
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.

Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
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.

Plebs and Pillagers
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!
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 16.6% ★, City Builder 14%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 7.7%
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 18% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.7%
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%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.8%
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 22.6% ★, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Building 9.7%
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%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 9.8%, 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 21.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.6%, Side Scroller 7.6%
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 17.6%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11%
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 21.8% ★, 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 18.3% ★, Tower Defense 14.9%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 10.2%
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Base Building 8.5%
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.8%
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 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9%, Medieval 8.5%
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 17%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 15%, 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 21.4% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Medieval 9.4%
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Building 7.7%
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 16.9%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.4%, Medieval 9.3%
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 21.2% ★, Tower Defense 17.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Base Building 11%
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 26.8% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Medieval 10%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 7.7%
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Tower Defense 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 7.8%
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 13.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Tower Defense 11.8%, Building 10.7%
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 21.6%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Building 12.9%, Management 10.7%, Tower Defense 10.2%
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 24.2% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 9.1%
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 22.5% ★, City Builder 19%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.8%
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 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 16.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Building 9%
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: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Medieval 9.8%
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 28.9% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Strategy 6.3%
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 32% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
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 20.6% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Tower Defense 16%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.8%
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 19.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Tower Defense 15.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 8.6%
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 21.4%, Building 13%, Medieval 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%
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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Side Scroller 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%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Side Scroller 12.4%, 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 30.5%, Medieval 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Building 8.3%, Management 7.9%
Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Tower Defense 15.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Base Building 11%
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: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.8%, Medieval 9.6%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 9.2%, Medieval 7.9%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Management 8.5%
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 18% ★, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Building 9.8%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 10%, Building 9.3%
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 21.9% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 16%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Medieval 10.9%
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 17.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.2%, Management 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 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Simulation 4.4%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Building 12.4%, Medieval 11.6%, Management 9.8%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 18%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Medieval 9.5%
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 19.4% ★, Tower Defense 17.5%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 11.6%, Medieval 10.1%
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 19.6% ★, Tower Defense 16.1%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.4%, Side Scroller 11.2%
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 23.4%, Management 11.3%, Relaxing 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
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 20.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.2%
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Medieval 10.6%, Building 8.9%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Tower Defense 22.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Tactical 8.8%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.4%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Medieval 11.4%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.4%
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 22.3% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.8%, Management 9.8%
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 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10.7%
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.8%
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 6.8%