Games Like The Wandering Village

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: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Automation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly regarded colony-sim that emphasizes water management and survival against environmental shifts.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 10.9%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces players to adapt to harsh, ever-changing environmental conditions.

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 36.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar core mechanic of building and managing a city that travels across the world on a massive flying structure.

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 31.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where you must protect your settlers from radiation and environmental disasters.

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 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Resource Management 14.2%, Survival 10.7%, Colony Sim 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes survival and societal management in a freezing, post-apocalyptic landscape.

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 26.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival 7.9%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with exploration and survival in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic setting.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Nature 23.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Relaxing 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the nature-reclamation theme, focusing on restoring ecosystems rather than just exploitation.

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: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 11.7%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim that offers deep management, survival, and emergent storytelling in a hostile world.

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: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 15.1%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Automation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder set on the ocean where you must scavenge resources to keep your town afloat.

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 27.4%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that requires managing a moving station while keeping your population alive.

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 25.6%, Colony Sim 22.9%, RTS 12.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers detailed survival mechanics and complex resource management in a challenging medieval setting.

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 21.9%, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 11.6%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that features vertical building and survival against external threats in a post-plague world.

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Management 11.9%, Survival 7.7%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes trade, population management, and disaster mitigation.

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 38.2%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city growth and complex villager needs rather than rigid grid-based building.

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 35.3%, City Builder 34.5%, Survival 7.2%, Simulation 5.6%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and preparing for harsh winters.

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 25%, City Builder 19.4%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that blends city-building with economic management and survival challenges.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 22%, Survival 15.7%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D survival colony-sim that tasks you with managing a small group of survivors on an unforgiving alien planet.

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: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Resource Management 7.2%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the post-apocalyptic survival formula with improved colony management and exploration mechanics.

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: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A more relaxing city-builder that still incorporates colony management and resource balancing.

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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.1%, RTS 9.5%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that requires defending your settlement from external threats like dragons and vikings.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Management 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing small, resource-constrained settlements on cliff tops, requiring efficient space usage.

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes industrial development and societal management.

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 19.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Farming Sim 10.4%, RTS 9.7%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A nature-focused colony-sim where the ecosystem and animal life play a vital role in your settlement's success.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent, hex-based city-builder that focuses on rebuilding civilization across multiple planets.

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game set in a flooded world where you must manage resources and conflicting ideologies.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 22.1%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city-builder that tasks you with building a sustainable society in a harsh, alien environment.

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 30.1%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that incorporates a social research tree and complex resource management.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Life Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 4.5%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that tracks the evolution of a prehistoric settlement through the ages.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 9.9%, Management 9.9%

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 43.3%, Resource Management 20.2%, Sandbox 15%, Relaxing 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you manage a penguin colony while defending against seals and managing resources.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Automation 8.7%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.5%, Management 10.6%, RTS 10.6%, Resource Management 9.7%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Management 30.4%, Survival 16.9%, Simulation 6.4%, Cute 5.8%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 14%, Automation 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 7.4%, Resource Management 6.5%

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 17.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Automation 9.5%, Management 8.5%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 9.5%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, RTS 9.7%, Management 8.4%

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 39.1%, City Builder 33.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8%, Simulation 4%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 20.9%, Automation 12.3%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 7.7%

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: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 25.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 7.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 15.9%, RTS 8.8%, Colony Sim 8.5%

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 33.6%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 7.7%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 19.9%, Farming Sim 11.8%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.3%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.2%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Automation 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 8.7%

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 30.6%, City Builder 27.8%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 7.7%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 21.7%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9%

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 18.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Automation 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 22%, RTS 13.5%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, City Builder 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Resource Management 6.1%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 7.9%