- #1 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 221 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: Simulation 30.7%, RPG 28.4%, Strategy 26.7%, Indie 14.1%
- #2 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Base Building 33.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 13.8%
- #3 Gods of the Fallen Land
96% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Crow's Key Studios
Windows
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Why similar: Strategy 30.3%, RPG 26.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 14.3%, Indie 11.4%
- #4 Rebirth evolution
95% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Base Building 42.8%, Simulation 28.4%, Strategy 24.8%, Indie 4%
- #5 Ragnorium
94% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 37.7%, Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 21.2%, RPG 16.3%
- #6 The Last Haven
94% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 31.4%, Strategy 29.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Indie 8%
- #7 Dawn of Man
92% 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: Strategy 51.3%, Simulation 34.3%, Management 7.8%, Indie 6.6%
- #8 Primitive Society Simulator
91% 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: Base Building 27.9%, Crafting 23.7%, Management 22.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 11.8%
- #9 Rise of Man
91% matchVery Negative18% of 147 reviews2017
Dev: Darkcross Games
Windows · Mac
Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.
Why similar: Strategy 42.7%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 17.5%
- #10 Dungeon Settlers
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,361 reviews2026
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Management 23.8%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 15.8%, RPG 14.5%
- #11 Rise of Ages
90% matchMixed44% of 218 reviews2019
Dev: Anguis Game StudioPub: 99Gamers Digital
Windows
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.
Why similar: RPG 71.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #12 Survival Vacancy
89% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 21%, Management 18%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 15.6%
- #13 Post-Apo Builder
89% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Strategy 21.6%, Crafting 19.2%, Management 17.2%, Simulation 10.8%
- #14 Ascent of Ashes
86% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
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: Base Building 25%, Crafting 21.8%, Management 20.5%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 15%
- #15 Civitatem
86% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: Strategy 29.3%, Simulation 24.5%, Base Building 21.2%, Management 13.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #16 After the Collapse
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 27.5%, Management 22%, Crafting 18.2%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 11.1%
- #17 Forsaken Fortress Strategy
87% matchMostly Negative33% of 198 reviews2015
Dev: Photon ArenaPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.
Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, RPG 31.6%, Simulation 23.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #18 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
84% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Management 21.1%, Strategy 19.8%, RPG 18.9%, Simulation 15.3%
- #19 Surviving the Aftermath
84% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Simulation 28.1%, Base Building 26%, Management 12.4%
- #20 Project Of Cooling The Earth
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: 人鱼工作室
Windows
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
Why similar: Base Building 49.8%, RPG 25.7%, Strategy 24.6%
- #21 Empire Architect
83% 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: Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 22.3%, RPG 16.8%, Management 15.6%, Base Building 15.1%
- #22 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
81% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, Base Building 25.8%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Indie 5.7%
- #23 Settlements Rising
80% 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: Base Building 24.9%, Strategy 24.4%, Management 23.3%, Simulation 21.2%, Indie 6.3%
- #24 Edge Islands
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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!
Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Strategy 20.9%, Management 18.8%, Simulation 15.3%, RPG 11%
- #25 Z Dawn
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Why similar: Crafting 31%, Strategy 29.4%, RPG 28.2%, Indie 11.4%
- #26 City idle
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Strategy 27.7%, Simulation 26.3%, Crafting 21.8%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 8.7%
- #27 Marble Age
78% 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: Base Building 25.8%, Strategy 23.1%, Management 21.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Indie 9.7%
- #28 Egypt: Old Kingdom
77% matchVery Positive87% of 1,264 reviews2018
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.
Why similar: Base Building 26%, Strategy 22.9%, Management 21.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Indie 9.5%
- #29 Unclaimed World
79% matchMixed50% of 218 reviews2016
Dev: Refactored Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Why similar: Simulation 43.2%, Strategy 42.3%, Indie 14.6%
- #30 Farlight Explorers
78% matchMixed55% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Strategy 34.4%, Simulation 29.6%, Indie 18.3%, Crafting 17.8%
- #31 Exogate Initiative
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Management 27.2%, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 19.8%
- #32 Feartress
77% matchMixed49% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Frederik ListPub: Foo Dogs Co., Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Feartress is an idle RPG where you gather resources, build structures and hire workers and armies to help you succeed in battle and take over multiple dimensions.
