Games Like Empires in Ruins

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: City Builder 32.4%, Tower Defense 31.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony simulation, city-building, and tower defense mechanics into a challenging survival experience.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 20%, RTS 16.6%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Medieval 15.1%, Isometric 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder and tower defense hybrid that focuses on managing economy while defending against thousands of enemies.

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.4% ★, Wargame 15.7%, City Builder 15.6%, RTS 15.2%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grand strategy map combined with real-time tactical battles, mirroring the scope of the seed game.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 25%, RTS 22.1%, Tower Defense 18.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines real-time strategy, base-building, and intense tower defense against massive hordes in a grim setting.

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: Base Building 22.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Sandbox 20.1%, RTS 19.3%, Management 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon management game that features tower defense elements and a dark, humorous tone similar to the seed game.

Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

Why similar: Wargame 27.8%, Grand Strategy 26% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Medieval 12.4%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses humor and historical settings to manage kingdoms and tactical combat.

ValeGuard is an RTS, Town-Management hybrid game that combines Turn-Based City-Building with Real-Time Combat. Each day you construct your defenses, train troops, and prepare for attack. When enemies come in the night, you defend with towers, troops, and heroes with powerful abilities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Medieval 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pure blend of tower defense and base-building that requires careful strategic planning to survive.

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.9%, Base Building 20.9%, RPG 10.5%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that heavily incorporates tower defense mechanics and base management during night-time sieges.

A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Tower Defense 23%, Base Building 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Medieval 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical RPG combat with tower defense elements in a grid-based strategy format.

Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.

Why similar: Wargame 24.8%, City Builder 21.6%, RTS 15.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Medieval 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RTS hybrid that emphasizes tower defense and base-building against waves of enemies.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.8%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Medieval 10.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game focused on base-building, resource management, and defending your kingdom from encroaching threats.

Everwarder is a refreshing take on the tower defense genre, blending roguelite mechanics with a time-based survival concept. Fight against the encroaching darkness and fend off emerging enemies. Collect artifacts, buy upgrades, discover ancient structures, unlock new units and more!

Why similar: Tower Defense 52.8%, Building 19.5%, Survival 16.4%, Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense and survival strategy game that focuses on building and maintaining defenses against persistent threats.

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Isometric 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy and tactical RPG hybrid set in a harsh, post-apocalyptic sandbox world.

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: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Dark Humor 14%, Sandbox 12.6%, Medieval 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to act as a villain, focusing on simulation and base-building with a dark sense of humor.

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: City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Medieval 12.2%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that focuses on base-building, resource management, and medieval life.

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Military 15.7%, Management 10.9%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy title that offers deep historical management and turn-based tactical combat.

Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 31.5%, RTS 29.7%, Medieval 20.5%, Strategy 9.8%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes tactical positioning and battle management.

Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!

Why similar: Dark Humor 51.5%, Survival 17.7%, RPG 17.4%, Strategy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical auto-battler with a dark, satirical tone that emphasizes managing resources and units.

Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 40.4%, 2.5D 34.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Strategy 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game with strong RPG hero elements and kingdom management reminiscent of classic titles.

Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.

Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Wargame 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.2%, Isometric 13.4%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world that focuses on unique faction management and tactical warfare.

SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!

Why similar: RTS 49.3%, RPG 18.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Isometric 7.2%, Base Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique fusion of real-time strategy and RPG mechanics that features deep hero progression and base building.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.9%, City Builder 30.6%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced tower defense game that uses deckbuilding mechanics to manage your city and defenses.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Tower Defense 60.7%, Strategy 15.6%, RPG 14.3%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike that blends tower defense, RPG, and base management as you protect your crystal through dangerous levels.

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Isometric 13.4%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense and city-builder hybrid that focuses on building structures to survive waves of enemies.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 50.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 28.9%, Strategy 10.3%, RPG 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that features deep RPG hero progression and tactical turn-based combat.

An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, RTS 18.7%, Wargame 17.7%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 10.7%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Isometric 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation and base-building game that focuses on survival and strategic management.

Roguelite TD: all towers & enemies start the same, but you have 1 choice per wave affecting BOTH and stacking up for dramatic variance. Gradually salvage and make some choices permanent to build deeper strategies. Also a unique mazing challenge where wires and towers must be linked to a power source

Why similar: Tower Defense 45.3%, Base Building 31.4%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that incorporates base-building and roguelite elements.

Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.6% ★, RTS 18.3%, Medieval 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the definitive grand strategy experience with large-scale real-time tactical battles.

