Games Like Dwelvers

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 23.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Underground 15.3% ★, God Game 12.4% ★, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest modern spiritual successor to the classic dungeon-building genre, featuring deep management and RTS combat.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 33.5% ★, Underground 24.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dungeon building with roguelike elements and a deep simulation of underground life.

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.2% ★, God Game 19.1% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished dungeon management game that balances base-building with real-time strategy missions.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: God Game 47.4% ★, Villain Protagonist 30.3% ★, Strategy 12.6%, Base Building 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive classic that established the core mechanics of underground lair management and minion control.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 44.4% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Building 9.1%, Management 9%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the villain-protagonist experience with intricate base-building and trap placement mechanics.

Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 36.7% ★, God Game 17.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A villain-protagonist simulator that focuses on causing chaos and managing your domain through dark magic.

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: Base Building 25.9%, Management 19%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 18.1%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation of underground life and logistics available, perfect for players who love complex management.

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 31.6%, Building 31%, God Game 11.8% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features extensive underground mining, resource management, and base-building that mirrors the core loop of Dwelvers.

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!

Why similar: Base Building 20%, Management 17.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous take on dungeon management that emphasizes building, staff management, and sandbox gameplay.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: God Game 25.8% ★, Base Building 24.9%, Management 17%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim with strong underground building and survival elements that rewards careful resource management.

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 40.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a monster-filled lair and managing the daily operations of a villainous household.

The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 45.7% ★, Management 15.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Fantasy 7.3%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a solid bridge between classic dungeon management and the more refined RTS mechanics of its sequels.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Management 18%, Building 16.5%, Resource Management 15.4%, Fantasy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on underground logistics, vertical mining, and the management of a dwarven colony.

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51.5% ★, Base Building 22.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Management 5.9%, Building 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original base-building villain simulator that defined the genre's focus on traps and henchmen.

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: God Game 23.3% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Management 13.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous management game about building a hellish dungeon and managing the souls within.

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: God Game 33.5% ★, Base Building 28.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game elements with resource management and base defense in a challenging, dark fantasy setting.

Build your dungeon & protect it with a labyrinth of dark corridors, a web of deadly traps, an arsenal of powerful spells, and an army of bloodthirsty demons

Why similar: God Game 47.1% ★, Villain Protagonist 40.5% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game that established the genre's core mechanics of digging, building, and conquering.

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: Voxel 30.5% ★, Base Building 22%, Management 16%, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: While surface-focused, it offers deep underground building and logistics management that will appeal to Dwelvers fans.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: God Game 20.6% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Building 13.7%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tribe-management game with strong building mechanics and resource logistics in a fantasy world.

Deep in the underworld of Ardania, a threat of the most evil nature grows and multiplies with an appetite for destruction that is unsurpassed. Summoned from the depths of the Bottomless Pit, the (once) mighty Báal-Abaddon has been torn from his throne of skulls and imprisoned in an earthly body of less-than-imposing stature (he's an Imp,...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 56.9% ★, Strategy 31.4%, Fantasy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon management RTS that emphasizes building your lair and controlling units in real-time combat.

Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27.8% ★, Base Building 21.1%, Management 15%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on swarm management and base expansion in a similar RTS style to the combat segments of Dwelvers.

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, God Game 13.1% ★, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on underground survival and colony management with a focus on mining and resource gathering.

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! 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: Voxel 20.9% ★, God Game 20.4% ★, Management 15.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused dungeon builder that incorporates tower defense elements for a unique twist.

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: Base Building 21.3%, God Game 16.4% ★, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-building experience that emphasizes economy, management, and base expansion.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 35.9%, Management 18.6%, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most robust logistics and colony management system for those who enjoy the complexity of Dwelvers' resource chains.

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Management 18.8%, Building 15%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management game centered on building an underground criminal empire with a focus on production chains.

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: Base Building 29.1%, Management 22.6%, Resource Management 20.3%, Dark 17.1%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy strategy game that captures the villainous tone and management style of Dwelvers.

Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.

Why similar: Base Building 30.9%, Building 19.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Management 12%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the architectural and defensive aspects of dungeon building, perfect for those who love designing labyrinths.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Management 16.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 14.7%

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 43.1% ★, God Game 19.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Underground 9.5% ★, Management 6%

Become a villain in this retro-inspired board game. Draft terrain tiles, recruit monsters, build your dungeon, and become the OVERBOSS!

Why similar: Base Building 37.4%, Resource Management 21.9%, Building 19.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A board-game style dungeon builder that emphasizes tile placement and villainous expansion.

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building game with a focus on underground management and defense against invaders.

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: Voxel 18.2% ★, God Game 17.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 11.7%

Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 51.7% ★, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 12%, Top-Down 9.6%, Fantasy 7%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.6%

Assume the role of a mighty (and mighty evil) Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical demesnes underground. 10 different classes of heroes dare to enter your dungeon where 15 different monsters lurk in the dark.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 55.9% ★, Strategy 20.6%, Management 12.1%, Fantasy 8.2%, Simulation 3.2%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Underground 24.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.4%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Sandbox 20.5%, Management 18.4%, Building 14.9%, Dark 11.2%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Underground 45% ★, Building 15.3%, Fantasy 11.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Exploration 9%

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: Management 17.5%, God Game 17.1% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 8.3%

The Dweller is a puzzle game where you play as the MONSTER! It's time to get rid of all those pesky archaeologists snooping around in your lair. SCARE them, CRUSH them, DEVOUR them! ELIMINATE THE INTRUDERS!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 76.9% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.3%

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: Base Building 26.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 14%, Building 13.8%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 30.1%, Sandbox 20.2%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.

Why similar: Underground 39.8% ★, Base Building 24.9%, Fantasy 9%, Magic 8%, Strategy 6.8%

The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

Why similar: Underground 39.3% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Top-Down 7.9%, Fantasy 7.9%

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: Base Building 17.7%, God Game 14.9% ★, Management 13.9%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11%

A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.

Why similar: Base Building 31.6%, Building 23%, Management 22.9%, Strategy 6%, Exploration 6%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Base Building 38.1%, Building 16.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Management 15.9%, Simulation 10.7%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Base Building 29.5%, Management 16.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 7.6%

Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 60.5% ★, Management 14%, Dark 11.3%, Fantasy 7.2%, Strategy 6%

A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.

Why similar: Management 36.4%, Resource Management 23.4%, Building 18.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 31.4% ★, Building 29.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Top-Down 7.6%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Magic 21%, Management 19.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 6.3%

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.7%, Fantasy 19.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 11.4%, 3D 9.6%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Management 19.3%, Building 19%, Resource Management 13.6%, Fantasy 8.7%

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: Management 22.3%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Top-Down 11.4%

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Base Building 29.6%, Top-Down 12.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 7.6%

Dungeons: The Dark Lord is the sequel to Dungeons, the game where the more evil you are, the better! There are a slew of exciting new features, including four-player multiplayer in four modes!

Why similar: Strategy 57.5%, Simulation 42.5%

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, God Game 15.4% ★, Management 15%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 13%