Games Like Chinese Frontiers

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 13.8%, Historical 11.6%, Medieval 11%, Crafting 10.3%, Life Sim 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same blend of first-person survival, village management, and historical Japanese building that mirrors the Chinese-themed experience.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.7%, Medieval 11.9%, Historical 10.7%, Immersive Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive title in the genre, offering deep village building and life-simulation mechanics in a medieval setting.

Dive into the sands of ancient Egypt in 'Egypt Frontiers.' As a master builder, construct majestic monuments, manage resources, and shape history in this captivating simulation game. Are you ready to leave your mark on the Frontiers of Egypt?

Why similar: Historical 19.4%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a spiritual sibling to the seed game, it offers a similar focus on historical building and simulation in an ancient civilization.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.2%, Crafting 13.6%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.2%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival and crafting mechanics set within a beautiful, Chinese-inspired open world.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Crafting 16%, Medieval 15.8%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the 'lead villagers' aspect of the seed game, focusing on building a rebellion and a thriving settlement.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Historical 18.6%, City Builder 16%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed historical city-building experience that focuses on organic growth and realistic medieval life.

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: Building 17.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Historical 17.3%, Medieval 13.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a complex and rewarding survival-focused city-building experience with a strong emphasis on resource management.

It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly explores the historical architecture and urban planning of ancient China.

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 29.7%, Medieval 17.2%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing, grid-less approach to medieval city-building that emphasizes organic expansion.

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: Historical 19.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This colony simulator offers deep building mechanics and a focus on historical architecture in a challenging environment.

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 21.6%, Historical 19.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the historical development of a society, requiring careful planning and resource management to survive.

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the hands-on crafting and building aspects of survival in a natural, historical setting.

Craft weapons, armor and tools, manage resources and expand your workshop. Experience realistic physics-based forging, unlock new recipes and special orders, and interact with a medieval town's inhabitants as you work to become the greatest blacksmith in the land.

Why similar: Crafting 27.3%, Medieval 21.7%, Relaxing 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, first-person crafting experience that captures the satisfaction of manual labor in a medieval world.

Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.1%, Life Sim 19.5%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines farming simulation with life-sim elements, focusing on the growth and management of a homestead.

Japanese Rural Life Adventure is a relaxing slow-life simulation where you can experience the charm of traditional Japanese countryside living, all in a beautifully crafted pixel-art world.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30%, Life Sim 22.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the cozy, historical life-sim and farming elements found in 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 16.6%, Historical 15.6%, Farming Sim 11.9%, Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly realistic and detailed approach to historical city-building and village management.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23%, Crafting 16.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, it shares the relaxing, first-person farming and base-building loop found in the seed game.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.7%, Crafting 13%, Life Sim 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a cozy, singleplayer base-building experience with a focus on crafting and resource gathering.

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: Farming Sim 13.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Historical 11.8%, Medieval 10.2%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This colony simulator focuses on the balance between nature and the growth of your settlement.

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Crafting 19.1%, Building 18.7%, Open World 11.5%, Life Sim 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a simulation-heavy experience that focuses on building, crafting, and managing a rural property.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Farming Sim 16.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Life Sim 10.2%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing, sandbox-style approach to building and managing a community.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Life Sim 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony simulator emphasizes family management and survival in a harsh, medieval-inspired landscape.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Life Sim 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Immersive Sim 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on community building and agricultural development in a historical, prehistoric setting.

Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.

Why similar: Crafting 17.9%, Life Sim 15.4%, Building 15%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It applies the 'Dynasty' formula of building and management to a different historical frontier.

Take care of forgotten nature's treasure. Build, craft, feed, clean and manage your forest in Forest Ranger Simulator. Ensure its long-lasting beauty and become a flawless Forest Ranger!

Why similar: Life Sim 14.9%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 12.8%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features first-person simulation and environmental management that mirrors the relaxing nature of the seed game.

Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Why similar: Crafting 13.2%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on relaxing, survival-oriented building in a beautiful, natural environment.

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 30.2%, Medieval 17.5%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a casual yet engaging approach to medieval city-building and defense.

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Life Sim 24.8%, Medieval 24.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deep life-simulation and management experience set in the late Middle Ages.

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.9%, Life Sim 13.7%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 9.6%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18%, City Builder 13.3%, Historical 11.5%, Life Sim 10.6%, Medieval 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: City Builder 33.1%, Medieval 14.9%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and management of a medieval village with a realistic, grounded approach.

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Medieval 14.9%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Historical 12.3%, Open World 10.1%, City Builder 9.5%

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 36.3%, Medieval 11.7%, Survival 11%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-focused city builder that emphasizes the challenges of managing a growing population.

🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life," where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.2%, Life Sim 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.5%, Immersive Sim 9%

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

Why similar: Building 14.8%, Life Sim 13.6%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%

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 20%, Building 16.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 10.6%

Plow, plant, water, and harvest as you build your ancient Egyptian farm from the ground up. Begin with nothing and unlock workshops, production buildings, and temples through your own hard work.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.4%, Life Sim 14.3%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Medieval 10.1%

A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 8.9%

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.8%, Life Sim 19.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Sandbox 10.1%

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.5%, Life Sim 19.2%, Medieval 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 10.5%

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.5%, Open World 15.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10.6%

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Building 15.1%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 11.5%, Base Building 10.7%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.1%, Crafting 16.1%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Embark on a relaxing yet challenging journey to manage your own supermarket. Grow organic crops, care for your animals, and sell products to your customers. Build and expand your shelves. Can you transform your supermarket into an empire?

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.4%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 14%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Relaxing 9.4%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.9%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.3%

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: City Builder 22.4%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8.3%

Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware of unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

Why similar: Building 23.2%, Immersive Sim 19.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Relaxing 12%, Simulation 11%

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.6%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 10%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Building 22.9%, Medieval 19.6%, City Builder 11.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 9.7%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 11%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Life Sim 16%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.2%

Castle Flipper is your unique chance to become a medieval royal craftsman. Build your own Kingdom and re-arrange the castle at your own discretion. Breathe a whole new life into the old rooms and maybe one day you will become a King!

Why similar: Building 24.4%, Medieval 16.4%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Relaxing 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%

Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!

Why similar: City Builder 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Life Sim 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Open World 9.8%

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 23.6%, Medieval 18.6%, Building 16.7%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

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 21.6%, Medieval 14.6%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

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: Historical 20.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Simulation 7.7%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Crafting 14.6%, Historical 13.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.8%