Games Like Timber and Stone

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 40.1%, Survival 21.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, multi-layered building experience in a medieval setting that feels like a modern evolution of the genre.

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: City Builder 50.2%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the distinct voxel aesthetic and focuses heavily on building, crafting, and defending a fantasy colony.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Survival 23.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Crafting 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the foundational inspiration for the entire colony-sim genre, it offers unparalleled depth in simulation and procedural world-building.

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

Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based colony sim is mechanically very similar to Timber and Stone, focusing on mining, crafting, and defense.

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 66.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Survival 8.8%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique gridless building system that allows for organic, beautiful medieval town layouts.

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 59.2%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive survival-focused city builder that forces players to manage resources carefully through harsh winters.

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: City Builder 34.9%, Survival 30.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Strategy 12%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi themed, it is the gold standard for colony management, survival, and emergent storytelling.

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: City Builder 37.1%, Survival 23.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based fantasy colony sim that emphasizes exploration and survival in a procedurally generated world.

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 49.6%, Survival 20.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for massive scale colony management with complex logistics and fantasy elements.

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 65.4%, Strategy 12%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming medieval city builder that balances resource management with the need to defend against dragons and invaders.

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 46.3%, Survival 23.1%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 12%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a highly detailed, realistic approach to medieval logistics, city building, and tactical combat.

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

Why similar: City Builder 50.5%, Sandbox 19.5%, Survival 18%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines colony management with fantasy RPG elements, allowing you to influence your subjects' lives directly.

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 64.2%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 4.7%, Crafting 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city builder that emphasizes realistic medieval resource management and seasonal challenges.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: City Builder 54.2%, Survival 21.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 9%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A blend of god-game and colony-sim that emphasizes survival against waves of monsters.

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: Sandbox 47.1%, Crafting 39.6%, Indie 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval survival colony sim that focuses on the daily struggles and long-term prosperity of a Scottish clan.

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 54.9%, Survival 22.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on complex production chains and survival mechanics in a challenging environment.

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 77.3%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-capable colony builder that features a large open world and diverse biomes to settle.

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: City Builder 64.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 14.5%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city builder that incorporates fantasy elements and focuses on managing a growing kingdom.

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: City Builder 52.7%, Survival 28%, Strategy 13.8%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique voxel-based building system focused on constructing fortresses to defend against nightly sieges.

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 54.6%, Survival 26.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Sandbox 5.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city builder that requires balancing the needs and happiness of your citizens alongside economic growth.

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

Why similar: City Builder 48.4%, Survival 18.4%, Sandbox 13.6%, Strategy 10.4%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes the needs and personalities of your settlers while building a new town.

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 58%, Strategy 17.9%, Survival 17.4%, Indie 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city builder that focuses on helping a small group of settlers survive and thrive in a harsh land.

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 56.2%, Survival 26.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city builder that focuses on the survival and development of a Neolithic society.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Survival 24.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Strategy 12.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique tribe-management game where you build a goblin settlement and deal with fantasy politics.

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

Why similar: City Builder 48%, Survival 23.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that tasks you with rebuilding a civilization on a series of islands.

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 50.4%, Survival 24.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 11%

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

Why similar: City Builder 40.7%, Survival 30%, Strategy 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes building a base and managing resources during the day while defending at night.

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 73.7%, Strategy 19.6%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy city builder that provides tools for detailed management of your medieval population.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 72.9%, Strategy 21.1%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city builder where you manage the growth of a medieval town through various professions.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Strategy 9.1%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Survival 25.3%, Sandbox 20.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based building game that focuses on mining and managing a dwarven fortress.

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 55%, Survival 17.1%, Strategy 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Indie 2.9%

Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

Why similar: City Builder 66.9%, Crafting 20.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Survival 28.1%, Strategy 24.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Indie 4.3%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, City Builder 29.9%, Sandbox 16.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%

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 61.5%, Survival 20.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Sandbox 7.2%, Indie 1.1%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 51.6%, Sandbox 17%, Strategy 9.6%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 37.5%, Survival 28.2%, Crafting 18.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 3.3%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 46.9%, Survival 22.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 52.7%, Survival 19.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 55.2%, Survival 19.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Survival 38.6%, Sandbox 29.6%, Crafting 24.2%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: City Builder 45.9%, Survival 19.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Sandbox 22.4%, Crafting 18.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Indie 4.4%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: City Builder 59.1%, Crafting 17.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

Why similar: Survival 40%, Sandbox 25.1%, Crafting 21.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Indie 3.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 68.7%, Strategy 14.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

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: City Builder 53.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Crafting 12%, Indie 3.8%

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: Strategy 57.8%, Crafting 41.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 41.1%, Survival 20.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Crafting 13%, Strategy 9.9%

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 47.6%, Survival 21.8%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 98.3%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Survival 41.1%, Sandbox 27.9%, Crafting 24.1%, Strategy 4.7%, Indie 1.9%

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 62.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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 61.6%, Survival 24.6%, Strategy 13.8%

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: City Builder 54%, Sandbox 20.4%, Crafting 15.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: City Builder 61.3%, Strategy 26.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.

Why similar: City Builder 64.4%, Strategy 27.1%, Indie 8.4%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Crafting 65.2%, Strategy 25.6%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%