Games Like Carton

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

Why similar: RPG 59.9%, Adventure 40.1%

Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).

Why similar: Strategy 30.9%, RPG 25.7%, Adventure 15.4%, Action 14.7%, Indie 13.4%

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: Strategy 100%

Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.

Why similar: RPG 35.2%, Adventure 33%, Action 17.7%, Indie 14.2%

Kartong - Death by Cardboard! puts you up against wicked experiments inside the miniature city of Kartong. You have been shrunken down to the size of a guinea pig, trapping you in a home-built cardboard maze of evil toys & traps. Your goal is now to escape! But beware, "Sven" is watching you.

Why similar: Action 37.2%, Adventure 37%, Indie 25.8%

Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.

Why similar: RPG 44.6%, Adventure 28.6%, Action 26.8%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Strategy 30%, RPG 29.1%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 13.3%, Action 9.4%

A peaceful 3rd person adventure and town-building game. Gather, build, puzzle, explore, and quest in a beautifully handcrafted world.

Why similar: Strategy 66.5%, Action 33.5%

HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

Why similar: Strategy 29.4%, RPG 24.1%, Action 19.8%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 9.7%

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Strategy 35.5%, RPG 35.2%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 9.9%

Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.

Why similar: RPG 41.7%, Strategy 37.4%, Indie 20.9%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, RPG 30.8%, Indie 14.6%, Adventure 10.1%

Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.

Why similar: Strategy 66.7%, RPG 20.8%, Adventure 12.5%

A dragon's breath turns you into a stickman! Conquer castles, plunder territories, or lead your squad in this fantasy world! During your journey, you can explore various dungeons, discover hidden treasures, engage in trading, farming, craftmaking and more. Will you survive and regain your true self?

Why similar: RPG 59.7%, Action 33.1%, Adventure 7.2%

Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.

Why similar: RPG 52.9%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 16.8%

In the game, the player plays a young man who has just acquired his own territory. The land was full of weeds and the monsters. The Player need to collect a variety of resources to build various facilities to enrich their own town. In order to attract all kinds of residents and adventurers to live in the town.

Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Adventure 32%, Indie 21.4%

You are an adventurer, you need to explore this continent, make good use of the resources of this continent to arm yourself, explore this world full of monsters and unknown things and survive!

Why similar: RPG 42.7%, Adventure 31.2%, Action 26%

Get settled into Gear Springs! Gather materials, craft items, go fishing, and battle it out with punch cards in the ruined facility. Don't get distracted though, you've still got to stop the last Craftsman and save the town!

Why similar: RPG 62.1%, Adventure 37.9%

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Why similar: RPG 39.3%, Strategy 35.9%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 8.3%

Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.

Why similar: RPG 43.4%, Action 31.5%, Adventure 25.1%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: Strategy 80.6%, Indie 19.4%

Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!

Why similar: Strategy 58.8%, Action 41.2%

Explore, fight, and gather materials in an atmospheric, ruined kingdom inhabited by creepy-cute car creatures, in this short and unique exploration experience.

Why similar: Action 37.7%, Adventure 36.9%, Indie 25.4%

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Why similar: RPG 51.2%, Adventure 29.1%, Indie 19.7%

On the fantastical continent of Elfar, where swords and magic reign, you will establish and grow your own guild, leading members to accept quests, challenge dungeons, forge equipment, participate in competitions, and gradually uncover the secrets of the nine sacred sites

Why similar: RPG 53.1%, Strategy 46.9%

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

Why similar: Strategy 63%, Action 37%

ToGather:Island is an open world survival game set in a science-fantasy archipelago

Why similar: Adventure 39.4%, Action 31.3%, Indie 29.3%

Embark on a dream-like journey in this fantasy adventure VR simulation. Encounter goblin inhabitants, become part of their society, and save them from their foe. Freely roam the enchanted forest to discover deeper layers of their mysterious ways and reap the rewards of this magical world.

Why similar: Indie 63.6%, Adventure 36.4%

Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!

Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 26.4%

Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!

Why similar: RPG 37.8%, Action 24.9%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 15.9%

This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.

Why similar: RPG 35.4%, Adventure 24.7%, Action 23.5%, Indie 16.3%

Papercraft is an independent game that beautifully combines Rouguelike, TBS and DBG elements. Heroes from legends holding different cards battle in TBS style. How to play the game is entirely up to you.

Why similar: RPG 34.7%, Strategy 30.8%, Adventure 20%, Indie 14.6%

In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.

Why similar: Strategy 58.1%, RPG 41.9%

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: Strategy 66.8%, Action 33.2%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: RPG 43%, Strategy 39.8%, Indie 17.2%

Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.

Why similar: RPG 29.7%, Strategy 27.9%, Adventure 16.2%, Action 15.2%, Indie 11%

Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!

Why similar: RPG 35.9%, Strategy 35.2%, Action 28.9%

Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.

Why similar: Adventure 50.8%, Action 49.2%

Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

Why similar: RPG 40%, Strategy 35.5%, Adventure 24.5%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, Adventure 31%, Indie 15.4%

Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Embark on an epic journey in Brinefall, where you'll gather resources and construct your own village while exploring a vast open-world filled with secrets and mysteries. Battle fierce enemies and collect valuable loot in this unique blend of sandbox and RPG gameplay.

Why similar: RPG 46.4%, Adventure 28%, Action 25.6%

Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.

Why similar: RPG 35.6%, Adventure 24.1%, Action 22.9%, Indie 17.4%

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: Strategy 58.2%, RPG 22.7%, Indie 11%, Adventure 8%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Strategy 54.1%, RPG 29.8%, Indie 16%

Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, discover a fantasy realm invaded by modern world and destroy nearly everything. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.

Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

Why similar: Adventure 86.6%, Indie 13.4%

Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Indie 52.9%, Adventure 47.1%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Strategy 27.9%, RPG 27.7%, Adventure 17.9%, Action 16.2%, Indie 10.2%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: RPG 31.2%, Adventure 21%, Strategy 18.2%, Indie 15.7%, Action 13.8%

Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.

Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Indie 27.2%

From cropland to forest, from academy to conqueror's guild, expand territory of your kingdom. As the kingdom grows, crises will quietly arise. No worries: prepare to use the resource cards to train a group of powerful guardians to eliminate enemies and protect your kingdom.

Why similar: Strategy 48.2%, RPG 45.6%, Indie 6.3%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: RPG 55.5%, Strategy 44.5%

Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Paper Animal Adventure is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the campfire! Will you be the one to seal the timelines and find the missing king?

Why similar: RPG 43.7%, Adventure 28.4%, Action 27.9%

RealmCraft is the original Sandbox Game. Build Cubes & Explore 30+ Blueprint Worlds in 3D. Try to Survive & Use 100+ Types of Blocks to Build Your Unique Town.

Why similar: Strategy 40%, Adventure 25.8%, Action 20%, Indie 14.2%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Strategy 76%, Indie 24%