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Games Like Dice Legacy

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Survival, Management.

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Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Reviews: Mixed — 68% — of 1,050 reviews
Released: 2021-09-09
Developer: DESTINYbit
Publisher: Amplifier Studios
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.4 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 85%

Overview

Dice Legacy stands out by blending the high-stakes tension of a survival city-builder with the unpredictable, tactile nature of dice-rolling mechanics. These recommendations prioritize games that feature roguelite progression, board-game aesthetics, or unique resource-management systems that force you to adapt to randomized challenges.

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  1. #1 dotAGE
    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,581 reviews2023
    Dev: Michele Pirovano
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

    Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Board Game 15.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9%

    Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, board-game inspired survival city-builder that emphasizes managing limited resources against impending doom.

  2. #2 Against the Storm
    96% 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: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.3%

    Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder perfectly captures the high-pressure, run-based survival loop found in Dice Legacy.

  3. #3 The Wandering Village
    95% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 23.3%, Colony Sim 20.7%, RTS 12.1%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder set on the back of a giant creature, focusing on symbiotic management and environmental hazards.

  4. #4 Landnama
    96% 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: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Survival 11%, Roguelite 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A minimalist roguelite survival city-builder that focuses on efficient expansion and resource management under pressure.

  5. #5 Dice Kingdoms
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 672 reviews2024
    Dev: Fivemid Studio
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Compete against friends in games filled with unpredictable twists and turns. Roll the dice to gather resources and test your adaptability. Lead your kingdom to success through military power, religious knowledge, or architectural ingenuity.

    Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Medieval 14.7%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Colorful 6.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A board-game style strategy game where dice rolls determine your ability to expand, defend, and thrive.

  6. #6 Stacklands
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

    Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Management 18%, Survival 17.8%, Roguelite 13.9%, Building 9%

    Why You'll Like It: This card-based village builder shares the tactile, board-game feel of managing resources through randomized draws.

  7. #7 As Far As The Eye
    93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,112 reviews2020
    Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

    Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Survival 9.9%, Roguelike 9.1%, Board Game 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, tabletop-inspired strategy game where you guide a tribe on a nomadic journey to survive.

  8. #8 Cardboard Town
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
    Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

    Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Roguelite 13.6%, Management 12.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that utilizes a card-based system to manage development, mirroring the strategic randomness of dice.

  9. #9 Drill Core
    91% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
    Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    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 24%, City Builder 20.9%, Roguelite 10.4%, Roguelike 10.2%, Base Building 9%

    Why You'll Like It: A roguelite colony-sim that emphasizes tower defense and resource extraction in a hostile, ever-changing environment.

  10. #10 IXION
    91% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 26.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 7.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that requires strict management of resources and crew morale to survive a perilous journey.

  11. #11 Endzone - A World Apart
    90% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 33.5%, Survival 13.6%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Real-Time 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%

    Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses heavily on survival mechanics and managing complex environmental threats.

  12. #12 Frostpunk
    89% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 29.4%, Colony Sim 20%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 6.1%

    Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival city-builder that forces difficult moral choices and intense resource management during a harsh winter.

  13. #13 Ratropolis
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 5,484 reviews2020
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

    Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Roguelite 22.4%, Roguelike 20%, Survival 19%, Strategy 12.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This card-based city-builder combines real-time defense and resource management with a roguelike progression structure.

  14. #14 New Cycle
    88% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

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

  15. #15 Settlement Survival
    87% 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Survival 10%, Management 8.7%, Medieval 8.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival city-builder that challenges players to manage populations and resources through harsh climate changes.

  16. #16 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    86% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony-sim that emphasizes survival and efficient base construction on dangerous alien worlds.

  17. #17 Kingdom's Deck
    85% 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 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.3%, Roguelike 7.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of city-building and deck-building mechanics that forces strategic choices in every turn.

  18. #18 Odd Realm
    84% 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: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9%

    Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-sim with a focus on survival, crafting, and managing a population in a procedurally generated world.

  19. #19 Gord
    86% matchMixed54% of 976 reviews2023
    Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.

    Why similar: Real-Time 22.8%, Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 15.7%, RTS 13.2%, Survival 9.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy colony-sim that blends survival, management, and adventure in an atmospheric, hostile setting.

  20. #20 Foundation
    82% 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 36.6%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Medieval 8.4%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and population management in a medieval setting.

