Games Like The Promised Land

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.9% ★, Strategy 13.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Casual 8.3%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval city-builder that emphasizes the same steady growth and resource management loops as The Promised Land.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 66.5% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 2.4%, Management 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a charming voxel art style and a focus on managing a small group of settlers, mirroring the colony-sim feel of the seed.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Casual 5.6%, Resource Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This fairytale-inspired city builder captures the same cute, lighthearted aesthetic and accessible colony management found in the seed game.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60.4% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 3.4%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly casual and approachable take on building a thriving kingdom while managing resources and defending against minor threats.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Strategy 7%, Casual 6.2%, Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: While it adds god-game elements, it retains the core colony-simulation and expansion mechanics that make building a civilization rewarding.

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy 9%, Casual 6%, Time Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, singleplayer colony-sim that focuses on building up a settlement in a unique environment with a similar casual pace.

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: Colony Sim 63.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Management 5%, Resource Management 4.2%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on exploration and colony expansion across multiple islands, capturing the adventure-oriented nature of the seed game.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 64.4% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 3.5%, Resource Management 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi take on the colony-sim genre that keeps the focus on managing infrastructure and keeping your colonists happy.

A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Casual 6.6%, Resource Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines management and simulation in a way that feels very similar to the quest-driven progression of the seed game.

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 5.1%, Cute 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly addictive, casual city-builder that excels at the satisfying 'just one more click' progression loop.

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: Colony Sim 57.9% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Management 5%, Resource Management 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deeper look at resource management and survival while maintaining the core colony-building loop.

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Casual 9.2%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This Kairosoft title offers a cute, pixelated approach to town management that aligns perfectly with the casual simulation vibe.

It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Casual 10.3%, Simulation 5.7%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A casual simulation game that focuses on building and maintaining a resort, sharing the same cute and colorful aesthetic.

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: Colony Sim 74.7% ★, Casual 9.5%, Simulation 6.2%, Cute 5.9%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, survival-focused colony-sim that emphasizes the daily lives and needs of your settlers in a charming, atmospheric setting.

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 34.4%, Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Resource Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An organic city-builder that allows for a relaxed, grid-free approach to constructing a medieval village, perfect for fans of casual simulation.

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: Colony Sim 52% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Strategy 11%, Casual 7.9%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Another Kairosoft gem that focuses on building a thriving community with a lighthearted and accessible interface.

Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.7% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Casual 11.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends city-building with light adventure elements, making it a strong thematic match for The Promised Land.

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: Colony Sim 54.9% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 6.4%, Management 5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that emphasizes the interaction between nature and your growing settlement.

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 59.8% ★, City Builder 10.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Management 6.2%, Casual 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of logistical management to the colony-building experience, perfect for those who enjoy the strategy aspect.

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 7.2%, Time Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that focuses on puzzle-like placement and resource management in a relaxing environment.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Indie 2.2%, Atmospheric 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that strips away complex management to focus on the pure joy of building beautiful settlements.

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 61.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Casual 9.5%, Simulation 5.5%, Cute 4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the casual simulation and adventure tags, providing a similar experience of managing a small group in a new world.

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: Colony Sim 60.6% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Management 5.6%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that offers more depth in building and survival while keeping the core management loop engaging.

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 37.2%, Strategy 21%, Casual 15.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more of a puzzle game, its relaxing atmosphere and tile-based building will appeal to fans of casual city-builders.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 60% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 5.1%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder featuring beavers that focuses on water management and vertical construction.

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.1% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 5%, Cute 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style colony-sim that encourages exploration and building within a mysterious and atmospheric world.

Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!

Why similar: Colony Sim 65.6% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 0.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy colony-sim that focuses on the challenges of establishing a new settlement in a harsh environment.

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: Colony Sim 62.8% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 5%, Simulation 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows you to rule over your subjects with a personal touch, blending simulation and strategy.

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: Colony Sim 54.9% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 4.9%, Management 4.5%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 59.7% ★, City Builder 19%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 4.4%, Management 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused colony-sim that requires balancing the needs of your citizens with the demands of expansion.

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: Colony Sim 63.1% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 4.9%, Simulation 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic but accessible colony-sim that focuses on the challenges of surviving and thriving in a medieval setting.

Discover the wonders of an uncharted island and help the natives restore their ravaged land to its former glory in Moai: Build Your Dream! Overcome the fury of an active volcano, hordes of attacking ghosts and the threat of dwindling resources as you guide the hero and a native princess on their quest.

Why similar: Strategy 37%, Casual 27.9%, Simulation 13.7%, Time Management 12.2%, Adventure 5.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 65.6% ★, Casual 8.7%, City Builder 7.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 5.5%

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: Colony Sim 69.9% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Cute 4.6%, Management 3.3%

The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Why similar: Strategy 46.3%, Simulation 26.6%, Adventure 25.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%

The time has finally come when we can enjoy a new stage in human development!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, Strategy 20.2%, Casual 12.8%, Adventure 9.8%, City Builder 8.2%

Experience the wonder of discovery as you rebuild a crumbling kingdom!

Why similar: Casual 42.6%, Time Management 17.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Resource Management 13%, Adventure 6.5%

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.3% ★, Strategy 12.5%, Casual 10.3%, Management 5.5%, Resource Management 4.7%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1% ★, Strategy 16.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Casual 7.6%

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: Colony Sim 55.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 12.6%, Management 5%, Resource Management 4.5%

The power of the elements is in your hands! Use it to reclaim your kingdom!

Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, Casual 26.1%, Adventure 17.9%, Time Management 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 69.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 3.2%, Resource Management 2.9%

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: Colony Sim 62.5% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 3.5%, Resource Management 2.1%

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: Casual 25.1%, City Builder 22.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Time Management 10.7%

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: Colony Sim 68.1% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Management 5.7%, Simulation 3.5%, Resource Management 1.7%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 57% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Management 4.9%, Resource Management 4.5%

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: Colony Sim 55% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 5%, Management 4.9%

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: Colony Sim 74.7% ★, Strategy 7.7%, City Builder 6.7%, Resource Management 3.9%, Management 3.8%

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%, Casual 6.3%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 7.9%, Simulation 6.1%

Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!

Why similar: City Builder 51.9%, Strategy 30.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

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 46.2%, Strategy 18.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.4%

Farm management simulation game! Create the most awesome farm!

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.1% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Casual 8.6%, Simulation 5.5%

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: Colony Sim 61.8% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 5.1%, Simulation 4.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 65% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Casual 5.2%, Management 4.7%, Cute 3.3%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.3% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Casual 7.2%, Resource Management 6.9%, Adventure 5.1%

In a land of enchantment, torn by evil, a hero arrives to save the day! Guide Solar and his band of helpers as they set out to stop the dark sorcerer Grogan from achieving eternal life and to rescue the fair Lumina.

Why similar: Strategy 29.8%, Casual 28.7%, Adventure 17.9%, Time Management 12.3%, Resource Management 6.6%

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.8% ★, City Builder 19%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 4.7%, Simulation 4.3%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.7% ★, City Builder 17%, Strategy 10.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Management 5.1%