- #1 Havenreach: Last Refuge
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Leonix Games Studio
Windows
Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Hex Grid 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Medieval 10.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #2 Myriads: Renaissance
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Hex Grid 11.3% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Medieval 8.3%
- #3 BOC: Birth of Cultures
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 26.9% ★, Hex Grid 20.7% ★, City Builder 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Level Editor 7.8%
- #4 Elaborate Lands
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elaborate Games
Windows
Elaborate Lands is a relaxing, turn-based strategy game. It combines unique gameplay mechanics with elements from 4X, city-builder and puzzle builder games. Build cities, gather resources, research technologies and expand your territory. Different maps and biomes offer near endless replayability.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Hex Grid 19.5% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Medieval 7.8%, Base Building 6.5%
- #5 Island Dwellers
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Hex Grid 12.3% ★, Resource Management 11.4%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #6 DeckTerra
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Medieval 4X Deckbuilder. Lead a kingdom as you build your deck to conquer the map and expand your rule. Develop your technology through the middle ages to improve your army of knights and keep your peasants happy. Develop your trade, religion, science, and military to conquer the continent.
Why similar: 4X 27.8% ★, Hex Grid 23% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Medieval 7.5%
- #7 Frostward
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KoPoint Games
Windows
Plan industrial districts and strive toward monumental wonders while defending humanity against hostile forces and the endless winter.
Why similar: 4X 36.4% ★, Hex Grid 26.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #8 MicroTown
92% matchVery Positive95% of 477 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Hex Grid 15.3% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Medieval 12%, Base Building 11.3%
- #9 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
91% matchPositive87% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 34.4% ★, Hex Grid 21.9% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #10 Last Throne
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: LKHGames
Windows
Last Throne is a tower defense strategy game set in a dark, mist-shrouded world on the brink of collapse. As the ruler of the final kingdom still standing, you must command your defenses, outsmart relentless waves of monstrous creatures, and make crucial tactical decisions to hold your ground.
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Medieval 14.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%
- #11 Can't Live Without Electricity
90% matchVery Positive94% of 242 reviews2023
Dev: MELOVITY
Windows · Mac
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Why similar: Hex Grid 17.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Level Editor 13.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #12 扩张吧王国 Expand the Kingdom
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: 奥特斯盗
Windows
"Expand the Kingdom" is a strategy game based on construction and expansion. In the game, you need to expand and plan land, acquire resources to maintain the internal balance of the kingdom, and survive and defeat all opponents in the competition between kingdoms.
Why similar: Hex Grid 44.1% ★, 4X 22.4% ★, Medieval 12.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #13 Critias Empire
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, City Builder 19%, Hex Grid 15.5% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 7.1%
- #14 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
88% matchMixed59% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 34.1% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Medieval 10%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #15 Pinevale Settlements
87% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Resource Management 17.6%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 14.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #16 Bellfrost
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laserbread
Windows
A roguelike city builder where you lead an expedition to build settlements against the ice. Survive harsh winters, fulfill the needs of your villagers, and explore mystical locations with your heroes. Reclaim the realm one island at a time.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, 4X 18.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #17 Business Empire
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dragon Slumber
Windows · Mac · Linux
BUSINESS EMPIRE is a 4X turn-based strategy game that puts you in charge of an ever-expanding company. Design your own products and market them to the masses, set up distribution routes, and develop new technologies.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Level Editor 13.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 7%
- #18 Lands of Rumour
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Hex Grid 17.3% ★, Strategy 6.7%, Base Building 6.4%
- #19 Dofense
85% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Blue Math
Windows
Defend the energy cores from ever increasing enemy waves by destroying their spawn gates. Build tower mazes on Hex grid. Adapt them to dynamic changes in the terrain. Face quirky bosses. Design your own levels and share them on the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Hex Grid 32.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Level Editor 13.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Top-Down 7%
- #20 A Modest Legacy
84% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Happy Viking Studios
Windows
Welcome to A Modest Legacy, a medieval, real time strategy game. Here you will use city building and combat tactics to conquer your enemies in hopes to be the last kingdom standing. Good luck!
