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 36.5%, Sandbox 25.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.7%

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 29.9% ★, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Economy 10.6%

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 32.6%, Strategy RPG 23.4%, Sandbox 17.8%, Management 16.8%, 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 34.3% ★, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 8.9%

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

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 35.7% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.7%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.8%

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

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 29.8% ★, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 58.6% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%

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.

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 19.5%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 12.2%

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

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 34.2%, Resource Management 23.2%, Management 15.7%, Political Sim 13% ★, Strategy 12.8%

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

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 33% ★, Mythology 15.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%

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

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 43.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

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 19%, Strategy RPG 17.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 13.4%, Economy 10.5%

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

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 45.1%, Strategy 33.9%, Top-Down 17.6%, 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.

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 22%, Strategy RPG 15.7%, Building 14.8%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.9%

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

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 28.4% ★, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 11%

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 32.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9%

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 41.1% ★, Hex Grid 18.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.4%

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

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 33.8% ★, Hex Grid 20.2% ★, 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.

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 32.6% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.3%, Economy 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 21.7%, Management 19.9%, Economy 17.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 11.4%

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

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 62.8%, Strategy 21.7%, 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.

"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 30.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 29.3%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Top-Down 10.1%

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

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 47.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Hex Grid 16.9% ★, Management 6%, 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 17.2%, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.6%

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 39.6%, Strategy RPG 23.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.7%, Exploration 6.3%, Fantasy 5.4%

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 36.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Building 11%, Economy 11%, Management 8.9%

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 54.9%, Strategy 43.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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

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 25% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 9.7%

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

The beasts have ravaged your ancestral sect, leaving you as the sole survivor. With your cultivation regressed to Qi Condensation stage, you must start anew. Rebuild strength, recruit disciples, and uncover the dark truth behind the disaster.

Why similar: Mythology 21.5%, Strategy RPG 19%, Resource Management 14.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.8%

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 22%, Strategy RPG 18.4%, Resource Management 17.3%, Mythology 17%, Management 13%

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: Resource Management 31.4%, Sandbox 26.6%, Management 26.6%, Exploration 13.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

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 14.8% ★, Sandbox 10.4%

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 45%, Base Building 28.3%, Top-Down 14.6%, Exploration 5.7%, Combat 4.4%

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 75.8%, Fantasy 21.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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 20.2%, Building 19.5%, Economy 16.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 12.6%

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 35.5% ★, Strategy RPG 19%, Resource Management 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Top-Down 6.8%

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 29.4% ★, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 24.2%, Resource Management 20.9%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 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 43.8%, Management 39.4%, Base Building 16.9%

"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 44.1% ★, Hex Grid 26.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 28.7% ★, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 10.5%

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 20.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Sandbox 17.6%, Management 16.6%, Base Building 14.8%

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 35.7% ★, Strategy 29.4%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Fantasy 4.6%

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 35.3% ★, Political Sim 17.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Strategy RPG 11%, Economy 8.2%

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 23%, Management 19.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Economy 16.9%, Base Building 11.4%

Test your skills in an all-new strategic card battler. Master swift positioning with melee and ranged rows. Plan your path to victory in the dead of night. Explore a deeply rooted universe in a rogue-lite story campaign. Collect, build, command your army, and emerge victorious.

Why similar: Mythology 46%, Turn-Based Strategy 30.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Fantasy 10%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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 41.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.6%

A 4X strategy game in a fantasy RPG world. Create your own sovereign hero, build a dynasty, design custom units, and wage turn-based war across a world that's different every time you play. Every unit is an individual with their own name, gear, and story.

Why similar: 4X 35.4% ★, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Building 10.7%, Top-Down 6%

《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里，你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅，也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境，更可以和游戏中的角色互动，与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。

Why similar: Strategy RPG 45.1%, Strategy 23.3%, Fantasy 17%, Exploration 12%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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 41.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Hex Grid 14.4% ★, Economy 11.6%, Management 7.7%

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 73.2%, Strategy 23.9%, Singleplayer 3%

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 29.3% ★, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 10%, Management 9.2%

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 37.5%, 4X 34.6% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Fantasy 8.2%, Singleplayer 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 16.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Economy 11.9%, Management 11.5%

"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 34.7%, Mythology 26.1%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Strategy RPG 10.2%

ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

Why similar: 4X 46.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Hex Grid 15% ★, Strategy 12.6%, Fantasy 5.6%

“The Eastern Sacrifice” is an idle game combining simulation with Eastern Cthulhu-inspired themes. In a world spiraling into chaos over authority, vanquish enemy, gather treasures, and build a devoted religion. Your sanctuary will help you reclaim theurgy, ascend to the divine realm.

Why similar: Mythology 28.1%, Building 18.7%, Management 17.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 10%

Navigate a living, AI-driven universe spanning 150+ planets and 600+ intelligent NPCs. Rise from a rookie trader to a galactic tycoon: manage storefronts, forge a Commerce Guild, and become the nexus between Factions, steering the fate of the Galaxy.

Why similar: Political Sim 18% ★, Building 15.1%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Management 12.5%, Economy 10.5%