Games Like Stonehearth

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 30.3%, City Builder 22.5%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features voxel-based building mechanics that allow for complex, multi-story structures similar to the creative freedom found in Stonehearth.

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 44%, City Builder 23%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a very similar cozy aesthetic and focus on managing individual settlers with unique personalities and needs.

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 31.1%, City Builder 28.5%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the charming, lighthearted city-building experience while tasking you with defending your kingdom from invaders.

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 31.9%, City Builder 24.5%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational inspiration for the genre, offering the deepest simulation of colony life and history generation available.

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 42.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard of the colony-sim genre, it offers unparalleled depth in managing settler relationships, survival, and base expansion.

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: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 27.7%, Voxel 11.1% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes verticality and intricate water management, providing a unique building experience that feels like a natural evolution of voxel construction.

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 34.9%, City Builder 26.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy colony sim allows you to manage your kingdom from a 3D perspective, focusing heavily on character interactions and RPG elements.

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 40.5%, City Builder 34.1%, Survival 7.3%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that focuses on resource management and the harsh realities of keeping a small population alive through the seasons.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 13.3%, Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person voxel colony builder that challenges you to defend your base against nightly waves of monsters while expanding your territory.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 26.3%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It scales the colony-sim experience to massive proportions, allowing you to manage thousands of citizens while maintaining complex logistical chains.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling voxel game combines exploration, crafting, and base defense, making it a great fit for fans of the building aspects of Stonehearth.

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: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 31.8%, Building 18.7%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly detailed city-building experience with a strong emphasis on farming, survival, and managing the health of your villagers.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 5.9%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sci-fi twist on the genre, requiring you to manage resources and maintain life support in a hostile extraterrestrial environment.

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 39.5%, City Builder 38.1%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 5.1%, Strategy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a group of early humans through the ages, focusing on survival, hunting, and the gradual development of your settlement.

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 44.1%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 9%, Open World 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the Scottish Highlands, it focuses on family management and survival, mirroring the intimate feel of growing a small group of settlers.

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 46.4%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city builder that allows for organic, sprawling medieval towns with a focus on monument building and villager needs.

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 32.2%, City Builder 30.5%, Building 12.8%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep focus on trade, production chains, and managing the growth of your population in a challenging environment.

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 41.4%, Colony Sim 33.9%, Building 7.1%, Survival 4.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer-focused city builder allows you to grow your settlement alongside others while managing complex resource economies.

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 33.7%, City Builder 20.5%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes exploration and survival in a procedurally generated fantasy world.

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 33.2%, City Builder 22%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim set on a spaceship, where you must manage your crew's psychological state and the ship's internal systems.

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 42.5%, City Builder 30.9%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends traditional city-building with intense tower defense mechanics, perfect for those who enjoyed the combat aspects of Stonehearth.

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 32.4%, City Builder 25.4%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This god-game allows you to guide a civilization from the stone age to the space age, managing their needs and development over millennia.

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 40.6%, City Builder 33.8%, Building 7%, Survival 5.7%, Strategy 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic take on medieval survival, requiring careful planning of food and resources to survive the winter.

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 35.5%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 8.9%, Strategy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the social hierarchy of a medieval village, allowing you to manage families and their specific roles within your economy.

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 35.1%, City Builder 25.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 8.8%, Survival 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that shares the voxel-like aesthetic and deep crafting systems that made Stonehearth so engaging.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 27.1%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city builder focused on automation and logistics, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing production lines.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 25%, Building 11.6%, Voxel 9.2% ★, Crafting 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based building with complex automation systems, allowing you to create intricate production chains for your colony.

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 48.4%, City Builder 35.9%, Strategy 5.7%, Survival 3.3%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony builder focuses on managing a settlement on an alien world, dealing with environmental hazards and resource scarcity.

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 31.5%, City Builder 23.9%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 7%

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 37.2%, City Builder 34.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-building game that emphasizes resource management and the expansion of your kingdom through trade and diplomacy.

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 33.5%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 13.3%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 6%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulation that allows for significant control over your settlers' tasks and the construction of your base.

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: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 39.2%, City Builder 33.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8%, Simulation 4%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 24.9%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 6%

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Survival 17.4%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.5%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 27.5%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.1%

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 31.4%, City Builder 24.7%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 7.7%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 29.9%, Building 14.5%, Strategy 5.5%, Management 3.4%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 50.5%, Survival 18%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Crafting 6.5%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 5.7%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Sandbox 6.6%, Building 5.5%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 23.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7.7%

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 30.9%, City Builder 24.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 8.2%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, City Builder 29.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 6.3%, 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: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 28.6%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Survival 23.5%, Crafting 20.3%, Open World 12.5%, Simulation 7.8%

Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.

Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Colony Sim 33.4%, Building 17.1%, Management 3.8%, Simulation 3.2%

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 28.8%, City Builder 23.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 7.1%

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 31.6%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 7.4%

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 34.8%, Colony Sim 32.8%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.8%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Building 21.7%, Survival 19.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 9.6%

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 34.8%, City Builder 29.2%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Survival 6.1%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 31.7%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 4.7%, Management 3.1%

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 28.7%, City Builder 22.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 7.8%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 48.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, City Builder 30.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, God Game 6.5% ★, Strategy 4.8%