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Medieval 15%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #21 Civitatem
83% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Medieval 13.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%
- #22 Thule
82% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Xeaker
Windows
A quick turn-based 4X strategy game with RPG elements. Explore and conquer randomly generated worlds, complete diverse missions and forge a powerful empire.
Why similar: 4X 44.1% ★, Hex Grid 23.2% ★, Medieval 10.5%, City Builder 8.7%, Strategy 7.6%
- #23 FolkOrigin
81% matchPositive88% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: LukaszD
Windows
Start taking control of the map and build buildings, recruit units, fight monsters and conquer enemy villages. It's a 2D game in which you move on a hexagonal map. A strategy game combined with an RPG game. All in the times of the early Slavs. More information soon...
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.1% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Medieval 11%, Strategy 7.2%
- #24 hexurb
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2021
Dev: byMixNez
Windows
hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!
Why similar: Hex Grid 33.4% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 13%, Relaxing 8.1%, Strategy 6.4%
- #25 Zen World
80% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Cartboard Games
Windows
Zen World is a strategy game that can be as relaxing as you want it to be. Build a calm and colorful landscape with hexagonal tiles, matching their borders to each other, collect valuable boxes, and explore the tech tree.
Why similar: Hex Grid 24.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Medieval 10.7%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #26 Hexburg
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kubaxent
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hexburg allows you to create a thriving medieval hexagonal grid based metropolis full of industry, trade, culture, and more!
Why similar: Hex Grid 33.5% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Medieval 14.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
- #27 Hexalith
79% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Artemi Studios
Windows
Hexalith is a sci-fi city-builder where you're tasked to build a space colony and survive harsh world conditions by placing tiles, optimizing your blueprint deck, and managing your resources. Relax endlessly in a casual sandbox, or refine your strategy to outscore players and climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Hex Grid 36.9% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Relaxing 4.5%
- #28 Brews & Kings
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Scarlet Engineering
Windows · Mac · Linux
A roguelite city builder where you brew for a different king every run. Explore a wilderness that changes each time, raise the farms and mills that turn its ingredients into beer, and build an economy strong enough to satisfy whatever your king demands.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Medieval 16.9%, Strategy 14.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #29 From Embers
78% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Sean ElovirtaPub: CindieForge
Windows
A survival city-builder where every villager has a name, a family, and a eulogy. Build their civilization through four ages, brutal winters, and monster raids — then prestige and let their legacy echo into your next run.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Medieval 18.7%, Real Time Tactics 18%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #30 Chronages
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrei Bely
Windows
Lead a tribe by a campfire in the Stone Age and guide a civilization through the ages. Command armies, develop cities and territories. Make a choice at the crossroads of eras: will your world rush toward a technological future or take the path of harsh fantasy — everything depends on your decisions.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Hex Grid 20.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Medieval 8.9%
- #31 Apoikia
76% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Charlie
Windows · Mac
Apoikia is a city-building and economic simulation where you grow a settlement into a thriving hub by mastering supply chains, regional markets, and legal policy, with upcoming combat and free-market investment systems.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 13%, Medieval 12%, Strategy 8.5%
- #32 Underfoot Queens
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Hex Grid 19.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #33 Kingdoms and Castles
77% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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 25.2%, 4X 24.6% ★, Resource Management 11.5%, Medieval 9.6%, Base Building 9%
- #34 Ghouls & Guardians
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bedrock Fungi Games
Windows · Mac
Ghouls & Guardians is a tower defense and strategy game with roguelite elements. Build and manage your defenses, gather resources, and fend off relentless night creatures. Each playthrough encourages creative tactics and offers a fresh, challenging experience.
Why similar: 4X 38.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 11.7%, Strategy 7%
- #35 Flora Domina
76% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Hex Grid 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Procedural Generation 5.8%
- #36 Tile Town
75% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: One Goose Army
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Tile Town is a chill strategy game set on a hexagonal grid. Plop down various building tiles to get the highest score possible, all while creating a colorful medieval town in the process. Unlock new levels or go for a stroll in the first person mode.
