Games Like Black Metal

A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, hunt wild animals and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Reap the rewards, unlock new resources and advance your tech.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 19.3%, Hack and Slash 10.2%, Action RPG 9.7%, Building 7.1%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 25%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 7.9%, Crafting 7.5%

Bonfire Kingdom is a survival city builder mixed with RPG elements in a dark medieval fantasy world - like a hauntingly beautiful German fairy tale. Superior enemies are creeping out of the darkness. Protect your village by leading your band of loyal knights into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 16%, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Hack and Slash 9.3%

Project Hortus is a city-building strategy game set in a distant future, after Earth has been destroyed. On the planet Hortus Prime, it's up to you to establish a new civilization. Manage your city, explore uncharted territories, and face unknown dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Minimalist 9.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Lead a doomsday cult as... a project manager. Doomsday.Inc is a satirical strategy game where you'll manage crazed acolytes, bureaucracy, and divine ambitions. Can you bring about the end of the world without getting bogged down in paperwork?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Strategy RPG 21.1%, Noir 17.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Exploration 5.8%

A 1-bit story-driven city builder inspired by late-80s Macintosh aesthetics. Rebuild a remote northern island settlement between warring nations and uncover the mystery at its heart.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 23%, Noir 15.7%, Building 9.1%, Minimalist 6.4%

Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Action RPG 15.1%, Building 13%, RPG 9.4%

Early development open world sandbox survival game with a focus on detail and granularity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Strategy RPG 17%, Action RPG 13.1%, Building 7.4%, Realistic 7.3%

You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Strategy RPG 17.6%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%

A strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world. Different factions fight for supremacy and resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy RPG 18.3%, Strategy 10.7%, RPG 8.9%

【Village-Building Action RPG】 Saved by a goddess, you arrive in a ruined world ruled by the Demon King. Gather resources, build your village, swap hats to change classes and give villagers their roles. But one night, the Idol Demon King holds a Live next door...and monsters come pouring in!?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 25.7%, Action RPG 17.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Hack and Slash 9.6%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 22.3%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Building 9.6%

Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 27.8%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Stylized 6.2%

Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 8.4%, Realistic 8.2%

Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Crafting 5.9%

A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 6.6%

Uprising: Kingdom Come is an immersive survival strategy game set in the turbulent 1800s, where you lead a group of people from bondage to freedom and beyond. Traverse the vast and beautiful countryside of Virginia. As your group evades capture and grows into a massive formidable army.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Action RPG 11.7%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%

Be the monster and defend your land against human invaders and settlers. Amass your forces, fortify your base, raid human enemy settlements, unlock multiple transformations, and engage in a compelling story with multiple endings. All these, and more, in Wisplight!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Action RPG 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Realistic 9.9%, Exploration 6.6%

You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 24.2%, Strategy RPG 18.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Stylized 6.6%

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%, City Builder 31.1%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 6.7%, Strategy 6%

A secret Soviet research institute is conducting an experiment to create a utopian city. Develop your city, resolve generational conflicts, and overcome the challenges prepared by the institute.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 30%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 8%, Stylized 6.5%

In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 23.5%, Roguelike 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 7.7%

Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Strategy RPG 21.7%, RPG 9.7%, Exploration 5.8%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 7.2%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, City Builder 32.9%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 9%, Stylized 4.9%

Galactic Veins is a groundbreaking survival RPG that seamlessly blends action and RTS. Lost in an uncharted galaxy, you'll explore hostile regions filled with danger and mystery. Harvest resources, salvage technologies, and uncover the secrets of the universe as you fight to find your way back home.

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Strategy RPG 18%, Action RPG 14.2%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%

Sky Tale is a cute city building game about creating lovely islands using various tiles and buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 28.1%, Building 13.3%, Minimalist 12.5%, Strategy 8.5%

A dark fantasy action RPG. Arrive as an Outsider. Earn your place, rebuild a town from ash, master your class, and face the creatures threatening to consume what little remains. Your legend starts from nothing.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.7%, Action RPG 13.9%, Hack and Slash 13.8%, Roguelike 11.2%, Building 10.2%

A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 11.5%, Stylized 9.3%

Your main mission is to explore a vibrant and lively scenario filled with beautiful flowers. As a skillful bee, your goal is to collect the nectar from these flowers. But wait, there must be more to it, right?

