Games Like Songs of Syx

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 23.6% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep, emergent colony simulation that shares the complexity and scale of Songs of Syx.

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: 4X 14.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Grand Strategy 12.3% ★, Moddable 10.7% ★, City Builder 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines detailed medieval city-building with large-scale tactical combat that feels similar to the military aspects of Syx.

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 26.4% ★, Moddable 15.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 10.9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A premier colony-management game that excels at generating unique stories through its deep simulation of character needs and social interactions.

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 20.7% ★, Moddable 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony simulator that emphasizes vertical building and defensive combat in a medieval setting.

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: 4X 13.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, City Builder 11%, Moddable 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that forces players to adapt to constantly changing conditions and resource scarcity.

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: 4X 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Building 10.7%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival city-builder with complex resource chains and challenging environmental management.

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: 4X 13.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, City Builder 11%, Moddable 10.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A medieval dynasty management game with deep social and political simulation that impacts the growth of your settlement.

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 13.4% ★, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, City Builder 12.8%, 4X 11.6% ★, Moddable 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Offers unmatched depth in logistics and economic management for players who enjoy the complex systems of Songs of Syx.

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 32.2%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Medieval 10.2%, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an organic, gridless city-building experience with complex villager needs and social dynamics.

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: 4X 13.6% ★, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, City Builder 11%, Moddable 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on massive-scale insect colony management and RTS battles that mirror the scale of Syx's armies.

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features innovative water physics and vertical city-building mechanics that require careful planning and resource management.

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 33.7% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game mechanics with tower defense and colony management in a challenging, pixel-art environment.

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Medieval 8.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible but challenging medieval city-builder that features defensive combat and disaster management.

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 12% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim that puts a heavy emphasis on character relationships and the ruler's decision-making process.

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 23.7% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim with complex ship management, oxygen systems, and tactical combat.

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 33.2% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 5.9%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes the harsh realities of resource management and population growth.

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 29.6%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 8.7%, Medieval 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder with card-based progression and expansive map exploration.

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 37% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 16.7%, Open World 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, simulation-heavy colony sim set in the harsh Scottish Highlands that focuses on survival and family lineage.

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 29.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim with deep world-building and survival elements that reward careful planning.

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 22.4%, Building 10.5%, Medieval 9.7%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder with deep trade systems and complex production chains.

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 24% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Medieval 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social hierarchy and management of a medieval village, allowing players to oversee the lives of their subjects.

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 34.7%, Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 5.5%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the progression of a tribe through prehistoric eras, emphasizing survival and technological advancement.

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 23.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with complex economic and political systems in a unique underground setting.

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 33% ★, City Builder 26%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony sim with a focus on building, crafting, and defending against threats.

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Building 13%, Medieval 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers massive-scale sandbox simulation of civilizations, wars, and world events.

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 30.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Sandbox 13%, Building 9.2%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony sim that mirrors the complexity and depth of Dwarf Fortress in a 3D environment.

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that emphasizes building, resource gathering, and defending your territory.

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 13.3% ★, 4X 13.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.7% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Moddable 10.1% ★

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: 4X 13.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Moddable 10.1% ★

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

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric colony sim that allows for detailed building and resource management in an open-world setting.

Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, 4X 21.2% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Grand Strategy 11.2% ★, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer 4X city-builder with a focus on long-term economic development and trade.

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: 4X 13.6% ★, Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Moddable 10.6% ★

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 22.5% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Moddable 10.3% ★, Survival 7.5%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder with a heavy emphasis on political decisions and citizen happiness.

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 17.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Moddable 14.3% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 8.8%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%, Medieval 7.3%

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: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Moddable 14.4% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 34% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Medieval 7.4%, Building 6.9%, Survival 6%

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 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 7.3%

Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.

Why similar: 4X 66.8% ★, Fantasy 11.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.4%

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Fantasy 44.5%, Strategy 43.4%, Singleplayer 12.1%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Building 13.8%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Economy 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%

Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?

Why similar: Moddable 21% ★, Economy 13.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 10.1%

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: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.3%

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 19.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 23.5% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9%, Building 8.7%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Economy 17%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 10.7%

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 26% ★, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 24.1% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.3%, Medieval 7.8%

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: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13%, Strategy 5.9%

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: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.7%, Survival 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Medieval 9.5%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

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 25.2% ★, City Builder 23%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.2%

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Building 10%, Medieval 9.6%

Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.8%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.7%, Medieval 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★