Games Like Striking Gold

VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 21.1%, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 16%, Building 6.9%

Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, RTS 33.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 3.1%

With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Strategy 16.9%, RTS 16.6%

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 33.3%, Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Building 9.6%, RTS 5.7%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Strategy 23.6%, RTS 15.1%, Indie 2.6%

Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 20.5%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 4.8%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Strategy 12.3%, RTS 8.1%, Base Building 5.9%

Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 25.9%, RTS 18%, Strategy 17.4%, Building 7.4%

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 38.4% ★, City Builder 35.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 7.5%, Resource Management 4.9%

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: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 6.5%

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 36.1% ★, City Builder 35.3%, Strategy 19%, Building 8.1%, Indie 0.8%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Western 14.6% ★, RTS 12.5%, Building 9.4%

Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 23.8%, RTS 16.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 10.6%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 6.7%

BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 8%

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Strategy 20%, RTS 15%, Building 8.9%

Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 3%

Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 25.2%, Resource Management 5.8%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 11.3%, RTS 6.8%

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 25.6%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, RTS 16.6%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 10.6%

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% ★, City Builder 37.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Building 3.4%, RTS 2.4%

A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 29.8%, Strategy 19.5%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 5.8%

Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 24.9%, RTS 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 9.8%

Oikizo is a city-building game. Start by placing your first building and a few citizens, then make your city prosper. The strength of Oikizo lies in the ability to manage a city cooperatively with your friends.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 25.4%, RTS 19.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Building 8.8%

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: City Builder 40.9%, Colony Sim 38.2% ★, Strategy 10.9%, RTS 5.4%, Open World 2.8%

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 35.3%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, RTS 9.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Base Building 6.8%

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 36% ★, City Builder 29.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 5.8%

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 27% ★, City Builder 24.2%, RTS 17.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 9.2%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, City Builder 42.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Indie 1.6%

Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 23%, RTS 19.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 13.2%

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 42.8% ★, City Builder 35%, Strategy 13.4%, Base Building 6%, Resource Management 1.6%

Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 25.1%, RTS 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 7.7%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 30% ★, Strategy 19.2%, Building 14.2%, Indie 1.5%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Strategy 20.7%, Building 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%

Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, RTS 14.7%, Strategy 11%, Building 9.4%

Inspired by famed series like "The Settlers", "Battle for Middle-Earth", "Anno" and "Age of Empires", Ordo Et Chao is a solo-player strategy game combining elements of real time strategy, resource management and city building.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Strategy 32.9%, RTS 24.6%, Resource Management 7.1%

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.5% ★, City Builder 25.1%, RTS 13.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Indie 0.9%

The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 24.8%, RTS 19.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Building 11%

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 43.5% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 9%, Base Building 8.1%

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 37.7% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 10.6%, RTS 4.3%

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4% ★, RTS 19%, City Builder 18%, Strategy 16.8%, Building 6.4%

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 40.2% ★, City Builder 32.9%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Open World 3.2%

PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 24.8%, RTS 18.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 10.2%

Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 27.9%, RTS 19.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Base Building 3%

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 33.1% ★, City Builder 29.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 8.3%, Open World 4.9%

The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!

Why similar: City Builder 41.3%, Strategy 26.7%, RTS 24.1%, Resource Management 4%, Base Building 3.3%

Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 5.6%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 17.5%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 3.7%

The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 8.7%

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 29.3% ★, City Builder 26.1%, RTS 15.9%, Building 12%, Strategy 8%

The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Western 24.1% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Mining 8.7% ★

A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 14%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 6.3%

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 32.8% ★, City Builder 30%, Strategy 20%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 4.6%

Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 23.3%, RTS 16.8%, Building 12.5%, Strategy 7%

Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 27.3%, RTS 13.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 7%

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 42% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 20.4%, Building 6.8%, Resource Management 2.6%

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 40.1% ★, City Builder 29.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Building 6.8%, Base Building 5.5%

Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 24.6%, RTS 14.3%, Strategy 12%, Building 10.4%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Open World 5.4%

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 32.1% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 22.2%, Building 7.4%, Base Building 5.5%