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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 21.1%, Historical 14.1%, Agriculture 12% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, realistic simulation of historical village life with complex supply chains and a focus on authentic period architecture.

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 18.3%, Agriculture 17.7% ★, Historical 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intricate city-building with survival mechanics, requiring careful management of resources and defense against external threats.

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 19.5%, Historical 16%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed medieval city-building experience with organic growth and tactical combat that mirrors the strategic depth of the seed game.

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 39.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a gridless building system and a focus on organic, historical village development that feels very rewarding.

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 53%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and population sustainability in a challenging environment.

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 19.6%, Historical 12.8%, Agriculture 10.8% ★, Base Building 8%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical city-building in ancient Mesopotamia, emphasizing irrigation and resource management similar to the seed game.

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 41.6%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for production chain management and economic strategy, offering a polished experience for those who enjoy complex logistics.

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 27.7%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Building 12.6%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-oriented city-builder that tasks players with managing a growing population against various environmental disasters.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Agriculture 25.2% ★, Building 22.8%, Historical 18.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends city-building with RPG elements and survival, allowing you to manage a settlement while living through the life of a villager.

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 24.8%, Historical 20%, Base Building 15.9%, Economy 14.9%, Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that allows for complex, multi-story building and historical management in a post-apocalyptic medieval setting.

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 27.5%, Historical 17.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical survival city-builder that focuses on the development of ancient societies with a strong emphasis on simulation.

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 19.7%, Historical 15.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that forces players to adapt to changing environments and make difficult political decisions.

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 56.3% ★, Building 24.8%, Simulation 13%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical colony simulator that focuses on the survival and prosperity of a Scottish clan through the changing seasons.

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 21.6%, Historical 15.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most complex logistics and economic simulation for players who want to master every aspect of city infrastructure.

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 54.5%, Historical 15.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 6.8%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to guide a settlement through the ages, focusing on technological progression and resource management in a historical context.

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 33%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes management and survival, perfect for those who enjoy the smaller-scale growth of a village.

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 26.1%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Integrates martial arts themes with historical city-building and management, offering a unique flavor similar to 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: City Builder 43.6%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A more casual but engaging city-builder that emphasizes defense and structural expansion in a medieval fantasy setting.

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Historical 14.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that spans centuries, focusing on political evolution and the growth of a civilization over time.

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 29.3%, Economy 16.9%, Management 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky management game where buildings have personalities, offering a different but strategic approach to urban development.

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 19.9%, Historical 16%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city-builder that tasks players with building a prosperous Roman city while managing complex economic systems.

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 36.6%, Resource Management 19.2%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes political decision-making and survival management, forcing you to choose between morality and the survival of your city.

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 21.3%, Economy 14.5%, Trading 12.3% ★, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the economic and logistical side of management, ideal for players who enjoy optimizing production chains.

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 40.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 15.6%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique water-management mechanics and vertical building, providing a fresh take on the city-building genre.

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 32.1%, Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical base-building and simulation, providing a grounded experience in ancient city management.

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 21.2%, Trading 14.8% ★, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival in a unique, challenging environment.

Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Trading 16% ★, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: While thematicly different, it offers the same deep management and economic simulation mechanics found in the seed game.

Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Economy 10.2%, Historical 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical building simulator that allows for detailed construction and management of ancient settlements.

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 36.5%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 9%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that focuses on puzzle-like efficiency and steady expansion.

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% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Historical 13%, Trading 11.2% ★, Base Building 10.6%

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: City Builder 22.1%, Historical 15.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Economy 9.6%

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 25.3%, Historical 14.6%, Management 13.2%, Economy 13.1%, Base Building 11.9%

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 26.6%, Economy 13.9%, Building 13.6%, Inventory Management 13.3%, Resource Management 12.5%

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 27.5%, Historical 14.2%, Economy 12.4%, Building 11%, Resource Management 8.1%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Trading 10.5% ★, Economy 10%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused simulation game that requires careful planning to build a sustainable city in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 17.9%, Strategy RPG 16.8%, Historical 16.1%, Building 11.7%, Economy 9.4%

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 30.8%, Base Building 17%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 9.4%

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 21.7%, Historical 17.2%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.8%

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 20.5%, Strategy RPG 14.2%, Resource Management 12%, Inventory Management 11.6%, Base Building 11%

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 23.2%, Strategy RPG 15.4%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.6%

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 21.9%, Trading 15.7% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 10.8%

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 16.3% ★, Agriculture 15% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Trading 13.6% ★, Resource Management 9.6%

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: Agriculture 23% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 10.5%

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 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 7.8%

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 27.6%, Historical 20.6%, Building 11.1%, Economy 11%, Simulation 8.2%

"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 18.5%, Trading 13.6% ★, Building 11.6%, Management 10.4%, Inventory Management 10%

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: City Builder 20.1%, Historical 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Building 14.8%, Economy 12.7%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%

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 24.1%, Trading 14.1% ★, Historical 12.2%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.3%

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 28.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Economy 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.5%

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 30.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.5%

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 20.8%, Agriculture 15.6% ★, Strategy RPG 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Building 7.2%

Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 10.2%

It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 15%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10%

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%

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 29.9%, Base Building 17%, Building 14.7%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.3%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Historical 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.9%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Agriculture 18.8% ★, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.9%, Economy 11.7%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Trading 10.1% ★, Management 9.6%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Historical 17%, Trading 14.7% ★, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%