- #1 Dwarf Fortress
97% matchVery Positive95% of 31,162 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Dwarves 73.9% ★, Colony Sim 5.5%, Base Building 3.6%, Building 3%, Sandbox 2.8%
- #2 Craft The World
96% matchVery Positive88% of 16,931 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Dwarves 80.1% ★, Colony Sim 5.6%, Building 3%, Sandbox 2.8%, Crafting 2.5%
- #3 Mountaincore
96% matchMixed65% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Dwarves 74.2% ★, Colony Sim 5.6%, Base Building 3.2%, Strategy 2.9%, Simulation 2.8%
- #4 A Game of Dwarves
95% matchMixed63% of 554 reviews2012
Dev: Zeal Game StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
Why similar: Dwarves 93.2% ★, Strategy 2.9%, Building 1.4%, Simulation 1.1%, Crafting 0.8%
- #5 Orebound
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 933 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Dwarves 74% ★, Automation 4.8%, Base Building 3.7%, Procedural Generation 3.1%, Building 3%
- #6 Dwarf Tower
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 281 reviews2014
Dev: iosoftware
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dwarf Tower is a turn-based tactics game of tower building and spellcasting. Each turn you develop your tower by placing blocks, constructing rooms, and play various spells. Your tower can have Libraries (store spells), Crystals (generate mana), Dwarf Dwellings (give you dwarves to repair the tower) and some other rooms.
Why similar: Dwarves 94.9% ★, Building 1.5%, Strategy 1.5%, Sandbox 1.4%, Indie 0.7%
- #7 Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Floodgate CrewPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Blacksmith: Ignite the Forge is a mix of a simulator, strategy, and auto-battler. Become a master smith, craft various weapons, and enhance them with magical runes. Equip a team of adventurers with your hand-made tools, send them on missions, gather loot to upgrade your forge, and save the land!
Why similar: Dwarves 89.5% ★, Simulation 3.1%, Building 2.8%, Crafting 2.3%, Resource Management 1.3%
- #8 Castle Craft
91% matchVery Positive82% of 476 reviews2026
Dev: Twin EarthPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 14.3%
- #9 Stonedeep
92% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Automation 8.1%
- #10 Hammerting
91% matchMixed57% of 2,585 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #11 Odd Realm
89% matchVery Positive85% of 1,005 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Automation 9.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #12 First Feudal
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 9%
- #13 Gnomes
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,755 reviews2025
Dev: DYSTOPIAN
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Why similar: Dwarves 81.5% ★, Colony Sim 5.3%, Procedural Generation 3.8%, Base Building 3.7%, Strategy 2.8%
- #14 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
87% matchVery Positive81% of 12,047 reviews2024
Dev: Free Range GamesPub: North Beach Games
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
Why similar: Dwarves 85.2% ★, Base Building 4.3%, Building 3%, Survival 2.7%, Crafting 2.6%
- #15 Goblins of Elderstone
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 402 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.7%
- #16 Mob Factory
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 8.9%
- #17 Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
84% matchVery Positive83% of 2,590 reviews2026
Dev: Hamma StudiosPub: Sidekick Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of Auto Battler, Strategy, and RPG. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid party through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
Why similar: Dwarves 96.9% ★, Strategy 1.3%, Procedural Generation 1.2%, Fantasy 0.4%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #18 Going Medieval
82% matchVery Positive89% of 21,027 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #19 Castle Story
84% matchMixed65% of 10,581 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #20 Regions of Ruin: Runegate
81% matchVery Positive86% of 341 reviews2026
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people.
Why similar: Dwarves 84.4% ★, Colony Sim 4.8%, Base Building 3.9%, Building 3.1%, Resource Management 2.3%
- #21 DwarfCorp
85% matchMixed53% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Completely Fair Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Why similar: Dwarves 94.1% ★, Colony Sim 2.1%, Strategy 1.3%, Simulation 1.3%, Base Building 0.6%
- #22 Dwarf Eats Mountain
81% matchVery Positive82% of 811 reviews2026
Dev: Green Wizard
Windows · Linux
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Why similar: Dwarves 83.2% ★, Strategy 3%, Building 2.9%, Resource Management 2.8%, Base Building 2.7%
- #23 Digs TD
82% matchMixed70% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Catchy
Windows · Mac
Take on the ultimate tower defense challenge in Digs, a roguelike game where you shape the battlefield, mine resources, and strategize against a variety of enemies. Manage your actions, customize your arsenal with upgrade cards, and explore diverse levels. Can you dig in and emerge victorious?
Why similar: Dwarves 90.4% ★, Strategy 3.4%, Procedural Generation 3.1%, Building 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #24 Undholm
83% matchMixed65% of 87 reviews2019
Dev: Pixelmeal Games, LLC
Windows
A dwarfish colony sim set in a fantasy world. Inspired by Rimworld and Banished. Dig deep to uncover riches and challenges, recruit dwarves to produce goods, and trade with other settlements (or raid them) to help your colony succeed.
Why similar: Dwarves 95.2% ★, Simulation 3.4%, Indie 1.5%
- #25 Kingdom Ascension
79% matchVery Positive84% of 224 reviews2025
Dev: RainRingStudio
Windows
Step into the role of a lord, starting from scratch to build your kingdom. Gather resources, construct buildings, recruit troops, explore, and embark on adventures to continuously expand your territory and defend your homeland.
