- #1 Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 305 reviews2017
Dev: Home Net Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Build an army and lead your heroes into battle in an epic fantasy strategy game. Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes is a turn-based strategy game that will put you right in the middle of war between Humans, Orcs, Goblins, Elves, Dwarves and the undead.
Why similar: Strategy 74.1%, Economy 25.9%
- #2 Planet S
94% matchVery Positive92% of 2,857 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: Building 38.5%, Strategy 36%, Procedural Generation 25.5%
- #3 Astro Lords: Oort Cloud
96% matchMixed54% of 69 reviews2016
Dev: Aratog LLCPub: BISBOG SA
Windows
Astro Lords: Oort Cloud is a free-to-play, science-fiction MMORTS combining construction management with click-and-drag Artillery style combat and strategy elements such as exploration, raiding and espionage.
- #4 Goblins of Elderstone
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 399 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Building 38.8%, Strategy 30.9%, Procedural Generation 30.3%
- #5 Pioneers of Pagonia
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,292 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Economy 30.8%, Building 25.7%, Procedural Generation 22.8%, Strategy 20.7%
- #6 Idle Civilization
94% matchMixed51% of 180 reviews2015
Dev: Very Simple Idea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 62.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #7 World Of Conquerors - Origins
92% matchMixed65% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Grow your empire and dominate the world in this 100% free game, either through diplomacy or destruction. Forge alliances or go it alone, play as loyal men, elegant elves or brutish orcs.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #8 Gord
91% matchMixed54% of 994 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Procedural Generation 47.3%
- #9 Microcivilization
89% matchVery Positive80% of 1,383 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: Economy 36.2%, Building 33.4%, Strategy 30.4%
- #10 Odd Realm
89% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Building 36.2%, Procedural Generation 32.9%, Strategy 30.9%
- #11 SAGA
90% matchMixed56% of 139 reviews2015
Dev: Silverlode Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build cities, command troops, and manage resources like in a traditional RTS, and also go on quests, chat with your friends, join guilds, and trade like an MMO. SAGA is an MMORTS with battling similar to the Total War series, mixed with city building from Stronghold.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #12 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
87% matchVery Positive86% of 132 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #13 Mountaincore
86% matchMixed65% of 261 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Building 50.9%, Strategy 49.1%
- #14 Age of Goblins
85% matchVery Positive88% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Bruno Valla
Windows
AoG is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with simplified mechanics and cute visuals, but VERY challenging at times. Lead your goblin tribe into what they do best: expand, conquer, and exterminate each other. Any resemblance to humans is purely coincidental.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #15 Project AURA
86% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: Strategy 39%, Economy 33.1%, Building 27.9%
- #16 Ancient Cities
83% matchMixed63% of 2,122 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: Economy 28.2%, Procedural Generation 27.1%, Strategy 26.6%, Building 18.1%
- #17 Wyrmsun
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 282 reviews2015
Dev: Andrettin
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Wyrmsun is a real-time strategy game which features elements of mythology, history and fiction.
Why similar: Strategy 66.9%, Building 33.1%
- #18 World Of Conquerors
84% matchMixed61% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Build your cities, manage resources, train soldiers and fight for supremacy in a vast world with other player controlled empires
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #19 TFM: The First Men
82% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Building 38.4%, Strategy 30.8%, Procedural Generation 30.8%
- #20 World Turtles
81% matchMixed67% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Re: cOg Mission
Windows · Mac · Linux
The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.
Why similar: Economy 44.6%, Strategy 33.2%, Building 22.2%
- #21 Oxygen: First Breath
79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Economy 32.7%, Strategy 30.2%, Building 28.8%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #22 Forebearers
82% matchMixed48% of 109 reviews2019
Dev: Sandspire Interactive
Windows
This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #23 Defense of the Oasis
80% matchVery Positive93% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: Mind Control Software
Windows
One part Minesweeper, one part Civilization. With every click of the mouse your empire grows stronger. But will it be strong enough to withstand the barbarian hordes?
Why similar: Procedural Generation 27.7%, Strategy 27.6%, Building 24%, Economy 20.6%
- #24 Gods of the Fallen Land
81% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Crow's Key Studios
Windows
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #25 Creo God Simulator
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: Economy 35.8%, Strategy 35%, Procedural Generation 29.1%
- #26 Dawn of Man
77% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Strategy 65.6%, Economy 34.4%
- #27 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
77% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Strategy 67.2%, Economy 32.8%
- #28 Myths and Legends
76% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Artificial Worlds
Windows · Linux
"Myths and Legends" is our next-gen semi-idle, trading real time strategy, that takes the player 2500 years back in time, but with a sense of humor. The game combines elements of exploration, combat, trade and diplomacy on procedurally generated islands.
