Games Like Community Inc

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Strategy 26.9%, Simulation 26.5%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for colony management, offering deep emergent storytelling and complex interactions between your settlers.

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: Simulation 71.6%, Indie 28.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that mirrors the focus on individual villager needs and environmental 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 49.2%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 24.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep colony management with a focus on vertical building and survival in a medieval setting.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 55.7%, Simulation 24%, Strategy 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a cute, fairytale aesthetic while focusing on village growth, romance, and resource management.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 58.6%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 15.1%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A robust city-builder that emphasizes trade, population management, and surviving harsh environmental conditions.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 59.9%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 19.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique water management mechanics and colony building that requires careful planning and adaptation.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: City Builder 52.9%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game mechanics with village management in a way that feels very similar to the chaotic nature of Community Inc.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Strategy 23.9%, Simulation 22.6%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony sim where you manage a medieval family and their village through generations of growth.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Simulation 48.4%, Strategy 34.2%, Indie 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and building aspects of running a business, similar to the trade focus of the seed game.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 65.3%, Simulation 34.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with a unique nomadic survival mechanic on the back of a giant, moving creature.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: City Builder 53.6%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 20.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim where you manage the lives, relationships, and daily tasks of your subjects in a 3D world.

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 57.7%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 18.4%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that focuses on organic village growth and the specific needs of your villagers.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 24.5%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style village builder that emphasizes resource gathering and the happiness of your population.

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 48.5%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 21.2%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that balances building with the social and psychological needs of your settlers.

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 40.7%, Strategy 25.7%, Simulation 23.6%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on survival and managing the specific needs of your people.

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 55.1%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 19.3%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that defined the genre of managing a small, struggling population against the elements.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: City Builder 52.3%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 22.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale colony management with deep economic, social, and military systems.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Simulation 55.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the quirky, humorous management style and production chain focus found in Community Inc.

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Simulation 34.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that emphasizes complex production chains and economic efficiency.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Simulation 25.9%, Strategy 25.4%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest colony simulation available, offering unparalleled complexity in managing a community and its history.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Simulation 28.3%, Strategy 24.3%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down management perspective and a heavy focus on worker and inhabitant behavior.

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 51.6%, Simulation 25.5%, Strategy 22.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on infrastructure management and resource logistics in a challenging, high-stakes environment.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Simulation 60.2%, Strategy 25.1%, Indie 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on trade, economy, and maintaining a thriving environment for your exhibits.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Strategy 26.2%, Simulation 22%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on trade, political management, and city-building with a distinct humorous tone.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Strategy 24.4%, Simulation 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes environmental adaptation and resource management in a strange world.

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the quirky, anthropomorphic charm of Community Inc while focusing on city management and infrastructure.

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: City Builder 49.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Simulation 19.1%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on the individual needs, traits, and behaviors of your population.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: City Builder 40.2%, Simulation 30.3%, Strategy 29.5%

Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Why similar: Simulation 33.1%, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 28.6%, Indie 9.3%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 49%, Simulation 24.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused city-builder that requires balancing space and resources for a rapidly growing population.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 53.7%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 18%, Indie 7.6%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Simulation 33.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Indie 7.8%

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: City Builder 48.3%, Simulation 26.2%, Strategy 25.4%

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Why similar: City Builder 62.7%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Strategy 31.7%, Simulation 31.4%, City Builder 23.6%, Indie 13.3%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 52.6%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 8.2%

TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Strategy 39.8%, Indie 18.1%

This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.

Why similar: City Builder 44.7%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 22.5%, Indie 9.5%

Take full control as you turn a quiet, empty shopping center into a thriving hub of life and profit. Stock shelves, set your own prices, handle payments, hire and train staff, and manage everything down to the finest detail. Every decision counts — and every success is truly yours.

Why similar: City Builder 58%, Simulation 31.2%, Indie 10.7%

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 20.2%, Indie 9.2%

💼 Start broke. Build an empire. Climb the career ladder, invest in stocks and real estate, or launch your own business from scratch. Every decision shapes your destiny. Millionaire or bankrupt—you decide.

Why similar: Simulation 72.2%, Strategy 18%, Indie 9.8%

Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Simulation 25.9%, Strategy 19.6%, Indie 7.1%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: City Builder 57%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 14%, Indie 5.5%

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 57.8%, Simulation 21.1%, Strategy 21.1%

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, Strategy 48.9%

Strategy, trade and empire building on the old Silk Road. Spice Road is a town building, social and economic simulation game full of original challenges.

Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Simulation 42%, Indie 14.9%

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Simulation 26.3%, Strategy 25%

Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical Corporation. Build, manage staff, conduct research, and trade in both cutting edge medical treatments and bleeding edge bioweapons.

Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Simulation 27.9%, Strategy 27.3%

Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 52.8%, Simulation 39.4%, Indie 7.7%

Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.

Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Strategy 28.9%, Simulation 27.4%, Indie 10.2%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 21%, Indie 9.8%

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 49.1%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 21.9%, Indie 6.1%

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Simulation 28.2%, Strategy 26.6%

Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Simulation 27.3%, Strategy 26.3%, Indie 10.8%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: City Builder 49.7%, Simulation 34.1%, Indie 16.2%

Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!

Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Strategy 35.4%, Indie 14.3%

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 61.6%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 15.4%