- #1 Diplomacy is Not an Option
97% matchVery Positive85% of 11,517 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Medieval 10.1%, Action RTS 10% ★, RTS 9.6%
- #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 19.4% ★, City Builder 18.1%, RTS 12.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 7.9%
- #3 Oxygen: First Breath
96% 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: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #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 27.8%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Medieval 8.1%, Building 7.8%, Base Building 6.7%
- #5 Hearthlands
94% 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 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, RTS 13.8%, Medieval 8.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #6 First Feudal
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.5%, Medieval 8.7%
- #7 Castle Empire
92% matchMixed57% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, RTS 30.3%, Strategy 14.1%, War 8.6%, 3D 4.5%
- #8 Becastled
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 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 18.2%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, RTS 12.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #9 Final War: Frozen Defense
91% matchMixed46% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map
Why similar: RTS 22.3%, Tower Defense 22.1%, City Builder 20.8%, Medieval 11.6%, Strategy 10.2%
- #10 Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
90% matchVery Positive85% of 52,705 reviews2020
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 43.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
Why similar: RTS 25%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 20.5%, Strategy 14.5%, War 7.5%
- #11 Night is Coming
89% matchMixed66% of 441 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 20.7% ★, RTS 15.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%
- #12 War Selection
89% matchVery Positive85% of 23,033 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 27.4 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 32.9%, Base Building 29.9%, Strategy 17.4%, War 9.1%, Management 5%
- #13 Settlements Rising
87% 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: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Tower Defense 7.6%, Building 7.3%
- #14 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue
88% matchVery Positive87% of 982 reviews2020
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.3 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 20.3%, Economy 16.3%, Medieval 15.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Management 11.4%
- #15 Norland
86% 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: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.2%, Economy 8.7%
- #16 Surviving the Aftermath
86% 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 29.2%, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 7.6%
- #17 Foundation
84% 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 33.5%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★, Medieval 9.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Building 6.7%
- #18 Settlement Survival
84% 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 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Building 9.8%, Medieval 9.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #19 Farthest Frontier
82% 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 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, RTS 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%
- #20 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
85% 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: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Medieval 7.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 6.6%
- #21 Mountaincore
83% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
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% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.7%
- #22 Scarecropia
82% matchVery Positive90% of 61 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 17.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Action RTS 13.6% ★, Tower Defense 12.6%, RTS 11.3%
- #23 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 27.5%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 11%, RTS 7.6%, Management 6.3%
- #24 Conan Unconquered
81% matchMixed68% of 1,848 reviews2019
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
Why similar: RTS 23.8%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 16.9%, Tower Defense 12.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #25 Little Kingdom RTS
79% matchVery Positive86% of 65 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: Tower Defense 16.8%, RTS 16.8%, Action RTS 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Medieval 8.6%
- #26 Noble's Life: Kingdom Reborn - Prologue
78% matchMixed70% of 76 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 22.1%, Medieval 18.6%, Building 16%, Strategy 13.8%, Economy 12.7%
- #27 Dungeon Overseer
79% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 14%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.1%
- #28 Going Medieval
74% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.1% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 10%, Management 8.7%
- #29 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
78% matchVery Positive85% of 131 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 23%
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 59.2%, Strategy 18.4%, Base Building 17.1%, 3D 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #30 DSS war party
76% matchVery Positive93% of 95 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 25.9%, Strategy 22.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Medieval 12.8%, Economy 12.1%
- #31 Colonize Prologue
77% 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: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 22.2%, RTS 13.2%, Building 9.5%, Management 8%
- #32 Empires and Tribes
76% 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: City Builder 25%, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Medieval 10.4%
- #33 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 471 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%, Strategy 21.7%, Medieval 16%, Survival 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #34 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: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 13%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.8%
- #35 World Of Conquerors - Origins
77% matchMixed66% of 91 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 44.7%, City Builder 38.4%, Medieval 14.5%, Fantasy 2.4%
- #36 Manor Lords
72% 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: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #37 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive86% of 9,888 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, RTS 12.2%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 9%
- #38 Pioneers of Pagonia
71% 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 19.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 7.6%
- #39 Stronghold Kingdoms
75% matchMixed64% of 9,483 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Strategy 14.9%, RTS 13.6%, Base Building 10.6%
- #40 Against the Storm
70% 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: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.4%, Economy 8.5%
- #41 Civitatem
74% 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 33.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 7.3%
- #42 Here Comes The Swarm
71% 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 18.1% ★, RTS 12.5%, Action RTS 12.1% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Tower Defense 11%
- #43 Andalia
73% matchVery Positive85% of 54 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 31.9%, Base Building 22%, Medieval 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%, War 7.7%
- #44 Exodus Borealis
72% matchVery Positive86% of 302 reviews2021
Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
Windows
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #45 Dwarf Fortress
68% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.8%
- #46 Anno 1701 History Edition
69% matchVery Positive86% of 194 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 14.1%, Action RTS 13.1% ★, Strategy 7%
- #47 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
69% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 29.5% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.9%
- #48 March of Empires
71% matchMixed63% of 1,811 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 20.2%, Action RTS 17.9% ★, RTS 16.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Medieval 11.3%
- #49 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 35%, Building 16.6%, Economy 14.7%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 10.6%
- #50 Anno 1602 History Edition
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 19%, RTS 14.1%, Action RTS 13.2% ★, Strategy 7.3%
- #51 Infection Free Zone
66% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 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 24.6%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 18.6%, RTS 14.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #52 Thronefall
64% 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 23.6%, Tower Defense 23.5%, Action RTS 13.8% ★, Medieval 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%
- #53 Dawn of Man
67% 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 37.8%, Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Survival 7.2%, RTS 5.2%
- #54 Founders' Fortune
67% 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 35.1% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #55 World Of Conquerors
70% matchMixed61% of 98 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%
- #56 CivIdle
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 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 25.6%, Base Building 23.4%, Medieval 12.5%, Management 12%, Building 10.1%
- #57 Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,551 reviews2020
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Management 17.1%, Medieval 16.6%, Strategy 14.5%, War 11.5%