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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Strategy, City Builder.

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Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 74% — of 97 reviews
Released: 2025-03-24
Developer: LS Games
Genres: Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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  11. #11 Buoyancy
    91% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    89% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
    Dev: Overly Complicated Games
    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows
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    74% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    74% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    73% matchMixed61% of 206 reviews2025
    Dev: Kipwak Studio
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive85% of 739 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    72% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
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    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,211 reviews2020
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    Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    73% matchMixed57% of 827 reviews2021
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    Windows
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    67% matchVery Positive93% of 3,024 reviews2025
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    70% matchMixed65% of 447 reviews2025
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    69% matchMostly Positive72% of 487 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%

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    72% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Survival 8.2%

  55. #55 Eastern Era
    65% matchMixed65% of 2,670 reviews2026
    Dev: FunYoo Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 11%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

  56. #56 Mountaincore
    67% matchMixed65% of 261 reviews2025
    Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 9.5%

  57. #57 Manor Lords
    63% matchVery Positive84% of 87,232 reviews2024
    Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

    Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Building 7.2%

  58. #58 Kingdom's Deck
    66% matchMostly Positive75% of 469 reviews2025
    Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.6%

  59. #59 Immortal Tactics: War of the Eternals
    67% matchVery Positive81% of 101 reviews2022
    Dev: Kenisoft Game Studio
    Windows

    Experience a Fast-Paced Roguelite Turn-Based Strategy game with a New Turn-Based System which will need you to plan early on and create strategies that would lead your army to victory. Create an army with different Characters and Leaders to choose from and explore this Roguelite world.

    Why similar: Sandbox 15.9%, Open World 13.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Tactical RPG 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

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