- #1 Half-Earth Socialism
97% matchVery Positive82% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
Windows · Mac · Linux
Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?
Why similar: Card Game 20.9%, Political Sim 20.3% ★, Roguelike 9.7%, Political 9.3% ★, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic peer that uses card-based strategy to explore the complex political and environmental challenges of climate change.
- #2 Terraformers
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,672 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Science 19%, Card Game 18.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Roguelike 10%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines planetary management with roguelike elements, requiring careful resource allocation to transform a hostile environment into a sustainable home.
- #3 Terracards
95% matchVery Positive85% of 749 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Purrfect
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Why similar: Capitalism 17.9%, Card Game 16.9%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based management game that emphasizes sustainable farming and resource cycles within a tight, strategic framework.
- #4 Fate of the World
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 448 reviews2011
Dev: Red RedemptionPub: Soothsayer Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...
Why similar: Political Sim 38.8% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Political 14.5% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Nature 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic, deep simulation that tasks players with managing global climate policies and economic stability over several decades.
- #5 Terra Nil
94% matchVery Positive88% of 8,493 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Why similar: Nature 46.2%, Resource Management 27.3%, Strategy 25.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on environmental restoration rather than destruction, offering a unique, meditative take on managing ecosystems and climate recovery.
- #6 Green New Deal Simulator
94% matchVery Positive86% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: Molleindustria
Windows · Mac
Achieve zero emissions and full employment in this casual card-driven game.
Why similar: Political Sim 21.4% ★, Card Game 21.2%, Capitalism 13%, Economy 9.9%, Political 8.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that focuses specifically on the economic and social policy changes required to combat climate change.
- #7 Democracy 4
93% matchVery Positive82% of 6,313 reviews2022
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Why similar: Political Sim 25.2% ★, Political 15.2% ★, Economy 13.8%, Management 12.7%, Capitalism 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep political simulation where you must balance the needs of your population against long-term environmental and economic consequences.
- #8 Against the Storm
90% matchVery Positive95% of 35,994 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Resource Management 23.9%, Economy 16.8%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder where managing environmental hazards and resource scarcity is central to survival, much like the pressure in Beecarbonize.
- #9 Roots of Tomorrow
92% matchMixed61% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: GAMABILIS
Windows · Mac
Roots of Tomorrow is a free-to-play sustainable farming manager/simulator. Expand your farm, take care of your animals, upgrade your buildings, invest in research, and explore the solutions offered by agroecology!
Why similar: Resource Management 27.9%, Economy 22.1%, Nature 15.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on sustainable agriculture and the management of farming ecosystems, mirroring the environmental stewardship themes of the seed game.
- #10 Imagine Earth
91% matchVery Positive82% of 955 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Political Sim 20.9% ★, Science 19.1%, Nature 15.9%, Capitalism 13.9%, Economy 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A planetary management sim that challenges you to balance industrial expansion with the ecological health of your world.
- #11 Card Survival: Tropical Island
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,986 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 45.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Card Game 35.3%, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 16%, Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Uses card-based mechanics to drive a deep survival simulation where every resource decision is critical to your longevity.
- #12 Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
91% matchMixed60% of 240 reviews2022
Dev: Lapovich TeamPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Why similar: Capitalism 16.2%, Resource Management 15.2%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the socio-economic tensions of a society in crisis, requiring careful management of resources to prevent total collapse.
- #13 Stacklands
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,480 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 37%, Management 20.2%, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Roguelite 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based village builder that shares the intuitive, tactile resource management feel found in Beecarbonize.
- #14 Frostpunk
88% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Resource Management 36.3%, Survival 20.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Management 9.1%, Economy 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game where the climate is your primary antagonist, forcing difficult ethical and economic choices.
- #15 The Wandering Village
86% matchVery Positive92% of 8,187 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Resource Management 27.9%, Management 20.2%, Nature 16.7%, Roguelike 12.1%, Simulation 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique management game where you must maintain a symbiotic relationship with a giant creature to ensure the survival of your people.
- #16 Insurmountable
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 961 reviews2021
Dev: ByteRockers' GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Why similar: Resource Management 20.4%, Nature 15.4%, Roguelike 12.5%, Management 12.2%, Survival 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike adventure game that focuses on resource management and decision-making under extreme environmental pressure.
- #17 Save the Earth
86% matchVery Positive82% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: GameFirst
Windows
Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.
Why similar: Strategy 37.9%, Simulation 29.6%, Nature 29.1%, Choices Matter 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward simulation game that tasks the player with implementing global strategies to reverse environmental damage.
- #18 Synergy
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,039 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Resource Management 24.6%, Economy 20.2%, Nature 18.7%, Management 15.2%, Strategy 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that forces you to adapt to a hostile, changing environment while managing the needs of your citizens.
