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Games Like Technotopia

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, City Builder, Building, Simulation.

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Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!

Reviews: Very Positive — 85% — of 628 reviews
Released: 2024-10-23
Developer: Yustas
Publisher: Alawar
Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 3.1 hrs
Mean playtime: 3.9 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 86%

Overview

Technotopia stands out by blending the strategic depth of city-building with the unpredictable, tactical nature of deckbuilding and political faction management. These recommendations focus on titles that emphasize card-based mechanics, high-stakes political decision-making, and futuristic or dystopian city-management themes to capture that same unique balance of planning and adaptation.

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  1. #1 Cardboard Town
    96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
    Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Deckbuilding 19.1%, Card Game 18.9%, Building 17.6%, Management 11.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A direct genre peer that utilizes a card-based system to manage city growth and random events.

  2. #2 Concrete Jungle
    97% matchVery Positive87% of 658 reviews2015
    Dev: ColePowered Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.

    Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Deckbuilding 29.5%, Card Game 15.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Puzzle 6.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A foundational card-based city-builder that challenges you to balance urban development with the needs of your citizens.

  3. #3 Stacklands
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

    Why similar: Card Game 24%, City Builder 22%, Management 17.2%, Deckbuilding 15.8%, Building 12.1%

    Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of using cards to build and manage a settlement, requiring careful resource management and planning.

  4. #4 Dawnmaker
    95% matchVery Positive91% of 157 reviews2024
    Dev: Arpentor StudioPub: Acram Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!

    Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Card Game 23.8%, Deckbuilding 20.2%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8%

    Why You'll Like It: A card-based city-builder that focuses on strategic expansion and managing resources through a tabletop-inspired interface.

  5. #5 These Doomed Isles
    94% matchMostly Positive72% of 221 reviews2024
    Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

    Why similar: God Game 30.4%, City Builder 24.5%, Deckbuilding 20.6%, Card Game 15.7%, Strategy 6.5%

    Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics to create a challenging survival experience.

  6. #6 Dystopika
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,250 reviews2024
    Dev: Voids Within
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%

    A city-building sandbox for futuristic cities. No goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Dystopian 20.9%, Cyberpunk 20.4%, Futuristic 13.1%, Building 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: Captures the cyberpunk aesthetic and dystopian atmosphere of Technotopia in a sandbox city-building environment.

  7. #7 Against the Storm
    93% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
    Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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: Diplomacy 35.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 15.4%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 7%

    Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features high-stakes choices and procedural elements that force players to adapt their strategy constantly.

  8. #8 Frostpunk
    92% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 53%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Management 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%

    Why You'll Like It: Offers deep political decision-making and high-stakes management that mirrors the faction-balancing tension found in Technotopia.

  9. #9 Ratropolis
    91% matchVery Positive88% of 5,484 reviews2020
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 38.4%, Card Game 28%, City Builder 16.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Casual 4.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced deckbuilding strategy game that requires managing a growing settlement while defending against external threats.

  10. #10 Ratopia
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: City Builder 37.8%, Building 28%, Management 21.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulator that emphasizes economic management and political structures within a city-building framework.

  11. #11 MEMORIAPOLIS
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
    Dev: 5PM Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

    Why similar: Political Sim 31.3%, City Builder 26.9%, Building 12.7%, Management 11.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes historical progression and political evolution through strategic choices.

  12. #12 Skid Cities
    91% matchMixed66% of 79 reviews2021
    Dev: Vittorio Banfi
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.

    Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Cyberpunk 23.5%, Dystopian 13.6%, Building 12%, Management 7.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed city-builder that focuses on the gritty reality of managing a futuristic metropolis.

  13. #13 Citystate II
    90% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,099 reviews2021
    Dev: Andy Sztark
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Political Sim 23.9%, Politics 18.3%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.7%

    Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep dive into political and economic simulation, allowing for complex governance decisions.

  14. #14 Terra Nil
    88% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
    Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

    Why similar: City Builder 54.2%, Puzzle 18.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Casual 6.7%, Singleplayer 3.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented city-builder that uses a card-like approach to restore ecosystems rather than just expanding them.

  15. #15 Power to the People
    87% matchVery Positive82% of 543 reviews2022
    Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

    Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Management 23.8%, Building 23.6%, Strategy 8.1%, 3D 5.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical and economic challenges of managing a city's infrastructure under pressure.

  16. #16 Urbek City Builder
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
    Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

    Why similar: Political Sim 28.3%, City Builder 27.7%, Building 15.9%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 6.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the interconnected nature of urban development.

  17. #17 Tiny Kingdom
    84% matchMostly Positive78% of 136 reviews2025
    Dev: neltile
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Deckbuilding 22.3%, Card Game 16.2%, Building 13.5%, Management 11.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that incorporates city-building elements into a challenging strategic loop.

  18. #18 Half-Earth Socialism
    85% matchVery Positive83% of 961 reviews2022
    Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

    Why similar: Political Sim 21.6%, Diplomacy 18.8%, Politics 12.8%, Card Game 12.3%, Dystopian 10.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses card-based mechanics to explore complex political and environmental policy decisions.

