- #1 BOC: Birth of Cultures
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: Hex Grid 18.7% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, 4X 16% ★, City Builder 8.6%, Management 8.6%
- #2 RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RAVINE GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, 4X 9.6% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #3 Rogue Hex
96% 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: Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, 4X 17% ★, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, City Builder 9.5%, Deckbuilding 8.2%
- #4 Cities Domination
95% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: D Green Games
Windows
Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.
Why similar: Hex Grid 19.6% ★, 4X 16.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #5 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, 4X 14.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #6 Critias Empire
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 17.5% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Hex Grid 13.1% ★, Base Building 8.2%
- #7 MicroTown
94% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Medieval 9.1%
- #8 HexLands
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Portgate Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
HexLands is a roguelike deckbuilder and city builder set across procedural medieval islands. Craft powerful decks, collect game-changing relics, complete quests, and build synergies! Gather resources and expand your empire across three unique regions! Can you rise above the king who banished you?
Why similar: Hex Grid 19.1% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Card Game 10.7%, Deckbuilding 9.3%, Base Building 7.5%
- #9 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
91% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 19.2% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Colony Sim 10% ★, Base Building 9.4%
- #10 Mandate Order
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Grand Strategy 16.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, 4X 10.3% ★, Medieval 9.4%
- #11 Goblins of Elderstone
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18% ★, City Builder 13.6%, 4X 13.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★
- #12 Lands of Rumour
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.1% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Hex Grid 15.1% ★, Management 8.7%
- #13 Island Dwellers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13% ★, Hex Grid 12.1% ★, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #14 Imperial Kingdoms
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Expand your kingdom: Gather resources and transport them to your capital city to produce the materials you need to expand your army and conquer new regions. Research new technologies to improve your economy and army. Use your troops wisely to outmanoeuvre your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1% ★, 4X 22.7% ★, Management 11.9%, Hex Grid 10.6% ★, Strategy 10.3%
- #15 Small Kingdoms
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.4% ★, 4X 17.4% ★, City Builder 10.4%, Medieval 8.9%, Colony Sim 7.9% ★
- #16 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
86% matchVery Positive88% of 1,626 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, Hex Grid 19.1% ★, 4X 15.4% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Management 8.4%
- #17 Deep Space Directive
86% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Hex Grid 19.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #18 Astro Protocol
84% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Hex Grid 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%
- #19 SpellSlinger Towns
85% 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 15.7%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Deckbuilding 9.8%, Management 8.8%
- #20 Against the Storm
82% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Grand Strategy 20.1% ★, City Builder 14%, 4X 13.2% ★, Colony Sim 11.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%
- #21 Songs of Syx
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, City Builder 16.3%, 4X 15.5% ★, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%
- #22 Kingdoms Reborn
83% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.1%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Management 10%, Medieval 7.1%
- #23 WHO THE HELL OPENED THE PORTAL?!
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uberbax Gaming
Windows
A funny pixel art roguelite strategy. You manage a fantasy island kingdom connected by magical portals. By day — build, gather resources, hire heroes, and dive through portals to expand into new lands. By night — defend! The same portals unleash hordes of demons straight from Hell.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, 4X 16.6% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #24 Underfoot Queens
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Hex Grid 17.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Resource Management 8%
- #25 Lands of Koastalia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Medieval 10.1%, Management 9.3%
- #26 Royal Lord - 王权领主
79% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Medieval 10%
- #27 Landnama
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: Hex Grid 22.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Roguelite 8.7%
- #28 Nova Historia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.8% ★, 4X 26.2% ★, Hex Grid 9.9% ★, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #29 Coastal Kingdoms
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TW
Windows
Build and explore in this tile placing citybuilding roguelite!
