- #1 Cardboard Town
97% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Deckbuilding 22.6%, Card Game 16.3%, Isometric 8.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #2 Technotopia
96% matchVery Positive85% of 628 reviews2024
Dev: YustasPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Deckbuilding 29.5%, Card Game 15.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Puzzle 6.1%
- #3 TerraScape
96% matchVery Positive89% of 2,107 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 45.3%, Deckbuilding 29.8%, Isometric 11%, Strategy 7.6%, Puzzle 6.2%
- #4 Block'hood
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,256 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: City Builder 77.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Isometric 6.6%, Puzzle 4%, Indie 2.9%
- #5 Vertical Kingdom
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Deckbuilding 25.5%, Card Game 17.3%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 2.1%
- #6 Kaya's Prophecy
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: City Builder 53.5%, Card Game 19.1%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Strategy 9.7%
- #7 Urban Cards
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 181 reviews2021
Dev: Hues Games
Windows
Urban Cards is a roguelike capitalist deckbuilder. Play your cards right, steal from your opponents, build your business, and amass a fortune to win!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 46.9%, Card Game 27.8%, Strategy 17%, Indie 5.4%, Colorful 2.9%
- #8 Mini Metro
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,391 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Strategy 54.7%, Puzzle 33.8%, Indie 11.5%
- #9 Stacklands
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: City Builder 45%, Card Game 23.4%, Deckbuilding 21.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Indie 1.5%
- #10 Age of Rivals
92% matchVery Positive86% of 234 reviews2017
Dev: Dark Inertia StudiosPub: Roboto Games
Windows · Mac
Deep civilization-building strategy in a fast-paced card game! There are many paths to victory in this competitive card drafting game featuring 12 unique characters and hundreds of cards ranging from great pyramids and war elephants to sneaky spies and crafty merchants.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 57%, Card Game 19.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Indie 5.1%, Local Multiplayer 2.4%
- #11 Ratropolis
90% matchVery Positive88% of 5,484 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 40.1%, City Builder 26.5%, Card Game 21.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Indie 1.9%
- #12 Dawnmaker
89% matchVery Positive91% of 157 reviews2024
Dev: Arpentor StudioPub: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Deckbuilding 21.3%, Card Game 18.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Indie 0.4%
- #13 ISLANDERS
89% matchVery Positive94% of 16,710 reviews2019
Dev: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Why similar: City Builder 76.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 3%, Colorful 1.5%
- #14 Dorfromantik
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 74.2%, Strategy 12%, Puzzle 10.4%, Indie 3.5%
- #15 Neon Village
87% matchVery Positive88% of 125 reviews2025
Dev: Encraft
Windows
This game is a fusion of a "roguelike deck-builder" and "match-3 puzzle". Collect unique residents to create explosive synergies and develop a village glittering with neon!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 54.1%, Card Game 22%, Strategy 13.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Indie 2.2%
- #16 Tiny Kingdom
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: neltile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Deckbuilding 29.3%, Card Game 15.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #17 Factory Planner
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Card Game 64.3%, Strategy 29.7%, Colorful 4.3%, Indie 1.7%
- #18 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
86% matchMixed45% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Blackstaff GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
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 74.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Indie 4.3%
- #19 Kingdom's Deck
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 66.3%, Card Game 23.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Colorful 2.2%
- #20 Tile Tale
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Push colorful tiles into the grid creating fields of the same type to gain new tile types. Create different worlds such as jungle islands, wasteland volcano land or even a big city!
Why similar: City Builder 57.6%, Deckbuilding 20.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Puzzle 7.1%, Colorful 2.7%
- #21 BalanCity
83% matchVery Positive81% of 905 reviews2016
Dev: MeNic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.
