- #1 Rise to Ruins
97% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: City Builder 43%, God Game 32.5% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Resource Management 6.9%, Base Building 5.4%
- #2 Super Fantasy Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive87% of 5,926 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Roguelite 30.3%, Procedural Generation 24.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Deckbuilding 9.2%, Fantasy 8.6%
- #3 Seeds of Resilience
96% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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: City Builder 37.7%, Roguelite 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #4 Goblins of Elderstone
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, God Game 26.3% ★, Resource Management 12%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Management 7.5%
- #5 Stonehearth
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: City Builder 68.6%, God Game 12% ★, Strategy 10%, Management 4.1%, Indie 2%
- #6 Kingdoms Reborn
94% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 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 56.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Base Building 6.4%
- #7 These Doomed Isles
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: God Game 32.9% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Base Building 4.6%
- #8 Hexagod
92% matchVery Positive88% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: God Game 34.6% ★, City Builder 33.5%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 6%, Management 5.7%
- #9 Kaya's Prophecy
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Roguelite 15.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 10.1%, Stylized 8.6%
- #10 Synergy
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 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: City Builder 34%, Resource Management 14.1%, Isometric 11.9%, Stylized 10.8%, Management 8.5%
- #11 The Universim
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 37.6% ★, City Builder 32.5%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Resource Management 7.1%, Management 6.7%
- #12 Goblin Camp
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows · Linux
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 28.3% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 13%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Stylized 5.6%
- #13 A Game of Humans
90% 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: City Builder 37.1%, God Game 34.4% ★, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Base Building 5.8%
- #14 Creo God Simulator
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 241 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 36.6% ★, City Builder 29.2%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Isometric 8.1%, Management 7.9%
- #15 Civitatem
87% 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 47.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Management 6.4%
- #16 Humanica
84% matchVery Positive93% of 175 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 38%, Resource Management 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Stylized 10.4%, Management 10.4%
- #17 Noble Fates
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,483 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: City Builder 47.5%, Procedural Generation 17%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #18 Genesis of a Small God
85% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 34.5% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #19 Hearthlands
86% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, God Game 17.2% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.7%, Isometric 7.4%
- #20 Fantasy Village Simulator
84% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Roguelite 38.2%, Strategy 17.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Deckbuilding 12.2%, Fantasy 10.3%
- #21 Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
81% matchVery Positive97% of 202 reviews2026
Dev: Crux Games
Windows
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Roguelite 19.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Management 6.2%
- #22 Cardboard Town
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,304 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Roguelite 13.8%, Resource Management 13%, Stylized 8.7%, Isometric 8.7%
- #23 Founders' Fortune
83% 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: City Builder 50.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 8.8%
- #24 The Wandering Village
79% matchVery Positive92% of 8,415 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: City Builder 51.6%, Resource Management 21.4%, Management 15.2%, Base Building 6%, Roguelike 3.4%
- #25 Sapiens
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,162 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 41.8% ★, City Builder 35.9%, Management 8.2%, Base Building 5.9%, Strategy 5%
- #26 Tile Tale
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Push colorful tiles into the grid creating fields of the same type to gain new tile types. Create different worlds such as jungle islands, wasteland volcano land or even a big city!
Why similar: God Game 36.5% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Roguelite 14.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Fantasy 3.1%
- #27 Spiritstead
78% matchVery Positive84% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Turbo Dog Games
Windows
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Management 11.5%, Isometric 10.7%, Stylized 8%
- #28 Kingdoms and Castles
80% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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 51.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Base Building 6.2%
- #29 Songs of Syx
79% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: City Builder 65.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Fantasy 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #30 Going Medieval
76% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Procedural Generation 20.1%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #31 Masters of Albion
77% matchMixed66% of 622 reviews2026
Dev: 22cans
Windows
A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.
