- #1 Hexity
97% 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 25.6%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, RTS 16.3%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 12.8%
- #2 Kingdoms and Castles
96% 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 35%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Strategy 8.1%, Building 5.6%, RTS 5.5%
- #3 Spirit & Stone
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Immersive Sim 7.7%
- #4 Escape the End
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, RTS 16.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.9%
- #5 Quriocity
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, RTS 11.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.6%
- #6 Chinese Empire: Prologue
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 13.2%, RTS 12.4%, Simulation 12%, Building 7.4%
- #7 Kingdoms Rise and Fall
93% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Little Dreams GamingPub: Little Dreams Games
Windows
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, RTS 16.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.6%
- #8 VENOY
92% 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: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, RTS 20.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Building 4.3%
- #9 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
91% matchVery Positive84% of 806 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 67.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, City Builder 27%, RTS 16.9%, Strategy 14%, Medieval 4.9%
- #10 LowPolis
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Strategy 14%, Building 7.8%, Medieval 5.6%
- #11 Arcane Shores
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Building 6.4%
- #12 Skyline Settlers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Strategy 12.5%, Economy 6.3%, Medieval 5.7%
- #13 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Building 3.9%
- #14 Foundation
86% 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 40.9%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.1%, RTS 7.3%
- #15 Hexagge
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Building 5%, Economy 4.6%
- #16 Buggos 2
86% matchVery Positive84% of 509 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Strategy 15.3%, RTS 14.1%, Simulation 12.5%
- #17 Celestial Empire: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
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 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, RTS 10.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.2%
- #18 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Medieval 4.3%
- #19 Isla Paradiso
84% 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 31%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 7.2%
- #20 Kingdoms Reborn
82% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, RTS 8.9%, Strategy 6.1%, Base Building 5%
- #21 Banished
83% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 38.4%, Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.2%, Medieval 3.2%
- #22 Randoville
82% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, RTS 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #23 Chinese Empire
81% matchMostly Negative39% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Yeyuna
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, RTS 17.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9%, Building 8.1%
- #24 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
79% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, RTS 18.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
- #25 City Builder Pro
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 6%
- #26 Hearthlands
81% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 22% ★, RTS 14.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%
- #27 Make Your Kingdom
80% 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 26.3%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, RTS 11.1%, Building 7%, Simulation 7%
- #28 Arclands
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jon Keller
Windows · Mac
Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, RTS 18.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.5%
- #29 DUSK OF WAR
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: oedipe games
Windows
DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, RTS 15.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%
- #30 Egypt
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, RTS 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.5%
- #31 Above: Colonies of the Mist
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 5%
- #32 Frontera
76% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Building 7.3%, Economy 6.7%
- #33 Our Freedom: Prologue
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Base Building 6.2%
- #34 My Colony
75% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.7%
- #35 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
75% 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 38.9%, Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Building 4.6%
- #36 Country Architect
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #37 What's Left Behind
74% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 27% ★, Simulation 9%, Building 7.6%, Economy 6.5%
- #38 Dwarven Realm
73% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, RTS 18.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 10.1%
- #39 Folklands
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
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 26.3%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, RTS 14.6%, Building 6.7%, Economy 6.5%
- #40 Havenstead
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 6%
- #41 Aquis
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, RTS 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Building 7.9%
- #42 nStations
73% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: OxeLiz
Windows · Mac
Construct and manage your colony anytime, anywhere, any device!!!!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 14.2%, RTS 12.9%
- #43 Pioneers of Pagonia
69% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, RTS 14.2%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.8%
- #44 The Great Beyond
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, RTS 16.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 11.8%
- #45 The First Explorers®
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, RTS 18.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 7%
- #46 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
69% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, RTS 16.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 5.4%
- #47 Jumbo Airport Story
70% matchVery Positive92% of 354 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, RTS 19.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 10%
- #48 Outlands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Building 4%
- #49 Angkor: The Holy City
70% 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 26.5%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, RTS 11.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 6.3%
- #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 34.7%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 7.7%
- #51 Of Life and Land
67% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 22%, Colony Sim 19% ★, RTS 13.7%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 7%
- #52 NOVA ATLANTIS
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 6.5%, 3D 3.8%
- #53 Tokeis
68% 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 26.1%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, RTS 13.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Economy 7.1%
- #54 Aztecs: The Last Sun
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, RTS 12.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #55 Convenience Stories
67% matchVery Positive93% of 242 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 18.6%, RTS 17.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 12.9%
- #56 Age of Pyramids
67% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 10%, Realistic 5.3%
- #57 Age of Respair
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, RTS 13.3%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.2%
- #58 Trollskog
68% matchMixed56% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Andreas CarlsonPub: Abstract Void Interactive
Windows
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: RTS 36.5%, Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Base Building 2.7%