  21. #21 Timberborn
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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 31.5%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Survival 10.5%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 10%

    Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder featuring unique water-management mechanics and beaver-based colony development.

  22. #22 Planetbase
    83% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 27.4%, City Builder 27.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 5.3%

    Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim where survival depends on managing oxygen, power, and food in a harsh, isolated environment.

  23. #23 Seeds of Resilience
    84% 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 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Management 8.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful planning and resource gathering to survive natural disasters.

  24. #24 Kingdoms Reborn
    81% 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 30.4%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 8.5%, RTS 7.8%, Management 7.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that incorporates card-based upgrades and survival management.

  25. #25 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    82% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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 28.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game that focuses on building a settlement and defending it against nightly threats.

  26. #26 Thronefall
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,563 reviews2024
    Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

    Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Medieval 14.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that distills city-building and defense into a tight, satisfying loop.

  27. #27 SteamWorld Build
    79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
    Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

    Why similar: City Builder 35%, Resource Management 14%, Management 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that combines surface management with underground mining and resource extraction.

  28. #28 Ancient Cities
    81% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
    Dev: Uncasual Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    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 28.7%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Survival 12.7%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Management 7.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that incorporates survival elements and realistic population management.

  29. #29 Terra Nil
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
    Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

    Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Atmospheric 7.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A reverse city-builder that focuses on environmental restoration and strategic resource placement.

  30. #30 Oxygen
    77% 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 23%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

  31. #31 Patron
    77% 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 26.2%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 6.6%, Management 6.4%

  32. #32 Mini Settlers
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

    Why similar: Real-Time 26.2%, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 9%, Management 8%

  33. #33 Settlements Rising
    74% 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 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 7.2%, Survival 6.9%

  34. #34 Randoville
    76% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
    Dev: AVE Team
    Windows

    Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!

    Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.2%, RTS 12%, Roguelite 8.6%, Management 8%

  35. #35 Farthest Frontier
    72% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
    Dev: Crate Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.5%, RTS 13.1%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 7.8%

  36. #36 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    73% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.9%, RTS 12.9%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.6%

  37. #37 pyramida
    76% matchVery Positive84% of 743 reviews2020
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

    Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Survival 14.6%, RTS 14.3%, Strategy 13.3%

  38. #38 Surviving the Aftermath
    75% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 32.3%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

  39. #39 Humanica
    71% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
    Windows

    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 21.8%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Survival 10%, Management 9%, Base Building 7.9%

  40. #40 Endzone 2
    73% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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 19.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Real-Time 18.2%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 6.9%

  41. #41 Flotsam
    71% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%

  42. #42 Civitatem
    75% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
    Dev: LW Games
    Windows

    Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

    Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9%

  43. #43 Founders' Fortune
    73% 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 31.1%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 7.6%, Building 6.2%

  44. #44 Pioneers of Pagonia
    69% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
    Dev: Envision Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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 18.4%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Resource Management 8.2%

  45. #45 The Universim
    71% 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: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Survival 10.5%, Management 8.5%, Building 8%

  46. #46 Banished
    72% 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 34.6%, Colony Sim 31.2%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 6.2%, Medieval 4.4%

  47. #47 Farlanders
    70% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
    Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.7%

  48. #48 Kingdoms and Castles
    70% 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 31.1%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Medieval 7.2%, Building 6.1%, Strategy 5.5%

  49. #49 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

    Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 9.2%

  50. #50 Edge Islands
    68% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.4%

  51. #51 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

    Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Survival 13.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%

  52. #52 Here Comes The Swarm
    65% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
    Dev: CableHook Games
    Windows

    Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, RTS 15.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%

  53. #53 These Doomed Isles
    67% matchMostly Positive72% of 221 reviews2024
    Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

    Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Roguelike 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 10.3%

  54. #54 Buoyancy
    70% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.4%, RTS 7.9%

  55. #55 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 33.3%, Colony Sim 30.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.7%, Medieval 5.9%

  56. #56 Empires and Tribes
    67% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
    Dev: White Vertex Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

    Why similar: Real-Time 26.9%, City Builder 21.3%, RTS 12.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.1%

  57. #57 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
    69% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2017
    Dev: ActaLogic
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

    Why similar: Real-Time 26%, City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.9%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 6%

  58. #58 Of Life and Land
    64% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
    Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    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 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 8%

  59. #59 Ratopia
    63% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.3%

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