- #1 Predynastic Egypt
97% matchVery Positive92% of 1,933 reviews2016
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!
Why similar: Turn-Based 12.1%, Historical 9.9%, 4X 8.8% ★, Survival 7.9%, Difficult 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Directly shares the same historical strategy, survival mechanics, and development lineage as Egypt: Old Kingdom.
- #2 Builders of Egypt
96% 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 18.7%, Historical 18%, Building 12.8%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on historical city-building and economic management along the Nile river valley.
- #3 Pharaoh™: A New Era
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Historical 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeply immersive historical city-builder experience set in ancient Egypt with complex resource management.
- #4 Bronze Age - HD Edition
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 382 reviews2017
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
Why similar: Turn-Based 12.2%, 4X 10.1% ★, Historical 9.6%, City Builder 8.2%, Difficult 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a similar indie historical strategy experience focused on early civilization development and survival.
- #5 Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
94% matchVery Positive85% of 472 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Historical 26.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines ancient Egyptian city-building with a unique simulation where every citizen is an individual agent.
- #6 Marble Age
94% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2015
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!
Why similar: Turn-Based 12.7%, Historical 9.8%, 4X 8.8% ★, Difficult 7.9%, Survival 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a comparable historical strategy and simulation style focusing on the cradle of ancient civilization.
- #7 Ancient Cities
93% matchMixed63% of 2,171 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: Historical 18.1%, City Builder 17%, Survival 12.4%, Economy 8.7%, Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes historical survival and deep city-building mechanics set in ancient eras.
- #8 Sumerians
92% matchVery Positive87% of 331 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus Games
Windows
Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Historical 16.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build an ancient Mesopotamian civilization using similar resource management and strategic planning.
- #9 Nebuchadnezzar
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,840 reviews2021
Dev: Nepos GamesPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Historical 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Economy 12.9%, Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style historical city-builder where you construct monuments and manage economies in ancient Mesopotamia.
- #10 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
91% matchVery Positive88% of 1,681 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 20.6% ★, Historical 16.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Economy 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 4X strategy game set in the Bronze Age focused on empire-building across antiquity.
- #11 Old World
90% matchVery Positive82% of 6,919 reviews2022
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Turn-Based 19.2%, Historical 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Economy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines historical grand strategy and dynastic management with deep tactical choices in the ancient world.
- #12 Oriental Empires
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,010 reviews2017
Dev: Shining Pixel StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Turn-Based 24.4%, Historical 19.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 7%
Why You'll Like It: A historical 4X strategy game that emphasizes ancient civilization building, economics, and warfare.
- #13 Pharaoh + Cleopatra
89% matchVery Positive92% of 2,587 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Historical 31.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: The classic original Egyptian city-building masterpiece that inspired many modern historical management games.
- #14 Millennia
88% matchMixed67% of 3,788 reviews2024
Dev: C Prompt GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Turn-Based 19.4%, Historical 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Economy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to guide a civilization through historical epochs with deep strategic and economic choices.
- #15 HUMANKIND™
86% matchMixed69% of 28,852 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Historical 15.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Turn-Based 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A historical turn-based strategy game where you rewrite human history from the ancient era onward.
- #16 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
87% 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 13%, Historical 11.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you with survival and resource management while constructing a historical civilization.
- #17 Land of the Vikings
85% 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 18.6%, Historical 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival management with historical village building in a challenging environment.
- #18 Age of Pyramids
86% 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 33%, Historical 19.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Centers directly on the construction of monumental architecture and colony survival in ancient settings.
- #19 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
82% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 9%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your logistics and resource management skills while building a city in harsh terrain.
- #20 Marble Age: Remastered
84% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: Turn-Based 12.8%, Historical 10.1%, 4X 8.5% ★, Difficult 8%, City Builder 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An updated take on ancient civilization strategy and resource balancing.
- #21 Kingdoms and Castles
83% 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 17.5%, 4X 15.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Economy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers accessible city-building and survival management against historical threats.
- #22 Foundation
80% 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 31%, Building 10.4%, Economy 9%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city-builder focusing on organic expansion and resource management.
- #23 Empire Architect
84% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Building 12.3%, Historical 10.8%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A historical strategy simulator focused on building ancient cities and managing economies.
- #24 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
79% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 14.1%, Historical 13.4%, 4X 12.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers hardcore economic simulation and resource management for players who love deep logistical challenges.
