- #1 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
97% 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 14.8%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 7.9%, Economy 7.6%, RTS 7.3%
- #2 Celestial Empire: Prologue
96% 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 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.1%, Management 7.8%
- #3 Builders of Greece: Prologue
96% 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 17.3%, RTS 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8.1%, Mythology 8.1%
- #4 Builders of Egypt
95% matchMostly Negative33% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Labs
Windows
Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Historical 9.7%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #5 Ostriv
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Historical 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #6 Angkor: The Holy City
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #7 Builders of Greece
93% 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 20.9%, Mythology 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Historical 8.2%, Base Building 7.6%
- #8 Terra-7
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Economy 9.7%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 8.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #10 Tokeis
91% 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 18.7%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Economy 10%, Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%
- #11 The First Explorers®
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.7%, RTS 10.4%, Economy 10%, Building 9.1%
- #12 Resort Galactica
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #13 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.5%
- #14 Celestial Empire
87% matchVery Positive89% of 732 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 11.2%, RTS 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Historical 8.7%
- #15 Age of Respair
88% 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 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.4%, RTS 7.5%
- #16 Aztecs: The Last Sun
86% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
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: City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.3%, Economy 8.1%
- #17 Oxygen
85% 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 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #18 Aquis
84% 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 25.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.6%, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.1%
- #19 Of Life and Land
84% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 11.2%, RTS 7.8%, Building 7.7%
- #20 Property Pro
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.5%
- #21 Orc Warchief: Strategy Story
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: G-DEVS.com
Windows
Lead the Horde and siege human castles! Build your orc war machine, harvest resources from the rubble, and upgrade your warriors. Smash walls, conquer fortresses, and fuel your rampage in this action-packed incremental game with an orcish soul.
Why similar: City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 10.5%, RTS 8.5%, Mythology 8.1%, Building 7.7%
- #22 Age of Pyramids
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 19%, Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #23 Goblin Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.7%
- #24 Crowncity
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Building 11.5%, Historical 10.1%, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.8%
- #25 Kingdoms Reborn
80% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 8.1%, Economy 6.7%
- #26 VENOY
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 18.7%, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 9.3%
- #27 Isla Paradiso
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%
- #28 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
78% 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 14.5%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 7.8%, Mythology 7.7%
- #29 Land of the Vikings
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,266 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 7.2%, Economy 6.5%
- #30 Make Your Kingdom
78% 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 19.9%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.5%
- #31 Ulia Chronicles
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: NioStudio
Windows
Ulia Chronicles is a city-building game set in a fantasy universe. Build your city, gather resources, and make your citizens thrive. Play alone or with your friends in this game inspired by the classics of the genre.
Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.1%
- #32 Founders' Fortune
77% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 27.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #33 Farmman
75% 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 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #34 Architects of Shangri-La
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 11.5%, RTS 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #35 Prison Architect
76% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #36 VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands
74% 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 17.7%, RTS 9.8%, Building 9%, Historical 8.7%, Economy 8.7%
- #37 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%
- #38 Ground of Aces
72% matchVery Positive86% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8%, RTS 7.5%
- #39 Bread & Bravery
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, RTS 9.6%, Building 8.1%
- #40 Kingdoms and Castles
73% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 9.3%, RTS 7.5%, Management 7.5%
- #41 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 25.3%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 12.1%, Management 10%, Base Building 7.7%
- #42 Dungeon Overseer
73% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
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: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #43 Foundation
70% 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 32.4%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Building 7.5%, Management 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #44 CyberTown
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyber GamesPub: GamePlanet
Windows
CyberTown - Is a game about interplanetary colonization where you create new cybernetic cities. Build, develop and strengthen your cities. Natural disasters, diseases, the needs of the population and much more will not let you get bored in this new cybernetic world.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, RTS 10.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.2%
- #45 Chinese Empire
71% matchMostly Negative39% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Yeyuna
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Building 12.7%, Management 11%, RTS 10.9%, Economy 10.8%
- #46 Crowded Blue Dot
72% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 23.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Colony Sim 13%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 10.4%
- #47 Barbarian Kingdom
70% 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 18%, RTS 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Mythology 9.3%, Building 9.3%
- #48 Fjordal
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 8.6%, Economy 8%
- #49 Quriocity
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #50 Rogue Carrier
69% 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: City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.9%
- #51 Chinese Empire: Prologue
68% 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 26.5%, Building 12.3%, Economy 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%, RTS 8.1%
- #52 Arcane Shores
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Building 10.3%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 7.5%
- #53 Settletopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%
- #54 Divine Ascendancy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Mythology 8.7%, Management 8.5%
- #55 Patron
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 7.2%, Economy 7.2%
- #56 Pirate Plight
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 10.2%, Building 8.8%
- #57 Settlements Rising
66% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #58 Blacksmith Master
65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.1%, Economy 8.6%