Why similar: Hex Grid 33.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Medieval 13.6%, Relaxing 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #37 Lands of Koastalia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Medieval 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #38 Deep Space Directive
74% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Hex Grid 23.8% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 17.3%, Base Building 14%, Management 8%
- #39 My Little World
73% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Studios
Windows · Linux
My Little World is a relaxing puzzle game where you strategically place hexagonal tiles to gather points, expand and build your own world.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Hex Grid 14% ★, Medieval 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Relaxing 8.8%
- #40 Tartaria: Frozen Frontier
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rubedo Games
Windows
Lead your clan, build settlements, and survive enemy raids in a turn-based strategy set in the harsh northern lands.
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Hex Grid 27.5% ★, Level Editor 12.2%, Medieval 8.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #41 Keltika
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rainy May Studio
Windows
Keltika is a story-driven economic strategy game inspired by celtic myths and history. Ancient druid magic, power of the celtic gods or even perseverance and knowledge of your people - only you choose the way to conquer Keltika!
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.9% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Resource Management 12%, Medieval 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%
- #42 Foundation
70% matchVery Positive87% of 24,128 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.2 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 42.4%, Medieval 16.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Base Building 6.7%
- #43 Monarchs at Play
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGames
Windows · Mac
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Hex Grid 21% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 4.6%
- #44 Potventure
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Resource Management 18.2%, Management 6.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #45 Anno 2205™
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,333 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, 4X 31.2% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 5.3%
- #46 Islecraft: Island Architect
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: HOG
Windows
Sail to uncharted isles and build settlements as an island architect in this minimalist city builder. Inspired by ISLANDERS.
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #47 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
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 27.6%, 4X 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 8.8%
- #48 Raider of Realms
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: CosmicClawGames
Windows
A 2D real-time strategy game played on a hexagonal grid. Gather resources, build an army, and expand your kingdom by conquering new tiles. Strategically place units to launch successful attacks and defend your realm against enemies.
Why similar: Hex Grid 34.1% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Real Time Tactics 11%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #49 万象战略
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeleePsycho
Windows
Myriad Strategies: a turn-based strategy game. Rule a nation amid wars, famine, plague, and refugees. Manage cities, talent, economy. The world shifts. Win by holding cities, stabilizing lives, solving refugee crises, building food systems & spy networks, or surviving the chaos.
Why similar: 4X 42% ★, Hex Grid 21.6% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Medieval 10.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #50 Tiny Kings
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Floating Chicken Games
Windows
Tiny Kings is the whimsical medieval base builder where your dreams of building and managing a pint-sized kingdom come true! Unleash your inner ruler and build your kingdom, manage your citizens' tasks, and dominate the siege to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Medieval 15.8%, Hex Grid 14.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Base Building 11.5%
- #51 Scorchlands
69% matchVery Positive89% of 140 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Hex Grid 31.4% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 6.4%
- #52 Tenants of the Shade
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, 4X 18.5% ★, Resource Management 16.6%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 9.2%
- #53 Realm of Mystery
68% matchMixed50% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Puzala Games Limited
Windows
Set forth on an epic journey of conquest!
Why similar: 4X 39.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Medieval 8.1%
- #54 Clash Of Empires
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Duuby Games
Windows
"Clash of Empires" is a real-time strategy game where you start from scratch and build your empire into a superpower. Make strategic decisions to overcome other empires. Manage your resources, grow your economy, and expand your country.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Hex Grid 17.2% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 5.7%
- #55 Abrupt Valley
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abrupt Games
Windows
Welcome to Abrupt Valley, a competitive 1v1 city building/auto battler game. Create your city, upgrade your buildings, prepare you army and watch it fight your enemies. Optimize your city, adapt to your opponent and climb the ladder !
Why similar: Hex Grid 23.1% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 10%
- #56 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tec Enterprise
Windows
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Medieval 13.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 8.5%
- #57 Radia Island
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 7.2%
- #58 Within a Dead City
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.
Why similar: 4X 38% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 13%, Medieval 11.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #59 Mordfield Command
66% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Software Verde, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Set in a world seized by machines, Mordfield Command is a turn-based hex wargame. Reclaim territory under mounting pressure and expand your control of the battlefield. Move too slowly, and the Algorithm’s growing forces will overrun you.
Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, Hex Grid 25.1% ★, Level Editor 12.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 7.3%
- #60 Powerplay
64% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 33.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 7.7%