Games Like Lethis - Path of Progress

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 54.1%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more organic, grid-less approach to city-building while maintaining the charming aesthetic and management focus found in Lethis.

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 42.9%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Isometric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest modern successor to the classic isometric city-builders that inspired Lethis, featuring similar walker-based mechanics and production chains.

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: As a faithful remake of a genre-defining classic, it offers the same deep, grid-based city-building and resource management experience found in Lethis.

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Why similar: City Builder 77.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 3.8%, Isometric 2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a direct ancestor to the gameplay style of Lethis, offering a blend of city-building and mythological management.

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 32.3%, Steampunk 28.6% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the steampunk aesthetic while providing a satisfying, streamlined city-building and resource management loop.

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 40.5%, Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the deep resource management and logistical complexity of Lethis, this game offers an unparalleled level of industrial simulation.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 52.7%, Building 18.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a masterclass in complex production chains and aesthetic city-building that mirrors the satisfaction of managing a growing steampunk city.

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 35.7%, Steampunk 30.7% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While darker in tone, it shares the steampunk aesthetic and high-stakes resource management that makes Lethis so engaging.

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 45.4%, Building 25.1%, Resource Management 16.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines challenging resource management with classic city-building mechanics that will feel familiar to fans of the genre.

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 39.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on the production chains and economic management that serve as the backbone of Lethis.

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 32.8%, Steampunk 27.6% ★, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The unique concept of a flying city adds a fresh layer of exploration and management to the traditional city-building formula.

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 43.3%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features deep, realistic production chains and a focus on town management that rewards careful planning.

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 52.6%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The unique water-management and vertical building mechanics provide a fresh twist on the classic city-builder formula.

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 60.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 6.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival city-builder that focuses on resource management and population stability in a harsh environment.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 53.4%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Sandbox 6.3%, Resource Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the modern gold standard for city-building, offering immense depth in infrastructure and management for those who want to expand their horizons.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 65.2%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 14.5%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the classic isometric village-building feel with a focus on managing the needs of your citizens.

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 51.5%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends classic city-building with social management elements, creating a balanced experience similar to the progression in Lethis.

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 53.5%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an accessible yet rewarding city-building experience with a focus on defensive planning and resource growth.

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 48.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes resource management and strategic planning in a procedurally generated world.

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 47.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This charming medieval city-builder focuses on colony management and survival, echoing the progression style of Lethis.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Building 31.4%, Simulation 16.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game translates the management and resource-balancing mechanics of city-builders into a vertical, skyscraper-focused environment.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This deep colony-sim offers complex building and management mechanics that will satisfy players looking for more granular control.

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

Why similar: Building 19.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, City Builder 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to the industrial production aspect of city-building, offering a fun and detailed management experience.

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 46%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the political and economic simulation aspects of city-building, offering a different kind of management challenge.

1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the American West, this game uses similar resource management and city-building mechanics to challenge the player.

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: City Builder 37.7%, Building 18.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Isometric 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the critical infrastructure and resource distribution aspects that are essential to any successful city-builder.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 7.2%

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Building 17.9%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 6.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on city management where buildings have their own needs and personalities, adding a creative layer to the genre.

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 7.5%

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 40.2%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 57.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Building 6%

Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Building 15.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 7.2%

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 40%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 6.5%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Steampunk 30.8% ★, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 7.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 46.2%, Steampunk 20.3% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 4%

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 39.4%, Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects

Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 10%

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 36%, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 7.5%

Road to your City is a city building and management game with a heavy emphasis on football. Slipping into the role of mayor, you are tasked with establishing a successful football club and developing it from grassroots to world class powerhouse.

Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 6.5%

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: City Builder 36.6%, Building 20%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Building 7.1%

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 58.6%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 6.9%, Resource Management 6.4%, Simulation 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: City Builder 57.2%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 11%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.6%

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 38%, Resource Management 17.7%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.

Why similar: City Builder 56.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 5.7%, Resource Management 5.7%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 48.4%, Building 16%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 8.3%, Resource Management 6.6%

Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Building 14.3%, Indie 4.9%

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 43.7%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 7.3%

A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.

Why similar: City Builder 49.4%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 5.3%

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 37.2%, Building 15%, Resource Management 13.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Isometric 7.3%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 68.7%, Strategy 14.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%

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: City Builder 53.6%, Building 19%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 5.2%

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 39.5%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 8.7%

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: City Builder 45.4%, Building 19.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 6.4%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Building 16.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 6.6%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Resource Management 16.2%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 53.5%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 2.6%

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 59.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 5%