Games Like Farthest Frontier

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: City Builder 20.2%, Historical 13.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Medieval 10.7%, 4X 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comparable experience to Farthest Frontier by blending organic city-building with tactical medieval combat and deep economic simulation.

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 30.7%, Medieval 10.5%, Building 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.9%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on organic, grid-less city growth and medieval social structures, providing a more relaxed but equally immersive building experience.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 29.9%, Survival 7.6%, Medieval 6.1%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual predecessor to many modern survival city-builders, it captures the core struggle of keeping a small population alive through harsh winters.

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 16.5%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Building 9.4%, Agriculture 9.3% ★, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly detailed historical economy and complex building mechanics that mirror the realism found in Farthest Frontier.

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% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Building 9.3%, Historical 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder introduces intense survival pressure and unique production chains that challenge your ability to adapt to changing environments.

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 19.5%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Building 12.8%, Agriculture 10.3% ★, Medieval 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares many mechanical similarities with Farthest Frontier, focusing on population management, trade, and disaster mitigation.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces innovative water management and vertical building mechanics that force players to plan their survival around environmental cycles.

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 35.8%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Survival 9%, Historical 8.4%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the struggle for survival through the ages, requiring careful resource gathering and preparation for seasonal changes.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Historical 13.1%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim allows for intricate vertical base-building in a medieval setting, complete with survival needs and defensive planning.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 21.9%, Agriculture 16.6% ★, Medieval 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Historical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more personal, first-person perspective on medieval survival and town-building, allowing you to live within the settlement you create.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Resource Management 12%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the ultimate test of survival city-building, forcing players to make difficult moral and economic choices in a freezing, unforgiving world.

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 7.8%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines traditional city-building with multiplayer elements and a card-based progression system that keeps the gameplay fresh.

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 15.1%, Colony Sim 13.2%, 4X 11.2% ★, Building 10.1%, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the deep logistics and resource management of Farthest Frontier, this game provides unmatched complexity in infrastructure and economy.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Economy 17.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, RTS 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on industrialization, it offers the most complex and satisfying production chain management in the city-builder genre.

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 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 9.1%, Historical 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval kingdom simulator focuses on the social and political dynamics of your ruling family alongside traditional settlement management.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Agriculture 33.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.4%, Building 21.5%, Medieval 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes harsh weather and the necessity of preparing for winter.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder focuses on managing resources and protecting your people from radiation and environmental disasters.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Building 21.6%, Medieval 19.5%, Survival 18%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: It successfully merges third-person survival combat with the ability to build and manage a growing medieval village.

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 15.8%, 4X 13.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.7%, Building 8%, RTS 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible medieval city-builder that still provides a satisfying loop of building, farming, and defending against raids.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 16%, Economy 13%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It excels in logistics and resource management, perfect for players who enjoy the production-chain aspect of Farthest Frontier.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation available, it offers unparalleled complexity in managing a colony's history, survival, and intricate social interactions.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%, Medieval 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy city-builder that captures the gritty, realistic feel of establishing a settlement in the wilderness.

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 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game introduces unique mountain-based logistics and vertical city-building that requires careful planning to avoid avalanches.

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 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Building 8.6%, Economy 7.7%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on social dynamics and research trees within a medieval setting, offering a balanced approach to city management.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, it provides endless emergent storytelling through its deep survival and character-driven systems.

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: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes exploration, resource gathering, and defending your colony from external threats.

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: Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 10.9%, RTS 10.8%, Economy 9.6%

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 13%, Base Building 12%, Medieval 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed colony sim that emphasizes the needs and personalities of your villagers while you build a kingdom from scratch.

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 14.1%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Building 9.3%, RTS 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a living ecosystem where your settlement's actions directly impact the environment and wildlife around you.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: 4X 15.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 9.9%, Historical 9%

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 28.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12.2%, Survival 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony sim that balances building and resource management with the individual needs and happiness of your settlers.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Historical 12%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Economy 8.4%, Immersive Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This historical city-builder focuses on realism and the long-term development of a society from the Stone Age onwards.

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 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Building 11.7%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Economy 20.7%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Medieval 11.6%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 11.9%, RTS 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%

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: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 18.7%, Building 10.8%, Economy 8.7%, Historical 8.5%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 21%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Medieval 8.4%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 7.8%, Building 7.6%

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: Agriculture 17% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11.1%, Historical 9.7%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 22.9%, RTS 12.7%, Resource Management 12%, Management 11.1%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%

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: Colony Sim 23.2%, Historical 17.1%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 13.3%, Medieval 13.3%

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 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Survival 16.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.4%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.8%, RTS 12.2%

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 22.2%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Building 13.1%, Historical 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Resource Management 16.5%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 9%, Colony Sim 7.7%

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: 4X 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 10.1%, Historical 9.4%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Building 10.9%, Economy 9.2%, RTS 9%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Agriculture 13% ★, City Builder 12%, RTS 11.6%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Building 9.3%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.6%, RTS 12.5%, Management 8.2%

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 20.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 15%, Building 12.7%, RTS 12.4%

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: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 13%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.3%

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Historical 10.2%

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 20.6%, RTS 15.6%, Building 15.3%, Historical 13.7%, Economy 13.4%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 31.4%, Building 18.7%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 5%

Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.5%, RTS 17%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Medieval 6.3%

Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.

Why similar: City Builder 72.2%, Strategy 27.8%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Building 10.9%, Historical 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%