Games Like Crownrats

Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Mystery Dungeon 16.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Dungeon Crawler 8.3%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Tower Defense 18%, City Builder 15.6%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Roguelike 8.1%

A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, hunt wild animals and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Reap the rewards, unlock new resources and advance your tech.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Mystery Dungeon 15.8%, Dungeon Crawler 9.9%, Crafting 7.1%

Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Action Roguelike 13.2%, Strategy 11.1%

Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 4.3%

Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 20%, Strategy 12.4%, Exploration 5.5%

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: Colony Sim 38.2%, Tower Defense 22.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Survival 6.2%, Strategy 5.9%

Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 20.3%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Co-op 6.3%

Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Strategy 6.6%

You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Tower Defense 14%, Side Scroller 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Survival 8.3%, City Builder 8.2%, Strategy 7.8%

A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 12%, Building 5.9%, Casual 4.8%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 7%, Survival 6.6%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, City Builder 25.1%, Crafting 9%, Survival 9%, Strategy 7.1%

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: Colony Sim 37.1%, City Builder 23.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 6.3%

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Tower Defense 22.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Co-op 10.8%, Building 7.2%

This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 5.6%

Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Survival 7.5%

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: Colony Sim 37.1%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Crafting 7%, Exploration 6.4%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.6%, City Builder 24%, Crafting 10.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Building 7.3%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Tower Defense 19.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 9.9%, 2.5D 9.4%

Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Crafting 11.6%, 2.5D 10.8%, Building 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 48.3%, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 6.3%, Building 5.6%, Survival 5.5%

Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Tower Defense 17.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Side Scroller 11%, Crafting 8.7%

An incremental roguelike tower defense colony sim where you command your colonist to farm, craft, mine and defend waves of the undead. Progressing towards your skill tree after each run to survive further and further!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Tower Defense 26.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Survival 8%, Roguelike 7.8%

Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 8%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, City Builder 27.4%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Casual 5.2%

Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.6%

Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Tower Defense 17.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Side Scroller 12%, Building 7.6%

The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Tower Defense 22.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.8%, Exploration 5.5%

Craft your tale in a whimsical fantasy world. Shape a charming city, fulfill Kinlings' needs, and watch their unique stories unfold. Explore, quest, farm, and build. Experience the enchantment of Kinlings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 21.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.2%, Building 7.8%

Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, City Builder 23.8%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 11.6%, Survival 4.6%

Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Side Scroller 12.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 7.3%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.3%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 9.7%, Building 7.6%, Strategy 7%

Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, City Builder 25.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.2%

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Strategy 5.7%

Fishing Through Clouds: Sky Survival is a strategic survival game combining fishing‑survival, sky‑island building, Roguelike and innovative tower defense. Fish for resources by day, repel interdimensional monster hordes with allies at night, and build your own sky stronghold within the 28‑day cycle.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.7%

Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Tower Defense 19%, Side Scroller 16.1%, Building 8.2%, Exploration 6.9%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, City Builder 18%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.5%, Building 7.1%

An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Tower Defense 25.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Building 10.4%, Survival 7.8%

Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, City Builder 29.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Survival 9%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Building 11.6%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Co-op 7%

You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 21.4%, Tower Defense 20%, Side Scroller 14.9%, Building 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 50.3%, City Builder 32.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 7.2%, Building 2.5%

Build a flourishing settlement above a dangerous cave system. Explore unique biomes, manage happiness and grief, invite traders, defend against invasions, train soldiers, recruit heroes, defeat world bosses, and prepare to dig into the depths below.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8%, Exploration 7.9%

Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, City Builder 24.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Crafting 6.2%, Building 5.9%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2%, City Builder 35.6%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 7%, Co-op 0.7%

Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Why similar: Colony Sim 65%, City Builder 15.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Casual 7.1%, Atmospheric 1.8%

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: Colony Sim 42.8%, City Builder 27.3%, Building 8.6%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Tower Defense 21.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Crafting 5.5%

In this presidential rogue-like action game, gather votes and run for presidency by day, then transform into a warrior to take down your enemies by night! Master unique skills to become a swordmaster, a cyber mage, or anything in between, and overthrow the ruthless president!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 16%, Action Roguelike 13.4%, Crafting 11.8%, 2.5D 10.7%

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Roguelike 8.7%, Building 7.5%

Astro World is a side-scrolling co-op game where the players will have to build their colony on a planet full of danger, valuable resources and alien artifacts, using which the player can explore new technologies and equipment to arm their colonists with.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Co-op 15.9%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Survival 8.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.7%, City Builder 37.2%, Strategy 8.2%

A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, City Builder 26.3%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Tower Defense 22%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 7.8%

Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Roguelike 9.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Survival 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 53.8%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 7.8%, Survival 5.9%, Strategy 5.8%

Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.6%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Exploration 7.6%, Building 7%