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Hex Grid 14% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #30 Nova Roma
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
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: Grand Strategy 21.7% ★, City Builder 15.1%, 4X 13.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★
- #31 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
77% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Grand Strategy 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, 4X 11.8% ★
- #32 Whiskerwood
75% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, City Builder 15%, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%
- #33 Make the Empire Great Again
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Hex Grid 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #34 Settle and Battle: New Empires
76% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Attic Games Studio
Windows · Mac
A homage to classic real-time strategy games. Gather resources, build an empire, and command powerful armies to conquer the world. Lead six unique tribes, expand your territory, and engage in epic battles with hundreds of units on screen. Dominate in 18 missions and procedurally generated maps!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #35 Derelict Void
78% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Stirling Games
Windows · Linux
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Roguelite 13%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 12.4%
- #36 Harrowlands
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Management 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #37 Offshore Prophets
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #38 Kingdom's Deck
73% 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 17.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Card Game 11.9%, Management 8.1%
- #39 Monarchs at Play
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGamesPub: Looking for Publisher
Windows
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.6% ★, 4X 20.9% ★, Hex Grid 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Strategy 7%
- #40 Antimatter
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Base Building 10.2%
- #41 Settlements Rising
72% 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Medieval 9.9%
- #42 Havenreach: Last Refuge
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leonix Games Studio
Windows
Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.
Why similar: Hex Grid 20.8% ★, 4X 20% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 10%
- #43 Norland
71% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Grand Strategy 21% ★, City Builder 14.8%, 4X 14.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, Base Building 12%
- #44 Yield! Fall of Rome
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 258 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: Hex Grid 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, 4X 15.6% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Management 7.9%
- #45 Windowed Realms
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 9.3%
- #46 Astro Architect
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Crown Studio
Windows · Linux
Astro Architect is a city-builder game, where your employees' votes define what you build. As an architect working for the corporation, build your own space station, expand your influence, take care of your employees' needs, manage logistics and space expeditions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 15.6%, Card Game 13.8%, Resource Management 10%
- #47 Manor Lords
69% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Grand Strategy 21% ★, 4X 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Base Building 12%
- #48 Scorchlands
70% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Hex Grid 27.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #49 Empires of the Undergrowth
69% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, 4X 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%
- #50 Island Master
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Management 10%, Base Building 9.6%
- #51 Hexarchy
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,534 reviews2023
Dev: Main Tank SoftwarePub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hexarchy is an innovative, fast-paced, historical 4x strategy game where you use cards and deckbuilding to make your decisions. Single-player and online multiplayer.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Hex Grid 20% ★, 4X 16.2% ★, Card Game 9.5%, Deckbuilding 9.4%
- #52 Heart of the Machine
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8% ★, City Builder 14.6%, 4X 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%
- #53 Harvest Dice: Abundia’s Blessing
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SingularMeasure StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Harvest Dice: Abundia's Blessing is a dice and card-driven roguelike settlement-building game, where you must allocate dice, trigger cards, and generate resources to develop your settlement. Will your expedition endure the relentless trials and survive the biting blizzards?
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Card Game 16.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%
- #54 Hexiv
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Graeme Little
Windows
Hexiv is a strategy deckbuilder about surviving on a lush but hostile planet. Use cards to build, explore and feed your crew while battling a determined adversary to unlock the mysteries of this genre-blending roguelike!
Why similar: Hex Grid 23.2% ★, 4X 17% ★, Deckbuilding 11.1%, Card Game 9.6%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #55 Reshaping Mars
68% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.3% ★, 4X 16.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Management 8.1%
- #56 City of Cards
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grenoble Interactive
Windows
City of Cards takes the best aspects of City Builders and Deckbuilding Card Games, then fuses it into something completely new and innovative. Build cities, watch them thrive, respond to various exciting events, assemble your own custom deck and create your City of Cards!
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Card Game 15.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 13%, Deckbuilding 11.9%
- #57 Kolo
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Medieval 11.5%, Resource Management 11%
- #58 Myriads: Renaissance
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, 4X 20.7% ★, Hex Grid 12.7% ★, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #59 Kingdom Islands
66% 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 27.3%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Medieval 13.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #60 Buggos
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,349 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.8% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 7.3%