60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Singleplayer, Colony Sim, Building.
Survive the horrors of the unknown as you expand your lands to keep from being dragged into the darkness; and devoured by that which lurks inside. Every time you make an action, the world around moves forward too. So be strategic in your choices, and be sure they are worth it.
Villagedom
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Runeomicon
Perform a dark ritual with your own hands under relentless pressure. Draw runes in real time, defend the ritual from enemies trying to stop it, and upgrade your skills to unleash devastating magic. Summon ancient eldritch gods in this dark fantasy game driven by skill, strategy and constant tension.
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Tower Defense 18%, Side Scroller 16.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 6%
Perform a dark ritual with your own hands under relentless pressure. Draw runes in real time, defend the ritual from enemies trying to stop it, and upgrade your skills to unleash devastating magic. Summon ancient eldritch gods in this dark fantasy game driven by skill, strategy and constant tension.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.4%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Demons 12.5%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Tower Defense 17.9%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.2%
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Tower Defense 17.6%, Side Scroller 12%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 8.3%
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Building 10.1%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Management 7.9%
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Lovecraftian 20.5%, Building 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Roguelike 9.1%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Lovecraftian 22.4%, Demons 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
Build a mobile fortress on the back of a giant and mysterious walking Tree and embark on a journey in this merge of tower defense and colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Tower Defense 18.5%, Time Management 14.9%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.7%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Tower Defense 18.7%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.8%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Tower Defense 19.1%, Time Management 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Strategy 7.1%
Dice-Building Roguelike with turn-based combat and customize-able dice.
Why similar: Card Game 20.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Roguelike 13.1%, Demons 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%
A thought-provoking exploration survival game. You must endure a frozen wilderness threatened by both brutal natural forces and demonic creatures. Starting with nothing, you will fight the cold, manage resources, maintain body temperature, and gradually take in survivors to build a home together.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Side Scroller 12.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 8.7%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Tower Defense 21.1%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Roguelike 11.1%, Strategy 7.5%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Tower Defense 18.9%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Roguelike 10.5%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Tower Defense 24.3%, Side Scroller 12.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 3.8%
Fatebound is a turn-based kingdom builder where your choices shape the realm’s destiny. Manage resources, build your kingdom, and adapt to dynamic events and seasons that alter the game's flow. Will your empire rise to greatness, or fall to the whims of fate?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Management 10.5%, Crafting 8.3%
Summon and combine demons to battle against zombie hordes in Eye of Syn, a lane based tower defense game where you must protect two dimensions at once. Uncover dark secrets and powerful demon synergies as you try to save Earth from an eldritch apocalypse.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, Lovecraftian 19.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Demons 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
A simulator where you catch wild gnomes and turn them into slaves to build a grand statue.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 8.1%
Practice rune drawing outside the ritual. Runeomicon: Training Room lets you train across multiple difficulty levels and sharpen your skills without the threat of failure. Learn the patterns, build muscle memory, and prepare yourself for the relentless pressure of the full ritual in Runeomicon.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Side Scroller 20.8%, Lovecraftian 17.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%
Tower Command is a roguelike tower defense with high level of strategy and tactics. Build towers to maximize bonuses and synergies to stop the endless horde of demons, beasts and undead. Unlock new commanders, towers, traits and maps. Employ endless strategies to reach as far as you can.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Roguelike 17.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 7.4%
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: Colony Sim 24% ★, Card Game 16.2%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%, Roguelike 8.2%
Every building you construct adds cards to your deck — a turn-based card strategy game that fuses deck-building, base-building, and tower defense. Choose your supporter, forge a fortress in the wilderness, and stand against the onslaught.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, Card Game 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.9%
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Side Scroller 14.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Management 8.7%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Tower Defense 21.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Management 7.9%
A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.
Why similar: Card Game 24.6%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Strategy 14%, Building 9.2%
Survive Tortuga City as a wanted turtle. Defend yourself against the police, build a rebellion, endure dynamic weather, and find an escape route within 50 days before the police deploy their secret weapon.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Time Management 19.8%, Side Scroller 16.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Tower Defense 20.6%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
This is a strategy tower defense game where players need to choose the appropriate defense towers based on different maps and enemies. The game also offers a variety of defense towers, maps, and an endless mode waiting to be unlocked by the players!
