Games Like Ground of Aces

Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

Why similar: World War II 43.7% ★, Flight 14%, Management 12.3%, War 8.6%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core focus on managing a WWII aircraft crew and maintaining equipment under high-pressure combat conditions.

Until the Last Plane is an airfield management game during WW2. Send pilots on mission. Craft spare parts. Repair your planes. Face your enemy and resist.

Why similar: World War II 30.4% ★, Management 12.7%, Military 12.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Historical 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the specific experience of managing a WWII airfield, including pilot assignments and aircraft maintenance.

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 16%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the base-building and personnel management aspects of running a military facility with a focus on training and logistics.

When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.

Why similar: World War II 29.4% ★, Base Building 12%, War 10.8%, Economy 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deep simulation of managing a WWII naval vessel, requiring similar resource allocation and crew management.

Project Wunderwaffe will take you back into the realities of World War II, the end of which seems to be near. Germany is now just a shadow of its power. Your order is to build a secret military base and construct weapons of unprecedented power. Will you be capable of turning the tide of war?

Why similar: World War II 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Military 10.6%, Building 9.4%, War 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This base-building strategy game is set during WWII and tasks you with managing a secret facility to turn the tide of war.

UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.

Why similar: World War II 32.4% ★, Military 13.7%, War 11.3%, Historical 10.8%, RTS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed WWII submarine simulation that emphasizes crew management and technical maintenance during wartime.

Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.

Why similar: City Builder 15.4%, Military 13.1%, RTS 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Historical 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a military facility during WWII, emphasizing survival and resource constraints.

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Flight 14.3%, Economy 11%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows for detailed airport construction and management, mirroring the airfield development aspects of the seed game.

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: Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a complex logistics and resource management experience that appeals to fans of detailed base-building.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Flight 15.7%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive airport management simulation that focuses on infrastructure and operational efficiency.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: War 27.8%, Base Building 23.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It explores the human element of WWII through survival and management mechanics, focusing on the well-being of your group.

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: World War II 19.1% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Military 9.5%, War 8.6%, Historical 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with grand strategy and war, offering a broader scope for those interested in military-industrial management.

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 31.8% ★, Base Building 19.9%, City Builder 12%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its deep colony-sim mechanics regarding crew well-being and base-building are the gold standard for this genre.

Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.

Why similar: RTS 18.9%, Military 18.1%, War 15.3%, Historical 14.8%, Management 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the strategic command aspect of WWII, requiring players to manage operations and crew through limited information.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Historical 9.2%, Economy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly deep resource management and construction simulation for those who enjoy complex logistical planning.

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: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Historical 9.3%, Economy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a blend of historical city-building and strategic management that resonates with the base-building elements of the seed game.

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the management and base-building aspects of survival, forcing players to make difficult decisions for their community.

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: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Historical 9.2%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features complex base-building and resource management mechanics within a unique biological setting.

Build your own airport in Skyhaven! Live out your airplane tycoon and simulation game fantasies and make the best surroundings and strategy for both airline manager and passenger alike. Schedule flight plans, build terminals, landing strips and more and create an airport tycoon empire in Skyhaven.

Why similar: Flight 23%, Management 22.6%, Building 17.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the construction and management of airports, providing a similar building loop to airfield development.

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 23% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with ship maintenance, requiring careful attention to crew needs and base integrity.

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 22% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.7%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim features base-building and management mechanics that focus on survival and expansion.

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: RTS 24.8%, War 20.1%, Military 18.4%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the command and management of military assets and bases in a high-stakes tactical environment.

Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!

Why similar: World War II 17.3% ★, Historical 15.6%, Military 15.3%, War 15%, Management 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and production of military hardware, appealing to those interested in the industrial side of WWII.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused city-builder requires managing a colony's resources and personnel in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Historical 9.3%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic city-building experience with complex economic and resource management systems.

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 22.6% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Building 11%, Management 9%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep city-building experience with a focus on resource management and population well-being.

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 30% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 6%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a classic colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and base expansion to survive in a hostile environment.

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Why similar: World War II 33.6% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Military 17.8%, War 13.5%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the logistics and infrastructure side of a persistent WWII-style war effort, requiring teamwork and resource management.

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 17.8% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Historical 9.1%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on the management of a noble family and their settlement, emphasizing character-driven strategy.

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 17.7% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Historical 9.1%, Economy 8.4%

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 19.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9%, Economy 8.9%

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: World War II 31.8% ★, RTS 16.8%, Military 13.7%, War 10.1%, Historical 9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep strategic look at WWII warfare, focusing on unit management and tactical planning.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Historical 9.4%, Economy 8.6%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.6%, RTS 10.3%

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: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.1%, War 8.7%

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: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.7%, RTS 10.5%, Resource Management 8.7%

This is a strategy game with the theme of WWII. As a battlefield commander, maintaining your army's motivation and satisfaction, promoting your generals, managing your own economy, dealing with your friends' armies, and real time grand battle. What kind of commander will you become in the process?

Why similar: World War II 22.6% ★, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 10.7%, Military 10.6%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, RTS 12.1%, Management 9.1%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 9%, Building 8.7%

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: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 16.6%, RTS 13.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.2%

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 19.9% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12%, RTS 11.5%, Building 8.8%

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Historical 10.2%, RTS 10%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%

Scramble: Battle of Britain is a tactical dogfighting game set in 1940, featuring intense aerial battles in a 3D airspace. Take control of a squadron of fighters, planning maneuvers, witnessing real-time simulations, and analyzing battle damage with detailed camera tools.

Why similar: World War II 48.2% ★, Flight 25.8%, War 12.7%, Strategy 9.3%, 3D 3%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, RTS 14.1%, Historical 11.3%, Economy 10.9%, Building 10.2%

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.7%

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

Why similar: World War II 29.8% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.2%

England, 1940. The Luftwaffe is preparing for the invasion of Britain and the RAF need every man to stop it. They need you. Join the ground crews as they struggle to keep the aircraft flying. Repair engine, patch bullet holes, rearm machine guns and more.

Why similar: World War II 39.6% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Building 12.3%, Historical 10.7%, War 9.3%

Command the sky in a tense real-time strategy simulation where you manage a nation's air defenses. Analyze radar contacts, scramble interceptor jets, and make split-second decisions to protect your airspace from hostile threats.

Why similar: Flight 27.2%, RTS 23.8%, Historical 15.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.4%

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.4%

You are a munitions manufacturer in 1930s. Help your nation for arms race. Before war break, you need to produce enough aircraft, tanks and guns.

Why similar: World War II 28.1% ★, Historical 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.7%

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 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 9%, Military 8.3%

Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

Why similar: City Builder 19%, Historical 11.7%, Building 10%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.1%

All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy RPG set in World War I. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men.

Why similar: War 34.5%, Historical 23.9%, Strategy 15.9%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 11%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 13.3%, RTS 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Historical 9%

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 19.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, RTS 11.4%, Building 8.6%

Armored Battle Crew is a Tank and Crew Management Simulation game, where your skills as a Tank commander is tested. Customize your tank carefully and make strategic battle choices to achieve mission success! The fate of your crew lies in your hands!

Why similar: Military 22.1%, War 17.7%, Historical 14.9%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 26.6% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 12.1%, City Builder 12%, Management 9.1%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.2%

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Resource Management 7.7%, Economy 7.5%, Building 7.3%