Games Like Syntaris

Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.

Why similar: RTS 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Automation 10.9%, Economy 8.9%

Rule a fantasy realm where heroes don't take orders - they take bribes. Build your settlement, place gold bounties on deadly monsters, and entice autonomous warriors, rogues, and mages to fight for your cause. Expand, defend, and let coin do the commanding in this indirect-control RTS.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, RTS 27.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Management 11.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%

"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, RTS 23.4%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%

SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, RTS 16.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Automation 12%, Trading 11%

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 23.4%, RTS 16.3%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Automation 8.5%, Strategy 7.5%

VALTERION: THE LOST EARTH is a sci-fi colony-building strategy game. Lead 50 survivors on Elyra, build a thriving colony, develop its economy and research, return to the stars, and search for the lost path back to Earth.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Economy 9.8%, Real Time Tactics 8.4%, Management 8.3%

Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, RTS 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Economy 8%, Management 7.4%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, RTS 17.3%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Trading 9%, Economy 8.4%

Signals is a casual planet hopper strategy game. Explore systems, harvest resources and repair alien devices. You’ll need to strategically work with the market to maximize your income while covering the cost of your operation in order to follow strange signals and discover what waits at the source.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, RTS 22.1%, Economy 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.1%

Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, RTS 28.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 6.8%

Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 14.3%, Management 11.5%, Trading 11%, Economy 10.1%

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 27.1%, RTS 23.9%, Economy 13.1%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.2%

Koloni is a city-building strategy game that puts you in charge of a group of pioneers who have discovered a new land to colonize. However, you're not alone in your quest to settle on this uncharted territory, as other groups have their sights set on the same land.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, RTS 27%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 7.6%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, RTS 16.8%, Automation 12%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Military 8.9%

A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, RTS 17.1%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 6.8%

Novus Terminus: First Flags is a cozy logistics city builder. Found settlements, design road networks and watch your carriers transport goods from flag to flag. Three unique clans, visible supply chains and a handcrafted low-poly world await you.

Why similar: RTS 29.8%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Management 9.7%

Gain power over resources, build powerful kingdoms and strengthen your army to protect your people from enemies. Send your heroes into battle and lead your army to victory, become a great ruler who will be remembered forever.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, RTS 21.8%, Economy 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Simulation 8.1%

Formica is a realistic, top-down RTS where you control hordes of ants and termites. Gather resources and build massive armies to destroy enemy nests and take home the spoils of war!

Why similar: RTS 32.6%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 6.5%

Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

Why similar: RTS 19.8%, Diplomacy 18.5% ★, Military 12.8%, Economy 11%, Management 9.1%

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 31.9%, RTS 25.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 5.9%

A strategy game with elements of trading, levelling, looting, resource management, basic combat and exploration. Take control of a clone salvage team, visit planets and make as much money as you can. Three replayable solar systems. Challenge your friends with a private leaderboard or play solo.

Why similar: RTS 24.8%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Economy 12.7%, Trading 10.9%, Management 9.8%

Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, RTS 21.1%, Military 10.7%, Automation 10%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%

In this addictive city-builder game, your job is to guide your citizens to create the ultimate buzzing city. Expand your city, keep your citizen fed and plan your way to victory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, RTS 23.8%, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Refound a holding in the drowned Vreldsath fens. Nothing regrows, every load is carried home by hand, and what crawls out of the Sundered Places comes without warning. Push outward, dig up the ruins, hold the line, and win by laying a causeway across water that swallowed every attempt before yours.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 11%, Economy 9.6%

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 28.5%, RTS 28.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, RTS 19.1%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Economy 11.3%, Management 8.8%

Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Automation 15.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Building 8.9%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Automation 13.3%, Science 10.8%, Management 10.8%, Economy 8.9%

Build, manage, and exploit your way to intergalactic dominance in this retro-futuristic factory sim. Extract resources, construct factories, build spaceships, and establish trade routes in a neon-drenched galaxy where profit is king.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, RTS 23%, Management 11.8%, Science 8.8%, Economy 8%

Build your transport empire in a retro-inspired strategy game. Lay railways and roads, connect cities and industries, manage trains and vehicles, optimize logistics, and grow a thriving economy.

