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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 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced vertical building mechanics and water management that mirror the terrain-focused challenges of Laysara.

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 18.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines complex production chains with high-stakes environmental hazards that force you to adapt your city layout constantly.

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 25%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Real-Time with Pause 7.7% ★, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Masterfully integrates survival mechanics and environmental threats into a city-building experience where every decision impacts your society's survival.

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 19.4%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 13%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep production chains and survival elements that require careful planning to keep your citizens alive through difficult winters.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical city building on narrow cliff tops, providing a very similar spatial challenge to mountain settlements.

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 33.4%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.7%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city growth and complex social needs without the rigid grid-based limitations of other builders.

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 45.4%, Economy 14.7%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for complex, multi-tiered production chains and managing the needs of a sophisticated society.

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 22.7%, Real-Time with Pause 20.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique verticality and mobile city management that requires careful balance and resource planning.

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 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Building 11.6%, Management 8.6%, Base Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes resource management and adapting to unpredictable environmental events.

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 19.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Colony Sim 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep logistics and production chain system for players who enjoy optimizing complex supply lines.

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 21.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder that forces players to manage limited resources and societal needs under constant pressure.

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 20.1%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features the most complex production and logistics simulation in the genre, perfect for players who love intricate management.

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 32.2%, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Survival 5.9%, Resource Management 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and preparing for harsh seasonal changes.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 9.9%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build on the back of a giant creature, introducing unique space constraints and environmental hazards.

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 20%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.2%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and expansion in a harsh world, requiring careful management of resources and infrastructure.

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: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends organic medieval city-building with deep production chains and tactical management.

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: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9%

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

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 28.8%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Requires players to manage a colony in a hostile environment, balancing resource production with survival needs.

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 22%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines accessible city building with defensive management and resource logistics.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a high degree of historical realism and complex production chains that reward careful planning.

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: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival-oriented city building in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment with limited resources.

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 18%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A Roman-themed builder that emphasizes complex logistics and city planning to satisfy a growing population.

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 29.8%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 7.9%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features multiplayer city-building with complex resource chains and a focus on expansion.

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 24.3%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city builder that requires balancing the needs of different social classes with resource production.

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city builder that demands strict resource management and careful infrastructure planning.

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 18.4%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the production chain aspect of management, allowing for deep control over crafting and resource flow.

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 22.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city builder that requires managing resources and defending your settlement in a harsh Norse environment.

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 18.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.2%, Economy 8.7%

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 24.7%, City Builder 21%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on family-based management and production chains within a medieval setting.

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 21.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%

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 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.7%

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 24.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 6%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-focused base builder where managing resources and environmental hazards is key to success.

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 20.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 10.1%, Resource Management 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 35.5%, City Builder 31%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony builder that forces players to manage resources and environmental threats on an alien planet.

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 30.3% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%

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 26% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 7.3%

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 10.6%, Management 10.1%

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 32.1%, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.9%

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 20.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.4%

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 18%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 8.4%

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 26.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.7%, Economy 9.2%

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 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Building 10.6%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.6%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 14.4%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource 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: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10.3%, 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 21.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Economy 8%

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 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 19.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 13.9%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%

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 19.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.6%

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 32%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.6%, Strategy 5.4%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 16.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Building 9.4%, Economy 7.9%

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 18.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.2%

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 22.2%, Economy 13.3%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.7%

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: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 31.9%, Building 17.3%, Economy 14.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 11.8%

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 21.5%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.5%

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 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.1%

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 17.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.8%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Real-Time with Pause 14.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.8%