Games Like Foundation

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 28%, Colony Sim 9.8% ★, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 7.8%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed, organic approach to medieval city-building with a focus on realism and tactical depth.

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 31.6%, Colony Sim 8.8% ★, Medieval 7.1%, Economy 6.8%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique grid-less building system that perfectly mirrors the organic, free-form development found in Foundation.

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: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title introduces verticality and complex base-building, allowing for creative architectural designs in a medieval setting.

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 45.2%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Medieval 6.4%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: As a classic in the genre, it provides the essential survival and resource management loop that defines the medieval city-builder experience.

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 30.2%, Medieval 10.5%, Building 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.8% ★, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deep resource management with complex town planning, offering a challenging yet rewarding medieval simulation.

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 40.7%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Medieval 10.5%, Building 6.2%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more stylized, approachable take on medieval city-building with a strong focus on defensive monument construction.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 36%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming and relaxing city-builder that focuses on cozy aesthetics and fairy-tale medieval management.

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 43%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While themed around beavers, its unique water physics and vertical building mechanics offer a refreshing take on grid-less construction.

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 42%, Colony Sim 9.5% ★, Medieval 7.4%, Management 6.4%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a card-based progression system and multiplayer, adding a modern twist to the traditional city-builder formula.

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 54.5%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Strategy 5.5%, Survival 4.5%, Sandbox 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focusing on the prehistoric era, it provides a grounded survival experience that emphasizes community growth and resource gathering.

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 33.9%, Medieval 11.9%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Building 7.6%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, complex simulation of village life with a strong emphasis on trade and resource chains.

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 45.7%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Medieval 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval simulator that requires careful planning of food and resources to survive harsh winters.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Medieval 10.2%, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for massive scale and deep management, perfect for players who want to expand their village into a sprawling empire.

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: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Relaxing 12%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim emphasizes organic survival and family management, capturing the intimate feel of growing a small settlement.

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 34.7%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Medieval 8.6%, Economy 6.7%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on social dynamics and complex decision-making within a medieval society, adding depth to the management aspect.

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 46%, Medieval 18.8%, Building 9.7%, Survival 7.6%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends medieval village management with third-person exploration and combat, providing a more hands-on experience.

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 28.4%, Colony Sim 10% ★, Economy 9%, Resource Management 7.6%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval kingdom simulator that focuses heavily on the social and political lives of the nobility and their subjects.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Medieval 10.8%, Management 7.6%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique perspective on feudal society by focusing on the management of individual families and their roles in your settlement.

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 40.7%, Economy 7.5%, Colony Sim 7.4% ★, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly realistic historical simulation of city-building, focusing on the evolution of society over time.

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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Base Building 7.4%, Building 7.1%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances colony management with character personality traits, making your settlers feel like distinct individuals.

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 26.1%, Medieval 9.3%, Colony Sim 8.7% ★, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a living ecosystem where nature and your settlement interact, emphasizing the organic growth of your population.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Economy 10.3%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: While modern-themed, its grid-less, aesthetic-driven building style is a great match for fans of Foundation's creative freedom.

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 45.9%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony-sim that encourages creative building and provides a charming, lighthearted atmosphere.

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 39%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Medieval 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy and relaxing simulation that emphasizes the visual appeal of building a medieval town from the ground up.

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 27.7%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★, Economy 8.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the specialized economy of a medieval blacksmith, offering a more granular management experience.

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 46.5%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: While modern, it remains the gold standard for large-scale, complex city management and infrastructure planning.

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Medieval 11.3%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Economy 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing and simple city-builder that focuses on the satisfaction of watching your small town grow and function.

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 54.6%, Economy 9%, Building 9%, Management 6.8%, Strategy 4.9%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★, Medieval 10.4%, Management 6.9%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style medieval city-builder that focuses on economy and trade within a procedurally generated world.

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 28.7%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.4%, Management 7.3%

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 31.5%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Medieval 9.4%, Resource Management 7.3%, Building 5.9%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Medieval 10.8%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox city-builder focuses on the joy of construction and management without the stress of constant survival threats.

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 30.8%, Colony Sim 8.6% ★, Management 7.5%, Medieval 7.2%, Resource Management 7%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%, Strategy 7%

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 32.3%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.7%, Building 7.6%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, Building 8.7%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 7.5%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 48.1%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 8.1%, Colony Sim 8% ★

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 27.1%, Medieval 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Economy 9%, Resource Management 8%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Management 16.9%, Medieval 16.1%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.6%

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: Medieval 22%, Building 19.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%

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 37.2%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 49.4%, Medieval 20.8%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 8%, Relaxing 7.9%

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 54.8%, Economy 11.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 6.2%, Simulation 6.1%

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 39.9%, Medieval 10.4%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 7%

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: City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 16%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 8.8%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Medieval 11.7%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.6%

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 49.3%, Strategy 6.6%, Colony Sim 6.5% ★, Base Building 6.3%, Survival 5.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8.4%

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 38%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.5%

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 37%, Medieval 12.8%, Base Building 11%, Colony Sim 9.6% ★, Building 8%

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 38.2%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Building 8.4%, Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%

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 39.1%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Building 9.1%, Management 7.6%, Base Building 7.1%

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 46.3%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8%, Base Building 6.3%

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: City Builder 33.7%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.9%, Building 8.8%

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 34.6%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Economy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.9%

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 25.7%, Medieval 11.4%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 7.6%

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 31.1%, Colony Sim 9.5% ★, Economy 9.1%, Management 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%

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: City Builder 42%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 5.5%, Resource Management 5.4%