Why similar: RPG 34%, Strategy 33.4%, Management 18.7%, Base Building 13.9%
- #33 First Feudal
75% 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 23.6%, Crafting 20%, Management 16.1%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 14%
- #34 Settlement Survival
72% 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: Management 34.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Simulation 21.5%, Strategy 16.6%, Indie 5.9%
- #35 Folk Emerging
71% 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: Management 31.7%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 26.7%, RPG 13.2%
- #36 Your Quest
76% matchMixed60% of 167 reviews2015
Dev: Oblivionburn Productions
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Your Quest is a casual 2D Strategy/RPG with progressive gameplay where you gather resources to construct a village, craft new weapons and armor, and try to survive the depths of a procedurally generated dungeon under the surface.
Why similar: Strategy 29.4%, RPG 29%, Simulation 28.1%, Indie 13.5%
- #37 Life in Bunker
75% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 27.4%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 22.5%, Management 15.3%, Indie 5.5%
- #38 The Tribe Must Survive
73% matchMixed67% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Management 26.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Simulation 20.4%
- #39 Shelter Manager
73% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Why similar: Management 40.2%, Simulation 32.8%, Strategy 26.9%
- #40 Odd Realm
70% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Management 20.8%, Crafting 18.9%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 15.4%
- #41 Settler's Domain
71% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Base Building 33.1%, Management 30.1%, Indie 2.2%
- #42 Evertown
74% matchMostly Negative39% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: cg-imagine
Windows
Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).
Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, RPG 26.9%, Simulation 25.4%, Indie 13.9%
- #43 Idle Civilization
73% matchMixed51% of 180 reviews2015
Dev: Very Simple Idea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 62.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Why similar: Strategy 29.8%, RPG 29.3%, Simulation 27.7%, Indie 13.2%
- #44 SimPocalypse
71% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: Base Building 26.6%, Management 22%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 17.6%, RPG 14.9%
- #45 Incremental Town RPG
70% matchMixed60% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Management 18.3%, RPG 18.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Crafting 14.2%
- #46 Rebirth of Island
72% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Strategy 33%, RPG 30.6%, Crafting 22.6%, Indie 13.8%
- #47 Farthest Frontier
64% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Base Building 38.8%, Management 32.3%, Strategy 29%
- #48 Stranded: Alien Dawn
66% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Crafting 20.1%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Management 14%
- #49 Pioneers of Pagonia
65% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Base Building 31.7%, Management 27.5%, Strategy 22.4%, Simulation 18.4%
- #50 Sheltered
68% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Crafting 11.7%, RPG 11%
- #51 Kingdoms and Castles
66% 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: Base Building 22.9%, Management 22.2%, Crafting 21.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 16.2%
- #52 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Base Building 26.8%, Management 22.3%, Crafting 18.3%, RPG 16.3%, Strategy 16.3%
- #53 Sheltered 2
70% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Base Building 30.7%, Strategy 24.4%, Management 19.2%, RPG 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%
- #54 Aurora Dusk: Steam Age
68% matchVery Positive83% of 310 reviews2019
Dev: Sylvain Harlaut
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.
Why similar: Strategy 43.3%, RPG 40.8%, Indie 16%
- #55 Ground of Aces
64% 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: Base Building 31.7%, Management 23.9%, Strategy 23.7%, Simulation 20.7%
- #56 Marble Age: Remastered
67% 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: Strategy 32.5%, Management 29%, Simulation 28.4%, Indie 10.1%
- #57 House of Legacy
64% matchVery Positive83% of 3,987 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Management 29%, Base Building 21.5%, RPG 18.2%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 15.5%
- #58 Ecopunk
65% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Management 34.6%, Simulation 27%, Base Building 22.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Indie 5%