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 19.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Medieval 10.9%, Historical 10.2%, Building 10.1%

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: Building 16.7%, Crafting 16.6%, Medieval 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.5%

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 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11.5%

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.

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

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Historical 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.1%

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

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: City Builder 23.5%, Farming Sim 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

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

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: City Builder 17.4%, Farming Sim 16.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.6%

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 29.6%, Medieval 19%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 14.7%, Life Sim 9.4%

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.

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Medieval 15.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%

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

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 21.3%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Historical 12.8%, Medieval 11.6%

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

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 25.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Historical 18%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 13.9%

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

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 19.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.5%

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

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 19.9%, Historical 14.3%, Cozy 11.4%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%

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

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 20.9%, Historical 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10%, Farming Sim 9.3%

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

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%, Medieval 22.2%, Relaxing 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%

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

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 18.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.7%

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

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 25.8%, Building 22.3%, Crafting 20%, Life Sim 7.2%, Realistic 6.9%

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

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 25.4%, City Builder 25.3%, Life Sim 21.1%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the cozy, historical life-sim and farming elements 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 15.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Cozy 11.6%, Building 11.1%, Life Sim 10.4%

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

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 30.2%, Life Sim 20.2%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 8.2%

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

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 17.6%, Base Building 13%, Farming Sim 11.7%, Historical 10.2%, Building 10%

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

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 19.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Life Sim 12.5%, Building 11.2%, Cozy 10.6%

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

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: City Builder 16.1%, Farming Sim 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.2%

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

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: Base Building 22.3%, Crafting 19.7%, Building 19%, Life Sim 17.5%, First-Person 8.7%

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

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 19.4%, Medieval 14.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Life Sim 13.5%, Building 13.1%

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

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%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%

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

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 24.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Medieval 9.7%

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

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: Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Cozy 9.9%, Life Sim 9.6%, Medieval 9.4%

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 43.8%, Medieval 13.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 5%

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

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: Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.4%

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

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 16.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%

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 27.5%, Medieval 27.2%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 9.3%

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

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 49.4%, Medieval 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 6.8%

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

“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 15%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.4%, Cozy 11%

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 20.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Medieval 13.2%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

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: City Builder 18.5%, Farming Sim 15.8%, Life Sim 10.6%, Historical 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%

From traditional huts to modern homes of the future - become a one-person crew! Gather resources, use tools, and build brick by brick across history. Discover architecture secrets and create your dream homes!

Why similar: Building 20.8%, Sandbox 16.4%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Realistic 12.1%, First-Person 9.3%

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 15.1%, City Builder 13.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Farming Sim 11.6%, Historical 11.1%

Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!

Why similar: Historical 20.9%, Crafting 18.4%, Building 17.7%, Realistic 12%, First-Person 8.6%

Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%

Step into the boots of a medieval engineer and master the art of siege warfare. In Medieval Machines Builder, you design, build, and operate powerful war machines capable of bringing down even the strongest fortress walls 🏰

Why similar: Medieval 16%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Immersive Sim 12%

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 27%, Base Building 21.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 7.6%

Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.

Why similar: Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Realistic 8.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Medieval 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.9%

Monuments Renovator is a game in which you play the role of a professional monument renovator. You choose from among the world's greatest monuments, restore them to their former glory and learn about history and architecture.

Why similar: Historical 15.3%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 25.5%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 15.3%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Relaxing 9.6%

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

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Historical 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 13.4%, Medieval 10.5%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 13.6%, Medieval 13%, Crafting 12.7%

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 23.2%, Medieval 17.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 9%

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 21.3%, Life Sim 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Medieval 9.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 14.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Immersive Sim 9.1%

Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Historical 14.1%

Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.

Why similar: Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Realistic 11%, Resource Management 10.6%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Life Sim 19.8%, Medieval 12.5%, Realistic 10.7%, Base Building 8.8%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Crafting 17.1%, Medieval 15.8%, Life Sim 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%

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

Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12.7%, Cozy 11.9%, Sandbox 11.5%

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.

Why similar: Medieval 22.2%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 16.3%, Realistic 10.1%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Medieval 9.8%, Cozy 9.3%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Medieval 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.8%

Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Building 12.3%, Historical 12.2%

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 24.4%, Historical 15.6%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 8.4%