Games Like The Lost Village

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Martial Arts 47% ★, Colony Sim 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive Wuxia colony-sim that mirrors the cultivation and sect-building mechanics found in The Lost Village.

To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!

Why similar: Martial Arts 28.2% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines open-world exploration with colony-sim mechanics in a traditional Chinese martial arts setting.

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: Martial Arts 53.5% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, RPG 7.6%, Roguelite 7.5%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep sandbox experience centered on martial arts progression and complex world interactions.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 15.3%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Colony Sim 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique survival-management mechanic where you build a settlement on the back of a giant creature.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the resource-management and building progression of The Lost Village while focusing on medieval colony development.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 30.4%, Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 19%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony-sims, its emergent storytelling and base-management depth provide a similar sense of challenge and growth.

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that captures the aesthetic and administrative challenges of the Song Dynasty era.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 25.4%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust 3D building system and colony management experience that emphasizes survival and structural expansion.

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Building 10%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim blends building and management with character-driven needs, similar to the follower management in The Lost Village.

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Farming Sim 19.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a survival and crafting experience set in a beautiful, ancient Chinese-inspired landscape.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep city-builder that focuses on population management and resource chains in a challenging, evolving landscape.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.4%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Building 18%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes generational growth and resource management in a harsh environment.

Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.

Why similar: Martial Arts 74% ★, RPG 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 5.2%, Adventure 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox RPG captures the spirit of wandering the Jianghu and developing martial arts skills in a reactive world.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Base Building 26%, Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy colony sim that allows for deep customization and development of your settlement's inhabitants.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter simulation game that focuses on managing a town for adventurers, sharing the theme of supporting martial heroes.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval city-builder that requires careful resource management and survival planning.

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Resource Management 18.7%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation and resource-management aspects of building a thriving settlement.

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Building 11.5%, Roguelite 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges you to rebuild a community after a natural disaster.

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 33.6%, City Builder 21%, Strategy 12.7%, Resource Management 12%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic strategy game that focuses on base-building and managing the needs of your survivors.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 22.2%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy colony-sim features complex AI interactions and management, allowing you to build a kingdom from the ground up.

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused colony-sim that emphasizes expansion and management on isolated islands.

Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.

Why similar: Martial Arts 76.3% ★, RPG 10.6%, Strategy 6%, Tactical 4.8%, Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful Wuxia RPG that captures the martial arts combat and exploration spirit of the genre.

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 26.7%, Base Building 22%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-simulation game that tasks you with rebuilding a society in a hostile environment.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that emphasizes the delicate balance of resources needed to keep a small village alive.

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

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Colony Sim 8.9%

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 36.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires managing specialized colonists and exploring the surrounding wasteland.

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 35.8%, Resource Management 20.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that tests your ability to manage resources and make difficult moral decisions for your people.

JIANGHU CHRONICLES is a Wuxia-themed clan simulator, which focuses on simulating Jianghu clans and experiencing realistic battle. Set up a clan of your own, recruit disciples, complete missions... And eventually make your clan second to none by improving its power and reputation.

Why similar: Martial Arts 45.8% ★, Base Building 27.9%, Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Simulation 5.6%, Adventure 2.4%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Roguelite 14.3%, Roguelike 9.5%, Colony Sim 9%

In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Building 10.7%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Farming Sim 21.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.8%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Colony Sim 14%, Building 10.1%

Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Farming Sim 16.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.1%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 19.1%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Colony Sim 12.4%

Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 15%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Action RTS 12.6% ★, Colony Sim 10.8%

Lead a ninja clan in the war to unify feudal Japan!

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Farming Sim 20.8%, Colony Sim 16%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.4%

Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Farming Sim 15.2%, Roguelite 11.5%, Colony Sim 11.4%

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Building 16.8%, Loot 6.1%, Real Time Tactics 5.9%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Roguelike 8.7%

Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Colony Sim 9.3%, Action RTS 9% ★

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Farming Sim 16.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Colony Sim 11.9%

Lost Artifacts — Restore the ancient city and defeat the dark priest!

Why similar: Building 31.5%, Strategy 24.6%, Cartoony 23.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Adventure 8.8%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Building 11.7%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10%

Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.

Why similar: City Builder 46.6%, Building 21.4%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 9%, Fantasy 7.8%

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 30.8%, Base Building 24.2%, Resource Management 16%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 7%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 17.2%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Colony Sim 11.2%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 20%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Building 9.9%

Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 45.5%, Strategy 32.1%, RPG 22.4%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.2%, Farming Sim 11.1%

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!

Why similar: Martial Arts 44.8% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 6.4%

《龙胤立志传》是一款融合门派经营的开放江湖武侠游戏。在各大门派割据一方的神州之上，你可以自由驰骋，历经奇遇，修炼神功，踏上行侠仗义或行凶作恶之路，也可以经营自己的门派，攻城略地，称霸一方，最终谱写一段独一无二的武林传奇。

Why similar: Martial Arts 59.8% ★, Simulation 10.5%, RPG 8.7%, Loot 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 15%, Colony Sim 15%, Building 10%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 8.5%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Why similar: Base Building 29.8%, Building 15.2%, Roguelite 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Roguelike 10%

In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 24.2%, Resource Management 20.9%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 9.7%