- #1 The Universim
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,595 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 33.8% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.6%
- #2 Fata Deum - The God Sim
96% matchMixed59% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 27.3% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #3 Sapiens
96% matchVery Positive83% of 2,139 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 27.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.1%
- #4 Nova Roma
94% matchVery Positive94% of 2,044 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20.4%, Historical 14.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.9%
- #5 Goblins of Elderstone
95% 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: God Game 20.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.6%
- #6 Foundation
94% matchVery Positive87% of 23,903 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 41.7%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #7 Noble Fates
93% matchVery Positive83% of 1,479 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Third Person 9.6%
- #8 Genesis of a Small God
92% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 28.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.3%
- #9 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
91% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: City Builder 17%, God Game 15.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Management 8.7%
- #10 Manor Lords
91% matchVery Positive84% of 88,470 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.9%, Historical 19%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #11 Dawn of Man
90% matchVery Positive87% of 17,766 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 50.4%, Survival 15.4%, Historical 12.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 5.9%
- #12 Aztecs: The Last Sun
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
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: City Builder 20.8%, Historical 13.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.2%
- #13 A Game of Humans
89% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: God Game 28.8% ★, City Builder 24%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 12%, Building 7.9%
- #14 Patron
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,181 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 28.3%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Historical 10%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #15 Anno 117: Pax Romana
86% matchMixed70% of 12,325 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Historical 14.5%, Building 12.1%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #16 Celestial Empire
85% matchVery Positive90% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 24.2%, Historical 17.4%, Building 12.4%, Management 11%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #17 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
86% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: God Game 21.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Historical 10.1%, Management 8.5%
- #18 Mind the Vikings
87% matchMixed43% of 83 reviews2018
Dev: Miso Games
Windows
Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9%, Historical 9%
- #19 Noble Legacy
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 731 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #20 Going Medieval
82% matchVery Positive89% of 21,102 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: City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Historical 14.4%, Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%
- #21 Ostriv
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,538 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.8%, Historical 14.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10%, Building 9.2%
- #22 Blacksmith Master
81% matchVery Positive83% of 2,646 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: City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.7%
- #23 MMORPG Tycoon 2
82% matchVery Positive86% of 3,062 reviews2020
Dev: VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Why similar: God Game 44% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #24 Kingdoms Reborn
81% matchVery Positive90% of 9,656 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 7.1%
- #25 Worshippers of Cthulhu
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,522 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Management 17.6%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 8.7%
- #26 Soulmask
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 21,914 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 68.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Crafting 19.4%, Survival 16.5%, Resource Management 15.5%, PvE 14.3%
- #27 Creo God Simulator
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 44.4% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Management 14%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 7%
- #28 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 765 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: God Game 35.9% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Resource Management 12%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 7.1%
- #29 Bellwright
77% matchVery Positive80% of 20,703 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #30 Reus 2
76% matchVery Positive95% of 2,271 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 33.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #31 Stonehearth
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,043 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 37.5%, Building 15.4%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.6%, God Game 8.5% ★
- #32 Settlement Survival
77% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 29.8%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.7%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #33 Norland
75% matchVery Positive82% of 10,106 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Historical 14.1%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #34 Whiskerwood
73% matchVery Positive93% of 3,148 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 19.9%, Historical 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 10.7%, Building 10%
- #35 Rise to Ruins
75% matchVery Positive88% of 7,752 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, God Game 28.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #36 MEMORIAPOLIS
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,767 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 26.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Historical 13%, Management 11%, Building 10.7%
- #37 Milord
74% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: iBright GamesPub: InEv Creative
Windows · Mac
Milord is a Kingdom Management RPG with city-building mechanics. Immerse yourself in a world where your decisions shape your fiefdom's destiny. Rule wisely as you construct, strategize, and navigate the challenges of leadership. Will you rise to glory or crumble under the weight of your choices?
Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Resource Management 25.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #38 Make Your Kingdom
76% matchMixed58% of 196 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: City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 13%, Building 12.6%, Survival 10.9%
- #39 Townsmen VR
73% matchVery Positive84% of 570 reviews2022
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.
Why similar: God Game 34.7% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #40 Stranded: Alien Dawn
71% matchVery Positive84% of 11,117 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%
- #41 Empires and Tribes
72% matchMixed66% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 19%, Crafting 16.4%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #42 City Tales - Medieval Era
69% matchVery Positive89% of 589 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 34.5%, Building 17.5%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 9.7%
- #43 The Settlers: New Allies
72% matchMixed49% of 1,189 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 30% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Management 8.5%
- #44 From Dust
73% matchMixed67% of 2,972 reviews2011
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
Why similar: God Game 73.2% ★, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Building 5.7%, Magic 5.3%
- #45 Microcivilization
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,435 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: God Game 22.9% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Historical 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #46 Land of the Vikings
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,240 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: City Builder 25.3%, Historical 12.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 10.1%, Management 10%
- #47 Dungeons & Kingdoms
70% 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: Base Building 25.3%, Management 19.2%, Building 19.1%, Third Person 13.6%, Exploration 7.5%
- #48 Surviving the Aftermath
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,548 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 33.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%
- #49 Sacrifices
69% matchMixed60% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Spooky Games
Windows
Faith and blood! In this god-game-meets-city-builder, rule and guide a mesoamerican village through the trials and tribulations of everyday life in the heart of a ruthless jungle!
Why similar: God Game 33.2% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 8%
- #50 New Cycle
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: City Builder 24%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #51 Of Life and Land
67% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 21.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Historical 12.6%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #52 Farthest Frontier
65% matchVery Positive86% of 24,898 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 23%, Building 14.6%, Historical 14.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #53 WW2 Rebuilder
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,560 reviews2023
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.
Why similar: God Game 19.4% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #54 Distant Kingdoms
70% matchMixed44% of 303 reviews2021
Dev: Orthrus Studios
Windows
A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.
Why similar: City Builder 66.9%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 16.4%
- #55 Ancient Cities
67% matchMixed63% of 2,134 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 22.7%, Historical 16.6%, Survival 10.7%, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #56 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
68% matchMixed66% of 6,003 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 44.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%
- #57 Knights of the Crusades
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 9.8%