Games Like Forebearers

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 77.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the primitive tribal survival and technological progression themes found in Forebearers.

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 71.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive survival city-builder, it shares the core focus on managing resources to survive harsh winters and environmental threats.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: City Builder 72%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation of early human life, focusing on tribal management and building from the ground up.

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: City Builder 81%, Strategy 19%

Why You'll Like It: It combines complex city-building with intense survival mechanics, requiring players to protect their citizens from the elements and disease.

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 64%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes historical accuracy and the difficult struggle of establishing a settlement in a challenging environment.

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: City Builder 66.2%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: While it features roguelite elements, its core gameplay of building settlements in a hostile, ever-changing environment is a strong thematic match.

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 74.7%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 9.9%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the survival aspects of city-building, forcing players to adapt to natural disasters and resource scarcity.

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: Simulation 70.5%, Indie 29.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony simulation that captures the essence of managing a family or tribe through the changing seasons.

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 76.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 9%, Indie 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic survival experience where managing food, warmth, and disease is critical to the survival of your villagers.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: City Builder 65.9%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game puts a unique spin on tribal city-building by focusing on the development and survival of a goblin tribe.

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: City Builder 66.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the social and survival dynamics of a small group of people trying to thrive in a harsh medieval world.

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: City Builder 75.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends charming aesthetics with deep colony management and defensive survival mechanics against encroaching threats.

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 74.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed look at the development of a primitive society, focusing on the challenges of early human survival.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 60.2%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused city-builder that requires careful planning and management to ensure the survival of your growing population.

Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.

Why similar: City Builder 57.3%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with survival elements, tasking players with leading a group of Vikings to a new land.

Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

Why similar: City Builder 66.2%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gritty survival city-building experience where managing resources and defending against threats is paramount.

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: City Builder 58.7%, Strategy 18.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the survival of a small group of settlers attempting to build a new home in a dangerous world.

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 67.1%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that requires careful resource management and strategic planning to survive in a challenging landscape.

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 73.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that emphasizes social management and the difficult decisions required to keep a population alive.

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 23.6%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy city-builder that focuses on the economic and survival challenges of building a new society.

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 51.1%, Strategy 22.5%, Simulation 19%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and management of a small medieval village, requiring players to balance resources and labor.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 69.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that focuses on the challenges of surviving and terraforming a harsh, alien environment.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 69.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This colony simulation offers a deep look at building and managing a settlement from primitive beginnings to advanced technology.

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: City Builder 72.1%, Strategy 21.7%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the survival aspects of building a settlement in a cold, unforgiving climate.

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: City Builder 67%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 14.7%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: City Builder 60.4%, Strategy 29.1%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges players to manage resources and build in a harsh, ancient setting.

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: City Builder 56.3%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical strategy game that centers on the survival and development of a civilization during the Bronze Age.

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 43.4%, Simulation 39.4%, Indie 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title explores the evolution of humanity, focusing on the survival and development of early settlements.

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 71.5%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 11%

Valand is a Viking Age city builder. With your own strength you have to rebuild the whole settlement and bring it to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 79.4%, Simulation 20.6%

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Why similar: City Builder 65.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy city-builder that incorporates survival and management elements as you grow your settlement.

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 62.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 4.6%

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: City Builder 63.5%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 12%

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: City Builder 76.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Indie 7.2%

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: City Builder 68%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 14.9%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: City Builder 71.3%, Strategy 25.9%, Simulation 2.8%

Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Simulation 38.6%, Indie 16.8%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: City Builder 62%, Strategy 20.6%, Simulation 17.4%

This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.

Why similar: City Builder 61.8%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 2.7%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 75.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 9.9%

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 59%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 5.8%

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 67.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 14.3%

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: City Builder 53.4%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 17.6%, Indie 8.3%

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: Strategy 52.7%, Simulation 47.3%

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: City Builder 68.4%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 15.2%

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: City Builder 69.4%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 14%

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 71.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 3.2%

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 64.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 16.1%

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 80.6%, Simulation 19.4%

TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

Why similar: Strategy 42.2%, Simulation 39.8%, Indie 18%

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 55.4%, Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 20.4%, Indie 3%

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 66.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 15.7%

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: City Builder 70.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 12.2%

The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.

Why similar: City Builder 55%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 18.2%

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Why similar: City Builder 74.1%, Strategy 20.4%, Indie 5.5%

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: City Builder 66.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16%

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 64.5%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Indie 3.1%