- #1 Microcivilization
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,455 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: 4X 14.1% ★, God Game 8.7% ★, Diplomacy 8.2% ★, Incremental 7.7%, Automation 7.2%
- #2 Thveit
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: God Game 16.1% ★, Diplomacy 13% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Mythology 10.4%, Colony Sim 8.5%
- #3 CivIdle
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,131 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Historical 11.4%, Idler 10.1%
- #4 SimPocalypse
95% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 20.2% ★, Automation 12.5%, Incremental 10.4%, City Builder 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #5 Idle Empires
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vethon
Windows
Idle Empires is an incremental strategy game where you build and expand a thriving empire, one hex at a time. Place buildings, gather resources, and upgrade your empire automatically over time. Whether you’re actively playing or letting progress tick while idle, your empire is always growing.
Why similar: God Game 14.3% ★, Automation 13.6%, City Builder 12%, Idler 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #6 Divine Ascendancy
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Why similar: God Game 20.4% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Mythology 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 7%
- #7 Whiskerwood
93% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 16.7% ★, Diplomacy 14.3% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%
- #8 Nova Roma
92% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 15.8% ★, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Historical 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%
- #9 Radia Island
91% matchNo user reviews2026
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 18.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Automation 10.1%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%
- #10 Tsushima Incremental
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zouzou
Windows · Mac
Tsushima Incremental lets you build and manage a thriving village, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing idle experience. Master your resources, upgrade your settlement, and equip your clan to conquer new lands.
Why similar: City Builder 13.2%, Automation 12.6%, Incremental 12%, Base Building 11%, Historical 9.8%
- #11 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
90% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: 4X 14.8% ★, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Historical 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
- #12 WorldShaper Idle
89% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?
Why similar: God Game 22.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Incremental 14%, Idler 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%
- #13 Norland
88% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 17.2% ★, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #14 Goblins of Elderstone
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: 4X 17.9% ★, Diplomacy 15.1% ★, God Game 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #15 Manor Lords
87% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: 4X 18.3% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, City Builder 10.4%, Historical 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%
- #16 Heart of the Machine
86% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 17.3% ★, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #17 Empires of the Undergrowth
86% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 17.3% ★, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, City Builder 11%, Historical 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #18 Hearth and Hamlet
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,235 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Incremental 16.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Idler 10.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #19 Build To The Moon
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BumpkinBrothers
Windows
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Incremental 14.9%, God Game 14.5% ★, Automation 14.1%, Idler 11.4%, Colony Sim 10.8%
- #20 Against the Storm
84% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 17.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.1% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Historical 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%
- #21 Pharaoh™: A New Era
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Historical 11.3%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Building 8.3%
- #22 CivDle
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StarSoftware
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Idler 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #23 Eden Universe
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haxo Game Studios
Windows
A true God Game where faith, miracles, morality, and your Avatar decide the destiny of Eden itself. Guide your followers, perform divine miracles, and shape a living world as a young god.
Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, God Game 18.2% ★, Diplomacy 16.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #24 Idle Commonwealth
81% matchMixed66% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Qbusik Games
Windows
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
Why similar: Incremental 16.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Idler 15.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, God Game 11.3% ★
- #25 Cataclismo
80% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: 4X 17.3% ★, Diplomacy 15% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #26 Critias Empire
81% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Historical 10.9%, Mythology 10.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #27 Village Flow
79% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Axiom17
Windows
Manage the production of your village's resources in this minimalist incremental game. Assign villagers to jobs, balance production and resources, and weather the seasons. Hunger, cold, and disease threaten your people.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Incremental 14.1%, Idler 12.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Inventory Management 9.1%
- #28 Corsair Cove
76% matchVery Positive85% of 3,566 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: 4X 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%
- #29 Halloween Store Simulator
79% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 19.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Automation 10%, Colony Sim 10%, Base Building 9%
- #30 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: City Builder 13.9%, Diplomacy 12.4% ★, Historical 10%, Mythology 10%, Base Building 9%
- #31 Resource chill
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Incremental 15.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Automation 14.3%, Idler 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.2%
- #32 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
78% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: God Game 15.4% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Mythology 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 9.5%
- #33 The Horde of Gorak
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Deer StudioPub: Mad Octopus
Windows
Lead a growing orc horde in this pixel art incremental strategy game. Build your settlement, recruit powerful warriors, research new technologies, cast devastating spells, and destroy human castles to rescue your captured Warchief
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Incremental 16.8%, Idler 12.7%, City Builder 10.1%, Building 7.7%
- #34 IDLE BOSS RUSH
75% matchMixed67% of 841 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 18.4 hrsMean: 37.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Why similar: Incremental 17.1%, Idler 12.2%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 8.9%
- #35 STARIO: Haven Tower
74% matchVery Positive94% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: City Builder 15.1%, God Game 14.1% ★, Automation 13.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Colony Sim 9.1%
- #36 Trappist
76% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 19.7% ★, God Game 17.7% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 10%
- #37 The Eastern Sacrifice
74% matchMixed60% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: 五条虾仁(5 shrimps)
Windows
“The Eastern Sacrifice” is an idle game combining simulation with Eastern Cthulhu-inspired themes. In a world spiraling into chaos over authority, vanquish enemy, gather treasures, and build a devoted religion. Your sanctuary will help you reclaim theurgy, ascend to the divine realm.
