Games Like Celestial Empire

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: City Builder 18.2%, RTS 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Historical 12%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the harsh survival mechanics and complex production chains found in Celestial Empire perfectly.

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Building 13.7%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a very similar focus on managing population needs, disasters, and complex trade networks.

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 26.6%, Historical 20.3%, Colony Sim 8.3%, Economy 8%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar blend of historical city-building, organic growth, and tactical RTS elements.

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 31.9%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Colony Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, grid-less building system and medieval management style provide a relaxing yet deep city-building experience.

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: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 27%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive survival city-builder, it provides the core inspiration for the resource management and winter survival mechanics seen in the seed game.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Economy 15.1%, RTS 7.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for production chains and economic management, which is a key pillar of the Celestial Empire experience.

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: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Historical 12.6%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder captures the feeling of managing a settlement against constant environmental threats and divine-like pressures.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Historical 9.3%, Sandbox 6%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the struggle for survival through different eras, mirroring the historical progression and resource management of the seed game.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Historical 13.2%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers an incredibly deep simulation of village life and economy that will appeal to fans of detailed production chains.

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: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It directly captures the 'god-game' aspect of the seed title, allowing you to influence the development of your civilization from above.

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: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, RTS 15.2%, Historical 13.1%, Economy 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim provides a similar level of building freedom and survival management within a historical setting.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Economy 9.8%, Historical 9.7%, Mythology 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony simulation with survival mechanics, requiring players to manage resources while facing harsh weather events.

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: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces unique survival challenges and engineering mechanics that reward careful planning and resource management.

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 18.9%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Historical 13.2%, Economy 12.4%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the deep economic simulation and production chains of the seed game, this is the ultimate challenge.

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 19.1%, Colony Sim 14.3%, RTS 11.5%, Economy 9.5%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a blend of building and god-like defense against disasters that feels very similar to the seed game.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Historical 17.1%, Economy 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the historical accuracy and survival aspects of building a settlement in the ancient world.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Economy 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the production and economic management side of city-building, which is a core component of the seed game.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Building 12%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces unique verticality and resource management challenges that will appeal to fans of complex city-builders.

Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Historical 14.4%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.6%, RTS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on historical city-building and resource management, sharing the thematic DNA of the seed game.

El Dorado 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. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Colony Sim 12.9%, RTS 12.2%, Mythology 10.7%, Historical 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar historical city-building experience with a focus on managing resources in a challenging environment.

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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Economy 10.4%, Historical 9%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder incorporates social management and survival elements that align well with the gameplay loop of Celestial Empire.

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Historical 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of political and historical simulation to the city-building genre, providing a fresh take on the genre.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the pinnacle of survival city-builders, focusing on the extreme management of resources during catastrophic events.

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: City Builder 35.4%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic approach to survival and building that mirrors the management requirements of the seed game.

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Colony Sim 13%, RTS 11.2%, Historical 11.1%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the historical setting and survival-focused city-building mechanics found in the seed game.

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 13.5%, RTS 12.4%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the divine oversight aspect, allowing you to influence your people's lives in a sandbox environment.

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: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 14.6%, RTS 14.1%, Historical 13%, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a dedicated historical city-building experience that focuses on the specific challenges of the Aztec civilization.

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: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more complex, it is the ultimate simulation game for those who enjoy deep, emergent storytelling and intricate management.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Colony Sim 13%, Building 9%, Strategy 8.7%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that forces players to manage resources and population health in a hostile environment.

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 17.5%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Historical 13.2%, Economy 12%, Building 9.8%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, RTS 12.3%, Economy 9.9%, Historical 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Historical 11.3%, Mythology 9.3%, RTS 9.2%

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Economy 19.7%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep dive into the economic and political management of a city, perfect for those who enjoy the simulation aspect.

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: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Historical 12.8%, Economy 12%, Building 9.8%

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: City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Historical 12.7%, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.7%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 17.2%, RTS 16.5%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.3%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Economy 18%, Resource Management 17.6%, City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Building 11.6%

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 17.8%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Historical 13.3%, Economy 12.1%, Building 10%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 10.7%, RTS 9.7%, Management 8.3%

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: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 5.6%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.4%, RTS 12.7%, Historical 10.2%, Building 8.6%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Building 20%, City Builder 19.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 15%, Management 12.1%

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 28.9%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Economy 7%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10%, Economy 8.5%

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Mythology 12.5%, Historical 11.9%, RTS 11.3%, Economy 10.1%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.7%, RTS 13.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%

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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Historical 14.9%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Economy 13%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.9%

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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Economy 12.2%, RTS 11.3%, Building 10%, Historical 9.9%

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: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.5%, Management 10.4%

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: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Historical 12.7%, Economy 11.9%, Building 10%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Management 14.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 12.2%

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Historical 14.5%, Economy 14.1%, Sandbox 6.2%

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Economy 14.1%, Historical 13%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.5%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 9.7%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, RTS 16.2%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Economy 13.2%, Building 10.8%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 17.4%, RTS 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.5%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, RTS 19.2%, Colony Sim 19%, Economy 14.6%, Sandbox 11.9%