- #1 Diplomacy is Not an Option
97% matchVery Positive86% of 12,713 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Action RTS 10.6% ★, RTS 10.3%, Tower Defense 10%
- #2 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.6%, RTS 13%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 7.4%
- #3 War Selection
96% matchVery Positive85% of 23,654 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: RTS 33.1%, Base Building 30.1%, Strategy 17.2%, War 9.4%, Survival 4.9%
- #4 Kingdoms and Castles
95% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 21.3%, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 6.7%
- #5 Oxygen: First Breath
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #6 Castle Empire
93% matchMixed51% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, RTS 30.5%, Strategy 13.7%, War 8.7%, 3D 4.5%
- #7 Here Comes The Swarm
91% matchVery Positive86% of 380 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 17.3%, RTS 12.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Action RTS 11.6% ★, Tower Defense 10.7%
- #8 First Feudal
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.6%, Medieval 8.6%
- #9 Final War: Frozen Defense
91% matchMixed47% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map
Why similar: RTS 22.6%, Tower Defense 22.2%, City Builder 21%, Medieval 11.3%, Strategy 9.9%
- #10 Mountaincore
89% matchMixed65% of 268 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 8.1%
- #11 Settler's Domain
89% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #12 Hearthlands
90% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 25.8%, RTS 14.3%, Medieval 8.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #13 Settlements Rising
88% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Tower Defense 7.6%, Building 7.3%
- #14 Thronefall
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,759 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Tower Defense 23.9%, Action RTS 13.6% ★, Medieval 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%
- #15 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue
86% matchVery Positive87% of 983 reviews2020
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Medieval 16%, Economy 15.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 11%
- #16 Night is Coming
84% matchMixed63% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, RTS 15.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%
- #17 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
85% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 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: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 32.5%, Medieval 7%, Strategy 6.6%, Building 6.6%
- #18 Stronghold Kingdoms
84% matchMixed64% of 9,589 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 87.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Strategy 14.4%, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 10.5%
- #19 Foundation
81% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 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 34.3%, Colony Sim 12%, Medieval 9.6%, RTS 6.8%, Building 6.7%
- #20 Surviving the Aftermath
82% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 29.7%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #21 Manor Lords
80% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 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: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.2%
- #22 Noble's Life: Kingdom Reborn - Prologue
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Gentle GriffonsPub: Concept Lab Sp. z o.o.
Windows
Experience the first months after a brutal assault on your own estate in the free prologue of a realistic simulator of a medieval noble combined with a strategy game of historical depth. Manage your town and villages and make decisions in non-linear events.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Medieval 18.7%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Economy 12.2%
- #23 Dungeon Overseer
83% matchMixed55% of 51 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 27.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.2%, Economy 9%
- #24 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
81% matchVery Positive86% of 133 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: City Builder 59.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Base Building 17.1%, 3D 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #25 DSS war party
79% matchVery Positive93% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: vikingfabian
Windows
A real-time grand strategy game set in a low fantasy world. Recruit vast armies to conquer the world. Dominate through strategic resource management and production chains.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 22.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Medieval 12.7%, Economy 11.5%
- #26 Becastled
77% matchVery Positive82% of 5,625 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 15.9%, RTS 12.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #27 Norland
78% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 12.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.1%
- #28 Scarecropia
78% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: JYP Studio
Windows
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Action RTS 13.6% ★, Tower Defense 12.6%, RTS 11.4%
- #29 Going Medieval
75% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.3%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 15.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 8%
- #30 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 499 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
Windows
Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.
Why similar: City Builder 52.8%, Strategy 21.3%, Medieval 15.6%, Survival 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #31 World Of Conquerors - Origins
79% matchMixed66% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Grow your empire and dominate the world in this 100% free game, either through diplomacy or destruction. Forge alliances or go it alone, play as loyal men, elegant elves or brutish orcs.
Why similar: Strategy 44%, City Builder 39.3%, Medieval 14.3%, Fantasy 2.5%
- #32 Settlement Survival
76% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 26.6%, Colony Sim 26%, Building 10.8%, Management 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%
- #33 City States: Medieval
73% matchMixed63% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, RTS 17.5%, Action RTS 16.3% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #34 Machinefall
72% matchVery Positive83% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, RTS 18.1%, Action RTS 15.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 7.3%
- #35 Little Kingdom RTS
73% matchVery Positive87% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
Windows
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
Why similar: RTS 17.3%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Action RTS 14% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Medieval 8.4%
- #36 March of Empires
76% matchMixed62% of 1,872 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 76.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Action RTS 17.9% ★, RTS 17.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Medieval 11%
- #37 Colonize Prologue
74% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 22.6%, RTS 13.4%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.5%
- #38 Pioneers of Pagonia
70% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 19.9%, City Builder 16.2%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.6%
- #39 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
69% matchVery Positive92% of 11,793 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 17.8%, RTS 11.1%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #40 Against the Storm
70% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.4%
- #41 Kingdom Wars
75% matchMixed67% of 2,801 reviews2013
Dev: Reverie World Studios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
Why similar: RTS 32.5%, Strategy 21.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Medieval 12.5%, Building 12%
- #42 Andalia
73% matchVery Positive85% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Joel St.Pub: Sundust
Windows
Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.
Why similar: RTS 33.8%, Base Building 22.9%, Medieval 11.7%, Strategy 11.3%, War 8.1%
- #43 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.7%
- #44 Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive97% of 373 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 15.5%, Building 13.2%, Management 12.9%
- #45 Empires and Tribes
72% matchMixed66% of 420 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: City Builder 25.3%, RTS 15.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Medieval 10.1%
- #46 World Of Conquerors
74% matchMixed61% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Build your cities, manage resources, train soldiers and fight for supremacy in a vast world with other player controlled empires
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #47 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
68% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 13.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.8%
- #48 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Building 17%, Economy 14.1%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 10.6%
- #49 Kingdoms Reborn
68% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 21.4%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 7.7%, Management 5.8%
- #50 CivIdle
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,131 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 23.9%, Medieval 12.3%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.2%
- #51 Tribal Wars
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 841 reviews2020
Dev: InnoGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 47.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Compete in hardcore PvP strategy in persistent game worlds where real time resource and troop management in coordination with other players is required to expand your kingdom from one village to hundreds as you conquer the map in this winner takes all medieval contest.
Why similar: Base Building 36.8%, Strategy 24.7%, Medieval 16.7%, Tactical 11.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #52 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
66% matchVery Positive87% of 10,396 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 17.5%, RTS 12.6%, Tower Defense 11%, Base Building 9%
- #53 Colonize
67% matchMostly Negative41% of 212 reviews2026
Dev: Rembrosoft
Windows
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 21.4%, RTS 18%, Action RTS 15.2% ★, Strategy 7.2%
- #54 Infection Free Zone
65% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 19.1%, RTS 14%, Strategy 7.5%
- #55 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
67% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.5%, Strategy 17.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Economy 7.1%, Management 5.4%
- #56 Farthest Frontier
63% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 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 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.9%, RTS 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%