Games Like Dawn of Man

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 39.9%, Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 4.7%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: As the foundational survival city-builder, it mirrors the core loop of managing resources and population against harsh environmental conditions.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Survival 9%, Historical 8.4%, Economy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed survival city-building experience with complex resource chains and environmental challenges.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Survival 12.2%, Historical 9%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the most thematic DNA with Dawn of Man, focusing on realistic prehistoric city-building and survival.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5% ★, City Builder 36.7%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 4.5%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to guide a primitive tribe through the ages, focusing heavily on exploration and technological advancement.

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: Colony Sim 68.6% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Open World 7.6%, Indie 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation of life in the Scottish Highlands that captures the same prehistoric survival and family-management feel.

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: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 9.2%, Historical 8.1%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical city-building with survival and tactical elements, providing a grounded medieval experience.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Survival 8.3%, Historical 8%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply realistic historical city-builder that emphasizes individual villager needs and complex resource 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: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, City Builder 30%, Survival 10%, Historical 8.2%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony survival and base-building with a strong emphasis on verticality and historical defense.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Survival 34.3%, Historical 21.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 11.3%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more intimate, first-person perspective on the same survival and settlement-building mechanics found in Dawn of Man.

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 54.5%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Strategy 5.5%, Survival 4.5%, Sandbox 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more organic, grid-less approach to medieval city-building that emphasizes population management.

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 42.1%, Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 5.5%, Strategy 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique resource management and survival mechanics centered around adapting to environmental disasters.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: City Builder 42.3%, Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Survival 6.6%, Strategy 4.3%, Simulation 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the harsh realities of medieval survival and the necessity of careful resource planning.

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 39.9%, Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 4.2%, Strategy 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes trade, population growth, and disaster management.

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: Colony Sim 45.2% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 5.4%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, providing endless survival challenges and emergent storytelling.

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: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 9.1%, Historical 8.1%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that emphasizes rapid adaptation and survival in a hostile, ever-changing environment.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 42.5%, Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Pushes the survival city-builder genre to its limits by forcing players to make difficult moral choices in a frozen wasteland.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 5.4%, Historical 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that integrates social management and survival mechanics to keep your population thriving.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding society in a post-apocalyptic world, requiring constant attention to survival and resource gathering.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Survival 4.6%, Strategy 4.1%, Economy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a complex resource management system that rewards strategic planning and expansion.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 56.7%, Survival 23.6%, Open World 7.5%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends survival, settlement management, and combat in a historical setting, mirroring the progression of a growing community.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 50.6%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Survival 13.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival builder that emphasizes environmental hazards and long-term sustainability.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that tracks the development of a civilization from primitive beginnings to space-faring heights.

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: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 8.9%, Historical 8.1%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on ants, it captures the essence of colony management, resource gathering, and survival against the environment.

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: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Survival 8.8%, Historical 7.9%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval society simulation that focuses on the lives and struggles of noble families and their subjects.

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 39.7% ★, City Builder 37.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 5.1%, Strategy 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that emphasizes building, crafting, and defending your settlement from threats.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, City Builder 33%, Survival 9.1%, Historical 6.1%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a Viking settlement while managing seasonal survival and resource stockpiling.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Colony Sim 35% ★, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where resource management is key to survival.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Sandbox 56.8%, Simulation 32.8%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric life-sim that focuses on community building, farming, and technological discovery.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 59.5% ★, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.7%, Resource Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed city-builder that balances base-building with resource management and tactical combat.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9% ★, Survival 25.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Destruction 3.3%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 5.2%, Strategy 5.1%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 4.8%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that forces players to survive and build in a world overrun by supernatural threats.

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 43.7%, Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Strategy 5.2%, Survival 4.1%, Sandbox 3.4%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, City Builder 38%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 5%, Simulation 2.1%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Survival 10.9%, Historical 7.6%, Strategy 5%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 34%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 5.6%, Economy 4.7%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Historical 9.4%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 4.4%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Colony Sim 33% ★, Strategy 6.4%, Economy 6.2%, Sandbox 5.1%

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 38.8%, Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 4.6%, Simulation 4.4%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Historical 7.9%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 2.9%

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 64.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 6.8%, Simulation 4.9%, Historical 3.6%

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: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Historical 8.1%, Survival 7.1%, Strategy 5.4%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 6%, Economy 3.1%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 50%, Strategy 8.8%, Historical 8.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Economy 6.4%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Historical 9.6%, Sandbox 5.1%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Survival 8.4%, Historical 6.5%, Economy 5%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 36.2%, Economy 6.2%, Strategy 6.1%, RTS 5.5%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 5.4%, Sandbox 5.4%

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: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Survival 8.6%, Historical 7.9%, Strategy 5%

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 37.2%, Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 3.8%

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 46.1% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 4.2%, Sandbox 3.9%

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 41.5%, Historical 21.6%, Open World 14.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Choices Matter 6%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 5.5%

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 42.6% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 4.9%, Historical 4.5%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 8%, Historical 6.8%, Strategy 5%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3% ★, City Builder 41.4%, Strategy 6%, Survival 3.5%, Simulation 3.4%

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: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Survival 8.6%, Historical 8.3%, Strategy 5.1%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Historical 11.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Economy 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%