- #19 Endzone - A World Apart
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Survival 26.5%, Strategy 24.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes managing radiation, water, and food supplies in a harsh, changing climate.
- #20 Frostpunk 2
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,920 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.1%, Survival 19.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's climate-survival themes with deeper political and societal management mechanics.
- #21 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
80% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Economy 21%, Resource Management 20.6%, Management 18.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep economic and resource management simulation that rewards careful planning and systemic thinking.
- #22 Rogue State
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 257 reviews2015
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.
Why similar: Political Sim 46.9% ★, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 17.9%, Economy 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A political management simulation that forces you to balance domestic policy and economic stability in a volatile environment.
- #23 Cultist Simulator
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,856 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Card Game 25.2%, Resource Management 20%, Management 13.3%, Roguelike 12.4%, Strategy 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: While thematicly different, its card-based management and systemic complexity provide a similar 'puzzle-solving' feel to Beecarbonize.
- #24 IXION
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Resource Management 31.7%, Survival 17.6%, Strategy 16.8%, Economy 12.4%, Simulation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival management game that requires balancing the survival of your crew against the limited resources of your station.
- #25 Evopollution
85% matchMostly Negative29% of 139 reviews2014
Dev: Atapki
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Evopollution is a business strategy game that incorporates the environment into the game.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that explores the intersection of evolution and environmental change through simulation mechanics.
- #26 Coal LLC
77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,141 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Why similar: Capitalism 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.6%, Nature 12.7%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #27 Capital Simulator
81% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: Strategy 21.8%, Management 18.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Economy 13.6%, Capitalism 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the economic side of city building, requiring careful resource allocation to succeed.
- #28 Surviving the Aftermath
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Strategy 32.5%, Survival 26.4%, Simulation 22.3%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with environmental survival, requiring you to adapt to changing weather patterns and resource depletion.
- #29 Rise of Industry
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.2%, Economy 21%, Management 20.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A complex economic simulation that focuses on the supply chain management and environmental impact of industrial growth.
- #30 Cliff Empire
78% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Resource Management 28.8%, Economy 22.9%, Management 18.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you must manage limited space and resources on cliff-tops after a global climate catastrophe.
- #31 AfterWar
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Dmytro Lumen
Windows
AfterWar is a strategy about the world in 2028
Why similar: Political Sim 29.5% ★, Political 18.1% ★, Economy 17.3%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management and economy-focused simulation that explores the challenges of rebuilding a society after a global collapse.
- #32 The Political Machine 2024
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 261 reviews2024
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and run for President in this political strategy game. Choose a candidate or create your own and run against the opposing party’s candidate or up to 4 primary candidates controlled by the computer or other players online.
Why similar: Political Sim 19.1% ★, Card Game 18.1%, Political 14.5% ★, Capitalism 12.7%, Economy 11%
- #33 Arcana Academy
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: 2A StudioPub: Luckycalf
Windows
Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.
Why similar: Card Game 28.1%, Management 16.4%, Resource Management 15.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Survival 9.9%
- #34 Vox Populi: Brazil 2022
75% matchVery Positive94% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Velsin
Windows
Play as an existing or fully customized political figure, and campaign for many alternative Brazilian elections! In "Vox Populi: Brazil 2022", you and the characters around you must promote your ideas and your popularity throughout the country to claim victory!
Why similar: Political Sim 32.2% ★, Card Game 25.7%, Strategy 15%, Management 12.9%, Capitalism 6.5%
- #35 Azoove
74% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Timeless Toucan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome limited communication with strategic cooperation in this co-op roguelike! Endure the Azoove desert to return a stolen spellbook — before it consumes your city. Trust your friends, play cards, manage resources and defeat the Fiend of Fortune!
Why similar: Card Game 28.1%, Resource Management 23.5%, Roguelike 14.5%, Survival 12%, Strategy 10.9%
- #36 Vox Populi: Poland 2023
75% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Velsin
Windows
Play as an existing or fully customisable political figure, and campaign for or many alternative Polish elections!! In "Vox Populi: Poland 2023", you and the characters around you must promote your ideas and your popularity throughout the country to claim victory!
Why similar: Political Sim 31.3% ★, Card Game 24.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Management 9.7%, Capitalism 8.5%
- #37 Rogue Hex
73% matchVery Positive89% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
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: Card Game 30%, Roguelike 20.5%, Strategy 17%, Management 14.7%, Roguelite 9%
- #38 Wild City
73% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: Monka StudiosPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other. Place your cards on an expanding board to trigger satisfying chain reactions and shape an interconnected ecosystem.