Why similar: Base Building 25.3%, Strategy 19.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Survival 14%, Building 13.3%
- #26 Lords and Villeins
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 970 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 26.2%, Strategy 12%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #27 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,183 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.1%
- #28 Craft In Abyss
78% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: FirePillar2
Windows
Craft in Abyss is a tower defense rogue-lite game. It allow players to design their own mechanical fortress, gather resources and continuously strengthen the fortress facilities within a sci-fi world.
Why similar: Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 16.7%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 14%
- #29 Hold The Mine
75% matchVery Positive85% of 337 reviews2026
Dev: Hookaria GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.
Why similar: Dwarves 89.4% ★, Base Building 3.3%, Strategy 3.2%, Building 1.8%, Resource Management 1.4%
- #30 Castle Woodwarf
78% matchVery Positive84% of 196 reviews2019
Dev: Domo GamesPub: Sedoc LLC
Windows
Cut the trees, catch some fish, upgrade your castle and environment. Guard the treasure against waves of enemies and lead your dwarves on their way to victory!
Why similar: Strategy 39.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Management 16.3%, Indie 15.6%, Fantasy 7.7%
- #31 Fantasy Village Simulator
77% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Colony Sim 20%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 19.1%, Building 12.1%
- #32 Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 741 reviews2026
Dev: Compact Core GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Forge your destiny and craft legends. Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is your journey into the heart of craftsmanship. Dive into the enchanting world of a blacksmith, mine ores, create legendary weapons, arm heroes and send them on quests for loot and profit. The forge awaits!
Why similar: Dwarves 79.4% ★, Automation 4.4%, Simulation 3.2%, Strategy 3.1%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #33 Blacksmith Master
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,627 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 10%
- #34 Dwarfs!?
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,078 reviews2011
Dev: Power of 2Pub: Tripwire Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Why similar: Dwarves 79.8% ★, Colony Sim 5.1%, Base Building 2.7%, Strategy 2%, Sandbox 1.8%
- #35 Crafting Town
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Simulation 17.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 15.1%, Building 11.8%
- #36 Dwarf Shop
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Potion Junkies
Windows
Dwarf Shop is a Shop Simulator with, you guessed it, Dwarves! Help the Dragon Clan lure their very own dragon by amassing piles and piles of glorious gold. Send one dwarf deep into the caves to find ingredients while the others craft various equipment and sell them to unsuspecting customers!
Why similar: Dwarves 89.2% ★, Simulation 3.1%, Crafting 2.8%, Management 2.4%, Strategy 2.2%
- #37 Timber and Stone
77% matchMixed49% of 864 reviews2015
Dev: Games by Robert, LLC
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Strategy 28.5%, Survival 25.5%, Sandbox 20.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Indie 11.3%
- #38 Dungeons & Kingdoms
74% matchMixed43% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 17.3%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 10.5%
- #39 Gnomoria
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,537 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Colony Sim 26.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 9.7%
- #40 Kingdoms and Castles
72% matchVery Positive94% of 31,170 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 9.1%
- #41 HammerHelm
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 389 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: Building 21.8%, Base Building 18%, Strategy 17%, Crafting 16.1%, Simulation 12.6%
- #42 Darfall
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #43 Beneath the Mountain
71% matchMixed67% of 211 reviews2024
Dev: Omnis Rector StudiosPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Crafting 18.8%, Management 17.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Survival 15.4%
- #44 Royal Lord - 王权领主
69% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Building 14.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #45 Tower Lords
71% matchMixed47% of 107 reviews2025
Dev: Final Arcade
Windows
Become a Tower Lord! Build and upgrade your tower in this incremental idle game. Fight off the forces of the Dark Lord, conquer new lands, and challenge his dominion with the power of your dragon.
Why similar: Strategy 21.2%, Building 19.9%, Resource Management 19.8%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 9.1%
- #46 Kubifaktorium
70% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 20.1%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.1%
- #47 Guardians of the Sanctree
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Automation 12.5%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #48 Demon Castle Story
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 214 reviews2026
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Simulation 27%, Strategy 26.1%, Building 6.4%, Indie 3.4%
- #49 Territory: Farming and Warfare
66% matchVery Positive85% of 727 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.7%, Automation 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.7%
- #50 Cavern Adventurers
68% matchMixed65% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Simulation 24.4%, Survival 11.5%, Building 11%, Fantasy 5.5%
- #51 Factorio
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 230,973 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 24%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #52 Dungeon Overseer
70% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #53 Illuminaria
69% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Automation 13%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 10%
- #54 Super Fantasy Kingdom
64% matchVery Positive87% of 5,770 reviews2025
Dev: Super Fantasy GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Procedural Generation 33.2%, Fantasy 13.8%, Indie 13.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #55 Make Your Kingdom
70% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #56 MIGLORN
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: WuzzyWizard
Windows
Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night
Why similar: Strategy 21%, Building 20.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Survival 13.4%
- #57 Lay of the Land
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,026 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Procedural Generation 17.7%, Building 16%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12%
- #58 Warlords Under Siege
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 473 reviews2025
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.
Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Building 24.1%, Survival 17%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 12.5%