Games Like dotAGE

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 25.3%, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Building 11.8%, Roguelite 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like dotAGE, it combines rogue-lite structure with demanding city-building and resource management against a hostile apocalypse.

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: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares dotAGE's turn-based, strategic approach to colonizing a harsh environment with tight resource constraints.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 30.4%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar god-game and village-management survival vibe with pixel graphics and relentless enemy attacks.

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: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 24.5%, Roguelite 13.6%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist survival roguelite city-builder matches dotAGE's focus on brutal resource management and bleak survival odds.

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Board Game 19.7%, Resource Management 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic puzzle city-builder that requires careful planning and resource management to help your tiny folk survive.

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: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 28.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Survival 8.9%, Roguelike 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique village-management survival experience where your settlement must adapt to environmental hazards.

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: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You must build and survive on isolated lands against divine wrath, much like managing your followers through the apocalypse in dotAGE.

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: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Tabletop 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based resource management roguelike city-builder has you constantly moving a tribe away from a looming flood.

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: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 24.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 12%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it challenges you to rebuild civilization while managing scarce resources and survival needs.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Board Game 15.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique tabletop-inspired mechanic utilizing dice rolls to manage your medieval society through survival crises.

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 36.2%, Colony Sim 30.7%, Survival 14.5%, Building 7.5%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with building a colony and keeping survivors alive in a harsh post-apocalyptic landscape full of disaster risks.

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 29.7%, City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder where you must protect your settlement from relentless environmental dangers.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval colony sim focuses deeply on micro-management, production chains, and keeping your villagers alive.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 20.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Building 11%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim with a distinct pixel art style where you guide a group of settlers through dangerous randomized worlds.

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 41.4%, Colony Sim 38.5%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 2.9%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Guiding a settlement through prehistoric ages requires the same meticulous resource tracking and survival focus found in dotAGE.

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 29.7%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Building 13.2%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges you to manage a growing populace and survive seasonal disasters using careful town-planning and logistics.

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: Turn-Based 20.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based historical strategy game focusing on resource management, growth, and surviving historical perils.

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

Why similar: Turn-Based 27.4%, Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 17%, Survival 8.5%, Roguelike 8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based rogue-like survival strategy game featuring procedural elements and tactical resource choices.

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Building 11.5%, Roguelite 10.7%, Difficult 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric strategy survival game where keeping your primitive community alive requires harsh choices and resource management.

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 27.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Building 11.5%, Medieval 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You build a medieval settlement and manage workers directly, sharing dotAGE's focus on assigning tasks for survival.

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 41.6%, City Builder 24.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation where you manage colonist needs, defend against threats, and build a thriving community.

A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Tabletop 22.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Roguelike 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike hex-based strategy game featuring tabletop-inspired mechanics and turn-based decision making.

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 26.4%, City Builder 19.8%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Difficult 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with survival elements as you guide a civilization of rats through economic and environmental threats.

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: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival settlement game where nature throws constant disasters at you that must be overcome with smart crafting.

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 15.3%, Roguelike 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony survival game set on an unforgiving alien world with severe resource management challenges.

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 34.3%, City Builder 30.8%, Resource Management 20.2%, Medieval 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder focusing heavily on supply chains, resource management, and villager survival.

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.7%, City Builder 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: An older strategy simulation emphasizing survival and civilization growth under strict resource constraints.

A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Turn-Based 21.9%, Roguelite 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelike 9.7%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Resource Management 19.4%, Building 10.3%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic simulation focusing on colony expansion and careful resource allocation on new worlds.

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, City Builder 22.5%, Survival 14.1%, Building 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

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 28.7%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Survival 11.8%, Building 9.3%

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A mystical management game centered entirely around defending a single bastion against apocalyptic doom.

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

Why similar: Turn-Based 19.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A primitive era strategy game where you guide early humans through the perils of survival.

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, Survival 16%, Resource Management 15.8%, Medieval 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 7%

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 41.6%, Resource Management 17.5%, Survival 11.3%, Medieval 10.6%, Building 9.9%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 29.6%, Survival 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Resource Management 7%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Tabletop 14.7%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Survival 11%

Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.6%, Roguelite 17.1%, Roguelike 15.5%, Survival 13.3%, Turn-Based 12.9%

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 26%, Resource Management 12.9%, Roguelite 11%, Roguelike 8.5%

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 33.6%, City Builder 31.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 7.1%, Building 6.9%

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 28.9%, City Builder 27.1%, Resource Management 15%, Building 10%, Medieval 8%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 27.8%, Building 13%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 9.9%

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 32.5%, City Builder 27.9%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.1%, Simulation 4.2%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Survival 10.9%, Building 9.9%

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 27.2%, Tabletop 18.3%, Survival 16.1%, Roguelite 16%, Building 12.7%

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 41.6%, Colony Sim 39.5%, Survival 18.8%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Roguelite 10.8%, Building 8.5%

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Resource Management 25%, Roguelite 24.2%, Roguelike 3.5%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: City Builder 31%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Roguelite 15.1%, Building 10.8%, Funny 9.2%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, City Builder 30.1%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 4.6%

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 33.6%, City Builder 24.7%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 9.7%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Building 16.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Survival 9.2%

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Turn-Based 40.2%, Survival 22.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Roguelite 10.3%, Roguelike 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.2%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 24.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 12.2%, Survival 11.5%

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 32.2%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 12%, Survival 10.2%

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 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.8%, Roguelite 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Medieval 10.5%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 29.8%, Resource Management 18.6%, Medieval 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Resource Management 21.1%, Roguelite 15.5%, Roguelike 13.2%, Medieval 11.4%

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: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 27%, Resource Management 17.1%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.4%