- #1 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
96% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
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: City Builder 51.8%, RTS 31.4%, Strategy 16.8%
- #2 PyramidValley: Reborn
96% matchVery Positive88% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 64.1%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 7.8%
- #3 Realm Grinder
95% matchVery Positive87% of 7,357 reviews2017
Dev: Divine GamesPub: Kongregate
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 131.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Why similar: City Builder 45.3%, Clicker 31.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Casual 2.7%
- #4 Empire City Simulator
94% matchMixed61% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Red Brix Wall
Windows
Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!
Why similar: City Builder 70.4%, Strategy 25.3%, Casual 4.3%
- #5 CivIdle
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: City Builder 76.4%, Strategy 23.6%
- #6 Battle Nations
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,810 reviews2014
Dev: Madrona Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Battle Nations is back! Build your empire and lead your armies to victory! Choose from traditional troops and vehicles or unleash exotic forces like mammoths, velociraptors, sandworms, and futuristic plasma units!
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, RTS 27.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Casual 3.5%
- #7 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
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: City Builder 52.9%, RTS 30.4%, Strategy 16.7%
- #8 Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
91% matchMixed67% of 701 reviews2017
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!
Why similar: Clicker 40.1%, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 21.5%, Casual 7.8%
- #9 Idle Civilization
90% matchMixed51% of 178 reviews2015
Dev: Very Simple Idea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 62.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Clicker 49.3%
- #10 Empires:The Rise
89% matchMixed61% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: 阿龟与阿飞Pub: MZ Times
Windows
《Empries:The Rise》 is the a Cross-Platform Real-Time-Strategy (R.T.S.) game. Choose your nation and conquer those, who stand in your way!
Why similar: RTS 52.4%, Strategy 47.6%
- #11 TFC: The Fertile Crescent
86% matchVery Positive89% of 361 reviews2024
Dev: Wield InteractivePub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, RTS 26.8%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Strategy 14.1%
- #12 The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 730 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build vibrant cities in a medieval world with this modernized version of The Settlers – Rise of an Empire. Each character leads their individual lives and can be observed by you at any time. Will you go down in history as a legendary king?
Why similar: City Builder 48.5%, Strategy 27.3%, RTS 15.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%
- #13 Forebearers
88% matchMixed48% of 109 reviews2019
Dev: Sandspire Interactive
Windows
This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 75%, Strategy 25%
- #14 Microcivilization
84% matchVery Positive80% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: City Builder 53.8%, Clicker 27.3%, Strategy 18.9%
- #15 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
85% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado 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. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: City Builder 52%, RTS 31.2%, Strategy 16.8%
- #16 World Of Conquerors
86% matchMixed61% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Build your cities, manage resources, train soldiers and fight for supremacy in a vast world with other player controlled empires
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #17 Idle Commonwealth
83% matchMixed66% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Qbusik Games
Windows
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
Why similar: City Builder 51.5%, Clicker 23.9%, Strategy 17.6%, Casual 7%
- #18 Stonies
84% matchMixed53% of 442 reviews2018
Dev: upjers
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Stonies – Secure the survival of your kin! Play the gripping mix of life simulation and tycoon game now and accompany your Stonies through their prehistoric life. Prove your skill as a Stone Age leader in Stonies.
Why similar: City Builder 49.2%, Clicker 16.7%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Casual 5.9%
- #19 March of Empires
82% matchMixed63% of 1,811 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Claim your title as Shogun, Highland King, Northern Tsar or Desert Sultan and join this genre-redefining strategy game where you will wage constant war for real territorial conquest! Fortify your castle, fuel a massive army, and enter the ultimate fight for realm domination!
Why similar: City Builder 47.9%, RTS 32.7%, Strategy 19.4%
- #20 Medieval Businessman
79% matchVery Positive98% of 128 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Welcome to the Empty Patch of Land. Can you create your own beautiful kingdom here? In this strategy in real time you can build farms, taverns, barracks, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 73.1%, Strategy 20.6%, Casual 6.3%
- #21 Prosperity
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 101 reviews2018
Dev: Persera Software Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?
Why similar: City Builder 47.2%, Strategy 40.4%, Casual 12.5%
- #22 Empires and Tribes
79% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: City Builder 57.3%, RTS 29%, Strategy 13.7%
- #23 Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
77% matchVery Positive85% of 52,705 reviews2020
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 43.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. *Note: To unlock all features of the game please see the “Base Game” product.
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, RTS 31.2%, Strategy 21.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%
- #24 From Village to Empire
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: Strategy 70.6%, Multiplayer 29.4%
- #25 Venture Valley
78% matchMixed56% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: The Singleton FoundationPub: Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Windows · Mac
Be Your Own Boss!
