
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Colony Sim, Strategy, 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 28% ★, Rome 24.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%
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 36.9% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Top-Down 4.6%
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 33% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 5.9%
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 41.8% ★, Rome 27.8% ★, Simulation 11.2%, City Builder 10.5%, Strategy 4.6%
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 27.5% ★, Rome 22% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Historical 6.6%, Simulation 6.4%
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 30.9% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Historical 7.8%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5% ★, City Builder 35.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8%, Indie 1.5%
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 28.1%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 10.9%
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 35.7% ★, Tower Defense 24.4%, City Builder 23%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.2%
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 33.1% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 13.9%, Historical 7.7%
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 34.4% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Exploration 5.2%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 25%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Exploration 5.2%
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 46.2% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 7.9%, Base Building 4.5%
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, Tower Defense 21.1%, City Builder 18.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.2%
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 47.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Historical 5.8%
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 42.8% ★, City Builder 36.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Historical 5.9%, Simulation 5.8%
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 29.5% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 8%
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 36% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 14%, Top-Down 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 38.4% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Simulation 16%, Exploration 5.8%, Top-Down 5.6%
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 35.2% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Simulation 13%, Historical 10.3%, Strategy 10.3%
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: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Realistic 5.5%
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 34.9% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Tower Defense 11%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%
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 35.7% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 10%, Exploration 5.4%
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 26.1% ★, Rome 25.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 5.7%
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%, Rome 28.3% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Historical 8.6%
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 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7%
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 45.7% ★, City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 1.6%
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 31.7% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 12%, Realistic 4.9%
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Exploration 4.4%
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 23.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Base Building 6.7%
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 43.4% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 14%, Top-Down 7.4%, Indie 0.9%
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 42.8% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Simulation 19.3%, Strategy 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 32.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.6%
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 31.6% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 4.3%
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 34% ★, Tower Defense 22.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Exploration 5.4%
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 26.4% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Tower Defense 13.3%, War 8.1%, Simulation 7%
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 30.4% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%
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 27.9% ★, Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 7.2%
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 32% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Strategy 9.6%, War 5.5%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Exploration 8.9%, Indie 0.9%
Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!
Why similar: Rome 29% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Historical 10%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.4%
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 33.7% ★, City Builder 31%, Strategy 14.2%, Historical 11%, Simulation 10%
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 40.4% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Simulation 16.8%, Base Building 5.3%, Crafting 4.6%
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 38.6%, Rome 34.5% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Historical 7.1%, Simulation 7.1%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 68.6% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Management 2.8%
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 14.8%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Management 4.7%
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: Colony Sim 28% ★, Rome 28% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Historical 7.9%, Simulation 6.6%
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: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 24%, Historical 9.3%, Agriculture 8.5% ★, Strategy 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 46.6% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Indie 0.3%
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 50% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Base Building 6.5%, Strategy 6.4%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6% ★, City Builder 37.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Historical 4.7%, Simulation 3.3%
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: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Rome 28% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Historical 5.7%, Strategy 4.6%
Expand the Empire in the name of Rome. Build, manage and grow settlements in this resource driven city builder. You'll create resource, trade goods and cater to the needs of your citizens. The Senate calls administrator, don't keep them waiting.
Why similar: Rome 39.2% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Management 5.1%
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Top-Down 6%
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 33.1% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.3%, War 8.8%
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 6.5%
Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Exploration 4.3%