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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: Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Historical 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed medieval setting with organic city-building and a focus on realistic resource chains.

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 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Building 9.3%, RTS 9%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival-focused city-builder where managing the environment and seasonal resources is critical.

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 26.1%, Medieval 9.3%, Colony Sim 8.7% ★, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic, grid-less city building that captures the charm and historical feel of medieval settlement development.

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 29.1% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Survival 6.7%, Medieval 5.3%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational classic for survival-based city-builders where you must manage a growing population against harsh natural elements.

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 17.1% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Moddable 12.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Historical 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with multi-level building mechanics in a medieval setting that requires careful planning against the elements.

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 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Historical 8.2%, Farming Sim 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply realistic city-builder that emphasizes historical accuracy and complex, interconnected production chains.

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 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique water-based ecosystem simulation where you must terraform the land to ensure your colony's survival.

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 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Medieval 9.3%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that challenges players to manage resources and disasters in a changing environment.

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 14.1% ★, City Builder 12%, Moddable 10.3% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social and political simulation of a medieval noble family managing their settlement and subjects.

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 21.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Management 9%, Medieval 8.8%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that emphasizes the social hierarchy and individual needs of your villagers in a medieval setting.

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 29.8%, Medieval 16.8%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.6%, Building 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with third-person survival and combat, allowing you to lead a rebellion from a small village.

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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Medieval 8.3%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more stylized approach to medieval city-building with a focus on defense and managing a growing kingdom.

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 17.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony simulation that handles thousands of citizens and complex logistics within a living, breathing world.

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 19% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Farming Sim 10.4%, Management 9.5%, RTS 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique symbiotic relationship between your settlement and a giant creature, emphasizing environmental management.

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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 7.9% ★, Base Building 6.5%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A social-survival city-builder that requires balancing resource production with the complex needs and happiness of your citizens.

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 23.8% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Moddable 12.8% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for emergent storytelling and colony simulation, where every character and environmental interaction matters.

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 29.8% ★, Farming Sim 25.3%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation colony-builder set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on survival and family lineage.

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 29.4% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Medieval 7.4%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval village simulator that forces players to manage food, health, and weather to survive the seasons.

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: Colony Sim 14.1% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9%, Historical 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that brings a unique aesthetic to the colony-sim genre while maintaining deep management mechanics.

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 28.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted colony-sim that focuses on building, resource management, and the individual needs of your settlers.

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 15.1% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Moddable 11.3% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the production and management side of a medieval settlement, specifically through the lens of a blacksmith shop.

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 17.4%, RTS 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-focused colony-builder that emphasizes building and managing a settlement in a natural landscape.

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 18.4%, Moddable 11.1% ★, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Historical 9.6%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes the evolution of society and technology through the lens of environmental survival.

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 17.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing colony-sim that tasks you with building a thriving settlement on the ocean, focusing on resource automation.

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 18.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that focuses on economy and colony management within a challenging, resource-scarce environment.

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: Colony Sim 14% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Moddable 8.5% ★, Historical 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex logistics and resource management simulation available for those who want deep, realistic systems.

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 35.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Colony Sim 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game where the environment is your greatest enemy, requiring strict resource control to survive.

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 20.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.5%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style city-builder that emphasizes growth and management in a charming, stylized world.

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on the struggles of a small tribe trying to survive and grow into a thriving town.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 12.2%, Medieval 10.8%

Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 25.8%, RTS 20.7%, Medieval 7.7%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city-builder that focuses on the challenges of settling a new land and managing its inhabitants.

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 19.6% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Medieval 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Historical 7.4%, Building 7.1%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, RTS 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Management 7.3%, RTS 6.2%

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 19.6% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 30.3%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Survival 8%, Historical 6.8%, Strategy 5%

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: Colony Sim 13.3% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Historical 7.9%

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 31.8% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 7.4%

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 16.2%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 8.3%, Management 8.1%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, RTS 10.5%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Moddable 10.9% ★, Sandbox 7.8%

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 16.4% ★, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.2%

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 13.7% ★, City Builder 12%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.7%

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 22.9% ★, Economy 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Medieval 10.4%

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Medieval 10.4%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 13.7% ★, City Builder 12%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.7%

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 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.1%, Moddable 8.9% ★

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9%, Economy 8.2%

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 18.2%, RTS 14.3%, Historical 11.6%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.7%

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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Economy 10.7%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.3%, RTS 9.8%, Management 8.5%, Building 8.4%

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Medieval 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Building 17.6%, Resource Management 16%, Management 15%, Strategy 8.6%

Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

Why similar: Farming Sim 13.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Historical 11.8%, Medieval 10.2%, Building 9.2%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%, Economy 7.3%