Why similar: City Builder 44.6%, RTS 20.9%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Casual 5.4%
- #26 Dawn of Man
76% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 74.3%, Strategy 15.2%, RTS 8.3%, Multiplayer 2.2%
- #27 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
75% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: City Builder 52%, RTS 31.7%, Strategy 16.4%
- #28 Territory Idle
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,694 reviews2019
Dev: Aleksandr Golovkin
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 173.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Strategic idle game. Develop the kingdom, then abdicate and get gold! For gold, you can buy new tiles and expand the territory.
Why similar: Clicker 54.4%, Strategy 45.6%
- #29 EDYN
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: GALESTORM GAMES
Windows · Mac
Join the battle for EDYN, the ultimate multiplayer strategy game. Build settlements, command armies, and unify the realms in epic PvP warfare to etch your legacy into history. Raid, loot, make alliances, and unite to conquer the planet itself, with no Pay-To-Win mechanics to upset the playing field.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #30 Kingdom Wars
75% matchMixed67% of 2,794 reviews2013
Dev: Reverie World Studios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
Why similar: RTS 37.6%, Strategy 31%, City Builder 21.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #31 Celestial Empire
71% matchVery Positive89% of 615 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 49.7%, RTS 33.4%, Strategy 16.9%
- #32 Celestial Empire: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 54.9%, RTS 22.7%, Strategy 22.4%
- #33 Aztecs: The Last Sun
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: City Builder 54.7%, RTS 28.6%, Strategy 16.7%
- #34 Empires Apart
74% matchMixed68% of 2,472 reviews2018
Dev: DESTINYbitPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
An exciting free-to-play Real Time Strategy game set in medieval times. Uniquely designed factions, customization options, singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay. Gather resources, raise an army and lead your civilization to victory in a classic RTS, brought to the modern age.
Why similar: RTS 51.1%, Strategy 30.9%, Multiplayer 18%
- #35 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
70% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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: City Builder 49.6%, RTS 29.8%, Strategy 20.6%
- #36 Castle Empire
73% matchMixed57% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: RTS 63.9%, Strategy 36.1%
- #37 City idle
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 214 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #38 Andalia
73% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: Joel St.Pub: Sundust
Windows
Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.
Why similar: RTS 52.1%, Multiplayer 25.8%, Strategy 22.1%
- #39 Circle Empires
71% matchVery Positive90% of 4,100 reviews2018
Dev: LuminousPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.
Why similar: RTS 44.7%, Strategy 36.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Casual 9.3%
- #40 World Of Conquerors - Origins
73% matchMixed66% of 91 reviews2020
Dev: HuntahPub: Darkness Development
Windows
Grow your empire and dominate the world in this 100% free game, either through diplomacy or destruction. Forge alliances or go it alone, play as loyal men, elegant elves or brutish orcs.
Why similar: Strategy 53.6%, City Builder 46.4%
- #41 Ancient Cities
70% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 74.6%, Strategy 25.4%
- #42 Revival and Exploration
70% matchMixed61% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: CMS GearPub: HONGKONG DELAN CO., LIMITED
Windows
Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.
Why similar: City Builder 68.6%, Strategy 22.9%, Casual 8.5%
- #43 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,626 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 61.3%, Strategy 21.4%, Multiplayer 17.4%
- #44 IDLE BOSS RUSH
67% matchMixed67% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Irid Games
Windows
Median: 20.9 hrsMean: 37.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
Why similar: City Builder 43.8%, Clicker 29.4%, Strategy 20.7%, Casual 6.2%
- #45 Paragon Pioneers
68% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: City Builder 100%
- #46 Defense of the Oasis
69% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Mind Control Software
Windows
One part Minesweeper, one part Civilization. With every click of the mouse your empire grows stronger. But will it be strong enough to withstand the barbarian hordes?
Why similar: Strategy 75%, Casual 25%
- #47 Tapple - Idle Clicker
67% matchMixed69% of 735 reviews2024
Dev: Zeeno
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Tapple, the idle clicker game where every tap brings you closer to an ever-growing collection of Tapples. Build your empire one tap at a time, discover unique Tapple drops, and AFK all you want!
Why similar: Clicker 51.8%, Strategy 34.6%, Casual 13.5%
- #48 Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.
Why similar: City Builder 62.6%, Clicker 21.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Casual 1.9%
- #49 Primitive Society Simulator
65% matchVery Positive83% of 687 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: City Builder 80.7%, Strategy 19.3%
- #50 The Battle of Polytopia
65% matchVery Positive94% of 5,740 reviews2020
Dev: Midjiwan AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Multiplayer 49.9%
- #51 Sim Empire
69% matchMixed44% of 219 reviews2019
Dev: TKG Inc.
Windows · Mac
Includes elements of city-building, simulation, and war strategy. Four civilizations to choose from: Persia, Egypt, Greece, and China.
Why similar: Strategy 76.4%, Casual 23.6%
- #52 Empires of the Undergrowth
61% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 74.6%, Strategy 25.4%
- #53 Idle Sand Castle
68% matchMostly Negative40% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: Oleh Baziv
Windows
Build the castle of your dreams
Why similar: Clicker 78.7%, Casual 21.3%