- #1 Farthest Frontier
97% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 8.1%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, challenging resource management experience with a focus on survival and detailed medieval city development.
- #2 Foundation
96% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 42%, Colony Sim 9.5% ★, Medieval 7.4%, Management 6.4%, Economy 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a grid-less, organic building experience that emphasizes citizen needs and historical city growth.
- #3 Manor Lords
96% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 9.1%, Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines organic city-building with tactical combat and deep medieval simulation elements.
- #4 Against the Storm
95% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique roguelite approach to procedural city-building that perfectly complements the map variety found in Kingdoms Reborn.
- #5 Pioneers of Pagonia
94% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 7.4%, Management 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on co-op gameplay and exploration, making it a strong alternative for those who enjoy the multiplayer aspect of the seed game.
- #6 Banished
94% 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 41.3%, Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Strategy 4.3%, Medieval 4%, Survival 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder that established many of the resource-management mechanics seen in modern titles.
- #7 Settlement Survival
93% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 31.6%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Management 8.2%, Medieval 7.6%, Base Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar progression system and resource-heavy gameplay loop focused on expanding a small village into a thriving town.
- #8 Kingdoms and Castles
92% 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 37.2%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 6.7%, Medieval 6.6%, Building 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A more accessible medieval city-builder that focuses on defense and building a prosperous kingdom.
- #9 Going Medieval
91% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.3%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that allows for intricate multi-story base building and survival management.
- #10 Songs of Syx
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.6%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 8.7%, Medieval 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale city management with complex logistics and population simulation.
- #11 Timberborn
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 37.6%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Management 9.4%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Introduces innovative vertical building and water management mechanics that add a unique layer to traditional city-building.
- #12 Norland
89% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval kingdom simulation that emphasizes dynasty management and complex social interactions.
- #13 Dawn of Man
90% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Survival 4.6%, Strategy 4.1%, Economy 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the evolution of a settlement through the ages, mirroring the era-progression mechanics of the seed game.
- #14 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
88% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 9%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the most complex logistics and economic simulation in the genre, perfect for players who love deep production chains.
- #15 Frostpunk
86% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 6.7%, Survival 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-stakes, survival-focused city-building experience where every resource decision is critical to the survival of your citizens.
- #16 Patron
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 6.5%, Management 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder that emphasizes managing citizen needs and complex research trees.
- #17 Ostriv
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Management 7.7%, Economy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic historical city-builder that focuses on detailed economic simulation and organic town planning.
- #18 RimWorld
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 8.8%, Survival 5%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, offering deep character interactions and emergent storytelling within a survival framework.
- #19 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
85% 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 40.3%, Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Resource Management 6.8%, Medieval 5.5%, Building 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed colony-sim that focuses on the daily survival and management of a medieval village.
- #20 Surviving the Aftermath
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that tasks players with managing a colony in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.
- #21 Tropico 6
83% matchVery Positive88% of 28,783 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 50.5%, Economy 13.3%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 7%, Multiplayer 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features multiplayer city-building and political management, capturing the competitive and cooperative spirit of the seed game.
- #22 Noble Fates
82% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 28.8%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Management 8.6%, Medieval 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A character-driven colony sim that blends sandbox building with fantasy-themed management.
- #23 Land of the Vikings
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 7.9%, Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that tasks you with managing a Viking settlement through harsh winters and raids.
- #24 Stonehearth
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 41%, Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Building 7.2%, Survival 4.3%, Strategy 4%
Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony sim that focuses on building, crafting, and defending your settlement.
- #25 Blacksmith Master
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.5%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the production and economic side of medieval management, ideal for players who enjoy the resource-management aspect of the seed.
- #26 Ancient Cities
81% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Management 7.4%, Economy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes realistic survival and long-term societal development.
- #27 Endzone - A World Apart
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Colony Sim 13% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 5.6%, Strategy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that prioritizes resource management and environmental survival.
- #28 Anno 1800
79% matchVery Positive81% of 30,897 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 51.9%, Economy 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Resource Management 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: The pinnacle of industrial-era city building with deep trade routes, production chains, and robust multiplayer support.
- #29 Clanfolk
78% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 60.1% ★, Building 17.1%, Open World 12.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes family management and seasonal adaptation.
- #30 Settlements Rising
77% 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 28.4%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Management 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #31 TerraScape
77% matchVery Positive89% of 2,107 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Medieval 11%, Resource Management 10.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #32 Cliff Empire
78% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique resource-management game that requires building across multiple cliff-top cities to survive a post-apocalyptic world.
- #33 MEMORIAPOLIS
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Management 8.8%, Building 6%
- #34 Sengoku Dynasty
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 6.8%, Management 6.3%
- #35 Bellwright
75% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Medieval 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #36 Anno 117: Pax Romana
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 11,270 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Economy 11.7%, RTS 10.2%, Management 8.3%, Building 7.2%
- #37 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
74% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 25.2%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Management 7.9%, RTS 7.1%
- #38 Whiskerwood
73% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.8%, Management 8.3%
- #39 Frozenheim
75% matchMixed70% of 3,855 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.8%
- #40 Sapiens
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 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: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Management 8.5%, Building 6%
- #41 Medieval Dynasty
72% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Building 14.2%, Medieval 12.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%
- #42 Humanica
70% matchVery Positive95% of 121 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 28.7%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #43 The Universim
71% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 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: City Builder 34.9%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Management 8.5%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #44 Founders' Fortune
72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 5.2%, Building 5%
- #45 Hearthlands
73% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 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 34.4%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Management 8.5%, RTS 7.1%, Medieval 6.8%
- #46 City Tales - Medieval Era
69% matchVery Positive90% of 542 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Economy 13.1%, Management 11%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #47 Cities: Skylines II
71% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Management 10.7%, Economy 10.5%, Building 8.4%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #48 The Guild 3
71% matchMixed61% of 7,840 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Why similar: Economy 27.4%, Medieval 18.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 6.7%
- #49 New Cycle
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #50 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.2%, Economy 7.6%
- #51 Becastled
68% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, RTS 7.7%, Medieval 7.2%
- #52 Lords and Villeins
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Management 9.6%, Economy 7.8%, Medieval 7.3%
- #53 Folklands
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 10%, Economy 8.9%, Management 7.4%
- #54 Anno 1404 - History Edition
69% 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 39.9%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Management 8.7%, Building 7%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #55 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Medieval 7.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #56 Captain of Industry
66% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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: Base Building 20.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 11.1%
- #57 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
67% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Management 6.9%, RTS 6.9%
- #58 The Wandering Village
64% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 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 32.7%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #59 KINGDOMS
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 4,079 reviews2015
Dev: Oreol
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Why similar: Medieval 25.8%, Building 20.1%, Open World 17.5%, Management 12.1%, Survival 12%
- #60 Let Them Trade
64% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%