will play the role of a descendant of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Travel through the barren continent, obtain various resources, build your sect, and ultimately ascend to the immortal realm.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Strategy RPG 18.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Mythology 16.9%, Management 13.1%

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical 4X strategy game that focuses on the development of a civilization through resource management and diplomacy.

JIANGHU CHRONICLES is a Wuxia-themed clan simulator, which focuses on simulating Jianghu clans and experiencing realistic battle. Set up a clan of your own, recruit disciples, complete missions... And eventually make your clan second to none by improving its power and reputation.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 47%, Base Building 29.6%, Top-Down 15.4%, Exploration 6%, Singleplayer 2%

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: Resource Management 20.4%, Building 19.2%, Economy 16.5%, Sandbox 16%, Management 12.6%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%

仙途有尽道无尽，探索风格迥异又危险重重的世界，追寻传说中的不传之秘，打造专属至宝，从数百种灵法与神通中，构建属于自己的战斗流派。于此方世界吐纳天地灵气，探索多方世界，结识仙友道侣，请尽情体验修仙RPG游戏《道衍诀》。

Why similar: Mythology 21.3%, 4X 19% ★, Strategy RPG 17.7%, Hex Grid 14.7% ★, Sandbox 10.3%

Milord is a Kingdom Management RPG with city-building mechanics. Immerse yourself in a world where your decisions shape your fiefdom's destiny. Rule wisely as you construct, strategize, and navigate the challenges of leadership. Will you rise to glory or crumble under the weight of your choices?

Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, Strategy RPG 18.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Top-Down 6.8%

Craft mythical treasures. Perfect your stance. Shatter your limits. Ascend from Nine Mountains is a cultivation RPG where deep crafting, tactical combat, and meaningful relationships intertwine. Your choices carve the way from mortal obscurity to legend.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 76.7%, Fantasy 20.2%, Singleplayer 3%

Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 24.1%, Resource Management 21.3%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 9.7%

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: 4X 28.6% ★, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Management 10.6%

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.

Why similar: Political Sim 32.6% ★, Building 18.5%, Management 15.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 7.2%

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: 4X 30.5% ★, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.7%

"Legion War" is a 4X strategy game in a fantasy setting. You can build and expand your territory, explore unknown lands, and search for mysterious treasure, cultivate your own heroes and troops while exterminating your opponent's, and challenge the god who rules the world behind the scenes.

Why similar: 4X 44% ★, Hex Grid 26.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: 4X 35.8% ★, Building 16%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 9.7%

Sky Realm Idle is a Xianxia RPG combining Spirit Array strategy with estate management. Forge artifacts, cultivate pills, and recruit companions. Ascend from mortal to immortal through deep customization and idle growth.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 43.6%, Management 39.6%, Base Building 16.8%

Godking: Master of Rituals is a fantasy strategy game inspired by great classics, bringing a host of new features and a rich new world to conquer. Pick your faction and your god-like avatar. Build your empire and crush all enemies in this glorious 4X with endless replayability.

Why similar: 4X 35.6% ★, Strategy 29.5%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Fantasy 4.6%

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Hex Grid 14.4% ★, Economy 11.8%, Management 7.7%

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.9%, Mythology 25.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 13.7%, Strategy RPG 10.2%

Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.

Why similar: Building 22.8%, Management 19.5%, Sandbox 18.6%, Economy 17.1%, Base Building 11.3%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: 4X 41.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.7%

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: 4X 28.6% ★, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 11%

You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

Why similar: Building 20.6%, Resource Management 19.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Management 16.7%, Base Building 14.7%

Ascending to Immortal "is a horizontal board combat adventure game with a cultivation theme. You are the last bloodline of a cultivation family. In this era of sparse spiritual energy, in this gradually recovering spiritual forest, it will be your last chance to embark on the path of immortality.

Why similar: Mythology 40.9%, Drama 26.4%, Exploration 17.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Fantasy 3.9%

Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.

Why similar: Management 41.8%, Drama 33.2%, Strategy 22.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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: Mythology 20.5%, Building 16.7%, Management 13.9%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 11.3%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: 4X 25.7% ★, Building 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Management 11.6%, Economy 11.1%

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: 4X 40.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Sandbox 12.1%, Economy 12%, Management 11.3%

Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.

Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 10.2%

Cultivation Story: Infinite Sword Realm is an action-packed roguelike deckbuilder rooted in Cultivation and Chinese mythology, where every action costs you lifespan. Enter the realm of Swords, balance power and mortality as you climb the path to immortality.

Why similar: Mythology 46.6%, Strategy 38.8%, Fantasy 9%, Singleplayer 5.6%

想书写你的龙傲天修仙人生吗？《轮回修仙传》是一款以修仙为题材的多结局多周目轮回式Roguelike人生模拟类游戏。沉浸式体验「我命由我不由天」的逆袭剧本，经历一世又一世的劫难，轮回点化作登仙台阶，结识修仙路上的红颜道侣，合理规划你的修炼和行动，不断突破境界，直到你一拳轰碎这天道约束！

Why similar: Drama 68.2%, Strategy 28.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%

A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!

Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy RPG 10.9%, Economy 8.3%

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: 4X 17.1% ★, Hex Grid 16.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.9%

You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 37.6%, 4X 34.5% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Fantasy 8.2%, Singleplayer 1%