- #1 NecroCity: Prologue
97% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8.7%
- #2 Sylox
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #3 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
96% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%
- #4 Lands of Koastalia
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.1%, Management 6.7%
- #5 Citadel 's Keeper
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AngelRDev
Windows
Protect your cities against waves of enemies. Manage your resources and plan accordingly to develop your city and armies to survive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%
- #6 Song of Slavs
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Tower Defense 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 7.8%
- #7 Defender's Dynasty
93% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Hyper Cloud Games
Windows · Mac
A 2D Strategic Base Defender game set in Medieval times. As relentless Waves of enemy forces threaten your Stronghold, you must gather Resources, Fortify your Defenses and lead your Rebellion. Prepare to strengthen your Base and manage your Resources. But beaware of the Storms!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.3%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★
- #8 Kingsguard
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Partum Games
Windows
Lead your kingdom to victory! By day, you build and prepare your kingdom for impending threats. But every night, you must defend your kingdom against hordes of monsters, by commanding soldiers, building turrets, and fighting on the battleground yourself.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Strategy 5.7%
- #9 Drill Core
91% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Tower Defense 20%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #10 Diluvian Winds
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 7.9%, Management 6.8%
- #11 Windowed Realms
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #12 Siege of Irdor
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 7.6%
- #13 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
88% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 7.3%
- #14 Fio and the Doomed City
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
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 27.5% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 5%
- #15 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 22.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 6.8%, Strategy 6.3%
- #16 Rise Under the Warstorm
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Tower Defense 18.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.3%
- #17 Towerfolk
85% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 12%, Real Time Tactics 8.7%
- #18 Settlements Rising
84% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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 25.4% ★, City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.9%, Tower Defense 10.1%, Building 7.9%
- #19 The Wild Age
86% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 9%, Building 7.7%
- #20 Lil Guys
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Management 8.9%, Building 7.7%
- #21 Age of Respair
83% 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: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Real Time Tactics 16%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 9.2%
- #22 Stormbridge
82% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Can you build the longest bridge before the storm catches up? Stormbridge is a roguelite city builder about growth, survival, and watching everything fall apart. Stay ahead of the danger, unlock upgrades between runs, and uncover the storm’s origin.
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Tactical 9.7%
- #23 Mistpaw Ravine
80% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.2%, Cozy 8.7%
- #24 We Are The Wall
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NorthWall Studio
Windows · Mac
We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 21.7%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.5%, Strategy 8.8%
- #25 Fleeting World
82% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Management 6.8%
- #26 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
81% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: ActaLogic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 5.5%
- #27 The HELL Prologue
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.3%
- #28 Humanica
77% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
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 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Management 8.9%, Building 7.3%
- #29 Anthill Village
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lychee Game Labs
Windows
Now that ants have evolved thumbs, they're unstoppable! Help them build villages, scour the land for resources and fend off creatures 100 times their own size.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Building 8.4%
- #30 Stronghold HD (2012)
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,246 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Tower Defense 17%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Base Building 13.5%
- #31 Isla Paradiso
77% 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: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Management 8.7%
- #32 Hold The Roost
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Strategy 9%, Tactical 8.1%
- #33 Poly Towns
79% matchMixed43% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Casual town builder that takes place on floating islands in a fantasy world. Grow your town and manage your resources in this challenging builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 9.5%, Management 6.9%
- #34 Havenstead
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Cozy 10.3%, Management 9.5%
- #35 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.3%
- #36 BEACONFALL
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Dynasty
Windows
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.8%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 8.2%
- #37 Nigredo
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 8.1%
- #38 Treetopians
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
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 26.7%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Relaxing 7%
- #39 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
Windows
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 15%, Management 7.9%
- #40 Alien Land
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 6.7%
- #41 Exone Rift
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Faraway Home
Windows · Mac
Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Tactical 10%
- #42 Paragon Pioneers 2
72% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Base Building 6.9%
- #43 Peasants
72% 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: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 8.9%, Stylized 7.7%
- #44 DarkSwitch
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 19.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 8.5%
- #45 Homelander’s Valor
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D Axis
Windows
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.5%, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%
- #46 Outlands
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Base Building 7.1%
- #47 VENOY
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 6.9%
- #48 Break The Line
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Break Point Studio
Windows
| Rogue elements + Free Layout + BattleMastery + Turn-based March | What kind of different experience will it bring ? Will you be able to hold on to a tower caught in a tidal wave of enemy attacks ? May be this is the answer you're looking for.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, City Builder 22.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 9.1%
- #49 Mossfield Origins
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Any Percent
Windows · Linux
A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Cozy 9.1%, Building 9%, Management 7.4%
- #50 OBRII
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 11%, Building 9.1%
- #51 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive92% of 10,053 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.9%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%
- #52 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
69% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
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 30.4% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #53 Aldo: Memory of the Kingdom
68% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Meleiko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 7.3%
- #54 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
68% 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 22%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%
- #55 Fortifend
67% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 23.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 6.9%
- #56 Tiny Kings
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Floating Chicken Games
Windows
Tiny Kings is the whimsical medieval base builder where your dreams of building and managing a pint-sized kingdom come true! Unleash your inner ruler and build your kingdom, manage your citizens' tasks, and dominate the siege to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.6%, Building 9.5%
- #57 Rise to Ruins
69% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30% ★, Tower Defense 25.8%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 Architects of Shangri-La
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #59 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: Base Building 25.3%, City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Building 9.1%, Strategy 8%