Games Like Mountaincore

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: Dwarf 31% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive inspiration for the genre, offering unparalleled depth in simulation and emergent storytelling.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Moddable 16.8% ★, Base Building 14%, City Builder 8.5%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in colony management that excels at creating unique, character-driven narratives within a hostile environment.

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 21.1% ★, Moddable 18.5% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust 3D building system that allows for complex multi-story structures in a medieval setting.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, God Game 12.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that shares a similar visual and mechanical focus on managing dwarven-like populations in harsh lands.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Moddable 16.4% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines massive-scale city building with deep simulation mechanics that allow for thousands of inhabitants.

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: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Agriculture 19.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes family management and seasonal preparation.

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: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Moddable 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim that blends management with RPG elements, allowing you to influence your subjects' lives directly.

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 29.5% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Management 12.4%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the dwarven experience of mining, crafting, and managing a vertical mountain base.

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: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique water physics and vertical building mechanics that challenge your engineering skills in a post-apocalyptic world.

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: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Building 11%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a charming voxel aesthetic paired with deep town-building and combat management systems.

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: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Building 12.3%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed resource management experience with a focus on realistic survival and town growth.

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 31.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox colony-sim that focuses on mining, crafting, and defending a subterranean kingdom.

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: Dwarf 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling take on the genre that emphasizes mining, crafting, and defending a dwarven tribe.

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Medieval 10.5%, Management 8.8%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Features an organic, grid-less building system that prioritizes realistic town development and resource chains.

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 25.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Management 10.3%, Building 8.6%, Medieval 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social hierarchy and family management aspects of medieval settlement building.

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: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.1%, Medieval 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy city builder where managing resources and climate is key to keeping your population alive.

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: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build sprawling cities on mountain slopes while managing the constant threat of avalanches.

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.3%, God Game 10.1% ★, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and expansion of a fantasy dungeon, blending base-building with economy simulation.

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 21.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 11%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim that lets you manage a medieval village from a single peasant to a thriving community.

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 33.7% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.2%, Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim with a focus on personality and individual colonist needs, making every member of your settlement feel unique.

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 19.6% ★, Moddable 17% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep focus on the crafting and management side of the fantasy economy, perfect for those who enjoy the production chains of Mountaincore.

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 19.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, God Game 11.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on the genre by letting you manage a goblin tribe with a focus on tribal politics and expansion.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Moddable 15.2% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that emphasizes base defense and scavenging in a harsh, unforgiving world.

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, God Game 14.4% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Agriculture 9.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A spiritual successor to classic dwarven sims that emphasizes god-game mechanics and resource management.

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Moddable 17.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 11%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and efficiency aspects of building, ideal for players who enjoy optimizing their colony's production.

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 12%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.1%, God Game 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical city-building with survival mechanics, requiring players to build and defend a Roman outpost.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that requires careful planning to survive the dangers of the night.

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: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.7%

Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.

Why similar: Dwarf 77.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Strategy 3.5%, Simulation 3.3%, Base Building 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends real-time strategy with colony management, focusing on exploration and resource extraction in a 3D world.

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.4%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 7.3%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Medieval 7.1%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival city builder that demands careful resource management to survive harsh winters.

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: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, God Game 13.1% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Base Building 9.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.1%

Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting

Why similar: Management 26.1%, Building 26%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 13%, Resource Management 12.1%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Dwarf 64.8% ★, Colony Sim 7.6% ★, Base Building 4.4%, Strategy 4%, Simulation 3.8%

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 24.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.5%, City Builder 9.3%, Management 8.7%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 8.5%, Management 8%

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 29.7% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Building 8.8%, Medieval 8.4%, Base Building 7.2%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Moddable 13.9% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10%, Medieval 8.9%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 7%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 8.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 8.5%, Survival 4.8%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Agriculture 11.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Management 8.6%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 11.4% ★, Base Building 9.9%, 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: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.8%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.4%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Moddable 17.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 9.2%

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: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 19.5%, God Game 13.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 6%

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: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Moddable 17% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.6%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Management 14.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.7%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Moddable 7.7% ★, Building 7.6%, Crafting 6.8%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Management 11.3%, Building 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 14.5%, God Game 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Management 9.8%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Moddable 15.2% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.5%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Management 13%, Medieval 10.7%, Resource Management 7.5%

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: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 27%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.9%