- #1 Mountainhall
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Deepmountain Studios
Windows · Linux
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Dwarves 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, Underground 11.1% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Mining 9.3% ★
- #2 Angkor: The Holy City
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 16.5%, God Game 12.3% ★, RTS 8.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 Genesis of a Small God
96% 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: Real-Time 18.6% ★, God Game 16.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 7.8%
- #4 Dwarf Fortress
95% matchVery Positive95% of 31,421 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Dwarves 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #5 Fata Deum - The God Sim
94% 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 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 12.9%, RTS 9.4%, Base Building 8%
- #6 Halloween Store Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 15.7%, Automation 7.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #7 Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emily HortonPub: Turtletop Software
Windows
Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.
Why similar: Underground 17.9% ★, Real-Time 17% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #8 Dungeon Overseer
92% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16%, God Game 14.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9.4%
- #9 Goblin Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 12.1%, Underground 10.4% ★
- #10 Mountaincore
91% matchMixed65% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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: Dwarves 29% ★, Colony Sim 17.8%, God Game 11.3% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%
- #11 Egypt
90% 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 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 9.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #12 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 205 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Real-Time 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 12.1%, RTS 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%
- #13 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
88% matchVery Positive89% of 5,758 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Why similar: Real-Time 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 14.4%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 8%
- #14 VENOY
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 17.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8%
- #15 The Stronghold Collection
87% matchVery Positive89% of 5,758 reviews2009
Dev: FireFly Studios
Windows
Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.
Why similar: Real-Time 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 14.4%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 8%
- #16 Endzone 2
85% matchMixed67% of 1,067 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Real-Time 17.6% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 7.7%
- #17 Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,721 reviews2016
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.
Why similar: Real-Time 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 9.1%, Base Building 7.6%
- #18 Underground Nomads
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Dwarves 21.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Automation 8.1%
- #19 Stronghold: Warlords
84% matchMixed65% of 5,310 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: Real-Time 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 9.6%, Base Building 7.6%
- #20 Seabed Settlers
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, God Game 17.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 10.2%
- #21 STARIO: Haven Tower
82% matchVery Positive95% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 16.4%, God Game 14.8% ★, Automation 10.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #22 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Underground 12.7% ★, RTS 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #23 Tokeis
81% 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 18.2%, Colony Sim 17%, RTS 11.1%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #24 Divine Ascendancy
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Why similar: God Game 23.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #25 Icetwine
80% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 16.2%, God Game 16.1% ★, RTS 13.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #26 The First Explorers®
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 15%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #27 The Crust
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 13.6%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #28 Reus 2
78% 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 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #29 Captain of Industry
78% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 14%, Colony Sim 11.9%, City Builder 10.8%
- #30 WildRoot
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, God Game 16.4% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #31 Age of Respair
76% 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 19.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, RTS 10.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #32 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
75% matchMixed50% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 18.4%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy RPG 13.5%, God Game 8.2% ★
- #33 A Game of Humans
77% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, God Game 20.1% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 7%
- #34 Pick Me Up
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 18.5%, God Game 18.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 6.5%
- #35 Terra-7
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #36 Craft The World
76% matchVery Positive88% of 17,055 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Dwarves 40.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8%, City Builder 7.2%
- #37 Fantastic Haven
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Restore the equilibrium of magic by saving endangered fantasy creatures. Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.
Why similar: Real-Time 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #38 Hell Architect
74% matchMixed69% of 451 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: God Game 19.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #39 The Dead of Winter
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Build, gather and defend against relentless hordes of undead as you lead your villagers to safety and battle for survival in a world plunged into a seemingly endless winter
Why similar: Real-Time 17.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 13.9%, God Game 12.4% ★, RTS 11.8%
- #40 Dice Legacy
73% 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: Real-Time 27.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 16.7%, RTS 12.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #41 Odd Realm
71% 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: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Mining 11.1% ★, Base Building 11%, Automation 9.5%
- #42 Mars Attracts
70% matchVery Positive91% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #43 The Settlers: New Allies
72% matchMixed49% of 1,203 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 8%, Building 6.5%
- #44 Empires and Tribes
71% matchMixed66% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: Real-Time 28.7% ★, City Builder 19.7%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.7%
- #45 Thveit
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: God Game 19.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 8.1%, Economy 7.8%
- #46 Alpha Lyrae Discovery
72% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: xe2050Pub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 18.6%, God Game 16.4% ★, RTS 9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #47 Goblin Camp
68% 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 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 8.8%
- #48 Flooded
70% matchVery Positive80% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 15%, RTS 15%, God Game 14.5% ★, Resource Management 9.4%
- #49 Deep Space Directive
69% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Economy 10.7%
- #50 Truck City
68% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Mining 10% ★
- #51 Landslide
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 27.3% ★, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 7.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #52 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
68% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado 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. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, God Game 17.3% ★, City Builder 14.3%, RTS 11%, Base Building 8.8%
- #53 Hearthlands
70% 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: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 21.4%, RTS 12.3%, God Game 12.1% ★, Resource Management 7.8%
- #54 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #55 Radia Island
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Automation 8.9%
- #56 Architects of Shangri-La
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19%, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.7%
- #57 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: ActaLogic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Real-Time 29% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #58 Sin & Siege
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nova xPressPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Sin & Siege is a rogue-lite strategy where you must restore the shattered circles of Hell. Harvest and process sinful souls, amass Sins, forge new demons, populate the abyss, and defend it from holy monstrosities.
Why similar: God Game 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Underground 12.4% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #59 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 21.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 8.6%