Games Like Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 22.5%, War 18.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the primary inspiration for the game's core loop of scavenging for supplies while managing civilian survival in a war-torn environment.

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 23.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Historical 14.6%, Medieval 13.5%, Economy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, authentic medieval city-building experience with tactical combat elements that mirror the historical setting and strategic depth of the seed game.

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: City Builder 19.1%, Economy 14.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Historical 11.6%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and defending a medieval settlement, sharing the isometric perspective and base-building focus of the seed game.

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: City Builder 17.9%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Historical 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the harsh realities of medieval survival, requiring careful resource management and infrastructure development to keep your population alive.

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 33.7%, Resource Management 17.1%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similarly intense survival-management experience where every decision carries heavy moral weight and resource scarcity is a constant threat.

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: City Builder 18.3%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Historical 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder forces you to manage resources and survive against harsh environmental pressures, capturing the same sense of urgency found in a siege.

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 35.3%, Medieval 12.9%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and complex resource chains, perfect for players who enjoyed the economic management aspects.

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: City Builder 28.5%, Medieval 14.3%, Survival 11.1%, Management 10.9%, Economy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy city builder that forces you to manage limited resources and protect your citizens from various environmental disasters.

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 35.1%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the post-apocalyptic survival management feel, requiring you to scavenge and build a colony in a hostile world.

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: City Builder 36.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Management 13%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 12%

Why You'll Like It: While featuring beavers, this game is a masterclass in survival-focused city building where managing water and resources during droughts is critical.

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: City Builder 25.8%, Survival 11.7%, Economy 11.1%, Medieval 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city builder that requires you to balance the needs of your citizens with the logistical demands of a growing medieval town.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Medieval 14.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Survival 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines survival, crafting, and management, allowing you to build a settlement from the ground up while dealing with the challenges of medieval life.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Resource Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that focuses on managing a community in a harsh, irradiated world, mirroring the resource-scarcity mechanics of the seed game.

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: City Builder 18.2%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Historical 10.9%, Medieval 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval kingdom sim that focuses on the complex social dynamics and survival of a noble family, sharing the strategic management feel.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Survival 17.9%, Medieval 16.9%, Crafting 15.6%, War 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique mix of medieval survival, base management, and rebellion-focused combat that feels like a more action-oriented version of the seed game.

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Base Building 13.9%, Economy 13.1%, Medieval 12.4%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management game set in a medieval town that focuses on running a business, sharing the isometric perspective and resource-management focus.

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 21.5%, Medieval 15.3%, Resource Management 14.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Time Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A more relaxed management sim that shares the medieval aesthetic and focus on building and resource production.

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy RPG 11.2%, Isometric 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and logistics of maintaining a base, which will appeal to those who enjoyed the camp-building aspects of the seed game.

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Economy 12%, War 11.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Medieval 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans into the siege and defensive aspects of medieval strategy, providing a more combat-focused experience within the same historical theme.

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: Base Building 28.4%, City Builder 22.4%, Survival 18.6%, Management 15.1%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in managing individual survivor needs and base defense against external threats.

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 22.1%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming but challenging city-builder that requires you to defend your kingdom from invaders, echoing the siege defense theme.

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: Medieval 37%, Crafting 33.8%, RPG 13.2%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes managing your clan's needs through harsh winters and limited resources.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.6%, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: While set in space, the core loop of managing a desperate population and scarce resources under constant threat is very similar to the seed game.

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 26.2%, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony-sim that focuses on building a base and managing the needs of survivors in a hostile environment.

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: City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 11.9%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that requires you to manage oxygen and resources in a post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the high-pressure survival mechanics.

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: City Builder 43.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Medieval 12.4%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval survival city-builder that emphasizes the difficulty of keeping a population fed and sheltered.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that introduces unique survival mechanics related to mountain environments and natural disasters.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to the original survival masterpiece, offering even more complex societal management and high-stakes decision making.

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 20.9%, Historical 12.9%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Economy 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A historical survival city-builder that focuses on the long-term development of a settlement through the ages.

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: City Builder 44.1%, Survival 12.9%, Medieval 9%, Strategy 7.8%, Resource Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that set the standard for managing a small population through harsh winters and resource shortages.

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: Time Management 9.8%, Economy 9%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy RPG 8.5%, Isometric 8.5%

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: City Builder 20.1%, Economy 14.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Medieval 11.6%, Resource Management 11.6%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Time Management 10.7%, Strategy RPG 10.5%, Medieval 8.9%, Base Building 8.9%

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: City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Medieval 10.9%, Crafting 10%

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Economy 12.8%, Historical 10.4%, Isometric 10%, Medieval 9.9%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, City Builder 19.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

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: City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 8.6%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Time Management 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Medieval 11.8%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Medieval 10.5%, Management 9.9%

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 12.1%

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Base Building 24.2%, War 13.8%, Medieval 13.3%, Strategy 8.4%

Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Isometric 16.2%, Survival 13.2%, Medieval 11.4%, Management 10%

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 27.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Medieval 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 9.4%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Economy 17.5%, Isometric 14.3%, Historical 11.3%, Management 10.9%

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Economy 19.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Management 13.9%

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 22.9%, Historical 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%

SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Why similar: Economy 17.9%, Medieval 13.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%

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: City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.5%, Medieval 9.3%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Isometric 10.9%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Isometric 11.3%, Strategy RPG 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.9%

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Resource Management 19.3%, RPG 14.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 9.5%

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: City Builder 23%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Management 10.6%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Historical 16.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 16%, Medieval 15.4%, Isometric 11.1%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Strategy RPG 16.2%, Medieval 15.5%, Historical 12.4%, Economy 11.7%

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: City Builder 25.8%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Historical 10.6%, Survival 10.5%

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: City Builder 26.1%, Economy 14.2%, Medieval 13.8%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 10.6%

Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Economy 15%, Base Building 14.1%, Medieval 12.7%, War 12.4%

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 47.9%, Survival 14.9%, Historical 10.2%, Economy 7.4%, Strategy 7.2%