Games Like Land of the Vikings

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: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 10.8%, Economy 8.9%, Historical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most similar experience to Land of the Vikings with its deep focus on resource management, farming, and surviving harsh winter conditions.

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: Vikings 38.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific Viking aesthetic and focus on village building while adding elements of real-time strategy and exploration.

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 25%, Historical 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines detailed city-building with medieval tactical combat, capturing the same sense of scale and historical immersion.

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 22.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Historical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim offers deep base-building mechanics and social management that mirror the village-growth challenges of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 33.1%, Survival 9.1%, Historical 6.1%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the struggle for survival in prehistoric times, emphasizing the same seasonal resource management and technological progression.

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: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 9.3%, Survival 7.9%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game closely mimics the mechanics of managing a growing population and complex supply chains in a challenging environment.

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 35.4%, City Builder 30.3%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 5.4%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the foundational game for the modern survival city-builder genre, it provides the core mechanics of population management and resource stockpiling found in the seed game.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Vikings 41.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more immersive, first-person perspective on Viking village management, allowing you to work alongside your settlers.

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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16%, Historical 8.3%, Economy 8.2%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the social and political dynamics of a small settlement, adding a layer of depth to the management of your villagers.

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 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Historical 8.2%, Base Building 7.1%, Economy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly realistic approach to historical city-building with a focus on organic growth and detailed economic simulation.

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 34.9%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Economy 8%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a gridless building system that allows for more creative and organic village layouts compared to traditional city-builders.

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 44.6%, Survival 24.4%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends survival, management, and combat in a medieval setting, focusing on building a resistance movement from a small village.

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: Colony Sim 37%, City Builder 31.3%, Resource Management 7.3%, Survival 6.5%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the realistic struggles of a medieval settlement, including disease, weather, and food production.

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: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 21.4%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 7%, Base Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a robust social system where the needs and happiness of your citizens directly impact the success of your city.

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: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces unique water management and vertical building mechanics that provide a fresh but familiar challenge to colony-sim fans.

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 26.3%, City Builder 24.5%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more accessible and stylized take on medieval city-building while still requiring careful management of resources and defenses.

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a frozen post-apocalyptic world, it is the gold standard for high-stakes survival city-building and resource management.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 7.7%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a blend of city-building and multiplayer strategy, allowing for a unique take on managing a growing civilization.

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Historical 7.4%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the interconnectedness of nature and your settlement, requiring careful management of the local ecosystem.

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 52.5%, Building 20.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses heavily on the daily survival and family management of your settlers in the harsh Scottish Highlands.

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: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the production chain and logistics of a growing village, offering a satisfying and polished management experience.

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: Building 22%, Base Building 15%, Survival 14.5%, Historical 13%, Sandbox 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique blend of survival, role-playing, and management that allows you to build a village from the ground up.

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 20.2%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Historical 10.7%, Survival 8.6%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, historically grounded simulation of building a settlement from the Neolithic era onwards.

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: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces verticality and avalanche risks to the city-building genre, requiring careful planning and resource management.

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: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the production and economic side of medieval life, allowing you to manage a business within your growing settlement.

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 34.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines colony-sim mechanics with a charming aesthetic, focusing on the needs and personalities of your settlers.

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 29.5%, City Builder 21.7%, Economy 9%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a feudal family and their interaction with the local peasant population.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%

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 26%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic city-building experience with a focus on trade, production, and managing the needs of your citizens.

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 26%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a straightforward and engaging colony-sim experience that focuses on the basics of building and survival.

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: Vikings 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 7.5%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite survival game captures the spirit of Viking expansion through strategic decision-making and resource management.

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 28.5%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.9%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 7.3%, Economy 7%

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: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.6%, Survival 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 36.1%, City Builder 27.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.1%

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 24.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 8.4%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: Vikings 25.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Economy 6.2%, Base Building 6.1%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 4.8%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Historical 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 9.2%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 9.5%, Building 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 8.8%, Survival 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.7%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 8.8%, Historical 8%, Base Building 7.8%

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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Economy 11.7%, Survival 10%, Management 9.4%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 9.1%, Historical 8.8%, Base Building 8.8%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.

Why similar: Vikings 43.1% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Mythology 11.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 4.9%

Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Mythology 12.6%, Survival 9.1%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Mythology 11.7%, Historical 9.5%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.9%

Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.8%, Historical 7.5%

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 19.2%, City Builder 15.3%, Mythology 8.8%, Economy 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%

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 40.6%, City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 3.6%

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: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 24%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 8.4%, Historical 8.4%, Survival 8.2%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 8.5%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.2%

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: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.4%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 10.2%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%