- #1 Goblins of Elderstone
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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: Diplomacy 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Colony Sim 12% ★, 4X 9.8% ★
- #2 Whiskerwood
96% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 16.5% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, 4X 9.8% ★
- #3 Norland
96% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Diplomacy 17.5% ★, Grand Strategy 13.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, City Builder 12.4%, 4X 10.2% ★
- #4 Nova Roma
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
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 16.1% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, 4X 9.8% ★
- #5 Manor Lords
94% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Diplomacy 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 13.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, City Builder 12.1%, 4X 10.6% ★
- #6 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
94% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, 4X 8.5% ★
- #7 Against the Storm
93% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Diplomacy 16.8% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, City Builder 12.5%, 4X 9.9% ★
- #8 Heart of the Machine
92% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Diplomacy 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, City Builder 12.2%, 4X 10% ★
- #9 Empires of the Undergrowth
91% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 16.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14% ★, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, City Builder 12.6%, 4X 10.1% ★
- #10 Eastern Era
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,401 reviews2026
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
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 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Grand Strategy 11.8% ★, 4X 11.6% ★
- #11 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, 4X 12.4% ★, Immersive Sim 6.4%
- #12 Before Arthur
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ashwood Games
Windows
Before Arthur is an open-world grand strategy RPG set in dark age England. Enjoy total freedom as you lead your people through the dark ages and beyond, uniting England and forging your legacy. Will you survive as a Briton, or conquer as a Saxon?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.7% ★, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 7.5%
- #13 Songs of Syx
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 16.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Grand Strategy 15.9% ★, 4X 12.8% ★, Building 8%
- #14 Agecraft
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SnakyDevelop
Windows
Agecraft is a historical strategy and city-building sim. Build your settlement, develop the economy, take care of your people, and guide your civilization through the ages, from the Stone Age to the future.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, 4X 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.8% ★
- #15 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
87% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: 4X 17.4% ★, Grand Strategy 15.8% ★, City Builder 14%, Colony Sim 13% ★, Building 7.7%
- #16 Blocktopia
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Diplomacy 20.3% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #17 CastleOn
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.1% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #18 Kingdom Wars 4
86% matchMixed67% of 236 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: Diplomacy 17.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, 4X 11.2% ★
- #19 Mandate Order
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Digital Sky
Windows
Mandate Order is a strategy game set in the Warring States period. Starting from barren lands, build strongholds integrating production, defense and military functions. Manage resources and the people's will, expand your territory, counter threats, and ultimately rise to prominence amidst the chaos.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Grand Strategy 13.5% ★, 4X 9.3% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9%
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
84% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Building 9.9%, Medieval 7%, Base Building 5.7%
- #21 Highrise City
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,282 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: Diplomacy 20.8% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Building 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
- #22 First Feudal
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9%
- #23 DeckTerra
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
4X Deckbuilder where you harness magical spells to expand your empire. Make strategic decisions about what to construct in your cities to fend off enemies and conquer the map across infinite procedural landscapes. Play cards to take your empire from the stone age to the modern era and beyond!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, 4X 9.6% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #24 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
81% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
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 19.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, Building 6.8%
- #25 Settlements Rising
80% 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: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Base Building 7.2%
- #26 Lands of Koastalia
81% 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: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Building 11.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #27 Lord Of Anatolia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
A real-time city-building and strategy game set in 1300s Anatolia. Build your settlement, manage resources, expand your economy, train soldiers, research new technologies, and defend your beylik against enemy forces.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Simulation 7.8%
- #28 Angkor: The Holy City
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.2%
- #29 Settletopia
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #30 Outland Kingdoms
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Building 9%, Strategy RPG 8%, Base Building 7.3%
- #31 Beyond Astra
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: Diplomacy 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, 4X 14.7% ★, Base Building 7%
- #32 Orrstead
76% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Building 11.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Management 6.7%
- #33 Founders' Fortune
77% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 31.9% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #34 Kolo
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #35 Pirate Plight
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, 4X 13.2% ★, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9%
- #36 Fabledom
74% matchVery Positive85% of 7,347 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Diplomacy 24.4% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 6.8%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #37 Dungeon Overseer
76% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #38 Sect Leader's Decree
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #39 Exogate Initiative
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
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: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, 4X 12.8% ★, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
- #40 Synergy
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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: Diplomacy 22.8% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Building 8.7%, Base Building 7.3%
- #41 Antimatter
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, 4X 16% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Building 8.5%
- #42 Dubai Builder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Building 13.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #43 Island Master
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Resource Management 7.4%, Building 7.3%
- #44 Spirit & Stone
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #45 Peasants
71% 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 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Medieval 8.3%
- #46 Resort Galactica
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #47 Terra-7
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 9.6%
- #48 Royal Lord - 王权领主
68% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Grand Strategy 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.1%
- #49 Country Architect
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Immersive Sim 8.1%, Simulation 7.4%
- #50 Noble Legacy
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Building 9.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #51 Hearthlands
71% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Diplomacy 13% ★, Resource Management 7.1%, Medieval 6.3%
- #52 Small Kingdoms
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, 4X 16.1% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Medieval 6.2%
- #53 Our Freedom: Prologue
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 10%
- #54 Windowed Realms
67% 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 27.1% ★, City Builder 23%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%
- #55 Ymir
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, 4X 16.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.2% ★, Building 7.4%
- #56 Anno 1404 - History Edition
67% matchVery Positive82% of 3,444 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, Building 14%, Grand Strategy 11.7% ★, Strategy 8.8%
- #57 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #58 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #59 Critias Empire
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 17.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 11.8% ★, Resource Management 8.3%