Games Like Sapiens

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 37.5% ★, City Builder 36.7%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 4.5%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the prehistoric era, tasking players with guiding a tribe through the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Moddable 12% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, offering unparalleled depth in managing individual colonist needs and survival in harsh environments.

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 21.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Moddable 13.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features voxel-based building and colony management that allows for complex architectural designs similar to the building mechanics in Sapiens.

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: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Life Sim 15.5%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that mirrors the prehistoric family management and resource gathering found in Sapiens.

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 31.7% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 7%

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

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 38.1% ★, City Builder 32.3%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 5%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder where managing resources and preparing for harsh winters is essential for the survival of your settlement.

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 25.8%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Moddable 13.9% ★, Survival 10%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes realistic survival and the slow, methodical development of a prehistoric settlement.

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: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the early stages of human development, emphasizing agriculture and the formation of early social structures.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation of colony life available, offering complex interactions and procedural history that will appeal to fans of deep management games.

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.4%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes resource management and overcoming environmental challenges to grow your population.

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Moddable 12.9% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale colony management while maintaining deep simulation elements for individual citizens and resource chains.

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 25% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique vertical building and water management mechanics that provide a fresh challenge for fans of colony-building games.

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 23.6% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly realistic and immersive historical city-building experience with a focus on organic growth and detailed management.

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 37.7% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Building 7.1%, Survival 6.4%, Strategy 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the difficulties of medieval survival, requiring careful management of food, shelter, and labor to keep your village alive.

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 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Moddable 12.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with complex social and political dynamics between characters in a medieval setting.

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: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, God Game 20.2% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that blends survival, exploration, and base-building in a procedurally generated world.

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 32.1%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 14%, Management 8.5%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that incorporates multiplayer and exploration elements to expand your influence across a map.

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 38.2%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Building 8.4%, Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city builder that focuses on organic growth and the development of a medieval society.

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 23.8% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 12.1%, Moddable 10.9% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game elements with colony management, allowing you to influence the lives and decisions of your subjects directly.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Applies the colony-sim formula to a space setting, focusing on ship-building and survival in a hostile vacuum.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, God Game 18% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep base-building and survival game with a focus on automation and managing complex systems in space.

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 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Moddable 9.4% ★, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city builder that adds social management and political decision-making to the standard colony-sim loop.

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 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.1%, Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring players to scavenge and adapt to survive.

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 27.8% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-building game that spans multiple historical eras, focusing on the evolution of a city from its humble beginnings.

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: God Game 20% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 13%, Moddable 9.8% ★, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a god-game experience where your strategic choices directly impact the development and behavior of your followers.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: God Game 26% ★, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to shape the environment and influence the growth of civilizations through natural forces.

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: God Game 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.5%

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 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.3%

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 18.5% ★, City Builder 14.7%, God Game 13.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%, Survival 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that provides deep control over building and management, similar to the freedom found in Sapiens.

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 31.3% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 9.8%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management and survival against supernatural threats in a post-apocalyptic world.

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: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 9.3%, Survival 8.8%

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: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Moddable 12.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.4%

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: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, God Game 19.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.3%, Life Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management with a high level of detail regarding individual AI behavior and daily tasks.

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.7%, Survival 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 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Moddable 12% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.2%

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 17.5%, City Builder 7.7%, Building 7.5%, Management 6.3%

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: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Survival 9.3%

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 13% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.2%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Survival 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 34.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 8.2%, Survival 5.7%

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 28.7% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.8%, Survival 7.9%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 4.7%, Simulation 3.8%

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: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8%

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 25.5% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 14%, Management 8.8%

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 21.6% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Building 7.9%, Survival 7.6%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 8.2%

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 27.3% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.1%

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: God Game 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 10%, Building 7.3%

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 31.4% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 7.9%, Building 4.9%

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 20.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Moddable 10.3% ★, Building 8.6%

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 24.5% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 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 24.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

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 32% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.9%, Sandbox 5.4%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.4%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.3%

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 24.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.7%, Survival 7.7%

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: God Game 33.2% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 4.9%