Why similar: God Game 36.1% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #32 Fata Deum - The God Sim
78% matchMixed60% of 460 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
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: God Game 37.2% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #33 Reus 2
75% matchVery Positive94% of 2,295 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 38.8% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Resource Management 12%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #34 Odd Realm
75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, Procedural Generation 16%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 7.7%
- #35 Roots of Yggdrasil
74% matchVery Positive86% of 365 reviews2024
Dev: ManaVoid Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Roguelite 14%, Resource Management 13.7%, Deckbuilding 6.4%
- #36 Dorfromantik
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,559 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Resource Management 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #37 Settlement Survival
73% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 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 59.5%, Management 13.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Base Building 4.6%
- #38 Dice Legacy
76% matchMixed68% of 1,054 reviews2021
Dev: DESTINYbit
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Roguelite 14.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Management 8.1%
- #39 Settler's Domain
73% matchMixed63% of 68 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: City Builder 46%, Resource Management 20.2%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 8.6%
- #40 Pandora's Toybox
71% matchVery Positive85% of 417 reviews2026
Dev: BetaLabPub: 2P Games
Windows
Become a God, build a civilization. In this dynamic Roguelite God Simulator, guide human civilization on a procedurally generated pixel world. Watch your people grow, defend them against heretics, and build an immortal legacy.
Why similar: God Game 50.8% ★, Roguelite 20.3%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Fantasy 5.7%
- #41 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 862 reviews2026
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
Why similar: God Game 29% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Isometric 9.4%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #42 Tiny Kingdom
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: neltile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Why similar: City Builder 47.9%, Resource Management 19.5%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Deckbuilding 7.5%
- #43 Feastopia
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 269 reviews2026
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows
Feastopia is a Rogue-lite culinary city-builder, inspired by Against the Storm. Forge a pact with an adorable deity and build a thriving foodie metropolis in a bountiful land. With randomized maps and events, unlock hundreds of wondrous abilities, experience a unique adventure every time you play.
Why similar: City Builder 44%, Roguelite 20.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 7%
- #44 Glimvale : My Mini Overworld
69% matchVery Positive93% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Milkshake Games
Windows
Glimvale is a solo cosy city-builder with idle mechanics where you manage, decorate, and grow a charming MMO village. Keep adventurers happy and shape the world at your own pace. After all, you’re the game master.
Why similar: City Builder 66.2%, Management 18.3%, Fantasy 8.3%, Singleplayer 3.9%, Colorful 3.4%
- #45 Against the Storm
67% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Roguelite 18.5%, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.9%
- #46 Stacklands
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,157 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Roguelite 20.9%, Management 15%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%
- #47 Power to the People
70% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Resource Management 15.7%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Isometric 11.9%, Management 11.5%
- #48 EcoGnomix
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 304 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: City Builder 37.4%, Roguelite 19.8%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Isometric 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #49 Simmiland
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,940 reviews2018
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Why similar: God Game 82.9% ★, Indie 9.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #50 dotAGE
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,678 reviews2023
Dev: Michele Pirovano
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Why similar: City Builder 46.8%, Resource Management 25.5%, Roguelite 24.2%, Roguelike 3.5%
- #51 Pile Up!
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,120 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Roguelite 16.7%, Isometric 12.1%, Stylized 10%, Management 8.6%
- #52 Distant Kingdoms
71% matchMixed44% of 303 reviews2021
Dev: Orthrus Studios
Windows
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: City Builder 75.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 6.5%, Fantasy 5%
- #53 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
65% matchVery Positive84% of 764 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, God Game 26.7% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 10%, Strategy 7.4%
- #54 Hexguardian
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 700 reviews2024
Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Roguelite 19.7%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Stylized 10.5%, Strategy 7.9%
- #55 Ink Reverie
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 213 reviews2025
Dev: Rolling Cat StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.
Why similar: God Game 38% ★, City Builder 31.1%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 6.4%
- #56 Randoville
68% matchMixed65% of 67 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 44.3%, Roguelite 21.2%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 6.3%