Games Like Outlands

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 22.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Medieval 4.3%

Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Simulation 18.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 16.6%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Simulation 5.1%

A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 25%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Exploration 5.3%

Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Real Time Tactics 18%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Exploration 5.2%

A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.

Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Colony Sim 32.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Top-Down 5.1%, Building 4.6%

Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Base Building 5.8%

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 35.4%, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Medieval 4.6%

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 35.5%, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.3%, Survival 4.2%

Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Simulation 19.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Building 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: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 7.2%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Colony Sim 38.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Indie 1.3%

In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 16.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 4.9%

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 25.4%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Exploration 4.9%

Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 32.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 5%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 27.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Survival 5.5%

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 29.8%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 4.4%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, City Builder 21%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 5.8%

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 5.4%

This is a tower-building simulation where you place offices, homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, and more inside a growing high-rise. People move autonomously toward their destinations, using elevators as the building comes to life. Balance profit and expansion as you create a busy tower of your own.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%

Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Building 5.6%, Medieval 4.7%

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: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 6.7%

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: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 6.1%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 28.3%, Simulation 18.6%, Exploration 6%, Building 5.1%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Strategy 16%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 6.5%

A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Medieval 6.9%

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 38.4%, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Base Building 4.6%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Top-Down 3.6%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Exploration 5.6%

Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 24.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 3.5%

A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 25.6%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 6.2%, Medieval 4.8%

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 26.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Base Building 4.2%

The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, City Builder 32.3%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 7.1%, Resource Management 3.5%

A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 24.4%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Medieval 4.8%

Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 6.9%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 29.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10%, Building 6.7%

Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 26.1%, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Building 4.6%

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 23.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%

Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 3.7%

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 30.5%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 8%, Strategy 5.7%

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 39.4%, City Builder 23.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 6.4%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 17%, Base Building 6.8%

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Simulation 18.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 3.6%

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 28%, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 5.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 20%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 5.8%

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 4.3%

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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 24.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15%, Building 4.9%

Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 4.4%

Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 23.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 15.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 24.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 5.5%

City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 15.9%, Exploration 4.1%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 32.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 5.3%, Building 4.5%

It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 26.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 5.2%

Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 22.8%, Survival 5.6%, Resource Management 4.4%

Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 22.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%

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 34.8%, City Builder 21.8%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 7.1%

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Survival 5.3%