Why similar: City Builder 81.4%, Strategy 8.1%, Puzzle 8.1%, Indie 2.4%
- #22 These Doomed Isles
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 221 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: City Builder 49.3%, Deckbuilding 27.1%, Card Game 15%, Strategy 8.5%
- #23 Card City Nights
82% matchVery Positive88% of 999 reviews2014
Dev: Ludosity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 51.6%, Card Game 40.9%, Indie 4.1%, Strategy 1.8%, Puzzle 1.6%
- #24 Mini Motorways
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,591 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Strategy 29.7%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 5.2%
- #25 Tile Cities
80% matchVery Positive94% of 568 reviews2022
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Why similar: City Builder 75.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Puzzle 9%
- #26 Charterstone: Digital Edition
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 252 reviews2020
Dev: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build and discover in Charterstone - a digital board game campaign. Shape your village into the new Eternal City!☁️🏙️☁️
Why similar: Deckbuilding 47.6%, Card Game 28.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Local Multiplayer 8.1%
- #27 Automatic Kingdom
79% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: City Builder 56.1%, Card Game 26.5%, Strategy 12.9%, Indie 2.9%, Colorful 1.6%
- #28 Aeon's End
81% matchVery Positive82% of 482 reviews2019
Dev: Handelabra Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 58.7%, Card Game 23.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 3.4%, Local Multiplayer 2.6%
- #29 River Towns
78% matchVery Positive93% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Frogsong StudiosPub: Metaroot
Windows
Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
Why similar: City Builder 65.1%, Isometric 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Puzzle 9%, Colorful 3.1%
- #30 Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder
78% matchVery Positive81% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: Bigosaur
Windows
Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 51.3%, Card Game 30.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Colorful 3.2%, Local Multiplayer 1.5%
- #31 Lucky Mayor
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: MadGoat Game Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.
Why similar: Card Game 38%, Deckbuilding 36.8%, Strategy 22.7%, Indie 2.6%
- #32 Clonizer
76% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: Juicy PlumePub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 52.5%, Card Game 29.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Colorful 4.5%
- #33 SuperTaxCity
75% matchVery Positive89% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: soramame-koubouPub: KIC Games
Windows
A new sensation!? City-building × Roguelike game *Super Tax City*. Choose and place your favorite facilities from randomly drawn options! The combinations are endless! Create a profitable city that's uniquely yours!
Why similar: City Builder 57.4%, Deckbuilding 40.5%, Indie 2.2%
- #34 Mystic Vale
76% matchVery Positive89% of 455 reviews2019
Dev: Nomad Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 51.9%, Card Game 28.2%, Strategy 13%, Indie 4.1%, Colorful 2.8%
- #35 Golem Gates
77% matchVery Positive83% of 120 reviews2018
Dev: Laser Guided Games, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Golem Gates blends elements of real-time strategy (RTS) and card battle. Collect cards (called Glyphs) containing your forces and powers. Strategically weave them into a deck to prepare for battle, then unleash them in streamlined, fast-paced battles.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 55.4%, Card Game 22.9%, Strategy 19.2%, Indie 2.6%
- #36 Flocking Hell
74% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Sextant Studios
Windows
Flocking Hell is a deeply strategic roguelite where you defend your pasture from demonic invasion. It blends calm exploration with auto-battler combat, offering a mix of easy-to-learn mechanics and thought-provoking gameplay. It also has a LOT of sheep 🐑😈
Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Deckbuilding 31.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Puzzle 5.9%, Colorful 2.1%
- #37 Magibrick
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Fourth Front
Windows
An uniquely styled deck-building game. Assemnble a deck with the right Magibrick and challenge diverse enemies in different regions. Fill the board, destroy enemy bricks,play amazing combo, and occupy the entire board with your Magibricks, leaving no space for your enemy.
Why similar: Card Game 35%, Strategy 26.7%, Deckbuilding 24.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 2.8%
- #38 Paper Kingdom
74% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Deckbuilding 24%, Card Game 19.9%, Strategy 6.7%, Indie 1.9%
- #39 Transport Legion
73% matchVery Positive88% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows · Linux
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 57.8%, Strategy 42.2%
- #40 Nadir: A Grimdark Deckbuilder
73% matchMixed63% of 329 reviews2023
Dev: Black Eye Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Nadir is a roguelike deck-builder with a twist: the cost to play a card is an enemy reaction you can predict. Craft your own cards to slay powerful demons. Gather resources, expand your city, grow in power and conquer the underworld.
Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Deckbuilding 31.2%, Card Game 18.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #41 Pocket City 2
71% matchVery Positive94% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.
Why similar: City Builder 83.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Colorful 1.1%, Indie 0.5%
- #42 Urbek City Builder
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 79.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 2.4%
- #43 Triple Town
73% matchVery Positive92% of 818 reviews2012
Dev: Spry Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree...