- #25 First Feudal
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on micro-management, base building, and survival strategy in a historical setting.
- #26 Oxygen
81% 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 18.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Economy 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that shares the same tense resource management and crisis-response loop.
- #27 MEMORIAPOLIS
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,806 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Historical 16.5%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A political and economic simulation game centered around evolving a city through history.
- #28 From Village to Empire
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Turn-Based 17.2%, Historical 13.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic indie 4X game tracking the growth of a small settlement into a massive empire.
- #29 Empires of the Undergrowth
77% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: 4X 14.7% ★, Historical 12.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.6%
- #30 Nova Roma
76% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Historical 13.3%, 4X 13.3% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.6%
- #31 Dawn of Man
76% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Survival 18.6%, Historical 14.5%, Strategy 9%, Economy 5.9%
- #32 Project AURA
78% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging colony survival and resource management game with deep simulation systems.
- #33 Grand Ages: Rome
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 820 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Historical 28%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A historical strategy game focusing on building and managing cities within the classical ancient world.
- #34 Builders of Greece
75% 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 21.6%, Historical 16.6%, Building 13.1%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%
- #35 Children of the Nile: Alexandria
77% matchVery Positive84% of 169 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Children of the Nile: Alexandria is an addition to the base Children of the Nile game, adding a new mini-campaign focused on the rise of the city of Alexandria. Using the unique city-building dynamics of Children of the Nile, you will carve out a new dynasty to rule all of Egypt, and build the greatest city of the ancient world!
Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Historical 17.9%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 14.6%, Management 11.4%
- #36 The Pyraplex
75% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: Historical 21.4%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 14.3%, Education 9.7%, Resource Management 9%
- #37 Aztecs: The Last Sun
73% 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 15.1%, Historical 14.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Survival 11%
- #38 Patron
74% 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 21%, Survival 14.5%, Historical 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.6%
- #39 Ostriv
73% 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 17.8%, Historical 15.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #40 Folk Emerging
72% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Historical 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Survival 10.8%, Management 8.1%
- #41 Anno 117: Pax Romana
71% matchMixed69% of 12,872 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Historical 15.9%, Building 14%, Economy 12.7%, Strategy 9.3%
- #42 Against the Storm
70% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: 4X 15.3% ★, Historical 12.8%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.7%
- #43 Microcivilization
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,455 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Historical 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 9.1%
- #44 Urbek City Builder
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Building 16.6%, Economy 12.7%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #45 Celestial Empire
70% 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: Historical 18.8%, City Builder 17.8%, Building 14.1%, Economy 12.7%, Management 8.9%
- #46 Seeds of Resilience
74% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12.3%, Economy 11%
- #47 Egypt Frontiers
70% matchVery Positive81% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Dive into the sands of ancient Egypt in 'Egypt Frontiers.' As a master builder, construct majestic monuments, manage resources, and shape history in this captivating simulation game. Are you ready to leave your mark on the Frontiers of Egypt?🐫☀️
Why similar: Historical 22.7%, Building 17.9%, Education 16.9%, Management 12.7%, Family Friendly 9.4%
- #48 Mandate Order
68% matchVery Positive81% of 1,304 reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Historical 16.4%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 8.2%
- #49 Manor Lords
67% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 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: 4X 15.9% ★, Historical 12.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #50 Oxygen: First Breath
69% 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 17.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11%, Economy 9.4%
- #51 Ymir
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 13.9%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #52 Primitive Society Simulator
69% matchVery Positive84% of 760 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Historical 19.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 15%, Management 11%
- #53 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,769 reviews2021
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Historical 14.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.2%, Economy 11.9%
- #54 Norland
67% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 14.8% ★, Historical 13%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%
- #55 Celestial Empire: Prologue
66% 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 16.3%, Historical 15.5%, Building 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.4%
- #56 PyramidValley: Reborn
66% matchVery Positive88% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Historical 22.2%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #57 Pax Augusta
66% matchMixed70% of 659 reviews2025
Dev: Roger GassmannPub: Senatis
Windows
Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!
Why similar: Historical 27.2%, City Builder 26.1%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 9.6%
- #58 Cataclismo
64% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: 4X 14.9% ★, Historical 12.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.6%
- #59 Of Life and Land
65% 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 15.9%, Historical 13.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.3%