  19. #19 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
    86% matchMixed45% of 80 reviews2021
    Dev: Blackstaff GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
    Windows

    An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Management 20.8%, Building 18%, Strategy 10.1%, Puzzle 9.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A unique management game where buildings have personalities, echoing the faction-management and social-balancing aspects of Technotopia.

  20. #20 Kaya's Prophecy
    83% matchMostly Positive77% of 226 reviews2025
    Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
    Windows

    Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Card Game 21.4%, Management 14.7%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Building 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that integrates card-based mechanics to influence the growth and survival of your settlement.

  21. #21 Neongarten
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 71 reviews2025
    Dev: Moonroof StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    A minimalist cyberpunk city builder inspired by Islanders and Luck Be a Landlord.

    Why similar: God Game 23.8%, City Builder 23%, Cyberpunk 18.9%, Deckbuilding 12.5%, Building 12.3%

    Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk city-builder that blends simulation elements with roguelite progression.

  22. #22 Silicon City
    84% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2023
    Dev: Polycorne
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.

    Why similar: Political Sim 32%, City Builder 24.7%, Building 14.9%, Management 13.4%, Choices Matter 10%

    Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that focuses on management and sandbox growth within a stylized urban environment.

  23. #23 Metroplex Zero: Sci-Fi Card Battler
    82% matchVery Positive97% of 128 reviews2023
    Dev: Enigma Dragons LLC
    Windows · Linux

    Neo-cyberpunk roguelike card battler. Strategically construct your decks, gain powerful cybernetic upgrades, and vanquish sinister MegaCorps in challenging card combat. Dive into a replayable single-player experience that blends RPG progression, deck-building strategy, and a futuristic sci-fi world.

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 25.5%, Cyberpunk 23.3%, Card Game 17.5%, Futuristic 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Shares the futuristic, card-based tactical gameplay style found in Technotopia's mechanics.

  24. #24 IXION
    81% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 48.4%, Building 18.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Management 8.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that forces players to make difficult narrative choices that impact the survival of their population.

  25. #25 Dorfromantik
    79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
    Dev: Toukana Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

    Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Logic 20.6%, Puzzle 14.4%, Strategy 10.1%, 3D 6.3%

    Why You'll Like It: A tile-based puzzle city-builder that rewards careful planning and strategic placement, similar to the puzzle-like nature of card-based building.

  26. #26 Automatic Kingdom
    79% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2026
    Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.

    Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Card Game 39.1%, Strategy 14%, Building 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%

    Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses card-based resource management to automate and grow a medieval kingdom.

  27. #27 Tinytopia
    81% matchVery Positive84% of 319 reviews2021
    Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!

    Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Building 25.4%, Strategy 7%, 3D 6.7%, Management 6.4%

    Why You'll Like It: A casual city-builder that uses physics-based mechanics to create a unique building experience.

  28. #28 Tropico 6
    80% matchVery Positive88% of 28,783 reviews2019
    Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Political Sim 20.3%, Politics 15.4%, Management 10%, Diplomacy 9.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A classic political management city-builder where balancing the needs of various factions is essential to staying in power.

  29. #29 Kingdom's Deck
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2025
    Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

    Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Card Game 27.4%, Management 15.3%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 6.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A card-based colony simulator that focuses on base-building and roguelike deckbuilding mechanics.

  30. #30 Temporian
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 86 reviews2023
    Dev: ChallAcc
    Windows · Linux

    Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?

    Why similar: God Game 29.7%, Card Game 17.4%, Building 13.7%, Management 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%

    Why You'll Like It: A god-game that utilizes card-based management to control the development of a civilization over time.

  31. #31 URBO
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 648 reviews2023
    Dev: Door 407
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.

    Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Building 19.4%, Logic 17.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, Strategy 7.3%

  32. #32 Epoch Cycle
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
    Dev: GeometricUniverse
    Windows

    Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.

    Why similar: Political Sim 34%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%

  33. #33 TerraScape
    73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,107 reviews2024
    Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 30.4%, City Builder 30.2%, Logic 17.2%, Puzzle 10.4%, Strategy 7.9%

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    74% matchVery Positive89% of 202 reviews2025
    Dev: soramame-koubouPub: KIC Games
    Windows

    A new sensation!? City-building × Roguelike game *Super Tax City*. Choose and place your favorite facilities from randomly drawn options! The combinations are endless! Create a profitable city that's uniquely yours!

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 38.1%, City Builder 35.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Top-Down 5%, Casual 4.3%

  35. #35 Vox Populi: Brazil 2022
    75% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2024
    Dev: Velsin
    Windows

    Play as an existing or fully customized political figure, and campaign for many alternative Brazilian elections! In "Vox Populi: Brazil 2022", you and the characters around you must promote your ideas and your popularity throughout the country to claim victory!