Why similar: Economy 37.9%, Building 31.8%, Strategy 30.3%
- #29 Knights of the Crusades
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 169 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #30 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Building 45.7%, Strategy 30%, Economy 24.2%
- #31 Tentlan
79% matchMixed48% of 128 reviews2018
Dev: Lionmoon UG
Windows
Step into the shoes of a maya emperor in this new take on the classic idle empire building genre! Start your settlement in the heart of the rainforest and develop ancient rituals and research, recruit powerful eagle and jaguar warriors, raid barbarian settlements, deal with friendly and hostile tribes and more!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #32 Medieval Businessman
74% matchVery Positive98% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Welcome to the Empty Patch of Land. Can you create your own beautiful kingdom here? In this strategy in real time you can build farms, taverns, barracks, and more.
Why similar: Economy 53.3%, Strategy 46.7%
- #33 Andalia
75% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: Joel St.Pub: Sundust
Windows
Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #34 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!
Why similar: Economy 31%, Building 27.8%, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Strategy 19.8%
- #35 Republic of Pirates
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 487 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Economy 31.7%, Building 27%
- #36 Gnomoria
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Strategy 50.8%, Building 49.2%
- #37 PlanetX
72% matchMixed67% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Economy 35.1%, Strategy 33.9%, Building 31%
- #38 Champions of Anteria™
75% matchMixed48% of 163 reviews2016
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Champions of Anteria is a tactical Real Time Strategy Game that will allow players to lead and develop their group of cheerful champions into tactical action battles, to save the legendary Kingdom of Anteria.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #39 Worshippers of Cthulhu
69% matchVery Positive81% of 1,507 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Economy 38.8%, Building 33.2%, Strategy 28%
- #40 Legends of Ellaria
72% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
Dev: Larkon Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
Why similar: Strategy 76.4%, Building 23.6%
- #41 Oraxum Trials
71% matchMixed70% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Prajna Concepts
Windows
Oraxum Trials is an incremental game where you conduct experiments with the Oraxum, a hexagonal board with magical properties. Harvest souls and use mystical crystals to create wild concoctions. Take on the mantle of soul alchemist and forge your fate, choosing between light and dark forces.
Why similar: Building 100%
- #42 Ragnorium
71% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #43 The Unexpected Quest
71% matchVery Positive80% of 202 reviews2020
Dev: Rionix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.
Why similar: Building 61.5%, Strategy 38.5%
- #44 Clicker Kids
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Forge
Windows
A clicker / idle incremental game with simple gameplay, deep progression, and endless strategy. Level heroes, unlock powerful upgrades, and watch the numbers go up. Easy to start, hard to stop.
Why similar: Economy 59.4%, Strategy 40.6%
- #45 Conan Unconquered
70% matchMixed68% of 1,859 reviews2019
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
Why similar: Strategy 84.7%, Building 15.3%
- #46 Cave Heroes
70% matchMixed56% of 125 reviews2023
Dev: VSTGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Lead a party of Cave Heroes to explore dungeons, battle monsters and defeat tough archdemons. Build your village, collect loot, rescue pets and much more in this idle RPG.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Hearthlands
70% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Strategy 55.5%, Economy 44.5%
- #48 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: Building 87.5%, Strategy 12.5%
- #49 The Universim
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,560 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Building 45.5%, Procedural Generation 28.1%, Strategy 26.3%
- #50 Empires and Tribes
67% matchMixed66% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: Building 51.3%, Strategy 29.1%, Economy 19.6%
- #51 Age of Reforging: The Freelands
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,276 reviews2025
Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #52 Empire Architect
69% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
Why similar: Strategy 35.8%, Economy 33.5%, Building 30.6%
- #53 Dungeon Overseer
69% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Economy 44.2%, Building 33.5%, Strategy 22.2%
- #54 Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
68% matchMixed67% of 703 reviews2017
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!
Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, Building 47.6%
- #55 Outpost
66% matchVery Positive87% of 790 reviews2020
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Building 34.6%, Strategy 33.8%, Procedural Generation 31.6%
- #56 CivIdle
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,037 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 78.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: Building 53.3%, Strategy 46.7%