- #1 A Game of Humans
97% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
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: God Game 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Sandbox 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #2 Settlement Survival
96% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 24.2%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Medieval 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8%
- #3 Dungeon Overseer
96% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.6%, God Game 16% ★, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #4 Kingdoms and Castles
95% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #5 Sapiens
94% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: God Game 24.7% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
- #6 Croswa
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Ausuc Games
Windows · Linux
A world where mechanical and magical civilizations intersect. A strategy and simulation game in which you become a god and build multiple civilizations.
Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%
- #7 Angkor: The Holy City
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 19% ★, God Game 14.9% ★, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #8 The Universim
92% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: God Game 26.4% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9%
- #9 Arcane Shores
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
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: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Economy 11.6%, Strategy 9%
- #10 Pick Me Up
91% 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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, God Game 19.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #11 The Settlers: New Allies
90% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 25.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Strategy 11%, Economy 9.3%
- #12 Patron
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.7%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #13 Mars Attracts
87% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 20.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Time Management 9%
- #14 Banished
89% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.6%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #15 Halloween Store Simulator
88% match1 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 23.8% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Economy 9.6%, Strategy 8.5%
- #16 Fata Deum - The God Sim
86% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 23.1% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Survival 8%
- #17 Founders' Fortune
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 30% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #18 SugarWinds: Prologue
85% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
SugarWinds: sail, establish a colony, make it thrive, and defend it from attacks. Trade worldwide. Enjoy and chill!
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, God Game 15% ★, Economy 11.1%, Trading 10% ★
- #19 Rise to Ruins
84% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 23.9% ★, City Builder 23.9%, God Game 19.7% ★, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%
- #20 Settlements Rising
83% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Medieval 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 7.9%
- #21 Make Your Kingdom
84% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #22 Alien Land
82% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
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: God Game 29.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Survival 3.9%
- #23 Planeta
82% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: God Game 27.3% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #24 Gnome Glen
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.3%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
80% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 10.3%
- #26 One More Island
81% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Trading 13.7% ★, Economy 11.6%, Survival 11.1%
- #27 Foundation
77% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 36.7%, Medieval 11.7%, Colony Sim 9.8% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 9%
- #28 Farmman
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 12%, Survival 9.6%
- #29 To Save Humanity From Virus
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
To Save humanity From Virus is a building game where you are on a different planet trying to get resources to create a vaccine. The virus hit the earth and the only way to save humanity is to gather resources from the different planet.
Why similar: God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.2%
- #30 Stonehearth
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #31 Icetwine
76% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, God Game 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Time Management 8.2%
- #32 FireMatch Empire
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: God Game 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 7.5%
- #33 Tokeis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Economy 13.4%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #34 Colonize Prologue
75% matchMixed64% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Trading 13.2% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 10.2%
- #35 Isla Paradiso
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Economy 13.3%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #36 Dawn of Man
74% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 37.7%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Survival 13%, Strategy 9.2%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #37 Goblin Camp
73% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #38 LowPolis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Strategy 16%, Medieval 11.1%, Economy 7.3%
- #39 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Medieval 8.5%, Base Building 7.3%
- #40 Forgotten Vale
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #41 Landslide
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 31.1% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Base Building 6.1%
- #42 Kingdom Islands
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Medieval 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Time Management 7.3%
- #43 Seeds of Resilience
72% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Economy 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #44 Oxygen
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%
- #45 SpellSlinger Towns
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Trading 12.7% ★, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #46 Seven Wonders
71% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: God Game 21.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Time Management 10%, Base Building 8.7%
- #47 Reus 2
68% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 9%
- #48 STARIO: Haven Tower
68% matchVery Positive94% of 337 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 20.8%, God Game 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #49 Ostriv
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.9%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Economy 9.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #50 Odd Realm
67% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: God Game 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.5%
- #51 Settler's Domain
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 8.2%, Economy 8.1%
- #52 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
69% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 34.8%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Survival 9%, Strategy 8.7%, Medieval 8.6%
- #53 Skyline Settlers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Economy 12.9%, Medieval 11.5%
- #54 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Medieval 8.5%, Economy 6.3%
- #55 Planet Coaster 2
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 12,780 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Why similar: God Game 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Economy 11.9%, Strategy 11.1%
- #56 Minor Deity
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Re: cOg Mission
Windows · Linux
Command the elements to create the landscapes of your imagination in this gridless interactive sandbox. Control dynamic weather and allow vegetation and animals to flourish. Lay out towns for growing populations, establish resource outposts, and encourage trade via road, river and sea routes.
Why similar: God Game 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Trading 12.1% ★, Economy 10%
- #57 Gnomoria
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.8% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%
- #58 All Roads Connected
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Trading 12% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 10.1%