    Why similar: Politics 30.2%, Political Sim 26.9%, Deckbuilding 13.8%, Card Game 11.8%, Management 7.8%

  36. #36 Citystate
    77% matchMostly Positive75% of 806 reviews2018
    Dev: Andy Sztark
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

    Why similar: Politics 27.3%, Political Sim 23.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Building 8.2%, Management 6.8%

  37. #37 Vox Populi: Poland 2023
    74% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2023
    Dev: Velsin
    Windows

    Play as an existing or fully customisable political figure, and campaign for or many alternative Polish elections!! In "Vox Populi: Poland 2023", you and the characters around you must promote your ideas and your popularity throughout the country to claim victory!

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  38. #38 Synergy
    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
    Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    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: Diplomacy 37.2%, City Builder 26.8%, Building 14.7%, Management 13%, Strategy 6.4%

  39. #39 Vertical Kingdom
    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2024
    Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
    Windows

    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!

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  40. #40 Microtopia
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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  41. #41 Paper Kingdom
    71% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
    Dev: obece
    Windows

    Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Card Game 19.7%, Deckbuilding 17.3%, Management 13.7%, Building 13%

  42. #42 Aquatico
    73% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
    Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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.

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  43. #43 Townopolis
    76% matchMixed67% of 139 reviews2016
    Dev: Lonely Troops
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic neighborhood with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Building 20.2%, Management 18.7%, Casual 13.5%, Strategy 9.4%

  44. #44 Megapolis
    75% matchMostly Positive75% of 162 reviews2016
    Dev: Lonely Troops
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

    Why similar: City Builder 33%, Building 17.6%, Futuristic 13.9%, Management 12.5%, Casual 11.2%

  45. #45 Factory Planner
    69% matchMostly Positive74% of 319 reviews2026
    Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
    Windows

    Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.

    Why similar: Card Game 44.2%, Management 33%, Strategy 15%, Casual 6.7%, Singleplayer 1%

  46. #46 Oxygen
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 43.4%, Building 21.5%, Management 15.3%, Strategy 11.6%, 3D 6.9%

  47. #47 Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
    68% matchVery Positive97% of 73 reviews2025
    Dev: GortagonGame
    Windows

    Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!

    Why similar: Diplomacy 39.4%, Dystopian 23%, Card Game 18.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Strategy 6.8%

  48. #48 Simmiland
    72% matchVery Positive87% of 1,913 reviews2018
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

    Why similar: God Game 62.2%, Card Game 23.6%, Puzzle 5.5%, Strategy 5%, Casual 3%

  49. #49 The Spire of Mech Zero
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 146 reviews2024
    Dev: Shane Game
    Windows

    A lite roguelike card deck building game inspired by Slay the Spire. You can experience battles of robots with cards and components! Try to conquer the spire with one perfect run, every choice matters!

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 39.7%, Card Game 27.9%, Cyberpunk 15.2%, Strategy 11.8%, 3D 4.2%

  50. #50 Airborne Kingdom
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
    Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 51.9%, Building 27.4%, Strategy 9.4%, 3D 6.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%

  51. #51 Escape Gaia
    70% matchMostly Positive72% of 53 reviews2024
    Dev: Current Games
    Windows

    you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft, summon a wide range of monsters, and ultimately, devour other shattered wills to repair yourself.

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.9%, Card Game 20.3%, City Builder 19.6%, Futuristic 13.2%, Building 9.7%

  52. #52 Tile Cities 2
    67% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2024
    Dev: yevhen8
    Windows

    City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level

    Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 14.6%, Building 12.1%, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 10.3%

  53. #53 Entertainment Simulator
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 164 reviews2026
    Dev: Grizzbera StudioPub: INDIECN
    Windows

    "Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Card Game 17.9%, Building 16.3%, Management 15.7%, Deckbuilding 14.4%

  54. #54 Nova Roma
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
    Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac

    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: Diplomacy 34.3%, City Builder 26.7%, Building 15.5%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.3%

  55. #55 Industries of Titan
    69% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
    Dev: Brace Yourself Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

    Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Cyberpunk 24.6%, Building 17.3%, Futuristic 13.8%, Strategy 8.5%

  56. #56 Cartridge Defense
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 100 reviews2022
    Dev: Out Gaming
    Windows

    Cartridge Defense is a tower defense game with over 300 distinct collectible cards that you will use to create your own decks to defend against robots in the cyberpunk inspired future. Play cards (cartridges) to spawn towers, upgrades, special abilities and more in a campaign or rogue-like mode.

    Why similar: Deckbuilding 22%, Card Game 17.9%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Dystopian 15.6%, Futuristic 11.6%

  57. #57 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 763 reviews2022
    Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

    Why similar: God Game 38%, City Builder 34.9%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Deckbuilding 6.8%

  58. #58 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
    Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!

    Why similar: Political Sim 32.7%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 15%, Management 13.4%, Puzzle 6.5%

  59. #59 Goblins of Elderstone
    67% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
    Dev: Outerdawn
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

    Why similar: Diplomacy 27%, God Game 22%, City Builder 19.2%, Building 11.9%, Management 10.5%

  60. #60 Skyline Urban Story
    64% matchVery Positive89% of 101 reviews2025
    Dev: PandaUpStudio
    Windows · Mac

    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 57.7%, Building 32.7%, Casual 7%, Strategy 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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