- #1 Fata Deum - The God Sim
97% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
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: God Game 21.2% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, RTS 8%
- #2 Icetwine
96% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, God Game 16.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, RTS 10%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #3 Skyward
96% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Whiley Koyote
Windows
Build against the oncoming storm in an island hopping, rune collecting, roguelite citybuilder!
Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Building 10%, RTS 9.8%
- #4 Liftlands
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doublecap
Windows
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.9%
- #5 Planeta
94% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: God Game 24.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, RTS 11.2%, Building 10.5%
- #6 The Settlers: New Allies
94% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 24.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.1%
- #7 The Universim
93% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 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: God Game 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 7.8%
- #8 Landslide
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 28.6% ★, City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #9 Sapiens
91% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: God Game 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #10 Black Forest
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: God Game 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, City Builder 13.9%, RTS 11.8%, Resource Management 11%
- #11 Deity's Domain
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unlikely Games
Windows
Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.
Why similar: God Game 24.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.1%
- #12 FireMatch Empire
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: God Game 26.9% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 6.2%
- #13 SORALAND
89% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: monacrea
Windows · Mac
Third person strategy game: Collect resources, conquer new areas and grow your civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, RTS 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%
- #14 Odd Realm
88% matchVery Positive85% of 992 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: God Game 22% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Management 9%
- #15 IXION
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.1%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.6%
- #16 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
86% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, City Builder 15.8%, God Game 13.5% ★, Crafting 9.2%, RTS 9.1%
- #17 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
86% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
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: God Game 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Resource Management 9%, RTS 8.7%
- #18 Pick Me Up
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 20.5%, God Game 20.1% ★, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
- #19 Angkor: The Holy City
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, God Game 15.8% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.3%
- #20 Earthlings
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Monoblok
Windows · Mac
Build settlements, lead your people, and design weird monuments for a space delivery guy who is pretending to be your God.
Why similar: God Game 23.5% ★, City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, RTS 10.6%, Roguelite 8.9%
- #21 Flooded
82% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, God Game 16% ★, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, RTS 12.3%, Resource Management 11%
- #22 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
83% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 31.3%, Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 7.6%, Building 7.6%
- #23 Dungeon Overseer
82% 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: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 19.7%, God Game 17.3% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.2%
- #24 Hexity
81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, RTS 12.9%, Strategy 8%, Building 7.6%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.7%
- #26 Ages of Cataria
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Third Pie Studios
Windows
Set in a new fantastical world, Ages of Cataria is a cozy-friendly town sim. Watch as your village evolves from humble beginnings, with just one family, to a community of multiple families living together across generations of time.
Why similar: God Game 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #27 Lil Guys
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 9.6%
- #28 Seabed Settlers
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.
Why similar: God Game 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 8.7%, Roguelite 8.2%
- #29 Venusville
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 9.5%, RTS 8.2%
- #30 Sect Leader's Decree
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 10.6%, City Builder 10.2%, Building 9.1%
- #31 Frostpunk: 1886
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #32 Offshore Prophets
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Resource Management 13%, Management 10%, Roguelite 9.5%
- #33 Numbers & Nodes
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 19.4%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Crafting 14.9%, Management 8.4%
- #34 Stonehearth
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Building 12.2%, Survival 9.5%, Crafting 6.6%
- #35 Drownlight
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.3%
- #36 GARDEN OF EDEN
74% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 凯撒工作室
Windows
Commander, lead your army, build the strongest weapons, conquer the harsh weather and enemies, and build a new Eden on the sea!!!!
Why similar: God Game 26.3% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #37 Farmman
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Crafting 12%, Building 11.8%, Management 8.9%
- #38 Gnomoria
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #39 VENOY
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 20.7%, RTS 15.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 8%
- #40 Isla Paradiso
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Building 12.5%, Management 9.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #41 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
74% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 28.5% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%
- #42 Civica: Italian Renaissance
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 20% ★, RTS 13.6%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 6.7%
- #43 Frostpunk
72% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.1%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Resource Management 14%, Survival 12.4%, Building 7.3%
- #44 Keep Them Busy
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hooded Penguin
Windows · Mac
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: God Game 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.4%
- #45 Reus 2
69% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 30% ★, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 8.8%
- #46 Kingdoms and Castles
71% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32%, Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 5.1%
- #47 Keeper - UnCorruptDead
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaming With Rawr
Windows
Dungeon Keeper-like with electropunk elements. Dig out space for buildings to attract AI-controlled creatures and watch them do your bidding. Cast spells from the god-hand above, and protect your heart while sending minions to defeat theirs.
Why similar: God Game 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 9.7%, Building 9%
- #48 How to God
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thoughtfish GmbH
Windows
How to God is an immersive VR god simulation game allowing you to step into the divine sandals of a beginner god. Build villages, raise a unique creature, follow branching quests, battle rival deities, and command the elements to unlock new powers.
Why similar: God Game 27.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #49 Tokeis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 10.3%, Survival 10.2%
- #50 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
69% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 26% ★, Building 13%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #51 The Mims Beginning
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2016
Dev: Squatting PenguinsPub: The End of the Sun Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a mystical journey with the Mims in this strategic god-like adventure—build, grow, protect, and wield divine powers. Now it's completely free! Also check out our other story-rich fantasy game, The End of the Sun, where you become a tracker of mythical beings and unravel mysteries.
Why similar: God Game 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 18.2%, RTS 11%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #52 GlagStone
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valerii KrasnoselskiiPub: VTRON LTD
Windows · Mac · Linux
GlagStone is a story-driven city-builder set on a mysterious island between warring nations, brought to life in a stark black-and-white style. Rebuild a fading settlement, guide its people through hardship, and uncover secrets hidden in diaries, ruins, and the depths of the lake.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.9%
- #53 Goblin Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 19.8%, RTS 11.5%, Building 9.8%
- #54 Make Your Kingdom
69% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Building 12.3%, Management 10.4%, Survival 10.4%
- #55 Everlords
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flox Studios
Windows
Everlords is a strategy game where you shape the battlefield itself. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore a fractured world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.
Why similar: God Game 29% ★, RTS 13%, City Builder 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Building 10.2%
- #56 Goblins of Elderstone
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 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: God Game 18.5% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.1%
- #57 Halloween Store Simulator
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 25.7% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8%
- #58 The HELL Prologue
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Building 11.4%, Management 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #59 Foundation
64% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.2%, Colony Sim 10.4% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.1%
- #60 Alien Land
66% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: God Game 31.2% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Building 8.1%, Strategy 5.6%