Games Like STARIO: Haven Tower

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the vertical sky-city theme and the challenge of managing resources while keeping a floating civilization aloft.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical mountain-based city building where managing logistics across different elevations is the core gameplay loop.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Automation 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on the colony-sim genre by placing your city on the back of a giant creature, requiring careful management of your limited, mobile space.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 9.9%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a space station as a vertical, self-contained ecosystem, requiring strict resource control to survive the void.

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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resource management and city-building with a unique roguelite structure that forces players to adapt to harsh, ever-changing post-apocalyptic conditions.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced vertical building mechanics and water-based resource management that require careful planning to survive environmental disasters.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for post-apocalyptic city-building, offering the same high-stakes survival pressure and resource management found in Haven Tower.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Economy 9.4%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on post-apocalyptic colony survival and the expansion of settlements in a hostile, ruined world.

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: Automation 24.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Economy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep automation and complex resource logistics that will appeal to players who enjoy the supply chain management aspects of Haven Tower.

There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Building 20%, Resource Management 19%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based city builder that centers entirely on the challenge of constructing upward in a world where space is at a premium.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Automation 13.2%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a thriving settlement on the water, requiring similar resource management and automation skills to Haven Tower.

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: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A robust colony-sim that focuses on managing the needs of your citizens while expanding your settlement in a challenging environment.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized colony-sim that emphasizes environmental adaptation and resource management in a harsh, alien landscape.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build interconnected cities on high-altitude cliffs, emphasizing verticality and futuristic resource management.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder where you must manage oxygen and other vital resources to keep your colony alive in a hazardous world.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the automation and supply chain aspects of Haven Tower, this game offers deep, satisfying logistics and production chains.

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 24.7%, City Builder 20%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that blends building with economic management and survival, requiring you to carefully plan your underground city.

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 25.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a floating city mechanic where you must manage survival and resource gathering while navigating a dangerous, post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Building 14%, Economy 13.5%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more historical take on city-building with a strong focus on resource management and population needs.

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the management and construction of a massive skyscraper, emphasizing vertical logistics.

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 23%, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the floating city concept with added strategy and RPG elements, perfect for those who want more combat and exploration in the sky.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic colony-sim that forces you to manage resources and disasters while rebuilding society.

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on building a sanctuary against environmental disasters, mirroring the 'looming disaster' threat in Haven Tower.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Economy 16.2%, Resource Management 15%, Building 12%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and trade port aspects of city-building, which are central to the prosperity of your tower in Haven Tower.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Economy 10.4%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Transfers the city-building experience to an underwater environment, requiring vertical planning and specialized resource management.

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: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Building 11.5%, Economy 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes the management of your citizens and the growth of your settlement through survival-based challenges.

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 34.7%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8.6%, Building 8.1%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 23% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Management 8.4%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to influence the development of your civilization, mirroring the 'Rituals' and miracle-shaping mechanics found in Haven Tower.

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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Automation 11%, Sandbox 7.4%

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Building 15.2%, God Game 14.6% ★, Economy 13.9%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed simulation of building and managing a high-rise structure, focusing on the economic side of vertical construction.

Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 24%, Economy 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines vertical station building with tower defense elements, appealing to the defensive and management aspects of Haven Tower.

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 15.7%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game that focuses on the logistics and production chains necessary to keep a colony running efficiently.

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Building 16%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 11.1%, City Builder 8.4%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 11.9%, Economy 11.9%, Automation 10.4%, Building 9.7%

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Economy 12.9%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.2%

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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.3%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 17%, Automation 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Resource Management 9.7%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 6.7%, Strategy 6.5%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 18%, Automation 12.4%, Economy 10.4%, Building 9.5%

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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.7%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.4%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 20.9%, God Game 19.5% ★, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9%

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 26.7%, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 8.2%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.3%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 28.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 9.5%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Time Management 11.5%

Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools, and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Resource Management 16.4%, Relaxing 13.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8%

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 34.8%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16%, Automation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.3%

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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9.2%

A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?

Why similar: God Game 16.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.4%

From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Economy 19.1%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 8.4%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Automation 10.8%, Building 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.6%

A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 9.7%, Idler 9.1%