Games Like New Cycle

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 11.3%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the post-apocalyptic setting and the core loop of gathering resources to protect a settlement from environmental hazards.

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar experience of managing a colony in a ruined world, focusing on exploration and disaster mitigation.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same intense focus on survival, moral decision-making, and managing a desperate population in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world.

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

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's survival mechanics with deeper political and societal management systems that mirror the industrial growth found in New Cycle.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It refines the post-apocalyptic colony-building experience with improved visuals and more complex logistics for managing multiple settlements.

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a world ravaged by climate change, this game emphasizes societal survival and resource management in a way that feels very close to New Cycle.

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Difficult 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the scarcity of water and resources in a post-apocalyptic landscape, forcing players to make difficult survival choices.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder captures the high-stakes pressure of constant environmental threats and the need for efficient resource chains.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational survival city-builder, it provides the essential challenge of keeping a small population alive through harsh seasons and limited resources.

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 22%, Building 11.9%, Survival 9.5%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep, grid-based building experience that emphasizes population management and survival against natural disasters.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: While themed around beavers, its core mechanics of water management and surviving extreme drought conditions offer a similar strategic challenge to New Cycle.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 19%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with space survival, requiring players to manage a fragile station while dealing with constant resource shortages.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to build a base in any real-world location, focusing on scavenging and defending against waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the industrial progression of New Cycle, this game offers the most complex and realistic logistics and production chains available.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a post-apocalyptic world where players must build a city around an oxygen center, mirroring the survival-first approach of New Cycle.

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 39%, Colony Sim 34.8%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It tracks the progression of a human settlement from the Stone Age, mirroring the technological advancement and survival focus of New Cycle.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 9.2%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistical challenge of keeping a colony alive in a hostile environment, requiring careful resource management.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Real-Time with Pause 14.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with tactical combat, focusing on surviving a demon apocalypse with a small group of survivors.

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

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on industrial expansion and resource management in a sci-fi setting, appealing to those who enjoy the production chains of New Cycle.

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 29.1%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more character-focused, it is the gold standard for colony-sims that require managing complex survival needs in a hostile environment.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Building 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on city-building where players must manage multiple small cities on cliffs to survive a nuclear winter.

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 26%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.4%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on building and surviving in a post-plague world, offering deep construction mechanics and environmental challenges.

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 32.9%, City Builder 31.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 7.8%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic survival city-builder experience where managing food and shelter through changing seasons is paramount.

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes the struggle for resources and the defense of your settlement against external threats.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sci-fi city-building experience that focuses on managing the needs of colonists on an alien planet.

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: Real-Time with Pause 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.4%

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 56%, Building 29.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the survival of a family unit in the Scottish Highlands, emphasizing resource gathering and preparation for harsh winters.

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: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 23.9%, Survival 11%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder features a social dynamics system that adds a layer of complexity to managing your population's needs.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.2%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Survival 8.7%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the survival city-builder genre underwater, requiring players to manage oxygen and pressure while building a new home.

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Set in an underwater research facility, this game focuses on survival, resource management, and the dangers of the deep sea.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

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 38.5%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Management 7.3%

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 7.9%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.6%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

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 20.6%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.2%

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 19.7%, Colony Sim 18%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 7.6%

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 21.3%, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 9%

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 21.8%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 8.4%

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Building 9.3%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

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 31.5%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 6.9%

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 20.3%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9%

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 19.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Survival 7.6%

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 25.2%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.1%

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 23.7%, City Builder 22.8%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 22.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Survival 9.3%

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 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 8.8%, Building 8.6%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.4%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9.4%

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 24.3%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9%