Games Like Timberborn

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: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 14%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its island-scale terraforming, intricate production chains, and survival-minded resource planning scratch the same systems-heavy sandbox itch as Timberborn.

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same appealing loop of adapting a settlement to harsh environmental cycles, balancing survival needs, and optimizing production under pressure.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Automation 9.8%, Farming Sim 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic colony management, scarce-water decisions, and focus on surviving a hostile world make it one of the closest tonal matches to Timberborn.

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: Voxel 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Nature 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its multi-level building, terrain shaping, and colony micromanagement strongly mirror Timberborn's love of vertical layouts and efficient settlement design.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Timberborn, it turns colony survival into an engineering puzzle built around fluid simulation, automation, and carefully designed infrastructure.

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 16.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Automation 12.4%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: This floating post-apocalyptic colony builder shares Timberborn's scavenging-survival feel and emphasis on making a fragile settlement thrive through smart logistics.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Automation 18%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Timberborn is chaining together production and transport systems in a colorful sandbox, this is an easy fit.

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: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeper, more chaotic colony-sim take on the same joy of building vertically, managing resources, and solving environmental problems through design.

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 27.7%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Building 15.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong fit if you want Timberborn's blend of town building, supply chains, and environmental pressure in a more traditional settlement sim.

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 43%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic city growth and production management deliver a similarly cozy but systems-driven sandbox feel, even if it is less survival-focused.

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: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed automation-driven settlement building captures Timberborn's satisfying balance of city planning, logistics, and gradual expansion.

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: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 15.9%, Voxel 14.3% ★, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel-flavored colony builder mixes automation, worker logistics, and expandable layered construction in a way Timberborn fans usually click with immediately.

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 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Automation 13%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its mountain-focused vertical city planning and route optimization echo Timberborn's emphasis on building around terrain rather than on flat grids.

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%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Building 11%, Management 9%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same rewarding rhythm of expanding a colony, balancing production, and surviving environmental strain over the long haul.

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 36.9%, Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.1%, Strategy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Timberborn's classic survival-city-builder tension of keeping a small settlement alive through careful labor, storage, and seasonal planning.

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 21.2% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into rebuilding settlements in a ruined world with harsh scarcity, exploration, and infrastructure planning much like Timberborn's drought-prep mindset.

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 24.1% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its animal-themed colony building, side-on base expansion, and economy management make it a more unconventional but still very relevant Timberborn follow-up.

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 33.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Timberborn, it is about designing a settlement that can endure recurring environmental hardship through smart stockpiling and production planning.

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 25.3%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its layered underwater construction and infrastructure management make it a good match for players who especially love Timberborn's vertical engineering side.

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 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Timberborn's post-disaster rebuilding theme and asks you to stabilize a settlement through layered resource chains and survival decisions.

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 42.1%, Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 5.5%, Strategy 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This one matches the survival-colony side of Timberborn particularly well, with steady settlement growth tied to environment, storage, and labor balance.

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 30% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 7.9%, Building 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on self-sustaining colony loops in a hostile setting makes it a good fit for Timberborn fans who enjoy closed-system survival management.

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 37.6%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Management 9.4%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its town growth, production networks, and sandbox progression give a familiar city-builder comfort for Timberborn players who want a broader economic focus.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Farming Sim 28.6%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a smaller-scale but similarly absorbing colony-survival experience where preparing for seasonal threats and optimizing workflows is everything.

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 29.7% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 10.3%, Farming Sim 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This post-collapse colony sim centers on resource scarcity, terrain constraints, and rebuilding society in a hostile environment, which overlaps well with Timberborn's survival planning.

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 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Nature 9.9%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its ecosystem-aware city building and adaptation to an unforgiving world tap into the nature-management side that makes Timberborn distinctive.

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: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Farming Sim 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a thoughtful fit for players who love Timberborn's interaction between settlement growth, resource chains, and the surrounding natural world.

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.4%

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 29.2%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its gentle post-human rebuilding theme and emphasis on efficient, expandable settlements align nicely with Timberborn's calmer sandbox appeal.

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Although grander in scale, it shares the same fascination with layered production, labor allocation, and turning a fragile settlement into a thriving city.

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 45.8%, Nature 31.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Stylized 5%

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 43.2%, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Colony Sim 8.3% ★, Strategy 7.2%

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 31.6%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.2%

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 28.1%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.7%

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 31.2%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.1%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Automation 24%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.1%

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 29.8%, Voxel 26% ★, Building 12.9%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%

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 28.7% ★, City Builder 27%, Voxel 11.3% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.9%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Building 12%, Sandbox 9%

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 26.3%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9%, Management 8.9%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 6.9%

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Farming Sim 9.4%, Building 8.3%

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 22.4%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Management 9%, Building 7.6%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.5%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Voxel 29.2% ★, Building 12.3%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 4%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Automation 15.9%, Science 15.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 8.8%

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 18.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9%, Management 8.7%

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 38%, Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Building 7.5%, Survival 6.5%, Strategy 4.2%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 24.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%

A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?

Why similar: Voxel 17.8% ★, Automation 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%

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 34.2%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 30% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.9%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 32.7% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 8.7%

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 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Building 9.1%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Automation 21.7%, Voxel 20.9% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 4%

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 47.5%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 6.9%

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 17.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 13.9%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Base Building 9.1%

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Voxel 29.2% ★, Automation 22.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.7%