- #1 NecroCity
97% matchMixed50% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #2 Sylox
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 9.5%
- #3 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
96% matchVery Positive92% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.7%
- #4 Dubai Builder
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Tower Defense 11.2%
- #5 The Wild Age
94% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.1%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 16%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.3%
- #6 Song of Slavs
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.1%
- #7 Kingdom: Classic
92% matchVery Positive91% of 22,754 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 11.7%
- #8 Kaiju Commander
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gameparic
Windows
Kaiju Commander is a strategy game where your main task is to dominate the whole world. To achieve this goal, you will be managing an evil corporation that breeds powerful monsters known as Kaiju. Develop your underwater base, gather resources, and dominate the world!
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 13%, Management 10.5%
- #9 Wall World Strategy
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.7%
- #10 Stormbridge
90% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Can you build the longest bridge before the storm catches up? Stormbridge is a roguelite city builder about growth, survival, and watching everything fall apart. Stay ahead of the danger, unlock upgrades between runs, and uncover the storm’s origin.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Tactical 9.8%
- #11 Homelander’s Valor
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D Axis
Windows
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Tower Defense 25.1%, Building 15%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 9.8%
- #12 Citadel 's Keeper
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AngelRDev
Windows
Protect your cities against waves of enemies. Manage your resources and plan accordingly to develop your city and armies to survive!
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.5%
- #13 Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Steppe Wind
Windows
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, City Builder 26%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%
- #14 Siege of Irdor
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.9%
- #15 Hellcrown
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Astral Hearts
Windows · Linux
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 12%, Colony Sim 11.5%
- #16 Diseased
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yavuz Kala
Windows
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Tower Defense 16%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.3%
- #17 DarkSwitch
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 783 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.5%
- #18 Border Base
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 8.5%
- #19 FrontierLord
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WallYardPub: WallYard Studio
Windows
FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, City Builder 22%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Tactical 8.7%
- #20 Isla Paradiso
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.1%
- #21 Queen's Revenge
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WizradHatDice
Windows
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 11.8%
- #22 Edge Islands
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 15.4%, Management 10.1%
- #23 Kingdom III: Rising Realms
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 9.6%
- #24 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
81% matchPositive87% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Building 10.4%
- #25 Sovran's Crusade
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NewFireGames
Windows
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Tower Defense 22.4%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 7.8%
- #26 The Protectorate
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BAH StudioPub: IIM Digital School
Windows
The enemy is approaching. What's your strategy? In this fusion of Tower Defense and Autobattler, optimize the power of your turrets, create strong synergies and wisely choose your bonuses... Or your maluses! Will you be able to defend your city against the hordes of furious monsters?
Why similar: Tower Defense 22%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 12.2%, Tactical 11.2%, Strategy 7.3%
- #27 Bee Island
79% matchVery Positive87% of 1,715 reviews2023
Dev: Lemma Arts
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11%
- #28 Horizon 1990
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 9.6%
- #29 Night is Coming
78% matchMixed63% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 12.1%
- #30 Rise Against the Invaders
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 14%, Strategy 8.4%
- #31 Settlements Rising
76% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Tower Defense 10.4%
- #32 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
77% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 8.9%
- #33 Fio and the Doomed City
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #34 Kingdom Two Crowns
76% matchVery Positive90% of 39,881 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.1%
- #35 Beyond The Walls
75% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Pear vs Apple
Windows
Immerse yourself in a 3D tower defense game set in a medieval realm. Build towers with unique effects and strategically manage your town to amass resources. Master the elements and devise cunning strategies to triumph in this captivating fusion of defense and city management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.2%, Management 9%
- #36 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Tower Defense 20%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 7.4%
- #37 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
74% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Building 16.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%
- #38 Fortifend
72% matchPositive88% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Tower Defense 26%, Base Building 21.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 9.6%
- #39 Goblin Colony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.6%
- #40 Oxygen: First Breath
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 12%, Management 8.8%
- #41 The Blighted Frontier
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 17%, Management 10.5%, Building 8.7%
- #42 Bressnath
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morass
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refound a holding in the drowned Vreldsath fens. Nothing regrows, every load is carried home by hand, and what crawls out of the Sundered Places comes without warning. Push outward, dig up the ruins, hold the line, and win by laying a causeway across water that swallowed every attempt before yours.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 11.2%
- #43 Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blueberry Turtle
Windows
A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 14.6%, Strategy 7.3%
- #44 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 31.7%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Building 16.3%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 9%
- #45 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
69% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 10.3%
- #46 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
68% matchVery Positive93% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #47 Shilutey Shopping Avenue
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Donuta Games
Windows
It’s a tower defense game disguised as a management/city building game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.7%, City Builder 28.5%, Management 14.9%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #48 Beacon of Havoc
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Tower Defense 26.2%, Building 16.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Management 8.4%
- #49 ArcaneOutpost
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: VortexRingGame
Windows
A strategy game that combines MOBA and Tower Defence, You would control guardians with different skills,building your outpost to fend off enemy attacks.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Tactical 8%
- #50 Falling into Meteor Island
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonlight Sand
Windows
You’ll become a fallen star, crashing down onto an island covered in stars. This is a base-building + tower defense game. In a unique 2.5D art style, explore the island, build up your camp, fight the island’s evil forces, and lead the other stars back to the universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 18%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #51 clickyland
69% matchVery Positive85% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Survival 3.3%
- #52 Gargantua
67% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Abdullah Furkan Doğan
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.5%
- #53 Arcane Rings
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Building 11.6%
- #54 Exodus Borealis
69% matchVery Positive86% of 307 reviews2021
Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
Windows
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #55 Orrstead
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
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 25.9%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 11.1%
- #56 Island of Embers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes, and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research, and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive, or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Building 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #57 Drill Core
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,478 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Tower Defense 21.8%, City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #58 Rise to Ruins
67% matchVery Positive88% of 7,765 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.7 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 27.1%, Tower Defense 25.8%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 6.6%
- #59 Pelikeeper: A Cute TD Adventure
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Merge Conflict Studio
Windows
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.2%, Tactical 9.8%