Games Like Forts

Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Why similar: Destruction 21.6%, Moddable 21.1% ★, Level Editor 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Physics 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core focus on physics-based construction and the destructive potential of player-built siege engines.

Command your own fortress in FTL-like real-time battles! Crush the enemy fortress with unrelenting bombardment or seize it with carefully executed invasion.

Why similar: Base Building 47.7%, Strategy 35.2%, 2D 7.2%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the intense feeling of managing a multi-room fortress while engaging in long-range artillery duels.

Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.

Why similar: Multiplayer 39.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Physics 12.9%, 2D 9.7%, Funny 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the core artillery combat loop of Forts, emphasizing trajectory and weapon selection in a 2D environment.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Moddable 36.9% ★, Military 22.3%, Building 20%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features intricate airship design and physics-based combat that feels very similar to the structural management found in Forts.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Building 22.5%, Military 20.6%, Physics 18.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Multiplayer 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, complex vehicle and base building with a heavy emphasis on physics and modular weapon systems.

Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.

Why similar: Destruction 48.9%, Funny 12%, Strategy 10.7%, Physics 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D physics-based game that combines castle building with projectile-based destruction and tower defense mechanics.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Building 21.1%, Base Building 17%, Physics 15.2%, Sandbox 15%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust physics engine for building complex machines and structures in a sandbox environment.

The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.

Why similar: Multiplayer 36.4%, Strategy 23.4%, Funny 13.6%, Memes 12.6%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D artillery game that shares the destructive, turn-based tactical satisfaction of Forts.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 41.8%, Building 16%, Sandbox 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and tower defense with a strategic need to manage resources and defend against waves of enemies.

Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

Why similar: Destruction 33.6%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building vehicles and structures that react realistically to physics and explosive damage.

Would you enjoy building CASTLES, traps and siege machines in MULTIPLAYER? And then undermine your opponents castle and collapse it with 2D PHYSICS & DESTRUCTION?

Why similar: Multiplayer 34.8%, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, 2D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D multiplayer game that emphasizes building fortifications and using siege weapons to breach enemy defenses.

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Why similar: Moddable 28.7% ★, Base Building 27.9%, Strategy 11%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style RTS that captures the base-building and military production aspects of the genre.

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Physics 22.8%, Memes 16.1%, Funny 13.8%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a wacky physics engine to simulate large-scale battles, mirroring the chaotic nature of Forts' combat.

Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.5%, Strategy 23.2%, 2D 13.2%, Indie 8.2%, Action 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 2D strategy game where players build structures and fire artillery to destroy the opponent's base.

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Building 34.5%, Sandbox 25.2%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Physics 10.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for modular vehicle building and combat, rewarding players for designing efficient and durable machines.

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: Base Building 29.5%, Destruction 22.4%, Building 19.1%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: Offers large-scale RTS combat with a focus on massive destruction and strategic base placement.

With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.

Why similar: Strategy 40.4%, Multiplayer 36.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based RTS that emphasizes terrain manipulation and tactical positioning during combat.

Create the ultimate fortress and wreak havoc, raining destruction on your enemies with catapult-flinging fun!

Why similar: Base Building 36.9%, Strategy 26.6%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Action 10.8%, Funny 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that revolves around building towers and firing projectiles to conquer enemy territory.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 38.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Moddable 14.8% ★, Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more automation-focused, it shares the satisfying base-building and defensive management found in strategy games.

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Why similar: Military 25.1%, Moddable 21.8% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Physics 9.4%, Tactical 9%

Why You'll Like It: A single-player military shooter that captures the chaotic, large-scale war feel of strategy-adjacent games.

Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!

Why similar: Moddable 24.1% ★, Building 17.5%, Physics 14.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Tactical 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the physics of siege warfare, allowing players to build and command units to destroy enemy fortifications.

The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.

Why similar: Strategy 25%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Funny 13.9%, Destruction 13.5%, Memes 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with physics-based destruction as players attempt to smash through enemy fortifications.

The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!

Why similar: Moddable 26.5% ★, Memes 16.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Physics 13.3%, Tactical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based combat simulator that allows for creative unit and structure placement in war scenarios.

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Building 29.6%, Physics 21%, Level Editor 19%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the structural engineering and physics challenges inherent in building stable structures.

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.

