Games Like Goblins of Elderstone

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: God Game 19% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct thematic match, focusing on managing a goblin tribe with similar colony-sim and survival mechanics.

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 22.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Tower Defense 16.2%, God Game 14.4% ★, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game elements with colony-sim survival, perfectly mirroring the divine intervention and resource management of the seed game.

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 21.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides unparalleled depth in simulation and base-building, capturing the same feeling of managing a complex, often unruly population.

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering the same level of emergent storytelling and chaotic management found in Goblins of Elderstone.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Diplomacy 13.3% ★, 4X 13.3% ★, Grand Strategy 12.5% ★, Colony Sim 12% ★, City Builder 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a swarm-based colony, capturing the same sense of scale and survival-driven expansion.

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 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to play as a god-like ruler overseeing a colony, directly mirroring the divine management aspects of the seed game.

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 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers 3D colony-sim mechanics with a strong focus on building defenses and managing the needs of your villagers.

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 19.1% ★, God Game 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Procedural Generation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony simulator that emphasizes survival, building, and managing diverse populations in a hostile world.

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 11.3%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique beaver-colony focus that requires clever water management and complex base-building to survive.

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 30.4% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Building 12.4%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging colony-sim that focuses on building, crafting, and defending your settlement from threats.

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: 4X 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Grand Strategy 15.5% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony simulator that handles thousands of citizens with deep management and survival systems.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, God Game 10.8% ★, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional city-builder that incorporates management and survival elements in a medieval fantasy setting.

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 39% ★, Building 21.3%, Crafting 21.2%, Simulation 9%, Cute 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily struggles and resource management of a small group of people.

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 29.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.2%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that balances building and resource management with the individual needs and personalities of your settlers.

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, God Game 25.9% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that focuses on adapting to unique environments and managing your tribe's growth.

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 33.6% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that forces you to manage resources carefully to keep your population alive through harsh winters.

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: God Game 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game mechanics with survival and card-based strategy to protect your civilization from destruction.

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: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11.9%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces difficult moral choices while managing a desperate population.

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: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 11.7%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder where you manage a penguin colony, balancing resources and defense against predators.

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 20.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the growth and management of a settlement, requiring careful resource allocation and survival planning.

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, God Game 16.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.7%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense-infused colony-sim that requires you to build and defend your settlement against waves of enemies.

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 28.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony-sim that challenges you to build and defend a thriving underground fortress.

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 21.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with automation, allowing you to build complex production lines for your settlers.

AoG is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with simplified mechanics and cute visuals, but VERY challenging at times. Lead your goblin tribe into what they do best: expand, conquer, and exterminate each other. Any resemblance to humans is purely coincidental.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Management 25.7%, Resource Management 22.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Fantasy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A thematic match that focuses on goblin-centric management and strategy in a simplified, clicker-style format.

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Building 17.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy yet challenging city-builder that focuses on managing the needs and happiness of your colony members.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of civilization, requiring you to manage agriculture and tribal growth.

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, God Game 15.9% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes survival and resource management in a challenging, historical-inspired setting.

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: Diplomacy 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

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: Diplomacy 13.6% ★, 4X 12.9% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, City Builder 10.7%

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 16.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, God Game 11% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.6%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 27.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly puts you in the role of a god, allowing you to influence the world and your followers' development.

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Building 12.4%, Management 9.7%, Survival 9%

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: Diplomacy 14.3% ★, 4X 13.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.1% ★, City Builder 10.5%

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: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 11%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, God Game 10.5% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy base-builder that emphasizes resource management and defense in a harsh environment.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: God Game 21% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Building 9.6%, Survival 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 19.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, God Game 11.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9%

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 27.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 21% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.1%, Management 8.9%

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: Diplomacy 13.8% ★, 4X 13% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, Colony Sim 12% ★, City Builder 10.5%

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 28.1%, Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Building 10.5%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 6.8%

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 26.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9%

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 22.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%

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 20% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%

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: God Game 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.3%

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: Diplomacy 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.9%

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 24.7% ★, City Builder 22%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.1%

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: Base Building 24%, City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Building 12.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!

Why similar: God Game 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%

A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 18%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Strategy 8.3%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.1% ★, God Game 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%

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 28.3% ★, Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.6%, City Builder 9.7%, Survival 8.6%

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: Diplomacy 14.8% ★, 4X 13.9% ★, Grand Strategy 12% ★, Colony Sim 11.8% ★, City Builder 10.2%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: 4X 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%

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 35.2%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.9%

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.6%, Procedural Generation 27.4%, Fantasy 15%, Strategy 14.8%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: God Game 20.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Management 12.5%, Building 10.8%

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 25.6% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 13.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 9.8%

Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1% ★, Base Building 26.4%, Management 16.5%, Fantasy 8.4%, Cute 7.4%