Games Like Frozenheim

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: Vikings 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 8.5%, War 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive Viking-themed RTS that mirrors Frozenheim's blend of clan management, exploration, and tactical combat.

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: Vikings 38.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on surviving harsh winters and expanding a Viking settlement through resource management.

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: Base Building 23.6%, Medieval 18%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Economy 13%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed medieval city-building experience with deep logistics and tactical real-time battles.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Vikings 37.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed colony sim that emphasizes survival, crafting, and building a settlement alongside other players.

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 23%, Economy 20.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Medieval 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex, deep resource management system and a challenging survival loop that feels like a natural evolution of Frozenheim.

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: Medieval 23.8%, Online Co-Op 23.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%, War 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines third-person survival and combat with the ability to build and manage your own medieval village.

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 30.1%, Economy 24.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony simulator that offers vertical building and deep survival mechanics 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: Colony Sim 51.2%, Medieval 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 9%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that established the mechanics of managing a population against unforgiving environmental conditions.

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: Base Building 23.8%, Medieval 21.2%, Co-op 20.3%, Management 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the life-sim and building aspects of the medieval era, allowing you to grow a small home into a thriving village.

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 16.6%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and cooperative resource management, capturing the community-building spirit of Frozenheim.

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: Colony Sim 21.9%, Economy 18%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Medieval 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to manage resources under constant environmental pressure, similar to Frozenheim's winter mechanics.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Economy 18.3%, Medieval 16.5%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features organic city-building mechanics that prioritize the flow of resources and the development of a medieval society.

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 22.7%, Economy 17.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Medieval 11%

Why You'll Like It: A complex medieval kingdom management sim that focuses on the social dynamics and survival of your ruling family.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Medieval 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar blend of survival, building, and management, but set within a beautiful feudal Japanese landscape.

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 21.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that allows you to compete or cooperate while managing your own unique settlement.

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 23.4%, Economy 16.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic city-builder that focuses on historical accuracy and complex supply chains without the need for grid-based building.

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 25.4%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible but challenging city-builder that requires you to defend your settlement against Viking raids and dragons.

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 33.3%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes managing limited resources through changing seasons and natural disasters.

Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Economy 20.9%, Base Building 15%, Medieval 13.6%, Resource Management 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic RTS that excels at castle building and defensive strategy, capturing the military side of Frozenheim.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Colony Sim 26%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its core loop of managing a small group of survivors against harsh elements is mechanically very similar to Frozenheim.

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: Vikings 31.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that focuses on the settlement of Iceland, emphasizing resource management and strategic expansion.

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 33.1%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 13%, Stylized 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features innovative water and resource management mechanics that force you to build your colony around surviving seasonal droughts.

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 56%, Medieval 29.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A harsh survival colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on managing a family 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: Colony Sim 49.6%, Resource Management 20.1%, Medieval 12.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that requires careful planning to ensure your villagers survive the harsh winter months.

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 30.8%, Economy 16%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Medieval 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder that incorporates survival elements and a research tree to help your town grow and prosper.

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Economy 19.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An underground colony sim that focuses on mining, crafting, and managing a dwarven settlement with complex production lines.

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 27%, Economy 22.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 10.6%, Medieval 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that focuses on exploration and resource management in a peaceful, yet challenging, medieval setting.

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: Colony Sim 28.6%, Economy 20.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Medieval 11.3%, Combat 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony sim that handles thousands of citizens and complex logistics in a fantasy medieval world.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Resource Management 26%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of survival management, where you must make brutal choices to keep your city alive in an eternal winter.

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 22%, Economy 18.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Medieval 11%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.2%

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 27.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Medieval 11%, Economy 10.9%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Economy 21.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 11.2%

Start with a Viking harbor at your command—buy low, sell high, and turn a tidy profit! Identify unknown treasures and strike it rich overnight! Rebuild the blacksmith's forge, enchant mighty artifacts, hire fierce raiders, and make every Viking your loyal customer!

Why similar: Vikings 51.2% ★, Economy 15.8%, Medieval 9.4%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 5.2%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Naval Combat 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Economy 10.3%, Management 9.3%

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 27.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 16.3%, Medieval 11.9%, Management 9.1%

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: Resource Management 22.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Economy 20.5%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Management 9.5%

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: Colony Sim 59.9%, Economy 13.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 4.6%

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 31.1%, Economy 18.2%, Medieval 12.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 12.6%

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 23.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Economy 14.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Medieval 10.6%

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Naval Combat 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Co-op 10.4%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Medieval 11.1%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Economy 19.4%, Resource Management 17.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Medieval 8.8%

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 30.2%, War 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Multiplayer 11%, Strategy 10.7%

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 37.2%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.5%, War 8.1%

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: Economy 25.6%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Resource Management 19.9%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 13.5%, Management 8.5%

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 21.6%, Economy 20.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 9.1%

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: Colony Sim 26%, Economy 17.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 10.8%

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 23.8%, Economy 19.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Economy 14.7%, Management 9.5%, Medieval 9.1%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: Economy 21.4%, Resource Management 16.1%, War 15.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Medieval 11.8%

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Economy 18.5%, Resource Management 17.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 6.8%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Economy 19.4%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Medieval 11.3%

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 22.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 15.8%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 70.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Management 6%, Multiplayer 4.2%

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 31.6%, Economy 21.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 20%, Strategy 5.4%

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Economy 17.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 12.4%

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: Economy 33.9%, Resource Management 16%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.4%