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 44.7% ★, Flight 14%, Management 11.7%, War 8.5%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the exact spirit of managing a WWII flight crew and their aircraft through dangerous missions.

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 30.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, War 11.1%, Economy 9.7%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the high-stakes naval management and crew coordination required to survive in a WWII combat zone.

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 19%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10.8%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the training and management of military personnel within a custom-built base environment.

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 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Military 10.7%, Building 9.4%, War 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game set in WWII that emphasizes research, development, and infrastructure management.

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 15.8%, Military 13.3%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Historical 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the WWII setting and the intense pressure of managing limited resources and personnel under fire.

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 32.1%, Base Building 20%, City Builder 12.2%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony sims, it offers unparalleled depth in managing individual crew needs and base defenses.

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 31.6% ★, Military 12.8%, Management 12.2%, Historical 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused look at managing WWII aircraft logistics, pilot fatigue, and mission preparation.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: City Builder 13.9%, Flight 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed look at the infrastructure and operational management required to run a functional airfield.

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 33.4% ★, Military 13.8%, War 11.3%, Historical 10.7%, RTS 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, immersive simulation of managing a WWII crew and vessel under constant threat of attack.

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 17.9%, Flight 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.4%, Economy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistical challenges of airport design and management, similar to airfield construction.

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: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.8%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This offers an incredibly deep level of logistics and infrastructure management for those who enjoy complex building systems.

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 20.5%, Resource Management 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.5%, City Builder 12%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex industrial base-building and resource management that rewards strategic planning.

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 26%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at high-stakes management and survival, forcing players to make difficult choices to keep their base and people alive.

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 19.5%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.5%, RTS 11.6%, Historical 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that focuses on building, defense, and managing the daily lives of your settlers.

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 19.8% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Military 9.7%, War 8.8%, Historical 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An alternate history city-builder that integrates strategic military elements into its management loop.

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 36.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.7%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides complex resource management and base construction mechanics that appeal to fans of detailed simulation.

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 22.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.9%, Historical 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that focuses on building, resource management, and defending your settlement.

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 24.9%, War 20.5%, Military 18.8%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic military simulation that requires managing vehicles and base operations in a hostile environment.

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 17.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Historical 9.5%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that offers a realistic approach to resource management and village development.

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 17.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Historical 9.2%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that emphasizes expansion, resource gathering, and defending your base from threats.

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 26.5%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim emphasizes base-building and resource management in a challenging, post-apocalyptic environment.

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 14.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with deep simulation mechanics that requires careful planning and resource management.

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 19.7%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on production management and building, offering a satisfying loop of resource conversion.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Management 44.5%, Simulation 27.8%, Strategy 24.9%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes intense crew management and survival in a hostile, high-pressure environment.

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 19%, Military 18.4%, War 15.5%, Historical 15%, Management 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tension of WWII military command and control through a unique management-focused perspective.

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 30.1%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 5.6%, Resource Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a challenging base-building experience where managing resources and crew survival is paramount.

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 19.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.2%, War 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on colony simulation with a focus on agriculture and societal management.

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 18.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.8%, Historical 9.3%, Building 8.3%

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 17%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.8%, RTS 10.6%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building and management game that tasks you with overseeing personnel and infrastructure in a high-tech facility.

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 47.4%, Building 21.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation that focuses on survival, management, and the daily lives of your people in a historical setting.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Base Building 18.6%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building and colony management with a focus on surviving a hostile, apocalyptic world.

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 15.9%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, RTS 9.9%, Historical 8.6%

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 16.8%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12.5%, Historical 9.7%, Building 8.4%

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 15%, Colony Sim 14.1%, RTS 12.4%, Historical 10%, Building 9%

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: City Builder 16%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 10.4%, Military 10.2%, Historical 9.2%

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 23.1% ★, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 10.7%, Military 10.6%

Build your own base and take command of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations. Thanks to real map data, you can play right in your hometown - or anywhere in the world! Manage your fleet, hire staff, and take on a variety of authentic operations. In which city are you taking command?

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Building 15%, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 11.9%

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 23.6%, Management 21.8%, Building 17.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.2%

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 16.5%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 10.7%, RTS 9%, Historical 8.6%

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: RTS 28.1%, Historical 18.6%, Flight 16.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 13.1%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 16%, Building 12.6%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 7.9%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.6%

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 23.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Building 11.8%, Management 9.2%, Base Building 8%

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 21.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, RTS 11.8%, Management 9.2%

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 21.3%, Historical 10.4%, RTS 10.2%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.9%, Historical 9.4%

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 29.2%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 23.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 17.9% ★, Historical 15.7%, Military 15.5%, War 15.2%, Management 12.7%

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 20.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.1%, RTS 11.7%, Building 8.9%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 10%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.3%

Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 23.7%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 25.9%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.5%

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 48.9% ★, Flight 25.7%, War 12.6%, Strategy 9%, 3D 2.8%

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 14.1%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 9%, Military 8.4%

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 40.9% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Building 12.5%, Historical 10.5%, War 9.2%

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 20.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 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 19.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.4%, RTS 11.4%, Building 8.6%

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 35.4%, Historical 24%, Strategy 15.6%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 10.6%