Games Like Skyward

An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.

Why similar: God Game 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, City Builder 12.2%, RTS 9.5%, Management 7.6%

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

Why similar: God Game 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.1%

Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!

Why similar: God Game 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, RTS 14.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 11.5%

Little Islanders is a cozy vibe god game with Base Building, Survival and Colony Sim elements! Create your faction, Protect them and Help rebuild their world after being attacked by 'Skurj' the Demon King. Set in a fantasy universe of airborne landmasses called Islands, YOU ARE THEIR GOD! 🔥

Why similar: God Game 22.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Agriculture 13.1% ★, RTS 9%

Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 10.7%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.4%

Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.

Why similar: God Game 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 13.2%, Building 10.3%

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: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 16.6%, God Game 15% ★, Building 10.6%, RTS 9.3%

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: God Game 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Management 9.7%, Building 7.6%

Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.

Why similar: God Game 29.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.6%

Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.

Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Agriculture 10.7% ★, Building 8.8%

Childwood is a survival management horror game in which you help a group of children survive in a hostile environment. Keep the campfire burning to protect them from night creatures, but your kind won’t hesitate to demand immoral sacrifices in exchange for rewards.

Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Building 10%, RTS 9.8%

Everlords is a strategy game where you shape the battlefield itself. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore a fractured world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.

Why similar: God Game 26.9% ★, RTS 15.3%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.3%

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 28.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, Management 9.7%, RTS 7.9%

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: God Game 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Economy 6.4%

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: God Game 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, City Builder 13%, RTS 11.2%, Building 9.3%

You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 16.2%, God Game 9.3% ★, Building 6.4%

To Save humanity From Virus is a building game where you are on a different planet trying to get resources to create a vaccine. The virus hit the earth and the only way to save humanity is to gather resources from the different planet.

Why similar: God Game 24% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 13.8%, Building 7.4%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Building 11.2%, Management 10.2%

Four Civilisations is an indie game. It brings you back to early civilization times and lets you control the destiny of your civilization. You will compete with 3 other civilizations in the game. You will need to gather resources to advance in science and upgrade your buildings.

Why similar: God Game 22.6% ★, RTS 20.7%, City Builder 13%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 10.8%

Commander, lead your army, build the strongest weapons, conquer the harsh weather and enemies, and build a new Eden on the sea!!!!

Why similar: God Game 26.2% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Agriculture 13.9% ★, Management 10.6%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★

Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.

Why similar: God Game 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 14.1%, Building 10.3%

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 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, City Builder 13.6%, RTS 11.4%, Building 9.3%

Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, RTS 16.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%

🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃

Why similar: God Game 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Building 10.1%, Management 8%

Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.

Why similar: God Game 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%

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 20.8%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Building 13.4%, Management 10.5%, Agriculture 9.7% ★

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 21.3% ★, God Game 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Building 11.3%, Economy 8.2%

This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.

Why similar: God Game 30.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 7.1%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.2%, RTS 12.6%, Agriculture 10.5% ★, Building 9.2%

In Goblin God, you rule a tribe of chaotic goblins! Build villages, defend against evil humans, and unleash divine powers to shape the world (or cause mayhem). Each island brings new challenges—will you lead your goblins to glory or just enjoy the chaos?

Why similar: God Game 33.3% ★, RTS 20.3%, City Builder 19.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 4.9%

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

Why similar: God Game 16.7% ★, RTS 16.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Building 10.6%

Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Building 13.9%, Management 10.6%, Economy 8.6%

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 20.5%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, God Game 14% ★, RTS 13.2%, Management 9.8%

Primordial Empire is a side-on colony sim on the microscopic level. Cultivate a colony of microbes, plants and animals from small beginnings to mutualistic paradise. Connect the web of life in a tangle of nutrients and trophic balance. Scratch out a living and claim your empire from the rock itself!

Why similar: God Game 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.4%

Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend from sky-high threats.

Why similar: God Game 26.1% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%

A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Agriculture 14.1% ★, Building 10.2%, Management 10%

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 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Building 11.7%, Management 8.4%

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: God Game 26.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Economy 7.6%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: RTS 15.5%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Agriculture 12.1% ★, Building 9.7%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Building 12.7%, Economy 8.2%, Simulation 6.9%

Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 20.5%, RTS 17.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11%

A world where mechanical and magical civilizations intersect. A strategy and simulation game in which you become a god and build multiple civilizations.

Why similar: God Game 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Building 8.3%, Management 6.6%

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: God Game 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 6.1%

VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, RTS 20.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Building 8.8%

Dungeon Keeper-like with electropunk elements. Dig out space for buildings to attract AI-controlled creatures and watch them do your bidding. Cast spells from the god-hand above, and protect your heart while sending minions to defeat theirs.

Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, RTS 12.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 10.2%

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, God Game 20% ★, Building 15.7%, Management 11%, Economy 8.5%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 13.8%, Building 13.1%, Management 10.2%

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: God Game 28.5% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Building 10.8%, Management 8.9%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Building 11.8%, Management 10.7%, RTS 10.2%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Building 13.8%, Management 11.8%, RTS 10.7%

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 27.7%, Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Building 12%, Strategy 6.9%, RTS 5.8%

Build settlements, lead your people, and design weird monuments for a space delivery guy who is pretending to be your God.

Why similar: God Game 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 14.4%, Roguelite 8.9%

Lead the families of the first pagan tribes to conquer virgin lands inhabited by mythical creatures. Obtain building materials, win favor with the gods, and use ancient beliefs and occult practices to create a home for your people in a harsh and hostile world.

Why similar: God Game 23% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, RTS 12.5%, Building 11.9%

Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Management 11.9%, Building 10%, Roguelite 9.6%

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: God Game 20.3% ★, RTS 17%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Building 9.6%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.2%, Economy 8.5%

Experience a mystical journey with the Mims in this strategic god-like adventure—build, grow, protect, and wield divine powers. Now it's completely free! Also check out our other story-rich fantasy game, The End of the Sun, where you become a tracker of mythical beings and unravel mysteries.

Why similar: God Game 28% ★, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 14.6%, Management 6.5%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Building 16%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 7.2%