Why similar: Strategy RPG 28.8%, Roguelike 18.3%, Hack and Slash 17.8%, Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 8.4%

Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, earn upgrades, build castles, and protect the Altar from waves of minions, all while searching for the "Dragon" and uncovering the truth behind his power. Embody the Sovran in this pixel-art adventure minimalist strategy game.

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Minimalist 9.1%, Building 7.3%

A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 37.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 9.1%

Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 30.6%, Building 9.3%, Exploration 6.9%, Stylized 6.6%

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 43.4%, City Builder 37.9%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%, Crafting 3.5%

An empire once sprawling with life, destroyed by the dragon's flames Venture into a ravaged world overtaken by wild beasts and bloodthirsty bandits. Build your settlement, explore unknowns lands, uncover great treasures, fight dangerous enemies, and ultimately bring an end to the dragon's reign!

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Strategy RPG 18.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%

Prologue version of Orc Warchief. Become an Orc warchief and fight for survival of your race. Rebuild your village and train your warriors. Gather resources and craft your weapons. Raise your warbanner and gather The Horde.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Strategy RPG 17.4%, Dark Fantasy 7.5%, Exploration 6.6%

A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 29.3%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Stylized 9.1%

Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Strategy RPG 18.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Adventure 7%

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 40%, City Builder 30.1%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Strategy 8.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, City Builder 44.1%, Strategy 8.4%

Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 29.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 7.6%, Realistic 7.3%

Boss Beek is a beekeeping game that allows you to play the role of a beekeeper! You'll have hours of entertainment building hives with the best parts you can find to house the best queens and make the best honey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 24%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%, Realistic 9%

Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 6%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 32.5%, Building 10%, Exploration 7.6%, Stylized 7.4%

Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Minimalist 9.2%

A strategic RTS in solo and multiplayer where you don’t micro-manage units, but design their behaviors, adapt tactics in real time, and grow a tribal team through RPG progression in a prehistoric world.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 21.2%, Roguelike 14%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Action RPG 13.2%, Hack and Slash 12.5%

The depths of Ashenburrow are alive. Wildlife hunts, feeds, breeds and dies — with or without you. Survive, craft, build. But remember: you are not alone underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 26.8%, Action RPG 11.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Strategy 8.4%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Colony Sim 33.1%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 13.1%, 3D 1.8%

They told you to hack the planet. Nobody told you the planet keeps receipts. A CRT-noir hacking sim about sticking it to the machine and finding out the machine already bought your file.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 29.5%, Noir 22.6%, RPG 13.5%, Strategy 10.4%, Dark 8.8%

A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Building 12%, Minimalist 9.4%, Exploration 6.1%

Create a tribe to survive the natural disasters of the island. Prepare your community for the day the volcano blows. You'll need to survive until the Spring when life returns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Strategy RPG 21%, Action RPG 17.6%, RPG 9.7%, Crafting 7.5%

The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 11.3%, Action RPG 11.2%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, City Builder 34.4%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 5.5%, Dark 5.1%

'LUMINOVA' is a 3D adventure game where you become the protagonist 'Haru'. And you must complete missions using a clock. Break through the darkness and find a clue to the light!

Why similar: Noir 25.3%, Hack and Slash 21.1%, Action RPG 17%, RPG 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%

You are given a chance to influence the development of your characters and settlement, forcing you to think strategically and make decisions that will affect the events in the game. Enjoy this immersive game experience where your every move will have meaning and consequences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 24.7%, Minimalist 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 7.9%

Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, Strategy RPG 15.2%, Building 11.9%, RPG 9.2%, Crafting 6.4%

An action adventure game where you explore fantastical floating islands, fight powerful enemies, and rebuild a long lost bastion of hope for a kingdom in disarray

Why similar: Hack and Slash 18.8%, Action RPG 18.2%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, RPG 9.8%

Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy RPG 22.9%, RPG 9.9%, Exploration 5.6%