- #1 Spruce
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vatt Labs
Windows · Linux
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.7%, City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Tower Defense 10.6%, Simulation 9.6%
- #2 Anno 1404 - History Edition
96% matchVery Positive82% of 3,444 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Building 10.7%, Simulation 10.6%
- #3 CyberTown: Prologue
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyber Games
Windows
CyberTown - Is a game about interplanetary colonization where you create new cybernetic cities. Build, develop and strengthen your cities. Natural disasters, diseases, the needs of the population and much more will not let you get bored in this new cybernetic world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.7% ★, Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Building 5.2%
- #4 Jelly Farm
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: GuiClound
Windows
Jelly Farm is a charming farming game where you grow and collect jelly and food! As the new farmer in the valley, your mission is to transform a small and simple farm into a true jelly paradise.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.4%, Grand Strategy 24.7% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Immersive Sim 6.9%
- #5 City Build Island
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xreemu
Windows
Collect resources, build structures, and develop a small island in this island-building simulation. As the overseer, you’ll grow your village while defending against invading enemies. Enjoy a unique experience that blends city-building and tower defense gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Farming Sim 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Tower Defense 15%, Simulation 14.9%
- #6 Terrarium Builder
94% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Farming Sim 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Simulation 19.4%, Building 7.1%
- #7 Towerfolk
93% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Medieval 14.2%, Wargame 9.6%, Building 7.6%
- #8 Kingdom Two Crowns
92% matchVery Positive90% of 37,612 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.1%, Medieval 12.6%, Building 8.7%
- #9 摸鱼争霸
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice Studio
Windows
Saluting classics, forging legends! 《Fish Lord》 masterfully blends the epic heroes of 《Three Kingdoms Heroes》 with 《Travian》's grand sandbox, creating a revolutionary SLG kingdom-war universe free from pay-to-win tyranny! Victory hinges solely on tactics – thrones are claimed by wits alone!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.5% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Wargame 15.8%, Simulation 13.3%, War 7.5%
- #10 BLOCKLORDS
90% matchMostly Negative23% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: MetaKing Studios
Windows
BLOCKLORDS is a player-driven medieval grand strategy game where your decisions and skills shape the world and narrative. Choose from several playstyles, including farming, fighting, resource management, and ruling, and forge your own destiny as your Hero.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.4% ★, Farming Sim 21.6%, Wargame 13.1%, Medieval 10.9%, Simulation 9.5%
- #11 Stronghold Kingdoms
91% matchMixed64% of 9,483 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, Medieval 13.4%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Wargame 8.2%
- #12 Kingdoms and Castles
89% 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: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Medieval 15.4%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 6.7%
- #13 Clan and Crown
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: alanchuPub: Wise Games
Windows
The game is a strategy simulation game where you start a family, raise children, infiltrate various industries in the city (13 industries, 70 professions), run for mayor to control the city's destiny, manufacture weapons to wage city wars, and ultimately establish your family empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, City Builder 21%, Simulation 14.9%, Wargame 11.2%, Medieval 7.5%
- #14 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
88% 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: City Builder 36.5%, Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Medieval 12.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Building 6.8%
- #15 Royal Lord - 王权领主
85% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Grand Strategy 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Medieval 14.1%, Building 8.8%
- #16 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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 32.8% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Simulation 17.3%, Medieval 12%, Strategy 5.9%
- #17 Dying Reign
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Bryce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Disease spreads across your lands, destabilizing regions, draining your resources, and testing your authority. Quarantine cities, draft troops, balance fear and order… but every choice comes at a cost.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Grand Strategy 21.4% ★, Medieval 14.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #18 Mars Future
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STM GAMES
Windows
Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Farming Sim 21.9%, Simulation 17%, Building 6.5%
- #19 Biz Builder Delux
84% matchPositive83% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Farming Sim 20.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Building 5.5%
- #20 Mandate Order
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Grand Strategy 17.3% ★, Medieval 14.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Wargame 8.9%
- #21 LowPolis
82% 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 33.9%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Medieval 16.2%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 6.8%
- #22 Kingdom Wars 4
82% matchMixed67% of 236 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, Medieval 11.7%, Wargame 11.2%
- #23 Randoville
81% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Farming Sim 19.4%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Medieval 15.3%, Simulation 9.8%
- #24 Forest Camp Story
81% matchVery Positive84% of 217 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Farming Sim 20.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 5.5%
- #25 Anno 1701 History Edition
79% matchVery Positive86% of 194 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.8% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Simulation 10%, Medieval 6.9%
- #26 Farm Day 2021
80% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: indiegames3000
Windows
Decorate your town with a lot of beautiful decorations to make your fun farm city unique.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Farming Sim 36.7%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 10.2%
- #27 Anno 1503 History Edition
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.1% ★, City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Medieval 7%
- #28 Venture Towns
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Farming Sim 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Building 7.5%
- #29 Heat incremental
77% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience this new take on reactor and factory idle style game! More heat management, more building, more explosions! Hope you have fun!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.8% ★, Farming Sim 24.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 6.7%
- #30 Peasants
78% 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Medieval 18.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Building 9.3%
- #31 Resilient
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Medieval 11.5%, Tower Defense 8%
- #32 Village & Monsters
76% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Ilya873Pub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Farming Sim 22.6%, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #33 Wood'N'Destroy
74% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Abyssal Interactive
Windows · Linux
Wood’N’Destroy is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, gather resources, and command your army to destroy your enemies. Expand your economy, develop new technologies, and dominate the battlefield.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Wargame 11.1%, Tower Defense 9.9%
- #34 Medieval Lord Tycoon
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HayatePub: Onigokko
Windows
A pixel art medieval lord simulator! Farm, chop wood, hunt yourself—or delegate to townsfolk. No meddling in daily lives; govern via taxes & laws. When enemies attack, higher prestige means more peasants rally to fight. Balance survival & strategic rule—build your medieval realm, forge your legacy!
