Games Like Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Steampunk 21.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core concept of managing a flying city that must explore and gather resources while maintaining lift and balance.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Automation 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You build your settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature, emphasizing the theme of a nomadic base in a dangerous world.

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing a floating city in a post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the survival and mobility aspects of the seed game.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features procedural maps and a nomadic structure where you must constantly build, abandon, and move to survive.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 30%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly combines complex automation chains with intense tower defense mechanics, capturing the logistical and combat loop of the seed game.

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 35.6%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a massive, mobile space station that serves as the last hope for humanity, requiring careful resource management and survival strategy.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 8%, City Builder 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation, it requires building complex supply chains while defending your base against waves of hostile creatures.

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on automation and base-building with a unique programming-based approach that rewards complex logistical planning.

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 26.6%, Automation 20.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical building and complex water management, providing a satisfying engineering challenge within a survival city-builder framework.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and environmental hazards.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Steampunk 20.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a high-stakes survival city-builder experience where every decision is critical to keeping your society alive in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

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

Why similar: Automation 18.2%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set on a flooded planet where your town is a collection of scavenged debris that must be kept afloat.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: You must build and manage a city in a post-apocalyptic world while dealing with oxygen production and extreme survival conditions.

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

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Steampunk 20% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a charming mix of city-building and underground resource management that feels accessible yet strategically deep.

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: Base Building 32%, Resource Management 19.9%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city-building with massive-scale tower defense, focusing on the combat and fortification aspects found in the seed game.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game challenges you to build vertical cities on cliffs to survive a post-apocalyptic world, echoing the spatial constraints of flying cities.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Base Building 22.6%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a mobile base in the form of a train that you upgrade and defend while traveling through a surreal, dangerous dimension.

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on creating massive, interconnected automation networks to maximize resource efficiency.

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 33.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires managing a colony while dealing with environmental disasters and external threats.

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Automation 25.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on automation that incorporates exploration and creature-based logistics in a vibrant, procedurally generated world.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 14.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox that offers unparalleled freedom in base-building and survival within a brutal, unforgiving post-apocalyptic setting.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly merges automation and tower defense, requiring you to build factories that produce ammunition for your defenses.

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: City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that features deep vertical building mechanics, allowing for complex fortifications and multi-level base designs.

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Strategy 24.8%, Base Building 24.3%, Management 19.9%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game where you manage a train carrying soldiers across a war-torn landscape, emphasizing the nomadic survival experience.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 31.8%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game scales the automation concept to a galactic level, focusing on massive logistical networks and resource extraction.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Automation 24.5%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 8.6%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and crafting, allowing players to build complex production chains in a voxel-based world.

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 29.2%, Survival 13.6%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder that uses dice as a core mechanic to manage your population and resources in a harsh environment.

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

Why similar: Steampunk 23.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 11%, Procedural Generation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world game featuring airship combat and base-building, capturing the spirit of aerial exploration and defense.

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: City Builder 32.4%, Tower Defense 22.4%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines god-game mechanics with survival city-building and tower defense, creating a chaotic and challenging experience.

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 7.9%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Survival 15.1%, Steampunk 12.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Resource Management 8.5%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Steampunk 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.8%

Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

Why similar: Automation 29%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game turns tower defense on its head by forcing you to automate the production of resources from the enemies you defeat.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Management 9.2%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 9%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 9.7%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 23.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 8.4%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Automation 22.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Management 7.8%

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Survival 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 9.7%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.3%

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: City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.4%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 36%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 7.1%

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.9%

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Sandbox 10%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Automation 22.8%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 7.2%

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Tower Defense 14.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Automation 31.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.1%, Management 10.1%

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: City Builder 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Automation 20.7%, City Builder 18.2%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 10%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Steampunk 30.8% ★, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 6.3%

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%

An alchemical automation game of logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element offers unique tools for power, transport, and defense, rewarding adaptation and experimentation. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this Hex-Grid sandbox.

Why similar: Automation 30.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8.8%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Automation 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 7.9%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Management 9.2%, Economy 7.2%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Sandbox 22%, City Builder 17.4%, Crafting 16.6%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 5.9%

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Procedural Generation 22.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Sandbox 17.7%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.9%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Survival 14.5%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Management 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%