Games Like Banished

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 34.6%, Colony Sim 32.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 4.4%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the clearest Banished successors, built around growing a vulnerable settlement through tight food, labor, housing, and seasonal resource management.

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 32.4%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Survival 7.6%, Medieval 6.1%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed medieval supply chains, villager health systems, and harsh-survival focus make it feel very close to a more modern, expanded Banished.

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 33.9%, City Builder 31.1%, Survival 9%, Strategy 5.5%, Medieval 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a direct medieval survival city-builder where population needs, production balance, and difficult events strongly echo Banished’s core loop.

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 30.9%, Colony Sim 29.7%, Survival 6%, Sandbox 4.5%, Medieval 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers accessible medieval settlement building with food, housing, expansion, and disaster pressure in a way Banished players will immediately recognize.

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 45.9%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Medieval 6.4%, Strategy 5.3%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic medieval town growth and emphasis on production chains and citizen needs make it a strong Banished-like with a more relaxed tone.

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 40.2%, Colony Sim 36.7%, Survival 8%, Strategy 4.7%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the prehistoric setting, it nails Banished-style survival through seasons, population growth, storage planning, and gradual settlement evolution.

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 31.5%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Sandbox 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfaction of slowly building a believable historical town through logistics, labor distribution, and grounded resource management.

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 40.2%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Medieval 8.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic medieval town planning, logistics, and peasant economy scratch a very similar historical settlement-management itch, just on a broader scale.

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: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 26.8%, Survival 7.5%, Medieval 5.6%, Sandbox 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the Banished formula into a roguelite structure, but the core appeal of juggling scarcity, villagers, and layered resources is very similar.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although it swaps humans for beavers, it excels at the same kind of population survival and production-balancing that makes Banished compelling.

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 41.9%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 4.2%, Medieval 4%, Survival 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends Banished-style settlement growth and resource chains with a more expanded economy and regional progression.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 6.1%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is more character-driven and vertical, but the mix of colony survival, food security, storage, and labor assignment overlaps well with Banished.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This replaces medieval villages with post-apocalyptic settlements, but the survival-first city-building and constant pressure feel very Banished-like.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.7%, Medieval 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 8%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a tiny settlement scraping through brutal seasons, making it especially appealing if your favorite part of Banished is surviving the early game.

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 40.5%, City Builder 34.1%, Survival 7.3%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-settlement charm and focus on building up a community from almost nothing mirror Banished’s village-growth appeal.

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 38.7%, Colony Sim 30.4%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Resource Management 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is much harsher and more scripted, yet the tense survival economy and life-or-death resource decisions hit a similar nerve.

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: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 26%, Survival 7.3%, Medieval 5.7%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It adds more social simulation and conflict, but its medieval colony management and emergent settlement problems fit Banished-adjacent tastes well.

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 40.4%, City Builder 34.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is essentially Banished in space, built around keeping a fragile colony alive through production chains, bottlenecks, and environmental danger.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 29%, Medieval 5.9%, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its feudal production management is more economy-focused, but Banished fans may enjoy how it models households, labor, and village development.

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 27.3%, Survival 6.7%, Medieval 5.3%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a slower, systemic settlement sim where ecology, production, and survival all matter in ways that feel close to Banished’s design priorities.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Colony Sim 31.7%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-collapse setting changes the theme, yet the focus on keeping a struggling settlement alive through shortages and expansion is very familiar.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 5.9%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is more emergent and character-driven than Banished, but the colony survival, labor prioritization, and disaster recovery are strongly adjacent.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 30.6%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a familiar loop of placing production buildings, assigning workers, and trying to keep a harsh historical settlement functioning and growing.

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 44.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Survival 6.1%, Sandbox 4.2%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes colony-sim personalities with approachable settlement management, offering a lighter but still recognizable Banished-style progression.

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 31.4%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Survival 5.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is far more complex and industrial, but its rigorous logistics and survival-minded planning can scratch the same systems-heavy management itch.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its primitive settlement survival, population care, and gradual growth from a tiny community align well with Banished’s fragile early-game appeal.

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: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 30%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 5.9%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It scales the formula up dramatically, but the intricate population, supply, and city-growth systems will appeal if you want a deeper management sandbox.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 31.2%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 5.1%, Economy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is gentler and more automation-focused, but its settler expansion and layered production chains make it a good fit for Banished players who like logistics.

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 41.8%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 4.9%, Economy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical city-building and carefully tuned production logistics make it a solid pick if your favorite part of Banished is building efficient economies.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Sandbox 6%, Resource Management 5.2%, Economy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a softer, less punishing alternative that still centers on settlement expansion and efficient resource production chains.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 29.1%, Sandbox 7.4%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 6.1%

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 31.9%, City Builder 30.4%, Survival 5.6%, Strategy 5.1%, Medieval 5%

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 38.6%, City Builder 36.5%, Survival 5.4%, Strategy 4.3%, Medieval 4%

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Relaxing 5.2%, Beautiful 5% ★

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 38.3%, City Builder 31.2%, Sandbox 7.2%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 5.6%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, City Builder 34.3%, Survival 7.1%, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 5%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 26.3%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 6.1%, Strategy 5.5%

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 65.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Sandbox 6.2%, Strategy 5.8%, Building 4.6%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 35.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Resource Management 5.2%, Medieval 4.8%

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 64.7%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Resource Management 4%, Economy 3.7%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Colony Sim 32.6%, Strategy 6.1%, Medieval 5.4%, Simulation 5%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 4.9%, Simulation 4.8%

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 59.8%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 7.6%, Economy 3.7%

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 44.6%, City Builder 37.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 4.6%, Survival 3%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 31.7%, Strategy 6.2%, Sandbox 5.3%, Simulation 5.3%

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 63.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7%, Economy 5.6%, Sandbox 4.2%

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: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 29.6%, Medieval 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%, Resource Management 4.7%

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 55.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 4.9%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 30%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 6.6%, Strategy 5.7%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, City Builder 32%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 47.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Medieval 6.8%

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 41.6%, City Builder 28.1%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.6%, Medieval 4.3%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 29.4%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 5.9%, Simulation 4.2%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 36.2%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 4.9%, Building 3.7%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 32.9%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 4.7%

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 34.3%, City Builder 31.2%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%, Strategy 4.5%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, City Builder 24.5%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 4.7%

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 64.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Medieval 7.5%, Indie 2.4%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 44%, Colony Sim 43.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 5.4%, Indie 1.3%