Games Like Ostriv

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 16.3%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Building 9.3%, Agriculture 9.3% ★, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly deep, survival-focused city-building experience with complex farming and production chains.

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 31.9%, Colony Sim 8.9%, Medieval 7%, Economy 6.7%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, grid-less building system and focus on natural village growth perfectly mirror the design philosophy of Ostriv.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Historical 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 7.8%, Medieval 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines historical accuracy with organic village expansion and detailed production management in a medieval setting.

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: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 5.9%, Sandbox 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual predecessor to many modern survival city-builders, it shares the core focus on resource management and harsh environmental survival.

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 18.2%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Historical 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: For those who love the complex logistics and deep supply chain management found in Ostriv, this is the ultimate challenge.

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

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 6.4%, Survival 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar blend of survival mechanics and medieval town management that requires careful resource planning.

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 23.6%, Agriculture 17.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation captures the struggle of survival in a harsh historical environment with a heavy focus on family and community management.

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 35.5%, Colony Sim 28%, Survival 8.3%, Historical 8.1%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the progression of a society through historical ages with a strong focus on survival and resource gathering.

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 17.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Historical 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed colony-sim experience with a focus on architecture and surviving the challenges of the Middle Ages.

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 19.6%, Historical 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Economy 7.2%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on historical realism and the slow, deliberate development of a settlement through ancient eras.

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 21%, Colony Sim 17%, Building 8.5%, Management 7%, Agriculture 6.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-focused city builder that emphasizes managing the needs of your population against environmental threats.

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 22.8%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Base Building 9%, Farming Sim 8.7%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While featuring beavers, its innovative water physics and vertical building mechanics offer a fresh take on complex resource 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: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Survival 7.2%, Historical 6.7%, Economy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances city-building with social management and survival, requiring careful attention to the needs of your citizens.

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 30.1%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 7.6%, Economy 7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar management loop to Ostriv but adds a layer of multiplayer and unique biome-specific challenges.

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 39.4%, Survival 18.3%, Building 14.6%, Medieval 13.8%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an immersive, third-person perspective on medieval village management and survival that feels grounded and realistic.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Economy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more industrial, its focus on intricate logistics and production chains will appeal to fans of Ostriv's management depth.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: City Builder 15.4%, Colony Sim 15%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the social and political dynamics of a medieval society, adding a layer of depth to the standard city-building loop.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes resource management and the struggle to maintain a society in a harsh world.

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

Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Historical 8.2%, Farming Sim 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the relationship between your settlement and the surrounding ecosystem, requiring careful environmental management.

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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for massive-scale colony management with deep simulation of individual needs and complex production chains.

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Historical 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the evolution of a city over time, emphasizing historical growth and political management.

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 22.5%, City Builder 21.3%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique perspective by focusing on the management of individual family units within a medieval village.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep dive into production chains and economic management, focusing on the craft of blacksmithing within a growing town.

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Historical 11.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 8%, Agriculture 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It provides a historical city-building experience with a focus on irrigation and resource management in ancient Mesopotamia.

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 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A solid colony-sim that focuses on the classic management loop of gathering, processing, and expanding.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Agriculture 11.9% ★, Building 11.4%, Economy 10.8%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on organic growth and resource-based development, requiring players to think about how different buildings interact.

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 28.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the needs and happiness of individual settlers while managing a growing village.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Historical 10.4%, Base Building 9%, Economy 8%

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 16.7%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Historical 10.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8%

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 23.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, early-human perspective on colony building with a focus on exploration and primitive technology.

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 19%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.8%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Historical 8.2%, Base Building 7.1%, Economy 6.8%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Building 11.6%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.5%

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 30.3%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the survival-focused city-building genre into a post-apocalyptic setting with a focus on managing unique specialist units.

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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Historical 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A Wild West-themed city builder that requires balancing survival, resource gathering, and defense against outlaws.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Agriculture 11.3% ★, Historical 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%

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

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.4%

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 26.8%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 5.5%

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: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Farming Sim 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%

Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Farming Sim 11.9%, Agriculture 11.3% ★, Management 10.1%, Building 8.9%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 14.7%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Medieval 10.1%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 9.6%

Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.

Why similar: City Builder 57%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 18.2%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Historical 11.9%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 43.6%, Economy 13.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 7.8%, Simulation 6.1%

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 23.6%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 7.5%, Building 6.5%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 12.2%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Building 13.6%, Economy 13.5%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10.3%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 20.3%, Building 17.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 12%, Medieval 9.8%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.7%, Economy 6.9%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Historical 10.2%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 7.5%

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: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Building 9%, Management 8.7%, Economy 8.6%

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 23.5%, Historical 15.1%, Economy 12%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.2%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Economy 10.9%, Historical 10.7%, Building 9.9%

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: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 29.1%, Agriculture 9.8% ★, Strategy 8.4%, Medieval 5.7%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8%