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 33.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 15.4%, Medieval 4.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Simulation 18.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Strategy 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.5%

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 26.8% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 15.5%, 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: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Top-Down 5.1%, Building 4.6%

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 35.6% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%, Medieval 4.6%

Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Cute 3.6%

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 35.7% ★, City Builder 33.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Survival 4.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Simulation 19.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Strategy 15.8%, 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 30.1% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 7.1%

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 32.5%, Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 6.6%, Medieval 5.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, City Builder 37.6%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 1.4%

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 20.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 5.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, Simulation 17%, Strategy 16.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 4.8%

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 30.5% ★, City Builder 28%, Strategy 18.8%, Building 5.5%, Medieval 4.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 5.3%

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 29.8% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 6.7%

Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Exploration 4.5%

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 30.5% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Simulation 18.9%, Exploration 6%, Building 5%

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 38.7% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Base Building 4.7%

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 30.8%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Strategy 16.2%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 6.6%

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 28.9% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 17.3%, Top-Down 3.7%

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 31% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Medieval 6.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 15.4%, Building 3.5%

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 34.2% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Resource Management 3.8%

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 28.7% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 12%, Exploration 5.6%

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 28.1% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Base Building 4.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Medieval 4.7%

Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 16.3%, Building 4.6%

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 26.4%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 6.8%

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 31.5% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 6.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 10.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 15.7%, Building 3.7%

1923: Process the Great Kantō Earthquake death. Lead all the miserable souls, battle quake-storms, and make life-or-death choices in collapsing Kanto's Hell. A historical strategy game inspired by true events where you play as Hell Governor. Oh...there is NAMAZU the Catfish Titan wreaking havoc too.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 14%, Real Time Tactics 12%

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 35.8% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 5.8%

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 23.2%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Base Building 6.7%

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 39.8% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Base Building 6.4%

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 4.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Simulation 18.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 3.6%

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Exploration 4%

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 29.1% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 4.3%

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 28.3% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 5.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Building 5.1%

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 29% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 5.5%

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 29.9%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Survival 5.3%

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 34.6% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Survival 5.5%, Resource Management 4.7%

Movie Studio Management Simulation Produce blockbusters and earn world-wide fame

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Simulation 19.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 3.4%

Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 5.8%, Base Building 4.6%

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 23.1% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Simulation 13.7%, Exploration 5.8%, Cute 4.1%

Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.7%

SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.

Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Simulation 23.7%, Strategy 22.1%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Indie 2.7%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 6.1%

Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 12%, Base Building 4.2%

A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7%

Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 5.2%

Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 28%, Simulation 18.1%, Exploration 5.9%, Strategy 5.3%

Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Building 4%

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 39.3%, Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Survival 5.1%