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The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Historical 13.1%, Trading 11.5%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This classic-style historical city-builder captures the same focus on urban planning and resource management within an ancient civilization.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Historical 16.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines detailed medieval city-building with political and tactical elements that mirror the strategic depth of the seed game.

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Trading 13.8%, Historical 12.6%, Economy 10.9%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar isometric perspective and historical city-building experience centered on managing complex production chains.

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 21.9%, Historical 14.4%, Agriculture 12.3% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This historical city-builder focuses on realistic economic simulation and detailed building mechanics in a rural 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 41%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.9%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features organic city growth and a focus on medieval social management that aligns well with the building philosophy of the seed game.

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 54.4%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Economy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational survival city-builder, it shares the core challenge of managing limited resources to keep a growing population alive.

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 31.5%, Building 14.1%, Agriculture 12.3% ★, Management 10.3%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a familiar loop of managing resources and population growth while dealing with unpredictable environmental crises.

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 19.3%, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Historical 13%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep survival-focused city-building experience that requires careful planning to navigate environmental and social challenges.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Economy 14.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides the gold standard for complex production chains and economic management within a historical setting.

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: City Builder 20.4%, Historical 16.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces high-stakes decision-making and intense resource management that will appeal to fans of the seed game's crisis-management aspects.

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Historical 13.2%, Agriculture 11% ★, Base Building 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This historical city-builder captures the essence of developing a civilization from scratch with a focus on agriculture and trade.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Historical 19.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Economy 9.5%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes historical accuracy and survival mechanics, making it a strong match for players who enjoy the developmental arc of the seed game.

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 38.1%, Resource Management 17.9%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: The heavy emphasis on political choices and societal survival provides a more intense, high-pressure version of the management found in the seed game.

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 34.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on the survival and growth of a small settlement, much like the early stages of the seed game.

This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.

Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Base Building 17%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on historical management and strategy within a similar cultural context.

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 21.7%, Historical 17.4%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends colony management with vertical building, offering a similar sense of progression and architectural development.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 15.8%, Economy 15.1%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for massive-scale city management and complex societal simulation that rewards strategic planning.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Economy 16.1%, Management 12%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on political management and city-building provides a lighthearted but deep approach to governing a growing society.

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 30.3%, Economy 15.8%, Management 13.4%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on city-building where the buildings themselves have needs, adding a layer of management strategy.

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 26.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This casual city-builder offers a more accessible approach to managing a medieval kingdom while defending against external threats.

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: Agriculture 56.4% ★, Building 25.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This historical colony simulator focuses on family and resource management, mirroring the personal scale of city development.

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Historical 15.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the evolution of a city through history, focusing on political and architectural growth over time.

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 44.9%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: This Victorian-era city-builder shares the classic mechanics and aesthetic charm of historical management games.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Historical 16.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 10.6%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most complex resource management and economic simulation available for those who want to dive deep into logistics.

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 36.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: While stylized, its unique water-management and resource-chain mechanics provide a satisfying puzzle for city-building fans.

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: City Builder 31%, Historical 12%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with social and political management, requiring players to balance the needs of their citizens carefully.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Economy 13.7%, Trading 12.1%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the production and trade aspects of city-building, perfect for those who enjoy the economic side of the seed game.

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 44.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on resource management and survival in a harsh environment, testing your ability to sustain a city under pressure.

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Historical 17%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%

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 32.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game applies city-building and management mechanics to a space-faring context, focusing on survival and political leadership.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Agriculture 19.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Historical 13.3%, Trading 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%

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: City Builder 22.9%, Historical 16.4%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.3%

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 26.6%, Historical 15.1%, Management 12.9%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%

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 53.1%, Resource Management 17.3%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder emphasizes the realistic needs of villagers and the challenges of maintaining a settlement in a historical setting.

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Building 14.1%, Economy 13.2%, Inventory Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.8%

Build, plan, and flourish while the time is running! Mini City: Mayhem is a chaos-filled city-builder where you build against time. Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. Become the greatest urban planner of all time!

Why similar: Quick-Time Events 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.3%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Historical 14.7%, Economy 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 7.7%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Strategy RPG 17%, Historical 16.6%, Building 11.9%, Choices Matter 9%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Historical 17.9%, Economy 12%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Inventory Management 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 11.2%

Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Historical 16.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 10.3%, Building 10.2%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Historical 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10.1%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Historical 13.1%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Trading 15.2%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.7%

Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.

Why similar: Historical 31.8%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 8%

A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 9%, Economy 7.5%

Build a thriving trucking empire as the manager of a growing logistics company in this exciting tycoon game. Manage a diverse fleet of trucks, semi-trucks, buses, and even ships as you transport goods and expand your empire!

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Agriculture 15.3% ★, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Building 7%

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: City Builder 21.4%, Trading 14.1%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.7%

Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Historical 20.8%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10%, Simulation 8%

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

Why similar: Mining 16.1% ★, Agriculture 15.6% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Trading 13.4%, Resource Management 9%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%

"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.

Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Trading 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.2%, Inventory Management 9.8%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Building 14%, Economy 13.5%, Management 9.2%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Historical 15.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10%

Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 11.1%

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: Building 19.5%, Economy 18.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Management 11.1%

This Three Kingdoms sandbox RPG lets you do whatever you wish in the late Han Dynasty. Be a ruler, courtier, or hermit. Make friends, marry, raise children, manage estates, train yourself & allies, govern, drill troops, experience & alter history, and conquer all to win the hearts of the people.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 31.3%, Historical 27.7%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 13.1%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Economy 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 11.8%