Games Like Patron

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 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Building 8.6%, Economy 8%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed survival city-building experience with complex resource chains and a strong focus on town health and population needs.

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 33.9% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 5.6%, Medieval 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the foundational title that established the survival city-builder genre, sharing the core resource management and harsh environment mechanics found in Patron.

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 34.7%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Medieval 8.6%, Economy 6.7%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes organic city growth and villager social hierarchy, allowing for a more relaxed yet deeply rewarding management experience.

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 18.3% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Moddable 9.8% ★, Economy 7.3%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends intricate city-building with social feudal systems, requiring you to manage both the economy and the needs of your growing population.

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 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Survival 7.2%, Historical 6.7%, Economy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deeply realistic and organic approach to medieval village management, focusing on the daily lives and social needs of your citizens.

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 22% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Moddable 11.4% ★, Survival 8.6%, Economy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that combines 3D base-building with survival mechanics and a focus on the social lives of your settlers.

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Survival 9%, Medieval 8.1%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Patron's gameplay loop closely, focusing on population management, survival, and expanding your village in a challenging world.

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Economy 7.2%, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels in simulating deep social dynamics, political intrigue, and the complex relationships between noble families in a medieval setting.

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 34.7%, Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 5.4%, Historical 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder centered on the evolution and management of a prehistoric tribe through the ages.

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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 9.3% ★, Survival 7.2%, Economy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces constant adaptation to survival pressures and complex resource management in a fantasy world.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An intense survival city-builder where social laws and population happiness are critical to surviving extreme environmental conditions.

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 28.6%, Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival city-building experience where water management and resource logistics are key to the survival of your beaver colony.

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 27.9% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Medieval 7.8%, Economy 7.6%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the social hierarchy and management of a medieval village, tasking you with overseeing the lives of different family units.

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 55.4% ★, Building 16.5%, Open World 12.6%, Sandbox 7.3%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes family lineage and social survival, requiring you to manage the needs and relationships of your clan through the seasons.

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 22.8% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 6.5%, Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with similar resource management and expansion mechanics that allows for multiplayer cooperation or competition.

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 18.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Moddable 7.8% ★, Economy 7.6%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep and complex economic simulation that will appeal to players who enjoy the intricate resource chains of Patron.

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 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Moddable 9.6% ★, Base Building 8%, Medieval 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused colony-sim where your decisions directly impact the lives, relationships, and loyalty of your subjects.

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 33.9% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 6.8%, Medieval 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct survival city-builder that focuses on medieval resource management and the challenges of maintaining a growing population.

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 22.5% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Moddable 10.3% ★, Survival 7.5%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale colony-sim that manages massive populations with complex social, political, and economic systems.

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 35.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on villager personality and social needs, making the management of your population feel personal.

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 26.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes population management and resource gathering in a harsh, post-apocalyptic world.

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 20% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Moddable 10.2% ★, Survival 7.6%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and management side of medieval production, perfect for those who enjoy the industry aspects of Patron.

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 29.4%, Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Medieval 7.3%, Building 6.1%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible city-builder that maintains the medieval theme and survival elements while focusing on defense and expansion.

Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

Why similar: City Builder 40.5%, Survival 17%, Medieval 10.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A Slavic-themed city-builder that captures the aesthetic and management style of Patron while focusing on village growth and survival.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder with a strong focus on resource management loops and environmental hazards.

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 34.5%, Survival 20.9%, Medieval 13.7%, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines village management with personal social progression and survival in a medieval world.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that focuses on resource management and population needs in a post-apocalyptic environment.

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Moddable 9.2% ★, Economy 7.2%, Survival 6.9%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 17.8%, Survival 17.3%, Medieval 14.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Historical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends village building with personal social progression and survival, allowing you to live out the life of a villager while managing your settlement.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 8.4%, Base Building 6.9%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique underwater city-builder that utilizes survival and resource management mechanics in a challenging aquatic setting.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that blends resource management with tower defense elements for a more action-oriented experience.

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 25.7% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 7.1%, Base Building 5.9%

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 23% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Building 6.4%

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 17.9% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 9.2% ★, Economy 7.4%, Survival 6.8%

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 25% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 6.8%, Medieval 6.5%, Survival 6.4%

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Survival 10.5%, Moddable 10% ★, Historical 7.4%

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 24% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Economy 7.6%

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

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: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.7%

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: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 8%, Survival 7%, Base Building 6.3%

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.9%

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 32.4% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 5.3%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 7.7%, Medieval 7.6%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 8.3%, Base Building 7%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Building 7.6%, Historical 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 24% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 8%, Medieval 7.6%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.1%

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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 9.3% ★, Economy 7.3%, Survival 7%

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 29.9% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.9%

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 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Moddable 9.4% ★, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%

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 27.7%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Economy 10.6%, Moddable 8.9% ★, Building 7.9%

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 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 7%, Historical 6.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Economy 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.1%, Management 6%

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 40.7% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Survival 4.1%

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 26.4% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Survival 9.2%, Economy 8.4%, Building 7.2%

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 37.1% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.2%, Strategy 5.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Medieval 8.2%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Survival 11.5%, Economy 11.4%, Medieval 9.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 33.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Medieval 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%