Games Like Laysara: Summit Kingdom

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 20.1%, Colony Sim 18%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced vertical building mechanics and water management that mirror the spatial challenges of mountain settlements.

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 24.4%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Real-Time with Pause 7.6% ★, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the intense pressure of managing a society against harsh, life-threatening environmental hazards.

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 18%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines complex production chains with a high-stakes, hazard-filled environment that requires constant adaptation.

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 32.7%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.6%, Economy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that allows for organic, complex town layouts similar to the mountain-hugging designs in Laysara.

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 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical city-building on precarious cliffside platforms, directly echoing the spatial constraints of Laysara.

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 22.8%, Colony Sim 21%, Building 11%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A robust colony-builder that emphasizes managing various needs and production chains in a challenging world.

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: Real-Time with Pause 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting that requires careful planning to thrive.

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 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features detailed resource management and survival mechanics that emphasize the difficulty of establishing a town in a rugged environment.

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Real-Time with Pause 20.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and maintaining a city in the sky, emphasizing verticality and unique movement mechanics.

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 21.6%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep vertical building tools and structural management in a challenging historical setting.

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 44.2%, Economy 15.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the gold standard for intricate production chains and multi-tiered society management.

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 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 11%, Economy 9.4%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly deep and realistic production chain system for players who enjoy the logistical side of Laysara.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes ecosystem management and resource sustainability.

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 18.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Requires players to manage a colony in a hostile environment, focusing on survival and base-building efficiency.

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 32.3%, City Builder 31.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Survival 5.8%, Resource Management 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential colony-sim that established the core loop of resource management and survival against the elements.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with defensive mechanics against environmental and external threats.

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 19.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.1%, Economy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that forces players to manage limited resources in a harsh, unforgiving landscape.

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management and survival in a world where environmental hazards are a constant threat.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed historical simulation with complex building and production 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 29.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique blend of colony-sim mechanics with multiplayer elements and tiered society management.

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 22.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 11%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging city-builder that requires managing resources and hazards in a cold, icy environment.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space station management with high-stakes survival and complex resource logistics.

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 21%, City Builder 20.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Automation 10.4%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique premise of building a settlement on the back of a giant creature, requiring constant adaptation to its movement.

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 28.1%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 6.3%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base-building and resource management in a hostile, isolated environment.

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: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8.5%, Economy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes historical building and surviving seasonal environmental challenges.

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: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.1%, Economy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-strategy city-builder that focuses on the expansion and management of a growing civilization.

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 24.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Economy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes social management and production chains.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.2%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy city-builder that rewards players for creating highly efficient production chains.

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 18.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 9.1%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.1% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical challenge of managing power grids and resource distribution in a city-building context.

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 22.2%, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.6%

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 18.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.2%

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 24.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.7%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused colony-sim that emphasizes the social hierarchy and production needs of your citizens.

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: Real-Time with Pause 29.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.1%

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 20.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Automation 10.6%, Resource Management 7.6%

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: Real-Time with Pause 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 7.3%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 13%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.4%

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 17.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.3%

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 31.5%, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 7%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 20%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 10.4%, Colony Sim 9.9%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.5%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.7%

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: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9.1%

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 20.9%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.3%

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 35.7%, City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 4.7%

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 18.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.9%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Automation 14.5%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 9%

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 13.7%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.2%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 17.3%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.7%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.5%

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 23.2%, City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 14.4% ★, Building 10.3%, Management 7.1%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.5%, Economy 8.5%

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 32.6%, City Builder 31.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 5.4%

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 31%, Building 16.9%, Economy 15.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 11.9%

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 26.5%, Real-Time with Pause 14.2% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.8%

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 37.4%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Economy 4.4%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 9.6%