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.4%, Card Game 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Building 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Tower Defense 19.7%, Building 9.6%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 22.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 9.5%, Building 9%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1% ★, Tower Defense 22.8%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Crafting 10%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Tower Defense 14.8%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 10.4%
"Island Deck" is a turn-based strategy game combined with island construction. Build your island with the cards in your hand, gather resources, and complete various tasks assigned by the king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Card Game 24.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 11.6%
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Time Management 17.8%, Building 11%, Crafting 8.2%, Simulation 8%
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Tower Defense 17.8%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.2%
A tower-defense game where you combine spells to modify the effects of your projectiles. A tower is defined by how you choose to apply modifications to it - create a shotgun wizard by combining multi-casts, create a swarm of black-holes, and absolutely break the game with your insane combinations!
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.2%, Card Game 18.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Roguelike 11.1%, Management 9.4%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8% ★, Strategy 13%, Simulation 12.6%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.9%
New no-announcement yet game is going to be here.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Roguelike 14.4%, Demons 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Tower Defense 21.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Tower Defense 19.6%, Side Scroller 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Management 8.5%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative roguelite where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Card Game 23.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Dark 7%
You wake inside a dead god. Darkness. Decay. No way out. Build your colony among rotting organs and forgotten chambers. Ancient parasites stir. Your species must adapt or join the rot. No two playthroughs tell the same story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Lovecraftian 22.4%, Roguelike 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Management 8.3%
Explore the wild depths of "Untraveled Lands: Chantico" a card-based survival management game mixed with roguelike elements. Build a village, manage survivors, craft essential items and equipment. Unravel jungle mysteries to find your way through a world lost in time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Card Game 18.2%, Time Management 16.3%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.2%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Tower Defense 26%, Building 17%, Strategy 10.1%, Fantasy 6.8%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Tower Defense 28.3%, Building 16.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Atmospheric 3.8%
Grow your community of froglings by gathering resources, upgrading buildings and building cute homes to live in! As night falls, protect the colony from raiding robots using the hero and towers ready to defend your new home. Build, protect and prosper in this small defense colony building game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Tower Defense 22.3%, Time Management 19.1%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.1%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Tower Defense 22.2%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 9%, Roguelike 7.2%
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Tower Defense 17.9%, Building 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Management 9.1%
Mawang: Dark Lord Defense is a real-time tactical tower defense game. As Princess Lua, defend the demon realm against the hero alliance. Build unique towers, manage unit morale, and use tactical pauses to repel invasions. Your strategy decides the demon realm's fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Tower Defense 19.7%, Time Management 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Dark 7.2%
Build your infernal domain by strategically placing hell structures from cards. Master synergistic placement to earn Souls, unlock new buildings, and complete the Dark Lord's vision. When resources run low, Transmute Hell for powerful relics and begin anew in this roguelike city builder.
Why similar: Card Game 22.9%, Roguelike 14%, Lovecraftian 13%, Demons 10.6%, Strategy 10.3%
Zaraq is a roguelike deckbuilder where you have access to a forbidden arcade from the 80's. Craft the best deck of symbols, artifact and spells to score the maximum amount of points to beat Zaraq.
Why similar: Card Game 22.6%, Demons 14.6%, Roguelike 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Strategy 8.5%
NO OTHER ALCHEMISTS HERE is a sandbox simulation merging roguelite about a world within a desktop computer. Combine elements, manage resources, and defend your digital paradise by using the power of alchemy.
Why similar: Time Management 26.3%, Crafting 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Management 12.4%, Roguelike 12.2%
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Tower Defense 16.7%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.4%
Rise of the Insurged is a dark fantasy strategy/management game where you lead a company of adventurers. Recruit, train, and send your mercenaries on choice-driven missions, fight in the arena, and master craftable elemental magic to overthrow the Queen.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, Time Management 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, Building 15.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 6.5%
Manage a hotel straddling the border between worlds. Use deduction to identify Eldritch guests, solve abstract puzzles, and manage staff to survive the weekly Chaos invasion. A dark humor management sim where you must keep the hotel running... and your sanity intact.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.3%, Time Management 26.9%, Dark Fantasy 16%, Simulation 8.5%, Roguelike 8.4%
Dungeon Keeper-like with electropunk elements. Dig out space for buildings to attract AI-controlled creatures and watch them do your bidding. Cast spells from the god-hand above, and protect your heart while sending minions to defeat theirs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Tower Defense 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Management 10%
Build your own deck with unique cards and explore mysterious maps. Why did they go on an adventure? And what will happen at the end of overcoming many crises...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.4%, Card Game 23.7%, Roguelike 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 16%, Strategy 7.7%
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Building 13.9%, Management 10.7%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Crafting 7.4%
