
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
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Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.

Diseased
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.

NecroCity: Prologue
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 11.4%, Side Scroller 10.9%
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.1%
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 10%
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.7%
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Side Scroller 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.7%
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: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.5%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.9%, City Builder 15%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Minimalist 9.3%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Side Scroller 7.8%
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, earn upgrades, build castles, and protect the Altar from waves of minions, all while searching for the "Dragon" and uncovering the truth behind his power. Embody the Sovran in this pixel-art adventure minimalist strategy game.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Minimalist 7.2%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.6%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 10.4%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Side Scroller 10%, Base Building 8.5%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.9%
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 21.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9%, Medieval 8.7%
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Side Scroller 7.6%
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.3%
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 21.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.6%, Medieval 9.4%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Tower Defense 17.6%, City Builder 15%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Base Building 11%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.4%, Medieval 9.3%
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Medieval 10%
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 21.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Building 13.1%, Management 10.4%, Tower Defense 10.2%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Building 10.8%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 8.8%
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 21%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 6.2%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Building 9%
Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 8.6%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.9%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 13.1%, Medieval 9.4%, Base Building 9%
FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Tactical 8.8%
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Building 8.8%
Hoglands is a 2D side-scrolling base defense strategy with RPG elements where you with the help of your hero, will be protecting your kingdom against bloodthirsty, undead pigs. Gather resources, build a base, raise an army, improve your hero and lead defense of your lands.
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 31.1%, Medieval 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Building 8.3%, Management 7.6%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 12%, Medieval 9.6%
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Why similar: Tower Defense 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Base Building 11%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.4%, Building 9.8%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 9.3%, Medieval 7.9%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Management 8.3%
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Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Building 13.4%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 7.9%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Medieval 11%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.4%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Side Scroller 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Minimalist 7.8%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.5%, City Builder 21.3%, Minimalist 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%
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 23.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.2%
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Medieval 9.5%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 22.9%, Tower Defense 20%, Base Building 16.3%, Simulation 4.3%
Build Towers, Defend the Crystal and Survive the night. Crystal Siege is Tower Defense inspired in Kingdom 2 Crowns and Terraria's events. Explore by day, prepare your defenses, and face relentless waves of enemies by night.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.8%, City Builder 17%, Minimalist 9.2%, Building 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Side Scroller 11.5%
Protect your cities against waves of enemies. Manage your resources and plan accordingly to develop your city and armies to survive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Tower Defense 17.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 10.1%
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 25%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 7.8%
Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.4%
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: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.2%, Management 8%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 9.5%, Building 7.4%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23.8%, Management 10.9%, Relaxing 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Tower Defense 23%, Minimalist 15.5%, Base Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.5%
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Management 10%, Building 8.7%
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Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 7.4%