Games Like Pixel Survivors

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: Simulation 36.2%, Strategy 28.5%, Resource Management 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the blend of god-like management, tower defense, and colony survival found in the seed game.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 35.3%, Simulation 25%, Strategy 23%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same zombie-survival theme and pixel-art aesthetic while focusing on squad management.

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: Simulation 44.9%, Management 14.3%, Medieval 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Fantasy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers the ultimate god-game experience, allowing you to shape the world and influence the lives of your subjects directly.

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Strategy 29.6%, Management 19.7%, Medieval 8.5%, Fantasy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar 2D perspective and emphasizes the core loop of building a base to survive nightly zombie attacks.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Simulation 34.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Medieval 20.8%, Fantasy 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling management game where you build a kingdom and defend it against nightly waves of creatures.

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

Why similar: Simulation 43%, Strategy 26.3%, Indie 7.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Management 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that provides deep building and management mechanics in a sandbox environment.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Strategy 29.5%, Resource Management 18.7%, Indie 8.1%, Fantasy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines 2D base-building and resource management with the constant need to protect your dwarves from monsters.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Simulation 40.7%, Management 25.4%, Strategy 24.1%, Indie 6.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony survival, offering deep management mechanics that expand on the core goal of keeping a society alive.

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: Simulation 42.3%, Strategy 34.7%, Management 10.8%, Indie 5.5%, Fantasy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based colony management with a strong focus on building and defending your settlement from threats.

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: Simulation 28%, Medieval 20.4%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that requires careful resource management to ensure your population survives harsh conditions.

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: Simulation 31.7%, Management 26%, Fantasy 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Casual 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a lighthearted management experience with pixel graphics that focuses on building a town for adventurers.

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Simulation 35.6%, Strategy 20%, Medieval 12%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-strategy game that shares the pixel-graphics and management focus of the seed game.

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: Simulation 39.4%, Strategy 24.7%, Medieval 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the resource management and survival aspects of maintaining a small, vulnerable population.

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: Simulation 42.5%, Management 27.7%, Strategy 26.1%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep base-building and survival mechanics with a focus on defending your settlement from external raids.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Strategy 34.1%, Management 21.9%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony sim that requires you to build and defend a large settlement from nightly zombie waves.

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, Zombies 25.7%, Resource Management 18%, Strategy 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and base-building aspects of managing a population in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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

Why similar: Resource Management 26.4%, Management 20%, Medieval 19.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that focuses on the resource-management and growth of a small medieval settlement.

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: Simulation 53.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Casual 14.9%, Indie 10.8%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes managing resources and population needs in a challenging, realistic environment.

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: Simulation 28.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Management 21.2%, Medieval 19%, Fantasy 10%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to play as a god-like ruler, managing the lives of your subjects and defending against raids in a 3D space.

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: Simulation 35.2%, Strategy 19%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 14.2%, Medieval 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with building and survival, focusing on the needs of your settlers.

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Simulation 24.7%, Zombies 17.1%, Strategy 15.8%, Management 13.5%, Medieval 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes crafting and base-building within a strategy-heavy framework.

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: Simulation 30.8%, Strategy 25.5%, Resource Management 21.8%, Management 21%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes survival and resource management while building a settlement in a harsh environment.

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Strategy 24.1%, Indie 10.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Zombies 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic 2D colony management game where you build and defend a settlement from various underground threats.

Survive like a God in this inspiring survival simulation game.

Why similar: Simulation 45.4%, Strategy 26.1%, Zombies 19.5%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: Directly addresses the god-game and zombie-survival themes present in the seed title.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, Resource Management 24%, Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game that requires careful management of resources and defenses.

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Simulation 48.9%, Strategy 27.4%, Fantasy 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that focuses on building and managing a village in a fantasy setting.

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: Simulation 23%, Resource Management 15.9%, War 14.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Medieval 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art strategy game that blends base-building with tower-defense mechanics.

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

Why similar: Simulation 46.6%, Strategy 23.3%, Casual 12.7%, Resource Management 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on managing a camp and its resources, similar to the management loop of the seed game.

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: Simulation 40.4%, Management 23.8%, Strategy 21.3%, Indie 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Simulation 27.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, War 13.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Management 11.3%

Farm management simulation game! Create the most awesome farm!

Why similar: Simulation 44.1%, Strategy 23.2%, Casual 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused simulation game that shares the pixel-art aesthetic and casual feel.

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

Why similar: Simulation 56.7%, Casual 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Fantasy 9.6%, Strategy 3.7%

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: Simulation 29.7%, Management 22.3%, Strategy 22%, Medieval 18.2%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city-builder that focuses on the needs and survival of your population.

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Resource Management 20.4%, Medieval 17.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Medieval 35.2%, Pixel Graphics 27.5%, Casual 15.6%, Fantasy 14.6%, Singleplayer 7.1%

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: Simulation 29%, Resource Management 20.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Management 14.4%, Medieval 14.4%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Management 33.8%, Simulation 26.5%, Strategy 22.6%, Casual 6.5%, Indie 4.9%

Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 57.9%, Management 22.9%, Indie 19.2%

Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Strategy 30.4%, Medieval 10.7%, Indie 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Resource Management 21.7%, Management 18.7%, Strategy 18.7%, Indie 6.2%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Simulation 32.7%, Resource Management 21.6%, Management 16%, Casual 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Simulation 35.3%, Management 19.6%, Strategy 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Indie 7%

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Resource Management 23.4%, Strategy 21.5%, Fantasy 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

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: Simulation 29.3%, Resource Management 25.9%, Strategy 21.7%, Medieval 16.7%, Management 3.1%

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: Simulation 25.7%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Medieval 14.2%, Resource Management 13.7%

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: Simulation 34.8%, Strategy 22.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Medieval 11.4%, Management 8.9%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Simulation 44.2%, Strategy 25.9%, Resource Management 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Fantasy 9.5%

Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

Why similar: Resource Management 27%, Simulation 23.7%, Management 22.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%

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: Simulation 30.8%, Management 19.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Medieval 13.9%

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

Why similar: Simulation 35.2%, Strategy 22.8%, Zombies 17.6%, Cartoony 9.6%, Casual 9.4%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: War 23.4%, Simulation 23.3%, Management 20%, Resource Management 16.6%, Strategy 14.8%

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Why similar: Resource Management 26.4%, Strategy 21.1%, Medieval 18.8%, Casual 10.9%, Fantasy 10.5%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Simulation 47.9%, Strategy 28.3%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 10.3%

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

Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Strategy 22.6%, Casual 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Fantasy 7.2%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Resource Management 32%, Strategy 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: Simulation 29.8%, Resource Management 21.3%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Casual 7%

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

Why similar: Strategy 41.7%, Zombies 25%, Indie 14.6%, Fantasy 8.2%, Casual 8.2%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Simulation 23.8%, Resource Management 20.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Management 9.3%

Build up a world piece-by-piece using the power of the god-like Fates, while keeping them happy enough to avoid world-shattering temper tantrums!

Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Strategy 29.8%, Indie 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Simulation 30.6%, Resource Management 21.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Management 18.1%, Fantasy 8.5%