Games Like CastleOn

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 15%, Military 13.2%, War 10.5%, Base Building 8.1%

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 16%, Military 11.4%, War 9.6%, Base Building 7%

Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Military 10.7%, War 9.3%, Base Building 7%

Build a mighty empire and lead your army to victory to become a great emperor who will be remembered forever.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.3%, War 12.3%, Military 11.6%, Isometric 8.1%

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 16.6%, War 10.5%, Medieval 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%

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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Military 10.9%, War 10.4%

It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14%, City Builder 13.9%, Diplomacy 12.1% ★, Military 9.5%, War 6.9%

Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.

Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Military 11.8%, War 10.2%, Base Building 7.7%

Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.

Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Military 11.8%, War 10.2%, Base Building 7.7%

Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Medieval 10.2%

Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8%, Building 7.3%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 7%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 22.1%, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 7.7%

In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Military 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, War 10.1%

Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Military 11.6%, Base Building 10%, War 9.3%

Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.1%, War 11.1%, Medieval 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Diplomacy 14% ★, Military 10.5%, Isometric 8%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 8.7%, 4X 7.5% ★, Medieval 7.4%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Diplomacy 11.5% ★, Resource Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.5%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 23.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Medieval 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Medieval 9%, Diplomacy 8.4% ★

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 23.9%, Isometric 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%, Historical 8%

Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Medieval 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Historical 10.1%, Colony Sim 10%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Historical 7.4%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.8%

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Medieval 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Isometric 7.6%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.3%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 24.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Medieval 7.4%, Resource Management 7.2%

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Military 14.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Historical 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9%, Medieval 8.9%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Historical 8.2%

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 34.3%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 5.6%

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: City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Historical 11%, Medieval 10.8%, Colony Sim 8.8%

Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 20.2%, Military 14.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Medieval 6.6%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Historical 9.1%, Resource Management 8.2%

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 33%, City Builder 32.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Medieval 7.7%, Building 6.1%

Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 14.7%, War 11.5%, Base Building 10%, Medieval 8.2%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Diplomacy 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, War 10.6%, Base Building 9.1%

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, Building 8.6%, Historical 8.5%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Diplomacy 15.5% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Historical 7.5%

Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 23.9%, Diplomacy 15.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Diplomacy 17% ★, Isometric 9%, Base Building 8.6%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Diplomacy 14% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Historical 7.4%

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 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, 4X 7.9% ★

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 28.3%, City Builder 24.8%, Medieval 11.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.2%

Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Medieval 9%, Building 8.6%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Military 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, War 10.4%

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 20.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Medieval 8.8%, Building 8%

Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 5.9%

In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 12%, War 10.9%, Medieval 9.9%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 6.9%, Resource Management 6.6%

Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Historical 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%

From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.

Why similar: Diplomacy 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.4%

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 24.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Medieval 9.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Medieval 11.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 6.8%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Historical 8.2%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.1%

Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 22.3%, War 11.7%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 33.8%, Medieval 5.8%, Strategy 4.6%, Resource Management 4.4%

Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 19.6%, Isometric 8.6%, War 7.1%, Sandbox 6.1%