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 46.2%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Direct a group of settlers to build voxel-based settlements and defend them from monsters in a charming fantasy world.

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 9.5%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a bustling colony of guards and workers in a voxel world while defending against nightly zombie hordes.

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 40.9%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Design and grow a medieval city while protecting your citizens from invading vikings and dragons.

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 40.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Voxel 8.9% ★, Survival 8.7%, RTS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Guide a small group of survivors to build a multi-story fortress and protect their home in a post-apocalyptic dark age.

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 14.1%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Command a tribe of dwarves through sandbox exploration, crafting, and base defense against dangerous creatures.

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 45.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a sandbox community of gnomes, helping them build an intricate underground kingdom and defend against attackers.

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 42.9%, Building 18%, Sandbox 14.1%, Voxel 8.9% ★, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: Build elaborate architectural wonders and manage survival for a society of intelligent beavers in a drought-stricken world.

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 43.4%, Building 22.9%, Strategy 14.6%, RTS 10.2%, Survival 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Build and defend your fantasy castle from siege weapons and dark creatures in a bright, stylized world.

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 33.3%, Sandbox 22.5%, Open World 8%, Survival 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Construct castles, fortifications, and mechanical devices using a realistic physics-based voxel engine.

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 30.7% ★, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 7.1%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Dive into a heavy voxel-building experience featuring extensive automation, resource gathering, and tower defense.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Building 30.1%, RTS 9.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Establish a medieval town from scratch, gathering resources and defending your settlers from environmental and hostile threats.

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 36.2%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Construct massive fortresses brick-by-brick to withstand terrifying nocturnal hordes in a dark fantasy setting.

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 56.8%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 6.3%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Guide your colonists to build a thriving settlement, farm resources, and defend against occasional raids.

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 44.8%, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Build up a medieval village, manage workers, and defend your territory from roving bandits.

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 55.8%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Balance village-building and tower-defense mechanics as you protect your fragile settlement from dark forces.

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 36.1%, Sandbox 24.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Multiplayer 14%, Moddable 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Design and construct custom base structures while battling opponents using physics-based projectile warfare.

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 25.7% ★, Building 25.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Design and build custom vehicles and bases using modular blocks to explore and conquer an alien landscape.

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%, Survival 28.9%, Strategy 23.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Command a voxel-based workforce of settlers to build complex structures and fight off hostile goblin armies.

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

Why similar: Building 21.6%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, RTS 13.9%, Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Build complex supply chains and tower defense networks in a unique blend of RTS and automation gameplay.

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 15.4%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Experience the ultimate deep simulation of managing a chaotic and industrious colony of dwarves.

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 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Program teams of cute robots to build settlements, set up logistics networks, and manage economies.

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 30.6%, Sandbox 20.3%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Engineer complex machines and defensive bases using scrap parts in an open-world sandbox environment.

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 30.8% ★, Sandbox 17%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Gather resources and build defensive strongholds to survive nightly monster attacks on an alien planet.

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 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a sci-fi colony of survivors, building bases and defending against random story-driven threats.

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 44.2%, Sandbox 19%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combine town-building and intricate logistic automation to create an efficient, sprawling settlement.

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 35.8%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 7.9%, RTS 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Construct historically authentic medieval towns while engaging in large-scale tactical battles.

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 48.4%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Automate an entire world by teaching simple scripting loops to helpful worker bots.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Building 33.9%, Sandbox 26.1%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 13.9%, Moddable 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Build an evil dungeon dungeon-keeper style, commanding a horde of monsters to conquer the world.

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: Building 46.2%, Sandbox 31.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 2.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build and manage a flying city, balancing resource generation and exploration across the skies.

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 22.4%, Voxel 17.7% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 17.1%, Tower Defense 12.7%

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 59.7%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 6.8%, Sandbox 4.4%

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 41.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Voxel 10.5% ★, RTS 10.1%

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 45.4%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 7.4%, Voxel 7.1% ★

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 53.4%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 7%, Survival 5.9%

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 35.6%, RTS 23.3%, Building 13.8%, Voxel 9.6% ★, Multiplayer 9.1%

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 18.2%, Sandbox 14%, Tower Defense 10%, RTS 7.9%

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 17.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 7.5%

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 42.6%, Tower Defense 33.1%, Strategy 22%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Casual 0.5%

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 19.4%, Tower Defense 15%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7.4%

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 40% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 13.3%, Survival 6.6%, Crafting 5.2%

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Building 30.7%, Sandbox 24.6%, Voxel 12.3% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Strategy 11.4%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 4%

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 31.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 11%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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 26.9% ★, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.9%

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 25.3%, Building 17.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 10%

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 10%, Crafting 7%, Strategy 6.6%

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 33.8% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 12.8%, Survival 7.8%, Open World 7.4%

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 43.4%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%

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 32.2% ★, Building 17%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 7.5%

Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.

Why similar: Tower Defense 36.8%, Strategy 24.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%, RTS 9.4%

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 17.4% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Tower Defense 9.3%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Building 18%, Sandbox 14%, Voxel 8.6% ★, Survival 8.4%

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 8.8%, Sandbox 5.4%

Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.

Why similar: Building 28.3%, Sandbox 23.8%, Voxel 12% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Co-op 6.7%

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 32.1% ★, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Open World 6.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Building 22.5%, Strategy 15%, Survival 10.1%, Tower Defense 9.1%

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 46.4%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 6%

Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!

Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Voxel 16.2% ★, Building 15.2%, Strategy 15%, Open World 10.2%

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%