- #1 Crowncity
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Economy 13.9%, Building 13.7%, Historical 12.6%, Medieval 11.9%
- #2 KurOba
96% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: BerkSavi
Windows
KurOba, Selçuklu'dan Osmanlı'ya uzanan bir strateji oyunu. Medeniyetleri yönet, kaynakları kullan, tarihî olayları deneyimle ve savaş. Geleceğe yönlendir, kaynakları sürdürülebilir kullan. Tarihi bir yolculuk!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 10.2%, Building 10.1%
- #3 Aquis
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Economy 18%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 15.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #4 County of Fortune
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nepos Games
Windows
Build villages, expand towns, and guide the growth of a whole region in County of Fortune. Balance logistics, noble houses, and community life as you shape your county’s future. A county-builder.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Economy 16.9%, Building 13.5%, Historical 13.1%, Medieval 11.2%
- #5 Civitatem
94% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
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 34.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Medieval 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 9.2%
- #6 Foundation
93% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 41.2%, Medieval 14%, Economy 12.2%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 7.1%
- #7 Epic Palace : Knossos
94% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Milkroom Studios GmbH
Windows
Immerse yourself in the epic world of the Bronze Age! Rule over the first European civilization and build the famous Palace of Knossos. Be smart in diplomacy and trade, use your gained reputation and equip your throne room with unique frescoes from all over the world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Building 16.5%, Historical 11.6%, Economy 11%, Strategy 10.2%
- #8 Chinese Empire: Prologue
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Economy 17.6%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Historical 9%
- #9 Stairway to Tavern
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ashina Studios
Windows
Build your dream tavern in the afterlife! Recruit humans, angels or demons. Expand your business from Earth to heaven or hell. Convince customers to join the satan or god 😇👿
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 12.6%, Medieval 11%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #10 Empire Architect
91% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Economy 14%, Building 12%, Base Building 8.8%, Historical 8.2%
- #11 Deichgraf
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Acid Mines Software UG
Windows
Deichgraf is a small, calm, but sometimes intense building game. Build your own village and protect it against water caused by floods and heavy rain!
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Economy 14.4%, Historical 14.1%, Medieval 12.8%, Building 12.6%
- #12 HistoriCity: Florence
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Economy 13.9%, Historical 13.4%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%
- #13 Ostriv
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26.6%, Historical 12.9%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.3%
- #14 Chinese Empire
88% matchMostly Negative39% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Yeyuna
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Economy 19%, Building 17%, Historical 10.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #15 TM - Prologue
87% matchVery Positive93% of 1,207 reviews2021
Dev: UntitledStudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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: City Builder 22.2%, Building 17.7%, Medieval 16.6%, Strategy 9%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #16 Explorers of Esmar
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tipri Games
Windows
Welcome to Explorers of Esmar! Build your settlement, master complex production chains. Claim the riches to explore and conquer the new island continent of Esmar!
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Economy 16.3%, Building 12.9%, Medieval 11%, Base Building 10.8%
- #17 Outpost: Vikings
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caveman Developments
Windows · Mac
Finally in a new land you must find a way to survive. Hunt, gather, produce & build to grow your new settlement. Manage your allies & enemies & help your people prosper and conquer this new land.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Economy 20%, Historical 13.6%, Building 11%, Simulation 9.6%
- #18 Frontier Governor
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Economy 16.5%, Historical 14.9%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 10.4%
- #19 Tenants of the Shade
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Historical 13.3%, Building 13%, Strategy 8.2%
- #20 The Archaeologists
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Economy 18.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Simulation 7.9%
- #21 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tec Enterprise
Windows
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Economy 17.7%, Medieval 11.8%, Historical 8.2%, Strategy 7.5%
- #22 Kingdom Workshop
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Economy 16.4%, Building 15.2%, Medieval 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%
- #23 Pinevale Settlements
82% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
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 30.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Medieval 14.4%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #24 Let Them Trade
79% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 23.4%, Economy 16.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 10.7%
- #25 Stardustry
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CherryBit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 9%
- #26 Roadworks 2
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Taxsoft
Windows
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Economy 23.3%, Building 21.7%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 6.5%
- #27 LowPolis
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.5%, Building 17.1%, Medieval 13.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Economy 10.3%
- #28 Isla Paradiso
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Economy 18.7%, Building 15.6%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 7.5%
- #29 Stronghold 3 Gold
80% matchMostly Negative33% of 4,763 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Medieval 16.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Historical 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
- #30 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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: City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Historical 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 10.1%
- #31 Sumerians
77% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2023
Dev: Decumanus GamesPub: Melqart Games
Windows
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 28.5%, Historical 13.6%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.3%
- #32 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
78% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Building 18.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #33 Patron
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 31.3%, Economy 13.1%, Medieval 10.3%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.9%
- #34 Hexburg
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kubaxent
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hexburg allows you to create a thriving medieval hexagonal grid based metropolis full of industry, trade, culture, and more!