Why similar: Strategy 52%, Puzzle 33.9%, Indie 14.1%
- #44 Power Chord
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 185 reviews2023
Dev: Big Blue Bubble
Windows
Power Chord is a rock'n roguelite deck-building game. Assemble Earth's mightiest musicians, battle your way through legions of demons, discover new cards to enhance your instruments of destruction, and take back the city, one dive bar at a time.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 55.7%, Card Game 31.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Colorful 2.7%
- #45 Unholy Heights
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,637 reviews2013
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!
Why similar: City Builder 84.7%, Strategy 15.3%
- #46 Chosen Garden
69% matchVery Positive96% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Winter CabinPub: Craftmos Games
Windows
In this unique roguelike deck-builder, tend your garden and harvest plants for high scores! 100+ plants, 5 gardens, and a wealth of unique weather, animals, and tools — countless builds await!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 51.6%, Card Game 32.1%, Strategy 14%, Colorful 2.3%
- #47 Neongarten
70% matchVery Positive89% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Moonroof StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
A minimalist cyberpunk city builder inspired by Islanders and Luck Be a Landlord.
Why similar: City Builder 62.1%, Deckbuilding 22%, Strategy 14.2%, Indie 1.7%
- #48 Stacks:Jungle!
70% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Linux
Stacks:Jungle is an engaging adventure card game set in the lush heart of the jungle. Unlock new cards with booster packs, combine them to uncover craft recipes, build amazing structures, venture into uncharted territories, make new friends, discover hidden treasures, and so much more!
Why similar: Card Game 93.3%, Indie 6.7%
- #49 Planetiles
70% matchVery Positive84% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: MythicOwl
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: City Builder 78%, Strategy 12%, Puzzle 10%
- #50 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 763 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: City Builder 68.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Isometric 8.8%, Deckbuilding 8.7%, Indie 3.4%
- #51 My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,057 reviews2025
Dev: Utu Studios
Windows
Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 50.8%, Card Game 32.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Colorful 3%
- #52 Metroplex Zero: Sci-Fi Card Battler
68% matchVery Positive97% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Enigma Dragons LLC
Windows · Linux
Neo-cyberpunk roguelike card battler. Strategically construct your decks, gain powerful cybernetic upgrades, and vanquish sinister MegaCorps in challenging card combat. Dive into a replayable single-player experience that blends RPG progression, deck-building strategy, and a futuristic sci-fi world.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 56.3%, Card Game 28.2%, Strategy 15.5%
- #53 Costa Verde Transport Department
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Nikita Lisitsa
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Costa Verde you play as the Transport Department of a city slowly growing on a vibrant picturesque landscape. Build roads on a map of hexagonal tiles, plan road intersections, design roundabouts, and prevent your whole city from turning into one single massive traffic jam!
Why similar: City Builder 80.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Colorful 4.5%
- #54 URBO: Dream One
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,320 reviews2023
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
URBO: Dream One is a meditative puzzle game where you build houses around the mysterious Tower. Let your mind wander through visions of an enchanted city on an island in the middle of the crystal clear waters of a vibrant lake.
Why similar: City Builder 59.1%, Deckbuilding 25.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Colorful 1.8%
- #55 EcoGnomix
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Why similar: City Builder 71.5%, Isometric 13.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Colorful 2.7%
- #56 Tetra Tactics
68% matchVery Positive80% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Jabari AliiPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategize, collect, upgrade. Tetra Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilder inspired by Triple Triad, featuring deep meta-progression and endless replayability. Outwit opponents on a 4x4 tactical grid, traverse branching maps, augment your cards, and combine powerful abilities to build the ultimate deck.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 55.6%, Card Game 30.5%, Strategy 13.9%
- #57 Crunch Time!
71% matchMixed53% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: David Teruel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Crunch Time! is a fresh and innovative card game with a touch of humour, based on videogame development, in which you'll have to manage your own company, and complete the best and biggest projects before your opponent.
Why similar: Strategy 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #58 Fights in Tight Spaces
66% matchVery Positive90% of 3,799 reviews2021
Dev: Ground ShatterPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 48.5%, Card Game 21.5%, Strategy 18.5%, Isometric 9.2%, Indie 2.3%
- #59 Rogue Hex
65% matchVery Positive89% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Deckbuilding 34.2%, Card Game 16.1%, Strategy 10.2%
- #60 Wingspan
65% matchVery Positive94% of 11,505 reviews2020
Dev: Monster Couch
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Why similar: Card Game 61.2%, Strategy 27.3%, Local Multiplayer 11.4%