Why similar: Card Game 26.9%, Resource Management 19.3%, Nature 16.7%, Roguelike 14.4%, Strategy 12.5%
- #39 Aotenjo: Infinite Hands
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,073 reviews2025
Dev: XO CatPub: XD
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Mahjong Roguelike. Aotenjo: Infinite Hands is an deckbuilder where you will use Mahjong styles all over the world to beat innate threats, play different Patterns and combos, reach the "bottom" of Aotenjo, and discover ancient secrets....
Why similar: Card Game 29.8%, Resource Management 27.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Roguelike 13.7%, Management 7.9%
- #40 Scrap Collector
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Wibert
Windows
Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.
Why similar: Card Game 46.5%, Management 28.7%, Strategy 20%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #41 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Card Game 37.4%, Simulation 19.1%, Roguelike 16.6%, Strategy 16.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #42 Be Queen Bee
70% matchVery Positive96% of 168 reviews2026
Dev: Three Blanket StudioPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
"Be Queen Bee" is an action-strategy game where you become the Queen Bee and command your swarm with pheromones. Defeat predators, seize flower fields to escape hunger, evolve your swarm with honey, and strategize in real time to secure victory.
Why similar: Nature 46.1%, Strategy 41.6%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #43 Survival Tycoon
76% matchMixed49% of 72 reviews2017
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?
Why similar: Resource Management 35.6%, Strategy 28.2%, Simulation 20.4%, Survival 15.8%
- #44 Transport Legion
71% matchVery Positive86% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 39.2%, Strategy 25.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 10.8%, Roguelite 10.1%
- #45 Factory Planner: First Sparks
71% matchVery Positive84% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner: First Sparks is a card-based simulation and strategy game. In this Prologue version, build your own factory using strategic card combinations and enjoy a unique sandbox experience.
Why similar: Card Game 37.7%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 18.9%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8%
- #46 Simmiland
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,922 reviews2018
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Why similar: Card Game 48%, Simulation 37.7%, Strategy 12.3%, 2D 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #47 Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 289 reviews2025
Dev: JujubeePub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
Why similar: Science 17.4%, Political 16.8% ★, Economy 13.4%, Resource Management 12%, Capitalism 11.1%
- #48 Frostrain 2
69% matchVery Positive92% of 189 reviews2026
Dev: nemonan
Windows
Become the last conductor and rule over the final train society in a frozen world. Gather, expand, and forge your train while building powerful synergies with mighty artifacts. Your position—and the safety of your passengers—now rests in your hands.
Why similar: Card Game 19.5%, Resource Management 18.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Roguelike 14.8%, Management 13.8%
- #49 Cardboard Town
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,205 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: Card Game 31.4%, Resource Management 25.3%, Management 14%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%
- #50 Clonizer
69% matchVery Positive87% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: Juicy PlumePub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!
Why similar: Card Game 38.9%, Roguelike 20.1%, Strategy 16.3%, Roguelite 13.1%, Simulation 11.6%
- #51 FROM ASHES, BLOOM
68% matchVery Positive93% of 748 reviews2024
Dev: Screenshakes
Windows · Linux
A minimalist rogue-like tower defense where you protect Earth against humanity.
Why similar: Nature 61.8%, Survival 36.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #52 Dead in Antares
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.4%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 11.9%
- #53 Card Cultivation
67% matchMixed68% of 585 reviews2026
Dev: DarkIndexPub: IndieArk
Windows
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: Card Game 34.4%, Resource Management 27.6%, Management 18.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #54 Factory Planner
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 342 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Card Game 40.3%, Management 22.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #55 Lucky Mayor
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: MadGoat Game Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.
Why similar: Card Game 39.8%, Strategy 21.3%, Roguelike 18.1%, Roguelite 14%, Simulation 5.1%
- #56 Nature Game System
67% matchVery Positive79% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: North Star Digital GamesPub: North Star Games
Windows · Mac
Now includes Jurassic, Flight, and Arctic Tundra! Adapt your species to survive where food is scarce and predators lurk at every turn. Easy to learn, but offering lots of strategic depth, Nature is a modular game system from the designer of the award-winning Evolution series.
Why similar: Card Game 23.9%, Science 23.5%, Nature 17.1%, Resource Management 16.7%, Strategy 10.2%
- #57 Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,967 reviews2026
Dev: Odd Dreams DigitalPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!
Why similar: Nature 24.1%, Roguelike 17.9%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Roguelite 11.4%
- #58 Rise of Humanity: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: Cybernetic Walrus
Windows
Experience the first events taking place in Rise of Humanity – a game that uniquely fuses turn-based strategy & deck-building. Build decks for each hero, collect, upgrade & merge powerful cards, and plan your strategy wisely to save humankind from the machines!
Why similar: Card Game 68.9%, Strategy 30.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #59 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
67% matchVery Positive89% of 700 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: Resource Management 27.8%, Nature 18.7%, Strategy 16.5%, Management 15.5%, Simulation 12.1%