- #1 Myriads: Renaissance
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.2%, 4X 18.5% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #2 Island Dwellers
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Turn-Based 14.5%, 4X 13.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #3 Marble Age
96% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: Turn-Based 17.2%, 4X 11.8% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #4 Egypt: Old Kingdom
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,264 reviews2018
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.
Why similar: Turn-Based 17.2%, 4X 12.1% ★, City Builder 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%
- #5 Into The Depths
94% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: SmelJey
Windows · Mac
A minimalistic mix of a roguelite city builder and a puzzle game. Assemble your deck, build an outpost and colonize the ever-changing caverns. Discover game-breaking synergies to push deeper into the Depths.
Why similar: Turn-Based 19.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Roguelite 7.6%
- #6 Potventure
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Resource Management 12.1%, Roguelike 8.3%
- #7 Marble Age: Remastered
92% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: Turn-Based 18.5%, City Builder 13.9%, 4X 12.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Building 9%
- #8 Urbanist
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Halfcooked Games
Windows
Thousands of citizens, each with a life of their own. Urbanist is a strategy and simulation game about transforming small settlements into thriving cities and vibrant neighborhoods. Build up your island, manage resources and production chains, and earn your reputation as the next great Urbanist.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 7.5%
- #9 Bronze Age - HD Edition
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 382 reviews2017
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
Why similar: Turn-Based 17.6%, 4X 14.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #10 Slipways
90% matchVery Positive93% of 2,312 reviews2021
Dev: Beetlewing
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
Why similar: Turn-Based 19.5%, 4X 14.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #11 Bellfrost
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laserbread
Windows
A roguelike city builder where you lead an expedition to build settlements against the ice. Survive harsh winters, fulfill the needs of your villagers, and explore mystical locations with your heroes. Reclaim the realm one island at a time.
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Roguelite 8.9%
- #12 Airborne Kingdom
89% matchVery Positive87% of 2,406 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Steampunk 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #13 Majulah: Shape Your City
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: That One Time I Made A Game Studio
Windows
Build and govern a thriving Singapore in this city builder! Plan your city with tactical building placements, Recruit a powerful Cabinet, and secure Building Blueprints during heated parliament sessions. Rally citizen support to ensure re-election and shape your nation's future one term at a time!
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Sandbox 10.9%, Roguelike 9.9%, Roguelite 9.2%
- #14 Offshore Prophets
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Roguelite 10.7%, Base Building 8.1%, Building 7.9%
- #15 Autolantis
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Find the Lamp Games
Windows
Welcome to Autolantis, a light roguelite strategy city builder where you rule an isolated continent and forge an empire of your own. Shape its future through Tiles, Workers, and Policies, unleash explosive automated production, and lead your empire to the pinnacle of civilization.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.9%, City Builder 21.1%, Roguelite 12%, Roguelike 10.7%, Building 9.6%
- #16 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, 4X 17.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #17 Predynastic Egypt
84% matchVery Positive92% of 1,933 reviews2016
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!
Why similar: Turn-Based 20%, 4X 14.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Building 9.7%
- #18 Lethis - Path of Progress
84% matchMixed68% of 1,216 reviews2015
Dev: Triskell Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Steampunk 28.4% ★, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 7%
- #19 Radia Island
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, 4X 17% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.5%
- #20 Derelict Void
83% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Stirling Games
Windows · Linux
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Roguelite 15.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #21 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
81% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, City Builder 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Turn-Based 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%
- #22 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Steampunk 17.1% ★, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #23 Seeds of Resilience
82% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #24 Wood You Settle?!
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Furegus
Windows · Linux
Would You Settle?! is a short settlement-building strategy game that tasks you with growing a tribal settlement on an abandoned fantasy island. Expand your settlement, uncover the island's secrets and trade with locals fast enough to satisfy the Forest King.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.9%
- #25 Business Empire
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dragon Slumber
Windows · Mac · Linux
BUSINESS EMPIRE is a 4X turn-based strategy game that puts you in charge of an ever-expanding company. Design your own products and market them to the masses, set up distribution routes, and develop new technologies.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.7%
- #26 Tenants of the Shade
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
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 24.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, 4X 12.1% ★, Building 10.3%
- #27 Shopping Center Tycoon
78% matchPositive80% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Building 14.2%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.9%
- #28 Cardopolis
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PULSERIDERPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows
Cardopolis is card based city-builder, where you take on the role of Cardopolis' Mayor. Build up your city card by card, law by law, sector by sector and avoid meeting your investors' ire by reaching your goals in time!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Turn-Based 15.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #29 The New Rome
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pendulum Interactive
Windows
The New Rome is a turn-based city-building strategy game where you help expand a city, manage a labour force, and collect resources. As a master architect, you design, plan and construct monumental Roman buildings while competing against rivals to create the city's most impressive landmarks
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Turn-Based 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Building 9.7%, Steampunk 9.3% ★
- #30 Project AURA
77% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.4%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.5%
- #31 Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil
77% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Ascendancy Games
Windows
Be the mayor of this great old town! Construct buildings, recruit soldiers and send them to war. Will you be able to keep Altwaldheim safe?
