Games Like Pioneers of Pagonia

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 27.1%, Medieval 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Economy 9%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar organic, gridless building experience with a charming medieval fantasy aesthetic.

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: As a spiritual successor to the classic series that inspired Pagonia, this game focuses heavily on intricate supply chains and peaceful expansion.

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 19.9%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 7.4%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines traditional city-building mechanics with multiplayer functionality and a focus on expanding your territory across a map.

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 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at procedural generation and resource management, providing a fresh challenge in every session just like Pagonia.

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: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.7%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: It features unique vertical building mechanics and deep water-management systems that add a layer of complexity to colony survival.

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 33.7%, Economy 16.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, RTS 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for complex supply chain management and large-scale city building with high production values.

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: Colony Sim 15% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Building 10.8%, RTS 10.7%, Economy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, challenging experience centered on resource management and defending a growing medieval town.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the relaxing, fairy-tale atmosphere of Pagonia while focusing on kingdom management and citizen happiness.

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 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Medieval 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the management of resources and the growth of a settlement through a similar top-down strategy perspective.

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 20.8% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique twist on city building by requiring players to manage settlements across treacherous mountain peaks.

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 34.4% ★, City Builder 29%, Medieval 6.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 5%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational title in the modern colony-sim genre, it provides the core survival and resource-management loop that Pagonia fans will recognize.

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: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed, realistic approach to supply chain management and village building that rewards careful planning.

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 21.3% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for complex vertical base-building and colony management within a persistent, survival-focused medieval world.

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: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic colony-sim experience with a wide variety of production buildings and survival challenges.

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: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 8%, Medieval 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a robust city builder that emphasizes social management and the careful balancing of resources to keep your population thriving.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a cute, stylized aesthetic and a heavy focus on automation and logistics, mirroring the production-line satisfaction of Pagonia.

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: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 36.2%, Economy 6.2%, Strategy 6.1%, RTS 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the progression of a tribe through different eras, emphasizing survival and resource gathering.

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 20.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the social and political dynamics of a medieval colony, adding a layer of character-driven management to the city-building genre.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines Viking-themed city building with real-time strategy elements, focusing on economy and base defense.

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 24.8% ★, City Builder 19%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks you with building a thriving Viking settlement while managing seasonal changes and survival needs.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: This stylized city builder focuses on environmental management and long-term survival in a harsh, alien landscape.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique, colorful art style and a focus on scavenging and building a settlement on the open ocean.

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 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, RTS 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the relationship between your settlement and the surrounding ecosystem, requiring careful management of natural resources.

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 24.8% ★, City Builder 21.2%, RTS 13.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique premise where you build a settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature, requiring constant adaptation.

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 21.7% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a post-apocalyptic city builder that emphasizes resource scarcity and the struggle to rebuild society.

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 23.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.3%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony management with side-scrolling exploration and survival in an underground rat kingdom.

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 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 8.4%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a colony-sim experience with a strong focus on character interactions and RPG-like decision-making.

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Procedural Generation 13%, Resource Management 12.7%, Medieval 12.7%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, RTS 16.7%, Economy 14.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 8%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 13.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a futuristic take on city building, forcing players to manage resources across multiple small, isolated cliff-top platforms.

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 33.7% ★, City Builder 20%, Strategy 9.4%, Medieval 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic, lighthearted medieval city-building experience that is easy to pick up but offers deep management mechanics.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Building 12.5%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, RTS 15.9%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Economy 7.6%

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 33.6% ★, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 11%, Medieval 8.7%, Building 7.4%

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 28.5%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Strategy 9%, Building 7.1%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 10.9%, RTS 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%

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 23.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.3%

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 31.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.7%, Management 5.7%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Economy 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, City Builder 10.2%

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 39.7% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 5.6%, Management 3.5%

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9%

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: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 24%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 7%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%

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 18.5%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 10.1%

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: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.2%

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 18.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 8.6%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%

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 22%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.7%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Economy 15.9%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.5%

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 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 11.7%, Medieval 8.7%, Management 8.3%

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 31.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 7%, Building 5.8%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 15.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 9%

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 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 31.8%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Building 7.4%, Strategy 7.1%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.7% ★, City Builder 12.9%, RTS 10.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 15%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.5%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 16.4%, Management 10.2%, Medieval 9.2%