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Historical 14.5%, Medieval 13.8%, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.4%
- #35 Hexagge
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
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: City Builder 33.5%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Medieval 7.2%
- #36 Lords of Solgrund
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Sillylas
Windows
Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Economy 17.4%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Medieval 12.1%
- #37 Skyline Settlers
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Economy 18.1%, Medieval 14.3%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%
- #38 Oriontis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beacon 55
Windows
A large-scale narrative city-builder set across floating lands. Build 100+ structures, master production and sky trade, and transform a fragile colony into a thriving civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Economy 18.1%, Building 15%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 9.5%
- #39 Age of Respair
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
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: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Medieval 10.6%, Historical 10.4%
- #40 Builders of Egypt
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 461 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Labs
Windows
Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Economy 16.2%, Historical 15.5%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #41 Monument village
72% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: SiggoGames
Windows · Mac
Monument village is a peaceful turn-based medieval city-builder. Optimize the placement of each building to grow your village while fulfilling mandatory resource requests. When you are ready, gather workers and materials and build the monument of your dream.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Economy 20.7%, Building 16.7%, Medieval 15.5%, Top-Down 5.8%
- #42 VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Keliosis Studio
Windows
VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands is a city-builder where you forge your legend. Become a Jarl, transform a camp into a thriving city, manage your people's expansion, and build your legacy. Explore, fight, and erect monuments to etch your saga in history!
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Economy 16.2%, Historical 13%, Building 12.8%, Medieval 9.6%
- #43 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 13.7%, Medieval 12.3%, Economy 12.2%
- #44 Elaborate Lands
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elaborate Games
Windows
Elaborate Lands is a relaxing, turn-based strategy game. It combines unique gameplay mechanics with elements from 4X, city-builder and puzzle builder games. Build cities, gather resources, research technologies and expand your territory. Different maps and biomes offer near endless replayability.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 16.8%, Historical 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #45 Peasants
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
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: City Builder 31%, Medieval 15.8%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #46 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
72% matchMixed45% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Blackstaff GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.
Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Economy 23.3%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 9.1%
- #47 Monastery Builder
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SolidGames
Windows
Become a monk in a medieval European monastery. Be diligent with your duties, and develop and expand your friary. Learn plenty of useful skills and contribute to raising the standard of living for the local community.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Economy 16.2%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 12.5%
- #48 Anno 1800
70% matchVery Positive81% of 30,897 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 48.2%, Economy 21.3%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Historical 5.6%
- #49 Mandate Order
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Medieval 13%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 8.8%
- #50 Randoville
68% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Economy 17%, Medieval 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.3%
- #51 Touhou Mini Map
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Tai YiPub: Aged Immortals
Windows
Touhou Mini Map is a strategy building game that allows you to create a panoramic map of Touhou World
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 15%, Strategy 12.1%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #52 Trailer Park Life
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northern Dev Studio
Windows
Build and manage your own trailer park to either become a peaceful haven or a pit of unruly partiers. Expand on services and amenities to keep tenants happy. Manage staff to keep your park safe and clean or let chaos run amuck and risk it all for higher gains.
Why similar: City Builder 42%, Building 17.8%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 9.8%
- #53 Highrise Mogul
69% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Economy 18.8%, Building 17.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #54 Mercantile Might
67% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: SibeRaysGames
Windows
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages and take on the role of a ruler who must transform a small town into a prosperous settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Strategy 13.4%, Economy 11.5%, Medieval 10%, Building 9.7%
- #55 Business Shark
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: SmartLife
Windows
You will have to develop your city, watch over expenses, strive for higher tax revenues, meet the needs of your residents by producing the right products for them
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 18.6%, Economy 14.9%, Strategy 14.6%
- #56 Kolo
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Economy 18.3%, Medieval 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.3%
- #57 Becastled
65% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 13.7%, Medieval 13.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #58 Polismos
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.
Why similar: Historical 27.7%, Base Building 23.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 9.1%
- #59 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
66% matchVery Positive86% of 9,888 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Economy 14.7%, Medieval 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%