Games Like Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

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 24.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Action RTS 10.3% ★, RTS 10.2%, Tower Defense 10%

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%, Base Building 20.9%, Strategy 14.4%, War 7.7%

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 19.5%, City Builder 18.2%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 7.7%

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 21.3%, City Builder 20.9%, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 6.8%

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 22.5%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%

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 30%, Strategy 17.4%, War 9.4%, Survival 4.9%

Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map

Why similar: RTS 22.5%, Tower Defense 22.2%, City Builder 20.7%, Medieval 11.3%, Strategy 10.2%

Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, RTS 30.4%, Strategy 14%, War 8.7%, 3D 4.5%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 9.9%, Medieval 9.2%, Base Building 7.3%

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 25.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.6%, Medieval 8.6%

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 17.2%, RTS 11.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Action RTS 11.5% ★, Tower Defense 10.5%

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 23.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Tower Defense 7.7%, Building 7.4%

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: City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Medieval 12.2%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%

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 25.6%, Colony Sim 25.4%, RTS 14.2%, Medieval 8.1%, Strategy 8%

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 20.7%, Economy 16%, Medieval 15.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 11.2%

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 28.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.4%

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 22.1%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.5%, Medieval 8.2%

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 35.9%, City Builder 32.2%, Medieval 7.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 6.6%

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 33.7%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Medieval 9.5%, Strategy 6.9%, RTS 6.8%

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%, Base Building 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.9%, RTS 12.2%, Strategy 7.7%

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 26.8%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 9.3%, Building 9.2%

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 10.7%

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 29.1%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Survival 7.6%

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 22.5%, Medieval 18.4%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Economy 12.5%

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 17.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Action RTS 13.3% ★, Tower Defense 12.7%, RTS 11.4%

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 25.9%, Base Building 23.8%, Medieval 12.2%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.2%

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 59.1%, Strategy 18.3%, Base Building 17.3%, 3D 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 26.1%, Strategy 22.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Medieval 12.6%, Economy 11.8%

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 52.1%, Strategy 21.9%, Medieval 15.7%, Survival 9.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 44.8%, City Builder 38.5%, Medieval 14.3%, Fantasy 2.5%

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 17%, RTS 17%, Action RTS 13.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Medieval 8.4%

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 24.5%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Tower Defense 12.7%, Base Building 9.3%

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 25.8%, City Builder 22.3%, RTS 13.3%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.7%

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 24.9%, RTS 15.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Medieval 10.2%

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 20.7%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 7.9%

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 27.3%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 9.7%, Management 8.5%

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 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%

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 17.6% ★, RTS 17.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Medieval 11%

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 19.5%, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 13%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.7%

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 19.6%, Colony Sim 17.3%, RTS 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%

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 33.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Medieval 9.6%, Building 7.4%

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 21.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.6%, Medieval 8.1%

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 27.6%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 11.2%, RTS 7.7%, Management 6%

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 33.3%, Base Building 23%, Medieval 11.7%, Strategy 11.5%, War 8.1%

Build your cities, manage resources, train soldiers and fight for supremacy in a vast world with other player controlled empires

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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 32.2%, Strategy 21.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Medieval 12.5%, Building 12.1%

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 24.6%, City Builder 21.3%, RTS 18.1%, Action RTS 15% ★, Strategy 7.4%

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 7.7%

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 31.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Economy 15.9%, Management 13.1%, Building 13.1%

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: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 11.1%, RTS 10.8%, Base Building 8.5%

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 35.4%, Building 16.9%, Economy 14.5%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 10.7%

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 22.7%, Tower Defense 20%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 8.6%

The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 14.4%, Building 13.7%, Survival 10.7%

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 45.6%, Strategy 17.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Economy 7.4%, Management 5.6%

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%, Colony Sim 17.6%, RTS 12.2%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%

Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 14.2%, Action RTS 12.9% ★, Strategy 7.1%

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 19.5%, Management 17.3%, Medieval 17%, Strategy 15.3%, War 12.3%