Games Like Kingdom: Classic

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: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Building 12.1%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct evolution of the original, refining the core mechanics with more depth and expanded environments.

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: Tower Defense 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the quintessential Kingdom experience with the added benefit of cooperative play and a grander campaign scope.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 15.4%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the tower defense and base-building loop into a minimalist, highly tactical experience that feels like a spiritual cousin to the Kingdom series.

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A standalone entry in the series that brings the familiar side-scrolling strategy to a vibrant 1980s-inspired setting.

A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Resource Management 18.9%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D side-scrolling strategy game mirrors the Kingdom aesthetic and gameplay loop while adding unique roguelike elements.

A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!

Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling city builder focuses on cozy, minimalist construction and resource management in a peaceful 2D environment.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more traditional top-down city-building experience with a charming aesthetic and a focus on medieval defense.

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: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A blend of colony simulation and tower defense that challenges players to manage resources while surviving against waves of enemies.

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: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.3%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more complex, its roguelite city-building loop provides the same satisfying sense of progression and constant adaptation found in Kingdom.

Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38%, Survival 25.6%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the minimalist, high-stakes defensive strategy feel of Kingdom within a beautiful, procedurally generated island-hopping format.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Building 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Strategy 16%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that strips away the stress of traditional management games to focus on pure, aesthetic placement.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 11%, Management 10.5%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art colony simulation that offers deep management mechanics and a focus on survival in a procedurally generated world.

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 31.8%, Resource Management 23.8%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 15.1%, Casual 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This tile-based strategy game offers a meditative, minimalist experience that rewards careful planning and expansion similar to the Kingdom series.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Colony Sim 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers an organic, grid-less approach to city building that prioritizes the natural growth of a medieval settlement.

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 28.3% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, colorful city-builder that focuses on managing the needs and happiness of your medieval subjects.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Management 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: This management-heavy colony sim focuses on the social and economic structure of a medieval village with a charming pixel-art style.

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike RTS that blends base-building and tower defense with a dark fantasy aesthetic.

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An incremental strategy game that provides a deep, long-term sense of progression and kingdom management.

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation hybrid that focuses on survival and resource management in a pixelated world.

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: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: This unique city-builder adds a layer of survival and movement as you build your settlement on the back of a giant, roaming creature.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Survival 10%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that emphasizes the delicate balance of resources and population management in a harsh environment.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Building 29.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Casual 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the ultimate minimalist building experience, focusing entirely on the joy of creation without the pressure of resource management.

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: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Management 12%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that focuses on building and defending a medieval fortress against various threats.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.1%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony sim that introduces water management and vertical building, requiring careful planning to survive environmental cycles.

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Management 14.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that allows you to build and grow a kingdom, focusing on the economic side of medieval life.

Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game strategy title that simplifies the management of a kingdom into a compact, accessible format.

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: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony simulation that challenges players to build a thriving kingdom while managing complex resource chains.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Building 20.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, RPG 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony simulation that emphasizes the daily lives and needs of your people in a harsh, historical setting.

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 18.9% ★, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that focuses on building an economy and defending your territory from invaders.

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 22.4%, Building 17.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 9.8%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: Base Building 20%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.3%

Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.

Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Resource Management 18.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 13.4%, Building 12.4%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 13.2%, Tower Defense 12.9%

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: Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Building 12%, Resource Management 10%

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Tower Defense 9.5%, Resource Management 8.1%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.8%, Management 11.3%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Tower Defense 14.3%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 10.4%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.1%

The Kingdom of God: Creation is an independent game integrating territory management, resource management, strategic chess and exploration. As a new God, players develop their own country in the dangerous universe and eventually become the king of the new generation of gods.

Why similar: Strategy 43.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Management 10%, Indie 8.2%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.4%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.9%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 11%

Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.

Why similar: Resource Management 24.5%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Fantasy 5.8%

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 20.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 10.6%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Resource Management 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 13%, Building 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 18%, Management 14%, Strategy 11.8%

Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 15.9%, Building 7%

Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.1%, Management 14.3%, Fantasy 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%

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 22.9% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Building 8.9%

Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Management 17.5%, Building 16.9%, Survival 14.5%, Strategy 9.9%

Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting

Why similar: Resource Management 21.3%, Building 20.3%, Management 17.9%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 13.1%

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: Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 11.1%, Building 11%

From cropland to forest, from academy to conqueror's guild, expand territory of your kingdom. As the kingdom grows, crises will quietly arise. No worries: prepare to use the resource cards to train a group of powerful guardians to eliminate enemies and protect your kingdom.

Why similar: Strategy 35.3%, RPG 19.9%, Management 13%, Resource Management 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

2D turn-based puzzle game with a medieval setting and two game phases. Allied and enemy characters will behave automatically after setting them up in the edit phase. you can see the outcome of the different iterations of the level in the game phase.

Why similar: Management 31.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Strategy 17.1%, 2D 11.2%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Management 11.2%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Building 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

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: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Building 18.8%, Survival 10.6%, City Builder 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%