Games Like Before the Snow

Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 10.6%

A survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Build, farm, research, clear sand and protect your people from the storms. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?

Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Survival 18.6%, Strategy 16.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 6.1%

Age of Damnation — a fantasy medieval strategy with a top-down view. By day, you explore the forest and build your settlement. By night, you defend against waves of monsters born from damnation mist. Gather resources, develop your settlement, research technologies, build defenses, destroy monsters.

Why similar: Base Building 28.3%, Strategy 21.7%, City Builder 18%, Survival 14%, Top-Down 8.2%

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 9.9%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 9%, Survival 8.4%

Touhou Mini Map is a strategy building game that allows you to create a panoramic map of Touhou World

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Base Building 25.1%, Strategy 18.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Top-Down 5.5%

Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.5%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Survival 24.4%, Strategy 18%, Sandbox 13.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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 38.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 18%, Strategy 13.6%, Sandbox 5.4%

Patchland is a relaxing, tile-based world-building game. Piece by piece, you place square tiles to grow a living landscape made of forests, rivers, villages, and meadow.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 10.4%

Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 23.5%, Strategy 13%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10%

Whispers in the Forest is a single-player base defense strategy game where you must build, upgrade, and defend your base against demonic creatures in a cursed forest. Manage your resources, lead your troops, and survive the darkness of the night as you fight to protect your only hope for salvation.

Why similar: Strategy 26.3%, Survival 20.9%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 17%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Base Building 23%, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Survival 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 11.1%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Survival 23.4%, Strategy 19.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Resource Management 6.1%

Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%

This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.

Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Base Building 28.8%, Strategy 18.3%, Survival 9.4%, Top-Down 4.6%

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 37.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 19.4%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Base Building 25.9%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 9.6%

Flocking Hell is a deeply strategic roguelite where you defend your pasture from demonic invasion. It blends calm exploration with auto-battler combat, offering a mix of easy-to-learn mechanics and thought-provoking gameplay. It also has a LOT of sheep 🐑😈

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%

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: City Builder 40.6%, Survival 20.5%, Strategy 16.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 9.6%

Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive or will the volcano erase it?

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Base Building 22.7%, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Sandbox 8.7%

Spiritlands is a game of building and survival. Turn a single tent into a bustling network of towns and cities. Grow and fight to survive, and become the leader you dream to be with near endless possibilities.

Why similar: Strategy 28.9%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 10.4%

Command powerful heroes in this turn-based, deck-building village defense game. Build strategic fortifications, deploy loyal troops, and protect settlements across the realm of Valora. Manage resources, unlock powerful cards, and lead your forces against the encroaching darkness.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%

NuTREEnts is a casual tower defense game about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 7.8%

《太古洪荒》是一款以修仙为题材的独立游戏。玩家扮演宗门掌门，在洪荒世界中，经过一代一代长老和弟子的努力，战胜强敌和天灾，成就名门大派。

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Strategy 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 8.1%

Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 14.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

A city-building strategy game with colony survival elements. After an alien invasion drained Earth’s resources, rogue machines roam the ruins. Gather resources, lead your colonists, rebuild from scratch, and fight for survival. Survive. Rebuild. Resist.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Base Building 23.1%, Strategy 15.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Top-Down 9.5%

Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!

Why similar: Base Building 32.8%, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 18.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%

Colonize the Solar System. Command a group of near-future humans trying to establish a base on Mars and beyond. Grow food, mine resources, manufacture goods and face the challenges these unforgiving worlds will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Strategy 29.6%, Base Building 29.3%, Singleplayer 1%

Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!

Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Resource Management 7.6%

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Survival 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.4%

Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Base Building 25%, Strategy 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Strategy 23%, City Builder 19.9%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 6.7%

A tiny base builder roguelite where the only enemy is time. Provide food and shelter for your growing outpost. Produce advanced resources for your home station. Discover the mysteries of Feluna with every new run.

Why similar: Base Building 27.6%, City Builder 24.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Survival 8.5%

A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.

Why similar: Base Building 34.3%, Survival 18.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 11.8%

Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, City Builder 22%, Strategy 15%, Sandbox 12.8%, Resource Management 7.8%

clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?

Why similar: Base Building 32.4%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 25.8%, Survival 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Build and manage a thriving summer camp. Provide your campers with a place to catch fish, kayak, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. Will you create the ultimate summer camp? Or will your reputation as camp director plummet from a bunch of unhappy campers?

Why similar: City Builder 31%, Base Building 22.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 9.2%

Build a colony on an alien planet. Supply settlers, defend against meteors, upgrade your base, develop your economy, and fight for survival.

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 21.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.2%

Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Strategy 22.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 6.5%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 9.8%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 48.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 4.6%

A turn-based strategy game about managing the first human colony on the pumpkin planet.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 24.5%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 12%, Sandbox 11.1%

Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.

Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 26.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Top-Down 7.6%

Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Base Building 31.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 4.6%

A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

Why similar: City Builder 34%, Base Building 28.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 11%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

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: City Builder 34.4%, Base Building 28.4%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 5.8%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 13.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 9.7%

hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!

Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 24.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Survival 10.3%

Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 25.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.6%

Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.

Why similar: Base Building 27.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Strategy 15.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

CityZen is a game about building small cities without stressful mechanics like confusing traffic systems, unexpected disasters or constraining resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Strategy 22.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Top-Down 6.6%

You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Strategy 25.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Top-Down 7.2%

Build, arrive, and move into new regions and planets in the depths of space. Whether you will establish a colony and trade or train soldiers and fight, everything is in your hands.

Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 22.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%

Mawang: Dark Lord Defense is a real-time tactical tower defense game. As Princess Lua, defend the demon realm against the hero alliance. Build unique towers, manage unit morale, and use tactical pauses to repel invasions. Your strategy decides the demon realm's fate.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 24.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 25.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.5%

Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 9.9%