Games Like Gnomoria

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 29.4% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 9.7%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the primary inspiration for Gnomoria, it offers the deepest simulation and most complex management experience in the genre.

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 34.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a very similar voxel aesthetic and gameplay loop, focusing on managing a group of settlers in a procedurally generated world.

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 30.8% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features 3D voxel-based building and survival mechanics that feel like a modern evolution of the Gnomoria experience.

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 35.2% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 8.8%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony-sim that emphasizes building, town management, and defending your settlers from threats.

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 39.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 9%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for colony-sims, focusing on emergent storytelling, character needs, and survival against the odds.

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 30.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Sandbox 13%, Building 9.2%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for massive-scale colony management with deep simulation elements that cater to players who enjoy complex logistics.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling take on dwarf management that focuses heavily on crafting, mining, and defending your base.

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 39.8% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends traditional colony-sim mechanics with god-game elements and tower defense for a challenging survival experience.

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 30.2% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9.1%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This unique colony-sim features vertical building mechanics and complex water management systems that challenge your engineering skills.

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 32.1% ★, City Builder 23%, Sandbox 14%, Building 8.7%, Survival 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that offers a strong focus on character-driven management and the ability to influence your settlers' lives directly.

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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes family management and seasonal preparation.

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 34.5% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that balances town growth with the necessity of defending your kingdom from dragons and invaders.

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 38.5% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder that forces players to manage resources carefully to survive harsh winters.

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 30.5% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Building 15.1%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex city-builder that emphasizes realistic survival, resource management, and defense against harsh environments.

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 40.2% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel colony-sim that allows you to manage a growing population of colonists while defending your base.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 18%, Survival 17.6%, Base Building 5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim that adds combat, exploration, and boss-fighting elements to the traditional base-building formula.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 50% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Base Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it provides the same deep, complex management and problem-solving satisfaction as Gnomoria.

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 39.3% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Building 6%, Survival 5.4%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval city-builder that focuses on survival and the management of individual villager needs.

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 31.2% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique side-scrolling colony sim that incorporates economic management and city-building in a subterranean world.

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 40.2%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 7.6%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and the management of a medieval society.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 22%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.2%, Isometric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the building and defensive aspects of colony management, tasking you with constructing fortresses to survive sieges.

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 32.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A feudal management game that focuses on family lines and the social hierarchy of your growing village.

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 32.1% ★, City Builder 24%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation, crafting, and building within a voxel-based world, perfect for fans of logistics and production chains.

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 29.9% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that offers deep trade systems and complex resource management.

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 37.9% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim that challenges you to manage a base on a hostile alien planet.

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 40.1% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.6%, Survival 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that focuses on character needs and the growth of a small settlement into a thriving town.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply complex management game inspired by Chinese mythology that offers immense depth for players who love intricate systems.

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 41.8% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval city-builder that emphasizes management and the happiness of your citizens.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-sim mechanics with spaceship management, forcing you to survive in the vacuum of space.

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 36.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Survival 8.9%, Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim that emphasizes exploration and the management of a small, vulnerable settlement.

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: Colony Sim 45.3% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 14%, Strategy 8%, Survival 6.5%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Isometric 8.7%

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: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%

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 29.8% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 9.7%, Isometric 6.4%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 5.1%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.4%

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 30.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.9%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.7%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Resource Management 3.7%

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 34.1% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11%, Strategy 7.1%

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 40.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 6.7%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Crafting 9%

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 28.7% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Survival 7.3%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.7%, Survival 7.4%

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 38.2% ★, City Builder 35.3%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 6.5%, Strategy 5.5%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2% ★, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Simulation 7.5%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7%

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 34.5% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Simulation 5.1%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 11%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 6.9%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7%, Simulation 6.3%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1% ★, City Builder 30.3%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 7.2%, Building 6.5%

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 42.8% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, City Builder 9.4%, Building 7.8%, Survival 5.9%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 9%, Simulation 6.3%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.5% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 7.8%, Survival 6.5%, Crafting 6.4%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 5.4%