Games Like Kingdoms Rise and Fall

Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Simulation 16.5%, RTS 16%, Strategy 14.4%

Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, RTS 16.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.6%

Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Simulation 16.4%, RTS 16.1%, Strategy 14.3%

Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 8.8%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 16.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 32% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.9%

Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 23.2%, RTS 11.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 38%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 1.4%

Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, RTS 13%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%

SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.

Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 20.8%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Sandbox 6%

VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.7%, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Exploration 4.4%

With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3% ★, City Builder 24.5%, RTS 17%, Strategy 16.2%

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: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 20.5%, RTS 15.1%, Wargame 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%

Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 17.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 9.4%

Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, RTS 34.7%, City Builder 18.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 3.2%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, City Builder 32%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Base Building 5.5%

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 33.7%, Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Sandbox 6.4%

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Simulation 18.1%, RTS 17.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 14.1%

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 36.5% ★, City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Sandbox 5.6%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 26%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 16.3%, Exploration 4.4%

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 38%, Colony Sim 34.7% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.1%, RTS 5.1%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 15.2%, RTS 14.3%

Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 16.3%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.3%

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 36.6% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 4%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Strategy 22.7%, RTS 15.5%, Indie 2.7%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 17.4%, Base Building 8.1%

Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.1%, RTS 18.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.7%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Simulation 18.2%, Strategy 17.4%, City Builder 15.5%, Sandbox 6.1%

The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 33.1%, Simulation 23.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 27.6% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18.5%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%

A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Simulation 18.9%, RTS 18.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Strategy 12.8%

Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, RTS 15.6%, Wargame 11.3%, Simulation 7%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Exploration 4.7%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Strategy 11.9%, RTS 8.4%, Base Building 6.2%

A cozy medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Simulation 22.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Indie 1.3%

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 25.8% ★, City Builder 24.9%, RTS 11.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, RTS 17.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Wargame 8.4%

Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 26%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 17.9%, Exploration 3.6%

Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 19.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 12.7%

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 27.5%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, RTS 14.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 10.4%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Simulation 21%, Base Building 6.5%, Crafting 4.4%

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18.5%, Base Building 5.2%

Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Time Management 11.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 11.4%

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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, RTS 16.5%, Time Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 40.8% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 10.7%, RTS 6.8%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Sandbox 8.2%

Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 19.6%, RTS 14.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%

Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Alternate History 8.8%

City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 16.9%, RTS 6.3%

DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 23.2%, RTS 16.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 14%

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 25.8% ★, City Builder 24%, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 11%, Sandbox 6.4%

In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes

Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.9%, Sandbox 7%

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 30.2% ★, City Builder 24.5%, RTS 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.4%

Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 22.4%, RTS 20.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 12%

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, RTS 12.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.8%

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 13.1%, Time Management 5.5%