Games Like Founders' Fortune

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 44.3% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a very similar voxel-based aesthetic and lighthearted fantasy tone while emphasizing building and defense.

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 40% ★, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 10.7%, Survival 6.9%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for character-driven colony sims, featuring complex social interactions and individual colonist needs.

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

Why You'll Like It: Offers an organic approach to city-building where villager needs and social status dictate the growth of your settlement.

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 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.5%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Places a strong emphasis on individual character personalities, leadership, and the consequences of your choices on your subjects.

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 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 7%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines detailed voxel building with a focus on individual colonist needs and survival in a medieval setting.

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: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 8.4%, Management 6.2%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A family-focused management sim that captures the charm of building a community from the ground up.

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 54.3% ★, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on family dynamics, lineage, and survival in a harsh environment, mirroring the personal focus of Founders' Fortune.

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: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.6%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: A polished survival-based city builder that emphasizes resource management and population happiness.

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: Colony Sim 44.8% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Survival 5.9%, Strategy 4.2%, Sandbox 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival-focused village builder that challenges you to manage resources and population needs carefully.

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 31% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for direct management and development of a medieval settlement with a focus on resource chains and building.

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: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming fantasy city builder that focuses on romance, growth, and the whimsical side of managing a kingdom.

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: Colony Sim 37.6% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 7.3%, Sandbox 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Simple and effective fantasy kingdom building that balances expansion with defense against external threats.

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: Colony Sim 33% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique vertical building mechanics and complex water management within a charming colony-sim framework.

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 31.4% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the deepest simulation of individual thoughts, needs, and history for every single colonist in your 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: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates social management and survival mechanics into a classic medieval city-building experience.

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: Colony Sim 44.9% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Building 5.9%, Resource Management 5%, Survival 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic approach to village management with a focus on survival and resource gathering.

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: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex economic systems and unique underground colony management that requires careful planning.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 43% ★, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 9.9%, Building 9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a unique first-person perspective on colony management, focusing on defense and large-scale production.

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, personality-driven colony sim where you manage a community of cats with distinct traits and needs.

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: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 5.2%, Building 5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city builder that uses card-based progression to manage your growing settlement.

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 34.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and village building with a Viking-themed setting and unique environmental challenges.

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: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 7.1%, Resource Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex resource chains and maintaining villager happiness in a growing medieval town.

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval city-builder that emphasizes the management of villager needs and production chains.

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: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the ecosystem and the specific needs of your villagers in a vibrant, fantasy-inspired world.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique post-apocalyptic colony sim where you build a floating town on water, managing survival and resources.

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.9%, Economy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes exploration and building with a focus on resource management and community growth.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim with a distinct art style and a strong emphasis on day-night cycle management.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, ocean-based survival and colony-building game that focuses on automation and growth.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 6.8%, Resource Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A small-scale, charming village management game that focuses on the simple joys of building and resource gathering.

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: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.3%

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: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 6.1%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused building game that emphasizes adapting to natural disasters and managing limited resources.

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: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 5.4%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.2%, Economy 5.5%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.9%, Economy 5.7%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.6%, Economy 6.3%

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 31.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.7%, Management 5.7%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 6.6%, Strategy 4.2%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 8.6%, Survival 6.7%

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 39.3% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 6%, Building 4.3%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6.5%

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: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 8%, Sandbox 6.4%

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.5%

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: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.3%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 8.3%, Economy 5.9%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.6%, Survival 5.3%

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: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.6%

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 7.2%, Management 6.3%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Survival 8.4%, Management 7.5%, Building 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12.3%, Economy 5.4%

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 6.7%, City Builder 6.7%, Sandbox 5.3%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.3%, Economy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 8.2%, Survival 5.7%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Survival 6.5%, Management 6.1%

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: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 6.4%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Management 7.8%, Economy 7.4%, Simulation 5.7%

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 6.5%, Sandbox 6.1%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.1%