Why similar: Strategy 54.6%, Multiplayer 32.5%, Indie 9.7%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features unit customization and RTS mechanics that allow for varied strategic approaches.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Building 37%, Sandbox 31.1%, Multiplayer 25.2%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep vehicle customization and physics-based combat where parts can be destroyed individually.

8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.

Why similar: Strategy 32.5%, Base Building 28.1%, Multiplayer 19%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward RTS that focuses on base building and rapid military expansion.

War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.

Why similar: Base Building 45%, Military 20.4%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale RTS that emphasizes base building and evolving through historical eras.

In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

Why similar: Building 39.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Strategy 17.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based strategy game where players design their own ships from modular components to fight in multiplayer.

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Moddable 23.6% ★, Military 17%, Building 16.3%, Physics 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that rewards players for designing functional vehicles that adhere to realistic physics.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Moddable 24.5% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Building 13.7%, Physics 12.2%, Sandbox 11.3%

Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Strategy 25.5%, Physics 15.5%, Action 8%, Multiplayer 7%

Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!

Why similar: Destruction 18.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Physics 12.4%, Sandbox 12%, Military 11.4%

Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.

Why similar: Moddable 23.9% ★, Base Building 21.8%, Military 15.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Tactical 11%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Building 38%, Sandbox 26.5%, Strategy 16.9%, Multiplayer 15%, Indie 2.2%

Become a master strategist in this physics-based Real-Time Tactics game! Command minifig-inspired armies and customize strategies with hand-drawn formations. Conquer unique campaigns for all five armies and unleash massive battles in both single-player and multiplayer modes. Victory awaits!

Why similar: Physics 31.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Tactical 12.7%, Funny 8.6%

Competitive tower defense meets arcade action and gets rolled up with ACE Team's quirky, Monty Python-esque humor into one giant, creative game for the ages. This time around, you can even make your own levels!

Why similar: Destruction 35.9%, Level Editor 13.9%, Building 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%

Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...

Why similar: Moddable 30.8% ★, Sandbox 22.6%, Physics 13%, Strategy 9%, Building 8.7%

Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.8%, Physics 38.8%, 2D 9.1%, Action 8%, Indie 5.2%

With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.

Why similar: Building 28.5%, Physics 26.5%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Funny 12.4%, Strategy 10%

Choose a planet, build your fortress, and prepare for war. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, deploy troops, and defend your stronghold against relentless attacks. In this action-packed block-builder, survival is earned, and only the strongest will remain.

Why similar: Base Building 43.7%, Level Editor 24.6%, Sandbox 21.9%, Action 6.1%, Strategy 3.3%

A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.

Why similar: Destruction 30.2%, Building 16.3%, Physics 15.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Memes 7.9%

Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

Why similar: Base Building 23%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Physics 10.1%

D.A.B. Your foes in co-op & PvP battles. (D)efend bases with weapons and skill. (A)ttack with clever AI armies. (B)uild amazingly creative defenses.

Why similar: Memes 24.8%, Base Building 24.4%, Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Strategy 8.9%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Base Building 34.8%, Building 25.1%, Sandbox 20.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Funny 5.8%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Building 37.4%, Multiplayer 21.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 9%, 2D 8.1%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 13.9%, Physics 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Building 32.8%, Physics 23.1%, Level Editor 16.7%, Sandbox 13%, Funny 6%

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 27.9%, Military 23.8%, Sandbox 15%, Tactical 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Shieldwall is a funny third-person tactical battle simulator with strategy elements. It allows you to feel like a squad leader right on the battlefield.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Strategy 15.6%, Funny 14.4%, Physics 12.2%

Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!

Why similar: Base Building 28.4%, Sandbox 20.1%, Physics 18.7%, Building 17.8%, Funny 8.3%

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Why similar: Moddable 25.6% ★, Destruction 20.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 14.5%, Building 8.7%

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Multiplayer 40.3%, Funny 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Action 12.8%, Indie 6.2%

Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online

Why similar: Destruction 31.7%, Building 23.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Multiplayer 10%, Level Editor 7.7%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Destruction 35.2%, Building 23.5%, Physics 20.2%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Action 2.4%

Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Moddable 15.4% ★, Physics 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Why similar: Building 24.2%, Physics 20%, Level Editor 18.9%, Tactical 12.3%, Strategy 10.1%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Destruction 28.6%, Building 22.8%, Sandbox 16.4%, Physics 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%