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Roguelite 11.7%
- #32 Aquis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 13.1%, Economy 11.2%, Management 8%
- #33 Uber Urban
75% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: J.F
Windows · Mac
Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #34 As Far As The Eye
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,127 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, 4X 11.9% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #35 Pile Up!
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,182 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10.2%
- #36 Frostpunk: 1886
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Steampunk 22.8% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.3%
- #37 Critias Empire
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.5%
- #38 Lands of Rumour
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Turn-Based 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 7.5%
- #39 Moon Drop Miners
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: chipMicro
Windows
Moon Drop Miners is a high-stakes resource management roguelite where you drop structures onto unstable moons to build and balance a fragile mining operation. Balance Energy and Stability while extracting enough Celestium to meet quota... Or watch your entire operation collapse.
Why similar: Turn-Based 22.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Roguelite 11.2%, Difficult 10.2%
- #40 SpellSlinger Towns
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Roguelite 9.1%
- #41 Anno 2205™
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,365 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, 4X 21.5% ★, Economy 8.6%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.8%
- #42 Pirate Plight
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, 4X 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.6%, Economy 8.3%
- #43 Oxygen: First Breath
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 24.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10%, Economy 8.7%
- #44 Island of Embers
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
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 29.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 14%, Management 9.4%, Difficult 9.3%
- #45 Mittelborg: City of Mages
71% matchMixed63% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: Armatur GamesPub: Asterion Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%
- #46 TownsFolk
68% matchPositive81% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: Short Circuit StudiosPub: Snapbreak
Windows
A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny. Lead your people into an uncharted world as they rebuild after ruin, endure harsh challenges, and carve out a thriving settlement. Manage scarce resources, face dynamic events, and never forget to pay tribute to the kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 12%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Roguelite 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #47 Kingdoms and Castles
70% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.4%, 4X 17.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.2%
- #48 Omicrocity 2
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Omwekiatl
Windows
A relaxing, cartoonish city builder where success is not just a gray, industrial megalopolis. Create your own hippie, robotic, supernatural, warlike, or artistic city, and discover the chaotic events that will put your city to the test.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #49 Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,448 reviews2026
Dev: Crux Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Turn-Based 18.3%, Roguelite 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Roguelike 9.6%
- #50 Fossilpunk
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ahsaurus
Windows
A roguelike base builder about founding your tiny new dino nation. Balance between growing charming cities while defending against massive empires in this tight but comforting turn-based strategy game.
Why similar: Turn-Based 23.1%, 4X 20.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #51 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
70% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 15%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #52 Rogue State Revolution
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 543 reviews2021
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.Pub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Why similar: 4X 19.1% ★, Turn-Based 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #53 By Royal Charter
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dovren Games
Windows
Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Roguelite 10.3%, Economy 8.1%
- #54 My Tiny Park
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Cabin
Windows
My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 10.4%
- #55 HexLands
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Portgate StudiosPub: Aquila Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forge an island kingdom one card at a time. Each card you play raises a farm, mill, or harbor on procedural hex islands. Crack the challenge each new shore gives you before setting sail, carrying your relics and upgrades onward. No combat. The land, the weather, and your own draw are the challenge.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Turn-Based 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%
- #56 The Archaeologists
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #57 Pollute & Conquer
66% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: GOSHA GAMES
Windows
An economic war over territories and resources is raging on the planet. Will you destroy the planet and all life on it in the chaos of pollution... or prevent the end of the world by developing new technologies? Play with friends using "Steam Remote" or play against smart AI!
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.8%, 4X 15.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 10.3%
- #58 Wizard Warfare
67% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.
Why similar: 4X 33.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Turn-Based 15%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Base Building 7%