Games Like Let Them Trade

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%, Medieval 11.7%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city growth and medieval production chains without the stress of rigid grid-based building.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Economy 17.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, fairy-tale city-builder that shares the charming aesthetic and relaxing pace of Let Them Trade.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Medieval 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, accessible medieval city-builder that balances building, resource management, and light defense mechanics.

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 45.1%, Economy 21.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for complex trade-route management and economic expansion in a historical setting.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines relaxing city-building with a charming aesthetic and satisfying economy management.

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 22.7%, Economy 17.8%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, realistic medieval management experience with a strong emphasis on resource logistics and village development.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Economy 14.1%, Medieval 12.2%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on the social hierarchy and economic production of a medieval village.

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 19.8%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Medieval 13.4%, City Builder 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused game that captures the cozy, medieval atmosphere while tasking you with running a successful business.

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 34.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-capable city-builder that emphasizes trading and resource management across a growing map.

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 27.1%, Medieval 13%, Building 11.8%, Management 10.4%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful resource management to keep your population thriving through harsh conditions.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Economy 17.1%, Resource Management 16.4%, Management 15.8%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a delightful, toy-like aesthetic while providing deep, satisfying production and economy management mechanics.

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: Real-Time with Pause 29% ★, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging yet rewarding take on resource management and logistics in a vertical, mountain-based 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 20.5%, Real-Time with Pause 19.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Unique for its focus on building a flying city that relies on trading and resource gathering to stay aloft.

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: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 12.2%, Medieval 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony sim that emphasizes the interconnectedness of nature and the economy of your growing settlement.

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 24.4%, Real-Time with Pause 13.8% ★, Resource Management 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Medieval 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on helping your small group of settlers survive and grow into a prosperous town.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Economy 13.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Medieval 10%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A social-survival city-builder that emphasizes medieval management and decision-making for your citizens.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique resource management game set in a flooded world that requires careful scavenging and building.

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Real-Time with Pause 16.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Trading 9.3% ★, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes irrigation, trade, and economic growth in ancient Mesopotamia.

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Trading 19% ★, Economy 17.3%, Building 11%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city-builder that focuses heavily on production chains and economic efficiency in an ancient setting.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Economy 21%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 13.5%, Relaxing 9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for detailed medieval building and management with a focus on defense and survival.

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 38.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Management 14.1%, Stylized 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly creative city-builder featuring beavers that focuses on water management and vertical construction.

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Trading 18.3% ★, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on expanding your reach across multiple islands through trade routes and resource logistics.

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 24.5%, Economy 16.6%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 11.5%, Relaxing 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cute and relaxing city-builder that focuses on managing resources and keeping your penguin colony happy.

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 12.7%, Medieval 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with management, focusing on the economy of a town that serves traveling heroes.

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: City Builder 23.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Economy 13.9%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: Perfect for those who love the logistics and trading aspects of Let Them Trade, focusing on complex automation.

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 24.1%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval village builder that emphasizes organic growth and detailed economic simulation.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Building 18.8%, Relaxing 14%, Cute 8.5%, Stylized 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly relaxing, purely creative building experience that captures the 'cute' aesthetic perfectly.

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: Building 34%, Relaxing 27.3%, Cute 16.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that focuses on the daily lives and resource management of a family struggling to survive.

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 23.9%, Economy 16.7%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 9.7%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Economy 14.5%, Building 11.6%, Management 8.7%, Relaxing 6.5%

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 17.4%, Trading 14.6% ★, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 9%

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: City Builder 33.7%, Medieval 12.8%, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval management game that focuses on keeping your citizens happy and your economy stable.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 48%, Medieval 9.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Economy 7.2%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that set the standard for resource management and medieval village life.

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Medieval 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.2%

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Trading 18.8% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.8%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.4%

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Trading 19.2% ★, Economy 16.3%, Building 12.2%, Management 9.7%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Medieval 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Trading 10.1% ★

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 14%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.4%

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: City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 11.4%

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.2%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.1%, Medieval 10.9%, Management 10.8%

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.2%, Relaxing 8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 11.1%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Economy 19.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%

Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 7.7%, Management 7.6%

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Economy 16.3%, Resource Management 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Economy 17.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 11.4%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Resource Management 19.1%, Medieval 17.4%, Board Game 16.8%, Relaxing 11.4%

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: Resource Management 21.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Economy 17.6%, City Builder 13.5%, Management 10.2%

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 20.1%, Economy 18.1%, Trading 13.9% ★, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%

Show your artistic side! Create your own medieval settlement in the My Little Farmies tycoon. Build artisan workshops and production sites. Trade with fruit, vegetables and cereals. Download My Little Farmies now!

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Trading 13.2% ★, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 9.8%

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Trading 25.4% ★, Economy 16.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.1%

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 13.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 11%

Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.

Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Building 15.6%, Trading 10.6% ★, Relaxing 7.3%, Resource Management 7.2%

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Economy 15.5%, Trading 13.5% ★, Management 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 10.1%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 18%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11.8%

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 23.8%, Medieval 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Economy 8.9%