60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, City Builder, Colony Sim, Simulation.
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.
Sylox
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.
The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Rome 26% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 10%
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 36.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Top-Down 4.5%
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 32.8%, City Builder 24%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Simulation 6.7%, Base Building 5.9%
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 22.7%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 8.5%
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 20%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.7%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic ancient Roman city with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Rome 28.5% ★, Simulation 10.9%, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 4.5%
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 30.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Historical 7.9%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1%, City Builder 36.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 1.5%
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 23.7%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 12.7%
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: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 27.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Strategy 10%
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Rome 24.1% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Historical 7.2%, Simulation 6%
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 35.6%, Tower Defense 24.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.1%
Collect resources, build structures, and develop a small island in this island-building simulation. As the overseer, you’ll grow your village while defending against invading enemies. Enjoy a unique experience that blends city-building and tower defense gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 10.8%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 24.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Historical 7.8%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Base Building 4.5%
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 39.6%, City Builder 24.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 6%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, City Builder 27.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Top-Down 3.9%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 12.7%, Exploration 5.3%
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 22%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 12.4%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, City Builder 25.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Exploration 5.2%
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Rome 28.7% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Historical 8.7%
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 23.2%, Tower Defense 18.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.5%
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: Colony Sim 42.6%, City Builder 37%, Strategy 7.3%, Historical 6%, Simulation 5.7%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Historical 5.9%
A city builder that combines futurism and the aesthetics of ancient Rome. Lead your people into the future era by researching new technologies, creating modern infrastructure, and withstanding external forces. Make Rome an eternal city!
Why similar: Rome 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Historical 5.7%, Strategy 4.5%
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Rome 35.1% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Historical 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Tower Defense 21.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 11%
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 45.4%, City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.9%, Management 1.5%
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, City Builder 28.5%, Simulation 15.7%, Exploration 5.9%, Top-Down 5.6%
As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.
Why similar: Rome 34.7% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Historical 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%
Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power. Manage intricate supply chains, expanding cities, and innovations in a hopeful, procedurally generated, isometric simulation of industrial antiquity.
Why similar: Rome 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 20.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 6.8%
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 24.1%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 11.9%, Realistic 5.1%
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 27.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Crafting 6%
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: Rome 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 19.3%, Historical 7.7%, Simulation 6.2%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 4.9%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Exploration 5.4%
Brew & Defend is a medieval tavern management game with tower defense mechanics. Build your supply chain, grow crops, brew beverages, and place taverns along the road to satisfy a parade of thirsty customers before they ruin your reputation!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%
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: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 28.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Realistic 5.7%
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 29.4%, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%
Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!
Why similar: Rome 35.8% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Historical 10.4%, Strategy 10%
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 24.5%, City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 15.3%, War 7.9%, Simulation 7.6%
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, City Builder 32.2%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 15%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 7.1%
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 7.3%, Indie 0.9%
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.6%, Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 19%, Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 4.4%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 4.6%
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 21.6%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 20.3%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.5%
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 26.1%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 13%, Exploration 4.4%
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 34.6%, City Builder 26.2%, Tower Defense 11%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 32.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Base Building 5.3%, Crafting 4.6%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, City Builder 34.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Indie 0.8%
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: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 23.1%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.3%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Base Building 6.8%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.5%, City Builder 25%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Indie 0.3%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Tower Defense 19.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Simulation 7.2%, War 6.6%
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: Rome 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 18.4%, Simulation 5.8%, Strategy 5.6%
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%