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: Grand Strategy 25.5% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 8.3%

Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 15.8%, Wargame 15.2%, Sandbox 10.9%

RPG turn-based combat game with deep tactics and bad jokes! Do you have what it takes to save the kingdom?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 47.4%, Medieval 24.1%, RPG 15.5%, Strategy 13%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.1%, Sandbox 22.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 9%, RPG 6.9%

3 different enemy classes: Infantry, Armored and Robotic. Beat the toughest levels with the right combinations and bonus damage. Every character in the game thinks differently and your relationship with them changes with every choice you make. Make jokes about them. Spread the gossip.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Dark Humor 21.2%, Military 18%, Isometric 16.9%, Management 7.1%

Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars is an engaging strategy game set in a dark vampire world in turmoil, that combines empire management and turn-based combat with unique card-game elements.

Why similar: Wargame 23.9%, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Isometric 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Military 10.6%

Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map

Why similar: Wargame 20.9%, Tower Defense 19.4%, RTS 19.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Medieval 9.3%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, City Builder 28.3%, 2.5D 15.3%, RPG 13.7%, Strategy 9.8%

In a crumbling realm, hold back collapse in this grand strategy epic. Fall of an Empire has you balance deadly politics, manage resources, and command battles to survive invasions and intrigue in a vast, Roman-inspired world.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 44.9% ★, RTS 20%, Military 11.6%, Strategy 8%, RPG 7.9%

Do you hate bugs and arachnids? Seeing them creeps you out? Would you like them to disappear off the face of the Earth? GOOD! This is the right game for you! In HW you’ll play as a General of a toy soldiers army, with the sole purpose of saving the owner’s house from the invasion of those damn Bugs.

Why similar: Wargame 18.6%, Grand Strategy 17.7% ★, RTS 16.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%

Be evil. Build your dungeon and grow your empire in this roguelite dungeon builder. Hire monsters, set traps, battle heroes, and conquer the overworld with an ever expanding legion of evil.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Base Building 24.6%, Isometric 17.8%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.9%

Tower defense Game to safeguard the land of Rome.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Wargame 24.4%, RTS 21.7%, 2.5D 13%, Sandbox 6.2%

Otherwar is a surprising mash-up of Tower Defense and Bullet Hell games. Build and manage fortifications to defend the Gate of Heaven against the Hordes of Hell, while soaring over the battlefields as the defender Angel, and meet the monsters in direct combat!

Why similar: Tower Defense 53.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 11%

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 21.4%, RTS 17.5%, Medieval 9.3%, Military 8.7%

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.7%, RPG 21.8%, Strategy 20.3%, Survival 15.3%, Story Rich 7.9%

Kingdoms vs Zombies is a blend of strategy, tower defense, and roguelike gameplay, where you must defend your kingdom against endless hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Base Building 25.4%, RTS 17.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Medieval 10%

Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.

Why similar: RPG 36.8%, Story Rich 34.2%, Strategy 29%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Base Building 34%, Management 23.8%, Survival 15.8%, Story Rich 14.3%, Strategy 12.2%

Test your mind with this twist on a Tower Defense genre, wrapped up in a deep, dark story! Play as a scientist punishing ignorant peasants with burning balls of lava!

Why similar: Tower Defense 58.2%, Strategy 18.9%, Survival 16.1%, Action 6.8%

From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.

Why similar: RTS 28%, City Builder 24.8%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%

Build a grand totalitarian colony and personally storm roguelite battlefields with your soldiers. Shape citizens fears, loyalties, bonds, and feuds. Capture enemies, convert them into true believers. Sacrifice the weak. Feed the strong. Wield absolute power and make every life bend to your will.

Why similar: Base Building 23%, Dark Humor 22.3%, Military 18.4%, Management 13%, Survival 10%

A light Rogue strategy game centered on building and defense. Build your territory, recruit soldiers to fend off enemies. 9 maps, 6 weapons (30 talents), 40 monsters, 30 units/buildings. Plan your pace, control soldiers, choose abilities—enjoy command and strategy.

Why similar: Wargame 21.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Military 10.1%

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: Grand Strategy 23.2% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Medieval 8.9%

Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.

Why similar: Base Building 30.2%, Dark Humor 28.5%, Management 18.5%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 9.4%

A retro-inspired turn-based strategy. Conquer your way across a war-ravaged world to forge a new empire and impart an unprecedented era of peace!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.9%, RPG 22.7%, Strategy 19.4%, Story Rich 13%, Medieval 10.1%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, RTS 24.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Medieval 11.4%, Building 8.7%

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Medieval 10.5%, Building 8.9%

Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Isometric 20.9%, Survival 12.4%, RPG 9.9%

Death Crown is a minimalist real time strategy game in a 1bit style, where you will be play Death herself, commanding her legions of death, and punishing humanity's Kingdom for its overconfidence.

Why similar: Wargame 36.5%, Tower Defense 30.1%, Medieval 14.8%, Management 12.6%, Strategy 6%

Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.

Why similar: Wargame 33.7%, RTS 33.5%, Military 14.6%, RPG 9.7%, Strategy 8.5%