- #1 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Trading 8.4%, Medieval 8.3%
- #2 Founders' Fortune
96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 32.5%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 5%, Building 4.4%
- #3 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,457 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 18.1%, City Builder 18%, Real-Time with Pause 14.6% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 6.6%
- #4 Patron
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,191 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25%, City Builder 23.3%, Medieval 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%, Economy 7%
- #5 Settlements Rising
94% matchVery Positive81% of 432 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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 23.3%, City Builder 22.5%, Medieval 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #6 Crowded Blue Dot
94% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 24.2%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 12%, Real-Time with Pause 8.6% ★, Resource Management 8.1%
- #7 Oxygen: First Breath
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #8 Isla Paradiso
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 7%
- #9 Settler's Domain
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.4%, Diplomacy 8.9% ★, Economy 7.8%, Base Building 6.8%
- #10 Settlement Survival
90% matchVery Positive85% of 8,017 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Management 7.1%, Base Building 6.4%, Building 6%
- #11 Kingdom Workshop
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Medieval 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.2%
- #12 Pixel Colony
88% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 25.3%, Management 7.5%, Resource Management 7.1%, Trading 5.6%
- #13 Foundation
86% matchVery Positive87% of 24,026 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 34%, Medieval 11%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Economy 7%, Strategy 6.4%
- #14 Skyline Settlers
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Medieval 10.5%, Economy 10%, Strategy 10%
- #15 One More Island
86% matchMixed67% of 262 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 20.8%, Trading 11.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 9.4%
- #16 Blacksmith Master
84% matchVery Positive84% of 2,704 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Medieval 8.9%, Economy 8.5%
- #17 First Feudal
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 639 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 9.5%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #18 The Guild II Renaissance
85% matchVery Positive83% of 4,174 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Economy 12.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Medieval 12.1%, Trading 10.9%
- #19 Gnome Glen
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 8.7%, Medieval 7.1%
- #20 Ostriv
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,580 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 7.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #21 Kingdoms Reborn
81% matchVery Positive90% of 9,692 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 30.2%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 7.1%, Medieval 6.7%
- #22 Banished
82% matchVery Positive90% of 43,242 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.9%, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Medieval 5.7%, Survival 5.2%
- #23 Oxygen
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 899 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 20.9%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 7.5%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #24 Arcane Shores
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 26.6%, Economy 10%, Strategy 7.1%, Base Building 6.4%
- #25 Civitatem
79% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 10.1%, Medieval 9.5%, Real-Time with Pause 8.3% ★
- #26 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
80% matchMixed66% of 6,007 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 33.2%, City Builder 31.8%, Medieval 8%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #27 Tokeis
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Management 7.2%
- #28 SpellSlinger Towns
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Trading 10.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #29 Our Freedom: Prologue
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 7.6%
- #30 The Blighted Frontier
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 7.8%, Management 6.7%
- #31 Farmman
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9%, Management 6.4%
- #32 Offshore Prophets
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Real-Time with Pause 8.4% ★, Resource Management 7.7%, Management 7.3%
- #33 Dungeon Overseer
76% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
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 24.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #34 Kingdom Islands
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 11.6%, Resource Management 6%
- #35 All Roads Connected
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 11%, Trading 10.3%, Economy 8.2%
- #36 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Diplomacy 6.1% ★
- #37 山河营造
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Build an ancient mountain settlement in a deterministic 3D colony survival sim. Choose settlers, plan shelters, farms, workshops, storage and defenses, then survive hunger, winter, illness, trade demands and social strain.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 26%, Trading 9.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7%
- #38 Peasants
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 24.6%, Medieval 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%
- #39 Pharaoh™: A New Era
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,313 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Trading 10.3%, Economy 8.8%, Diplomacy 7.4% ★
- #40 Let Them Trade
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,161 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Real-Time with Pause 17% ★, Trading 11.3%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #41 Synergy
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,079 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 17.8%, Trading 10%, Economy 9.4%, Diplomacy 8.8% ★
- #42 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% matchVery Positive86% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 6.2%
- #43 Lands of Koastalia
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Medieval 9.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #44 Of Life and Land
69% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.3%, Economy 6.6%
- #45 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,394 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.4%, City Builder 23.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Medieval 8.1%, Simulation 8%
- #46 Angkor: The Holy City
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 8.3%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #47 Terra-7
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Strategy 13.7%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.6%
- #48 LowPolis
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 6.7%
- #49 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
67% matchVery Positive89% of 634 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #50 Rise Against the Invaders
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 5.8%
- #51 HistoriCity: Florence
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 20.5%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Medieval 8.9%
- #52 MicroTown
68% matchVery Positive95% of 477 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 9.8%, Economy 9.2%
- #53 Greedy Little Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.1% ★, Strategy 7.6%
- #54 A Game of Humans
68% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Medieval 9%, Management 7%
- #55 Forgotten Vale
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.8%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Medieval 8.3%
- #56 Country Architect
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Economy 7.3%, Base Building 6.9%