Games Like Castle Story

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 46.1%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the charming voxel aesthetic and focuses heavily on managing a small colony of workers to build and defend a settlement.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Sandbox 14%, Voxel 9% ★, Survival 8.6%, RTS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep voxel-based building mechanics within a medieval setting, requiring you to manage colonists and defend against sieges.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person voxel game perfectly mirrors the core loop of building a colony and defending it against nightly waves of monsters.

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: Colony Sim 40.8%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines medieval city-building with direct tower defense mechanics against dragons and vikings.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 33.1%, Sandbox 22.6%, Open World 7.9%, Survival 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the physics-based structural integrity of buildings, which is a core technical challenge found in Castle Story.

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Building 35.9%, Sandbox 24.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Moddable 6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes physics-based castle construction and artillery combat, capturing the destructive satisfaction of Castle Story.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Building 19.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony simulation game, offering unparalleled depth in building, management, and emergent storytelling.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, Building 18%, Sandbox 14.2%, Voxel 9% ★, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex vertical building and water physics that challenge your ability to construct functional, efficient settlements.

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: Colony Sim 39.5%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D take on the voxel colony-sim genre where you manage dwarves to mine, build, and defend against waves of enemies.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: While less focused on voxel building, it is the gold standard for managing a colony's survival, defense, and individual unit needs.

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Building 22.9%, Strategy 14.7%, RTS 10.2%, Survival 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated base-building strategy game focused on defending your medieval castle from waves of enemies.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Building 20.3%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless medieval city-builder that allows for organic, creative construction similar to the freedom found in voxel games.

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 45.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony simulation game that uses a voxel-based world to offer deep building and management options.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Strategy 17.7%, Building 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends detailed medieval village building with tactical, large-scale combat that feels like a more grounded evolution of the genre.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony sim that allows for complex city planning and large-scale military management.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim that focuses on starting from scratch and building a fortified settlement in a medieval world.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.7%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes village management with intense tower defense elements, requiring constant vigilance against environmental threats.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Building 25.2%, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game centered on building vehicles and bases from modular blocks, emphasizing creative construction.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Building 21.5%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, RTS 13.9%, Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and tower defense, providing a more technical approach to base building and survival.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Building 20.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder focused on resource management and building efficient production chains.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 16.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manage a medieval kingdom with a unique third-person perspective, blending colony sim with action.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 30.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox game that allows for complex mechanical creations and base building.

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Tower Defense 10.1%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The classic castle-building and siege warfare game that serves as the inspiration for many modern castle-defense titles.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%, Voxel 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation and city-building game that focuses on logistics and production.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.8%, Building 23.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Simulation 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical dwarven colony sim that emphasizes mining and building deep into the earth.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.3%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features cute units that you program to perform tasks, echoing the automation and management of Bricktrons.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Building 26.4%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines medieval survival, base building, and unit management in an open-world setting.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Building 19.3%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist approach to base building and defense that relies on side-scrolling strategy and resource management.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Building 20.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily needs and struggles of a family in the Scottish Highlands.

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.3%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 7%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony management game that offers significant control over the environment and building process.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%

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: Building 22.3%, Voxel 17.8% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Survival 16.9%, Tower Defense 12.8%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.3%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%

From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, RTS 23.1%, Building 13.7%, Voxel 9.7% ★, Multiplayer 9.1%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.4%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%

Build castles on voxel terrain based on real Japanese geographic data, and defeat over 1,000 samurai and ninja enemies. Shape the terrain freely using blocks. The game features over 100 technologies and buildings inspired by medieval Japanese history.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Voxel 10.5% ★, RTS 10%

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 59.6%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 8%, Survival 6.8%, Sandbox 4.5%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.7%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 6.3%

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.9%, Building 31.7%, Strategy 24.9%, Multiplayer 3.8%, Indie 1.5%

Build and defend using a modular system of castle blocks. Fend off enemies who will climb over and break through your defenses. Collect new blocks and research techs to improve their strengths. From lowly soldiers to powerful siege weapons; defeat them all as you strive to protect your kingdom.

Why similar: Building 42.4%, Tower Defense 33.2%, Strategy 22%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Casual 0.6%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 12.8%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.4%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 7.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 17%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8%

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: Sandbox 31.3%, Survival 28.3%, Strategy 24.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Indie 4.2%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Building 19.1%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 7%, Strategy 6.6%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Building 18%, Sandbox 14.1%, Voxel 8.7% ★, Survival 8.4%

The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 13.3%, Survival 6.6%, Crafting 5.3%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 11%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 4%

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: Colony Sim 43.3%, Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7.7%

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Why similar: Building 35.9%, Sandbox 27.8%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 4.2%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 6%

Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 6.3%

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Tower Defense 9.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Sandbox 19%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%

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: Colony Sim 58%, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 5.4%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Building 17%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Multiplayer 6.8%