- #1 Barbarian Kingdom
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Manydev Studio
Windows
Among the sands of the desert, a settlement is emerging that has a chance to become an empire. Be the ruler and decide on its shape, build a well-functioning kingdom with enormous strength and prestige, or become a ruthless Barbarian conquering unconquered lands. What strategy will you choose?
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, RTS 13.5%, Mythology 11.4%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #2 Islandustry
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.2%
- #3 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #4 Builders of Greece: Prologue
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 622 reviews2023
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try your hand as a ruler of an ancient Greek city-state, practice your management skills, and learn basic game mechanics.
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, RTS 14.9%, Mythology 12.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Economy 9.3%
- #5 Egypt
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13%, RTS 10.1%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #6 Rejuvan
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Papergod
Windows
Build, make money, create, repeat. Rejuvan is a game about making the most efficient factories on your own little island. Use everything you can think of to maximize profits and keep the narrative on track. Keep in mind that, at certain money thresholds, your experience may unexpectedly change.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Grand Strategy 13%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.5%
- #7 Oxygen: First Breath
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 10.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #8 Builderment
92% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.4%
- #9 Oxygen
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 18.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10%, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #10 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, RTS 12%, Economy 10.9%, Mythology 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%
- #11 Factomancer
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Voltige Games
Windows · Mac
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.5%
- #12 Aquis
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Base Building 16.5%, Economy 14%, RTS 12.9%, Building 11.4%
- #13 Tokeis
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Economy 13.6%, RTS 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #14 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 10.6%, Economy 10.1%
- #15 Builders of Greece
86% matchMixed55% of 604 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Mythology 13.8%, RTS 11.3%, Economy 10%, Building 9.1%
- #16 Business Shark
87% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: SmartLife
Windows
You will have to develop your city, watch over expenses, strive for higher tax revenues, meet the needs of your residents by producing the right products for them
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Grand Strategy 19.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 12.6%, Economy 10.4%
- #17 Automation Empire
86% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Economy 10.3%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #18 BELTFED - Roguelike Factory Defense
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hello World Studios
Windows
You are a rogue AI with one directive: AUTOMATE DEATH. Shred, burn and vaporize overwhelming swarms of ravenous bugs as your part factory, part war machine lays waste to one world after another. In BELTFED, the factory is your weapon.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.8%, RTS 14.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, City Builder 8.4%
- #19 Kingdom Workshop
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Automation 11.2%, Building 11%
- #20 Fill the Sky
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #21 Substructure
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 17%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #22 Captain of Industry
82% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Economy 12.2%, City Builder 11.5%
- #23 Greedy Little Kingdoms
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 13.6%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #24 Rogue Carrier
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 8%, Strategy 8%
- #25 Chinese Empire: Prologue
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Economy 13.8%, RTS 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #26 Rafting Factory
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #27 Celestial Empire: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive86% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Mythology 11%, Base Building 10.6%, RTS 9.8%, Economy 9.5%
- #28 Modulus: Factory Automation
77% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #29 Make Your Kingdom
79% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.8%, RTS 10.5%
- #30 VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Keliosis Studio
Windows
VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands is a city-builder where you forge your legend. Become a Jarl, transform a camp into a thriving city, manage your people's expansion, and build your legacy. Explore, fight, and erect monuments to etch your saga in history!
Why similar: City Builder 18%, RTS 15.4%, Economy 11.8%, Mythology 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #31 Gnomepunk
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Create an army of gnomes, train builders, gather resources, develop technology, overcome the fauna, understand the flora and use it for alchemy. Conquer or ally with other factions and dominate the forest!
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Mythology 12.9%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #32 Roadworks 2
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Taxsoft
Windows
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Economy 17.6%, RTS 16.5%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #33 Automation Station
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #34 Complex SKY
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #35 ReFactory
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Automation 17.2%, City Builder 13.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #36 Desynced
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: City Builder 16.1%, Automation 14.5%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #37 Factorio
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 24%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #38 Biofactory
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #39 Galaxy Scavengers
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 9.1%
- #40 Tribes of the Ridge
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lukáš Anděl
Windows · Mac
Lead your tribe in this minimalistic 2D side-scrolling strategy and resource management game. Transform a small settlement into a thriving civilization. Build efficient production chains, discover new occupations, and construct advanced buildings!
Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Building 15.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 8.2%
- #41 Factory Town 2: Paradise
71% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Automation 16%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11.8%, Building 9.6%
- #42 Foundation
71% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.5%
- #43 Scraplings
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ikioda
Windows
A 2D side-view recycling and automation game set above an infinite trash sea. Salvage waste left behind from the Lost Century, process it through advanced production lines, and grow your factory to keep it afloat in this harsh ecosystem while paying your rent on time.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 11.1%, Crafting 8.6%
- #44 Mythos: Build & Survive
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Mythos Slavic Builder is a combination of classic real-time strategy games and it's based on Slavic mythology. Grow your settlement, build up the economy, army and explore maps guarded by mythical creatures & other clans.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, RTS 14.9%, Mythology 14.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #45 Factory Town
72% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 16.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #46 The Crust
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, RTS 9.3%
- #47 Wood You Settle?!
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Furegus
Windows · Linux
Would You Settle?! is a short settlement-building strategy game that tasks you with growing a tribal settlement on an abandoned fantasy island. Expand your settlement, uncover the island's secrets and trade with locals fast enough to satisfy the Forest King.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Economy 15%, Resource Management 13.7%, Base Building 13%, Building 11.9%
- #48 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
71% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado 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. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: City Builder 15.4%, RTS 12.2%, Mythology 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.6%
- #49 FACTORY I
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 10.9%
- #50 Radia Island
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 11%, Automation 10.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #51 PoliPlanet
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.2%, City Builder 10%
- #52 Goods for Guilds
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: quittingjack
Windows
Heroes go on adventures. You make sure they have swords, potions, and supplies. Command workers RTS-style to gather, haul, and process resources. Upgrade from hand-carrying to carts, and grow a production and trade network that keeps the adventurers' guild running.
Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, RTS 15.5%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #53 Little Big Workshop
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 14.7%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 12%, Simulation 11%
- #54 Black Gold: Oil Drilling Simulator
67% matchMixed62% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 11.9%, Economy 11%, Crafting 10.3%
- #55 Farmman
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Economy 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 11.2%
- #56 Age of Respair
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 14.6%, RTS 12.6%, Automation 10%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #57 Urban Ascend
66% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BitQuest Studio
Windows
A casual city builder where growth is constant, production chains expand, citizens thrive, and upgrades push your city toward a bustling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Grand Strategy 19%, Economy 12.9%, Automation 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #58 Production Line : Car factory simulation
68% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #59 plexum
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #60 Flow Factory
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Smuie
Windows
Flow Factory is a physics-based factory automation game. Tinker with complex production lines, make them faster and more efficient. Deal with freely floating pieces and defy gravity. Build, research, optimize. Relax and enjoy everything running smoothly.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 10.4%