Why similar: God Game 13.7% ★, Mythology 12.2%, Incremental 11.8%, Idler 11%, Automation 10.8%
- #38 Captain of Industry
75% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, City Builder 9.7%, Economy 9%
- #39 Celestial Empire: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive86% of 426 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 15.4%, Historical 12.4%, Mythology 11%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #40 Spherical Symphony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maaz BaigPub: Night Rain Studios
Windows
Guide tiny planets back into harmony in Spherical Symphony. Balance each world’s living systems, recruit cozy catfolk helpers, befriend cosmic sea creatures, trade between worlds, repel threats, and awaken the sleeping sun at the heart of it all.
Why similar: God Game 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Automation 11.1%, Colony Sim 11.1%
- #41 Egypt
73% 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 16.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Historical 10.3%, Mythology 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #42 Fill Up The Hole
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,208 reviews2025
Dev: Fluffy Lotus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Incremental 20.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Idler 13.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Colony Sim 10.5%
- #43 Rogue Carrier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!
Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Historical 10%, 4X 9.4% ★, Strategy 7.4%
- #44 Agecraft
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows · Mac
Agecraft is a city-builder strategy where you guide a settlement through thousands of years of human history. Manage individual citizens, grow your economy, trade or wage war with other states, and advance from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Historical 12%, Diplomacy 11.9% ★, Colony Sim 7.9%
- #45 Fill the Sky
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Colony Sim 11.2%
- #46 VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCore Game Design
Windows
VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Resource Management 9%
- #47 Cursor Kingdom
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oba Games
Windows
Create an army of cursor clones by recording your actions. Automate resource gathering, production, and defense while your kingdom grows on its own.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Incremental 16.7%, Idler 12.6%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%
- #48 Kingdoms and Castles
72% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 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: 4X 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #49 Apiary in Flow
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AkinoEgo
Windows
Apiary in Flow is an incremental game with automation elements where you place bees inside a hive to build efficient honey-gathering chains. Unlock new bee types and spend your harvest on permanent skill tree upgrades!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Incremental 20.9%, Idler 16.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 6.9%
- #50 Pick Me Up
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: God Game 17.4% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Incremental 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.7%
- #51 Spaceflight Factory
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 15%, 4X 13.4% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Colony Sim 9.6%
- #52 Divinestead
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: starea
Windows
Grow one small village into a large settlement, manage resources, find riches, overpower enemies and get holy upgrades in this incremental idler game!
Why similar: Incremental 20.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Idler 15%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 9.8%
- #53 Marble Age
72% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: 4X 16.9% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Historical 12.4%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 10.7%
- #54 Gnomepunk
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Create an army of gnomes, train builders, gather resources, develop technology, overcome the fauna, understand the flora and use it for alchemy. Conquer or ally with other factions and dominate the forest!
Why similar: Diplomacy 21.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Mythology 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #55 CastleOn
66% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, 4X 10.5% ★, Colony Sim 10.4%
- #56 Tenants of the Shade
67% 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 19.2%, Base Building 16.2%, 4X 15.1% ★, Historical 13.8%, Resource Management 12%
- #57 RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: RAVINE Games
Windows
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.
Why similar: Diplomacy 21.7% ★, 4X 16% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Base Building 9%
- #58 the Cellarer
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 8.2%
- #59 GridEnergy
65% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: General Studios
Windows
Become the ultimate energy tycoon in this strategic incremental game. Start with humble coal mines, build complex supply chains, manipulate the stock market, and fund cutting-edge research to build the ultimate power source: a Dyson Sphere.
Why similar: Incremental 21.8%, Automation 19.9%, Idler 15.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 9%