- #1 Surviving the Abyss
97% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Alternate History 12.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
- #2 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
96% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13%, Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #3 Make Your Kingdom
96% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #4 Aquis
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 16%, Economy 13.9%, Building 11.8%, RTS 10.5%
- #5 Bleak Frontier
94% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Paladite Games, LLC
Windows
Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, RTS 10.9%, Building 10%
- #6 Endzone - A World Apart
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 6.1%
- #7 The Last Haven
93% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 10.3%, RTS 8.5%
- #8 KurOba
92% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: BerkSavi
Windows
KurOba, Selçuklu'dan Osmanlı'ya uzanan bir strateji oyunu. Medeniyetleri yönet, kaynakları kullan, tarihî olayları deneyimle ve savaş. Geleceğe yönlendir, kaynakları sürdürülebilir kullan. Tarihi bir yolculuk!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Alternate History 20.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 11.6%, Building 8.7%
- #9 Post Apo Tycoon: Idle Builder
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PowerPlay Studio
Windows
Enter the world of Post Apo Tycoon, where you will revive a post-apocalyptic fallout landscape after a nuclear explosion. 💣 Take on the challenge of exploring, building, and transforming the landscape back into a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 10.1%, RTS 6.5%
- #10 Frostpunk: 1886
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.1%
- #11 Oxygen: First Breath
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Economy 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Building 9.5%
- #12 Aztecs: The Last Sun
89% 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 18.9%, Alternate History 12%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, RTS 9.6%
- #13 HolyZone
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Economy 13%, Survival 10.7%, Management 8.1%
- #14 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Fuel Games
Windows
Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Alternate History 16.7%, Survival 9.9%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.2%
- #15 Ignis Corruption
87% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Anderson Marques
Windows
In this Procedural City-Building and Survival game, you must manage your resources, expand your village, assemble an army and destroy the source of evil, which changed the entire eco system of a land that was once prosperous and peaceful.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, RTS 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.4%
- #16 BAIA
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 萌新所长
Windows
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 8.6%
- #17 Surviving the Aftermath
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #18 IXION
85% 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 27.5%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9%, Economy 7.9%
- #19 Tokeis
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Economy 15.1%, Survival 11%, RTS 10.8%, Building 10%
- #20 Chinese Empire
84% matchMostly Negative39% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Yeyuna
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Economy 15.5%, RTS 14.7%, Building 14.1%, Management 11.1%
- #21 Drownlight
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #22 Oxygen
82% 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 23.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 11.2%, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.7%
- #23 The First Explorers®
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
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: City Builder 23.3%, Economy 15.3%, RTS 14.8%, Alternate History 12.5%, Building 10.8%
- #24 Virum:Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A city-building strategy game with colony survival elements. After an alien invasion drained Earth’s resources, rogue machines roam the ruins. Gather resources, lead your colonists, rebuild from scratch, and fight for survival. Survive. Rebuild. Resist.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Top-Down 7%, Economy 6.2%
- #25 Foundation
79% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Economy 10.4%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.7%, Base Building 7.5%
- #26 Epic Palace : Knossos
81% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Milkroom Studios GmbH
Windows
Immerse yourself in the epic world of the Bronze Age! Rule over the first European civilization and build the famous Palace of Knossos. Be smart in diplomacy and trade, use your gained reputation and equip your throne room with unique frescoes from all over the world.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, RTS 16.8%, Building 14.4%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 8%
- #27 Frostpunk
80% 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 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 13.9%, Building 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%
- #28 Beacon of Havoc
79% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Building 14%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #29 Endzone 2
77% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 11.2%
- #30 Isla Paradiso
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
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: City Builder 29.7%, Economy 15.3%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.4%
- #31 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Alternate History 15.7%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.4%
- #32 Vedelem: The Golden Horde
77% matchVery Positive89% of 788 reviews2021
Dev: Castle RoachesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Alternate History 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, RTS 13%, Survival 9.7%
- #33 The Archaeologists
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Economy 15.8%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8%
- #34 One More Island
76% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.9%, Survival 11.3%
- #35 New Cycle
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.8%
- #36 Real Communism
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marlowe Development
Windows
Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Alternate History 15.8%, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Survival 11.3%
- #37 Folklands
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
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: City Builder 24.9%, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 13%, RTS 12.3%, Building 12%
- #38 Architect of the Union
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: No more Sleep
Windows · Linux
A tower defense RTS where you are in the middle of the army instead of just overlooking it. Based in an apocalyptic Soviet Union.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Alternate History 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, RTS 14%, Base Building 10%
- #39 Chinese Empire: Prologue
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Economy 15.5%, Building 14.1%, RTS 11.2%, Strategy 8.3%
- #40 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.7%, Building 10.6%, Economy 9.6%
- #41 Frostpunk 2
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 17%, Strategy 7%, Base Building 6.4%
- #42 Arcane Shores
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
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: City Builder 31.1%, Economy 14.8%, Survival 13%, Building 12%, Base Building 8.6%
- #43 Recovery Syndicate
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
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: City Builder 21.4%, RTS 14.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Economy 10%
- #44 Roadworks 2
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Taxsoft
Windows
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Economy 19.6%, Building 18.6%, RTS 15%, Strategy 8.2%
- #45 Dark Moon
71% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Base Building 16%, Economy 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, RTS 12.5%, Management 11.1%
- #46 Last Fuse
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
A tower defense with a twist - you’re defending a nuclear bomb. It powers your defenses, but the more you use it, the closer you get to meltdown. Manage chaotic engineers, scarce resources and risky upgrades - every decision counts.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.1%, RTS 13.3%, Survival 10.4%, Economy 10.2%
- #47 Tides of Tethys
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Rust LLC
Windows
Explore the uncharted depths of Tethys, and scavenge resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. Lead expeditions of Knights through the dark and the unknown, and help them rebuild their long lost Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Survival 11.6%, Management 11%
- #48 Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
70% matchVery Positive87% of 373 reviews2020
Dev: A2 SoftworksPub: Manager Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 15%, Economy 12.5%, Building 9.8%
- #49 Cartel Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, RTS 14.4%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.4%
- #50 Rebirth evolution
69% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12%, RTS 11.6%
- #51 Rise Against the Invaders
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
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: City Builder 32.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 11%
- #52 Crowded Blue Dot
70% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #53 Civitatem
69% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Economy 8.4%
- #54 Farthest Frontier
65% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Alternate History 12.8%, Building 12.2%, Economy 10.6%, RTS 10.4%
- #55 Island of Embers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 15.1%, Survival 12.9%, Management 11.9%
- #56 Kingdoms Reborn
67% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.2%, RTS 8%
- #57 The Trial of Progress
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evg32
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced city-building experience inspired by the concept of civilization. As you advance your technologies and attract some of the greatest historical figures, you will face the trial of progress and strive to create a lasting legacy.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Alternate History 27.2%, RTS 19.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 7.5%
- #58 Fallout Shelter
68% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Survival 19.5%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #59 Trailer Park Life
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northern Dev Studio
Windows
Build and manage your own trailer park to either become a peaceful haven or a pit of unruly partiers. Expand on services and amenities to keep tenants happy. Manage staff to keep your park safe and clean or let chaos run amuck and risk it all for higher gains.
Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Building 15%, Management 13.7%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 11.7%
- #60 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
68% 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 30.9%, Economy 19.4%, Management 14.1%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.9%