Games Like Primitive Society Simulator

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 37%, Colony Sim 36.9%, Historical 9.4%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the exact prehistoric survival and evolution theme, tasking players with guiding a tribe through the ages.

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 25.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep focus on prehistoric colony management and the physical development of a primitive society.

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Historical 17.2%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: This historical city-builder focuses specifically on the Neolithic era, emphasizing survival and realistic urban development.

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 21.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Historical 12.3%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with historical building and survival, allowing for complex base construction and defense.

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: Agriculture 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.7%, Building 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed tribal survival simulation that focuses on the daily lives and management of a clan in the Scottish Highlands.

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: City Builder 21.5%, Historical 16%, Base Building 15.8%, Diplomacy 11.1% ★, Colony Sim 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends intricate city-building with grand strategy and wargame elements in a historical setting.

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 18.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.7%, Diplomacy 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A deep social simulation game that focuses on the management of a noble family and their settlement, mirroring the diplomatic complexities 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: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 33.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 4.6%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for the survival city-builder genre, focusing on resource management and harsh environmental challenges.

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Agriculture 12.6% ★, Historical 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Trading 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, mirroring the historical progression of the seed game.

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 21.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Agriculture 12.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the survival aspects of city-building, requiring players to adapt to changing environments and disasters.

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 14%, Trading 10.1%, Historical 10%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a unique historical perspective on city-building and management within an ancient civilization.

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: Agriculture 17% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Building 11.1%, Historical 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex and challenging resource management experience within a medieval survival city-builder framework.

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 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Agriculture 11.3% ★, Historical 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly realistic and detailed approach to historical city-building with a focus on organic growth and logistics.

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 34.7%, City Builder 26.7%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony-sim that emphasizes building, exploration, and defending your settlement from threats.

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 24.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 9.5%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony-sim mechanics with a specific historical theme, requiring players to manage resources and survive harsh winters.

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 28.6%, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale colony-sim that supports thousands of citizens and features significant wargame and diplomacy mechanics.

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: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 13.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in management, survival, and emergent storytelling.

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 37.1%, City Builder 32%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes the harsh realities of medieval life and resource gathering.

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 23.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to build a settlement from the ground up, managing resources and defending against various threats.

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 16.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Historical 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most complex logistics and resource management systems for players who enjoy deep simulation.

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: Diplomacy 16.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Historical 9%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on ants, it provides a unique and deep colony-building and strategy experience that mirrors the management needs of the seed game.

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 27.6%, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 9.2%, Historical 8.2%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city-builder that incorporates social dynamics and complex production chains.

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 36.8%, Colony Sim 13%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features organic city-building and a focus on the social and economic management of a medieval settlement.

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 23.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique water management and vertical building mechanics to the colony-sim genre.

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 25.2%, City Builder 23.9%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that places a strong emphasis on defense and wargame elements against invading forces.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, City Builder 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim that focuses on the evolution of characters and the growth of a society over time.

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: Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.1%, Historical 10.1%

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: Diplomacy 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 9.7%

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 31.7%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 5.7%, Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on survival and resource management in an extremely hostile environment.

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 31.5%, Colony Sim 27.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that tests your management skills and moral compass in a frozen, unforgiving 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 22.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Historical 11%, Building 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: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.5%

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Historical 16.6%, Building 13.8%, Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the strategic and survival elements of the Bronze Age.

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 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Historical 11.3%, Management 9.6%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Diplomacy 32.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%

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 32%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 9.7%, Building 6.7%

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 29.3%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.4%

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 14.7%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 9.9%

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 33.3%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 20.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.1%

Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 9.7%, Building 9.6%

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 23.1%, City Builder 19.2%, Trading 14.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 6.1%

To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

Why similar: Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 8.9%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Trading 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.3%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 7.7%

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 30.3%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 9.2%

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 26%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10%

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 24.9%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 8.7%

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 20.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 10.4%, Building 9%

Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 9.1%, War 8.7%

Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Historical 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 9.5%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Agriculture 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.9%

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 27.5%, City Builder 20.6%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

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: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 14.2%, War 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 20.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.7%

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: Agriculture 19% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Historical 13.1%, Trading 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%

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 26.6%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.2%