Why similar: RTS 26.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Economy 7.6%

Heroes go on adventures. You make sure they have swords, potions, and supplies. Command workers RTS-style to gather, haul, and process resources. Upgrade from hand-carrying to carts, and grow a production and trade network that keeps the adventurers' guild running.

Why similar: RTS 22.5%, Automation 14.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Management 11.3%, Trading 8.6%

A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, RTS 25.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 5.8%

Take charge as a fishing company manager in a realistic simulator. Plan your catches, trade on a dynamic market, and face ecological challenges. Brave storms, track fish migration and regulations while building your fishing empire.

Why similar: RTS 22.6%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%

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 28.7%, RTS 26.4%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 6.4%

SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 15%, Automation 12.8%

Grow an ant colony from a single queen into a thriving empire. Raid rival anthills, steal their brood, and strengthen your colony with captured ants. Defend your territory from giant insects and expand your nest. When the time comes, release a swarm of winged queens and begin again in distant lands.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, RTS 26%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 6.9%

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 29.5%, RTS 20.1%, Management 10.4%, Diplomacy 9.5% ★, Strategy 8.4%

Command a squad of mercenaries to battle monstrous foes across five stages. Start small, strategically deploy and upgrade your team using earned resources. Build an unstoppable force and prove your tactical skills by surviving the onslaught and securing victory.

Why similar: RTS 36%, Simulation 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 19.8%, Strategy 17.8%, PvE 4.9%

Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, RTS 17.2%, Science 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Management 9.7%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, RTS 17.5%, Automation 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, Economy 9%

Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, RTS 19.7%, Automation 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.6%, Strategy 8.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, RTS 30%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 8.6%, Resource Management 5.4%

Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Automation 17.8%, Management 14.4%, Economy 12.6%, Simulation 9.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Management 19.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 6.7%

Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, RTS 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.6%

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 24.8%, RTS 20.3%, Economy 10.8%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 6.3%

Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, RTS 17.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Military 10.1%, Economy 10%

Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, RTS 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Economy 10.1%, Military 9.3%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, RTS 18.9%, Trading 12.5%, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.8%

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, RTS 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Military 10%, Economy 9.7%

It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, RTS 23.9%, Economy 10.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Management 7.5%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Management 9.8%, Building 5.9%

Organized crime real-time strategy set in New York City during prohibition. Using the illegal bootlegging trade, running various rackets, warring with other 'families', and bribing police, you can build an criminal empire.

Why similar: RTS 28.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Economy 13.2%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%

It is a "strategic simulation game" that focuses on near future and ground war. Develop 1st to 3rd generation units and build up your military power.. Defeat the invasion of unmanned weapons and annihilate hostile forces. your ultimate goal is to gain world peace.

Why similar: RTS 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Economy 12%, Real Time Tactics 11%, Simulation 7.9%

Kingdoms in Arms is a strategy game where you build and manage your kingdom. Build cities, outposts and military camps to conquer the whole island. Besiege your enemies castles and bring down their walls with your siege engines like catapults and trebuchets. Control your armies in real time.

Why similar: RTS 30.4%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Military 8.5%, Strategy 8%

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: RTS 50.7%, Colony Sim 42.3%, Strategy 7%

An isometric Tycoon, where you can control any Worker in First Person. Build an Oil Rig and extract Oil for Endless Profits. Beware of Greedy Pirates!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, RTS 21.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Economy 8.1%, Military 7.7%

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 26.9%, Automation 19%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.4%

As a deadly virus, battle your way through the maze-like world of the human body. Facing the might of the immune system you must infect, replicate, evolve and conquer your host until they are no more in this top down, real time strategy game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, RTS 18.9%, Science 18.8%, Strategy 12.9%, Real Time Tactics 8.5%