60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Colony Sim, City Builder.
Following in the footsteps of Dwarf Fortress and Gnomoria, this game aims to provide the best experience of both worlds. The graphics and accessibility of Gnomoria and the depth and rich content of Dwarf Fortress.
Gnomoria
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.5%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 23.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Indie 9.3%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Base Building 38%, Sandbox 23%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 19.4%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Base Building 39.3%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Indie 8%
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: Base Building 38.1%, Sandbox 21.8%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 19.8%
A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.
Why similar: Simulation 68.8%, Indie 31.2%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Base Building 36.5%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 21.8%, Sandbox 19%
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: Base Building 39.8%, Sandbox 25%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 15.3%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Base Building 40.9%, Strategy 19.4%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 16%, Indie 5.4%
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Why similar: Base Building 50.7%, Strategy 29.8%, Simulation 19.5%
A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.
Why similar: Simulation 43%, Strategy 38.3%, Indie 18.8%
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: Base Building 40.4%, Simulation 30%, Strategy 29.6%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 48.8%, Strategy 25.4%, Simulation 17.1%, Indie 8.7%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Strategy 24.5%, Base Building 22.4%, Sandbox 21.5%, Indie 5.8%
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: Base Building 36.6%, Sandbox 22.8%, Simulation 20.4%, Strategy 20.3%
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty đź‘‘ where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Why similar: Strategy 35.1%, Simulation 32.7%, Sandbox 32.1%
Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Simulation 35.9%, Indie 17.1%
Dwarfs!? is an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes, in the tradition of great games such as “Lemmings” and “Dwarf Fortress”.
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Base Building 58.7%, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 20.1%
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: Base Building 38.1%, Sandbox 22.7%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 19.4%
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Base Building 33.7%, Sandbox 26.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 16.6%
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: Base Building 46%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Sandbox 15.7%
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: Base Building 37.9%, Sandbox 22.3%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 19.7%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Base Building 51.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.9%
Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.
Why similar: Simulation 63.9%, Strategy 27.2%, Indie 9%
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: Base Building 37.3%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 20.3%, Sandbox 19.7%
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
Why similar: Strategy 53.4%, Base Building 34.6%, Indie 12.1%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Base Building 37.4%, Sandbox 23.7%, Strategy 20.6%, Simulation 18.3%
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: Base Building 38.1%, Sandbox 22%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 19.8%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Base Building 33.3%, Sandbox 29.8%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 18.1%
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: Base Building 37.9%, Strategy 21%, Sandbox 18.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 6.5%
Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!
Why similar: Base Building 38%, Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Strategy 19.6%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Base Building 45.5%, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 16.4%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Base Building 56%, Strategy 27.2%, Simulation 16.8%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Base Building 37.5%, Strategy 24%, Simulation 17.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Indie 6.9%
The next major game in the Planetary Annihilation universe, Industrial Annihilation combines the iconic real-time strategy of the beloved Annihilation games with deep factory-building to deliver a blend of genres unlike any you’ve experienced before.
Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Base Building 41.4%
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: Base Building 36%, Sandbox 26.9%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Indie 4.1%
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: Base Building 37.8%, Sandbox 22.6%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 19.6%
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: Base Building 30.9%, Sandbox 23.6%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 16.6%, Indie 6.6%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Simulation 37.6%, Strategy 37%, Sandbox 25.4%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Strategy 32.1%, Base Building 30.3%, Indie 2.9%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.8%, Strategy 31.3%, Simulation 21.8%, Indie 6.2%
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: Base Building 38%, Sandbox 22.1%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 19.7%
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: Base Building 43.2%, Sandbox 25.9%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 14.6%
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: Base Building 56.7%, Strategy 24.9%, Simulation 18.5%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Base Building 37.1%, Strategy 28.9%, Simulation 28%, Indie 6.1%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Base Building 49.6%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 19.6%, Indie 6.7%
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: Base Building 31.5%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 21.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Indie 6.5%
Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.
Why similar: Base Building 39.3%, Sandbox 26.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 15.4%
CaesarIA is a remake of an old-school economic strategy game, Caesar III which is a masterpiece among the games of this genre in our opinion. There are different economic strategy games and they can be broken down to subtypes but from our viewpoint Caesar encompasses planning, constructing, diplomacy and military campaigns.
Welcome to Biztopia! A unique trading city full of business and opportunities awaits you! Start with a small delivery, build your own trading world, and team up with friends to shape the city and discover the next big venture!
Why similar: Base Building 37.1%, Sandbox 23.5%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 18.7%
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Base Building 36.1%, Simulation 34.4%, Sandbox 29.4%
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Base Building 52.6%, Strategy 24%, Simulation 23.4%
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Base Building 42.8%, Simulation 25.2%, Strategy 24.7%, Indie 7.3%
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: Base Building 41.5%, Simulation 18%, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 17%, Indie 6.2%
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Sandbox 26.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 17.3%, Indie 6.1%
Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.
Why similar: Base Building 40.6%, Simulation 30%, Strategy 29.4%