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Wargame 11.9%, Medieval 11%
- #35 Anno 1602 History Edition
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.3% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Medieval 7%
- #36 Dream Town Island
73% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Farming Sim 25.1%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Building 8.2%
- #37 Beastie Bay DX
74% matchVery Positive82% of 101 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Farming Sim 25.4%, City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 12.8%, RPG 6.3%
- #38 Tap Craft
73% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Farming Sim 24.7%, City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Simulation 10.2%, Medieval 8.4%
- #39 RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RAVINE GamesPub: V Publishing
Windows
From a humble campfire to a multi-city kingdom, lead with grace in RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores: a unique kingdom builder where every decision shapes the fate of your fox citizens and the legacy of your continent-spanning kingdom. With a freeform building system, no grids, no limits.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Building 9%
- #40 PlanetX
71% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.3% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Building 8.9%, War 7.2%
- #41 Spirit & Stone
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Building 7.6%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #42 Banished
73% 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: City Builder 38.5%, Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Simulation 10.2%, Medieval 9.2%, Strategy 3.7%
- #43 Treetopians
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Outbreak Sim 18.4% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Building 6%
- #44 Civica: Italian Renaissance
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Medieval 8%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
- #45 Zombie Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 4.9%
- #46 Celestial Trails
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Universal Games
Windows
You arrive on a barren island seeking a fresh start. Gather resources, farm, fish, and craft to build a thriving society. Unlock advanced technologies, manage resources, and grow your settlement from humble beginnings to exploring the stars.
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Farming Sim 29.2%, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Simulation 5.8%, Building 5.7%
- #47 Kingdoms Reborn
70% 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 36.9%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Medieval 10.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Building 5.8%
- #48 Lord Of Anatolia
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
A real-time city-building and strategy game set in 1300s Anatolia. Build your settlement, manage resources, expand your economy, train soldiers, research new technologies, and defend your beylik against enemy forces.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Medieval 6.2%
- #49 Univers 11: Under the Sky
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Under the Sky is a third-person real-time economic strategy game in which the main goal is to create your own settlement and save the survivors
Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Farming Sim 22%, Grand Strategy 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Simulation 9.3%
- #50 DUSK OF WAR
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: oedipe games
Windows
DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Building 6.8%
- #51 Ymir
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Building 6.8%
- #52 Ice Land
67% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: iceland4021
Windows
A game that simulates survival in harsh cold environments, including game elements such as environmental exploration, technology development, and character development.
Why similar: Farming Sim 36.4%, City Builder 30.7%, Simulation 21.3%, Building 7.5%, Co-op 3.5%
- #53 Lord of the Wilds
67% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: AuroraDawnGames
Windows
Lord of the Wilds is a strategy game where you build and defend your territory in a wild land. Gather resources, train armies, and face threats from rival lords, orcs, and undead. Strategize to conquer the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Wargame 16.3%, Medieval 12.4%, War 9.7%
- #54 Hexagge
67% 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: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Simulation 20.5%, Medieval 8.9%, Building 8.3%
- #55 Skyline Settlers
67% 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 34.3%, Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Medieval 17.6%, Building 8.7%, Strategy 5.5%
- #56 My Colony
68% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 44.7%, Colony Sim 37.9% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 4.1%
- #57 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
64% matchVery Positive92% of 10,053 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Medieval 14.7%, Tower Defense 10.6%, War 9.3%
- #58 Settlements Rising
65% 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: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Medieval 14.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Building 9.2%