- #1 Ostriv
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Historical 9.9%, Agriculture 8.9% ★, Economy 6.7%
- #2 Settlement Survival
96% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Agriculture 9.9% ★, Building 8.1%, Medieval 7.8%
- #3 Patron
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 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 21.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Survival 8.4%, Economy 7.3%, Historical 7.1%
- #4 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
95% 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 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Agriculture 11.3% ★, Economy 9.1%, Historical 8.8%
- #5 Deichgraf
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Acid Mines Software UG
Windows
Deichgraf is a small, calm, but sometimes intense building game. Build your own village and protect it against water caused by floods and heavy rain!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4% ★, City Builder 14%, Historical 12.1%, Agriculture 9.2% ★, Resource Management 8.8%
- #6 Exile
94% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Agriculture 13.1% ★, Economy 9.2%, Management 8%
- #7 Isla Paradiso
93% 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: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 11%, Building 9%, Management 8.1%
- #8 Humanica
92% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Historical 10.2%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #9 Frontier Governor
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Historical 13.1%, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.4%
- #10 Celestial Empire: Prologue
91% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Historical 10.9%, Management 8.1%, Economy 7.8%
- #11 Settlements Rising
90% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 7.1%, Base Building 7.1%
- #12 Skyline Settlers
89% 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: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 23%, Economy 11%, Medieval 8.6%, Building 6.9%
- #13 Oxygen: First Breath
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 9.2%
- #14 Gnome Glen
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #15 Lands of Koastalia
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
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 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #16 United Penguin Kingdom
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 20.5%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #17 Pixel Colony
86% matchPositive95% of 39 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 24.1% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.7%
- #18 Aztecs: The Last Sun
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 15%, Historical 10.7%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #19 Kingdoms and Castles
85% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Medieval 8.4%, Building 8%, Base Building 5.9%
- #20 Crowncity
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Historical 13.4%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10%, Colony Sim 9.4% ★
- #21 Arcane Shores
83% 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 25.5% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Economy 11.1%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.7%
- #22 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
82% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 21.1%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10%, Economy 9.7%
- #23 Founders' Fortune
82% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 7.8%, Survival 6.2%
- #24 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Historical 10.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #25 Of Life and Land
80% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 17.5% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Historical 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #26 Foundation
79% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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 30%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Medieval 9.5%, Economy 8.2%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #27 Lil Guys
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 9.4%, Management 9.1%
- #28 Farthest Frontier
78% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Agriculture 13.6% ★, Historical 9.3%, Building 8.7%
- #29 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
79% 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #30 Tokeis
77% 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 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Economy 12.3%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #31 Compact Colonies
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Historical 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #32 Depraved
78% matchMixed61% of 1,237 reviews2019
Dev: Evil Bite
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 16%, Economy 9.6%, Historical 9%, Management 7.8%
- #33 First Feudal
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 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 22.5% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.9%
- #34 Kingdoms Reborn
76% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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 26.6%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.3%, Economy 8.1%
- #35 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
75% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #36 Egypt
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Historical 9.9%, Management 9.3%
- #37 Banished
75% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Survival 8.3%, Medieval 5%, Strategy 4.8%
- #38 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 20.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 8.7%
- #39 Kingdom Workshop
73% 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: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 11%, Building 10%, Medieval 9.1%
- #40 Peasants
73% 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 27% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Medieval 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8.3%
- #41 Clan & Flood
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Survival 12%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #42 Kolo
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 8.7%
- #43 Hexagge
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Economy 8.7%, Building 7.1%, Simulation 7.1%
- #44 Cartel Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Agriculture 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 9.3%
- #45 Farmman
70% 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 24.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.7%
- #46 Seeds of Resilience
71% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.1%
- #47 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 26.4%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Building 11.3%, Medieval 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #48 Town Keeper
68% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows · Mac
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Agriculture 16.2% ★, Base Building 9%, Economy 8.8%
- #49 Age of Respair
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Historical 9.8%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #50 Ancient Cities
69% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Historical 13.1%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Survival 9.1%, Economy 7.7%
- #51 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 32.7% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Medieval 7.1%, Survival 6.7%
- #52 Crowded Blue Dot
70% matchMixed58% of 52 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 23%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.6%
- #53 Forgotten Vale
68% 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 10.7%, Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #54 Feudal Craft
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 11%, Economy 9%, Base Building 8.8%
- #55 Bread & Bravery
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Historical 9.1%, Management 8.1%
- #56 Orrstead
66% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #57 The First Settlement VR
66% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.7%, Historical 8.7%
- #58 Make Your Kingdom
67% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 20%, Economy 10.3%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.9%