Games Like 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 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines harsh environmental cycles, resource logistics, specialized settlements, and difficult survival decisions in a deeply replayable city-building format.

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

Why You'll Like It: Managing a settlement atop a living creature creates a similarly ecological colony-builder focused on balancing expansion, scarce resources, and environmental hazards.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its animal-led colony building, production chains, seasonal survival concerns, and expandable settlement management closely match Timberborn's cozy-but-demanding appeal.

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 26.7%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a detailed survival city builder where supply chains, food preservation, disease, defenses, and seasonal planning determine whether a remote settlement thrives.

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 18.5%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Nature 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its layered 3D building and direct control over a small settlement make it an excellent fit for players who enjoy Timberborn's vertical construction and colony logistics.

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 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate production networks, water and waste management, excavation, and large-scale terraforming strongly suit players who enjoy Timberborn's engineering side.

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.4%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This close Banished-style alternative focuses on citizen needs, production chains, weather, disasters, and expanding a fragile settlement into a functioning town.

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 41.4%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.7%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, gridless medieval villages emphasize logistics, gradual expansion, citizen needs, and watching districts emerge around your supply network.

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%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic settlement must endure contamination, drought, and resource shortages through careful construction, scavenging, and population management.

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 36%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 10.9%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its colonies depend on mastering fluid systems, gases, heat, automation, and closed-loop resource production under constant survival pressure.

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 25.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an exceptionally deep infrastructure sandbox centered on moving workers, materials, power, water, and vehicles through a growing planned city.

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 22.6%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: Building a settlement after a global collapse involves managing workers, technology, heating, food, and difficult seasonal conditions.

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 15.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Automation 10.8%, Farming Sim 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its floating survivor town requires scavenging, recycling, water purification, and compact base planning in a colorful post-apocalyptic world.

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 36.6%, Colony Sim 33.4%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its influential survival-city formula of limited labor, seasonal food stores, and tightly balanced production chains remains a strong match for Timberborn's core loop.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10%, Automation 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on stacking a vertical post-apocalyptic settlement while managing limited space and survivor needs echoes Timberborn's architectural problem-solving.

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 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 14.1%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: You direct robot settlers through increasingly sophisticated transport routes, automation, construction, and resource processing across compact colony maps.

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 9%, Farming Sim 8.6%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This grounded historical city builder offers unusually detailed production, trade, farming, labor allocation, and organic town growth without rigid grid planning.

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 20.1%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlements exist within a simulated ecosystem where seasons, wildlife, plant life, terrain, and careful logistics all shape expansion.

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 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its mountain settlements demand clever vertical layouts, supply planning, and adaptation to dangerous terrain and severe weather.

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 24.9%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes automated transport networks and planetary-scale terraforming, making it ideal for players who enjoy reshaping terrain to support growth.

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 25.1%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This relaxed but systemic tribe simulator centers on assigning settlers, developing tools, gathering resources, and adapting to a changing natural landscape.

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 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: It scales colony management into a vast living city, with complex workforce assignment, supply chains, social needs, and emergent growth.

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 36.6%, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 12%, Management 8.2%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends expansive city building with resource networks, technological progress, trade, and flexible procedural-map development.

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 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful automation sandbox lets you build conveyor, rail, and worker-based supply chains that steadily transform a small settlement into an efficient production hub.

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 29.8%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its punishing survival-city structure turns heat, food, labor, and moral choices into constant pressures on a desperate settlement.

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 22.1%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled emergent fortress management, layered construction, resource logistics, and unpredictable colony disasters for players seeking much deeper simulation.

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 30.2%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent colonist stories, base construction, survival systems, and extensive management depth provide a more character-driven colony-sim alternative.

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 60.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its richly interconnected production chains, workforce tiers, trade routes, and attractive city growth offer a more economic take on Timberborn's logistical satisfaction.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 14%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 7%

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 42.7%, Nature 28.3%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

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 39.8%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10%, Colony Sim 7.5%

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 27.5%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This gentle hex-based city builder revolves around rebuilding self-sufficient settlements, connecting supply chains, and gradually expanding across multiple worlds.

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 23.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.9%

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 20.3%, City Builder 20%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 28.8%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%

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 20.8%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

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 29.4%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.2%

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 25.3%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.3%, Management 7.8%

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 28.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 9.7%

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 28.7%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 7.6%, Building 4.9%

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 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Automation 14.2%, Voxel 13.7% ★, Base Building 8.1%

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.5%

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 24.9%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 28.7%, Voxel 23.5% ★, Building 12.1%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.7%

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 35.2%, Voxel 25.6% ★, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 8.2%

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 33.6%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 5.3%, Strategy 4.3%

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Management 15.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%

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 21.9%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 7.9%, Survival 7.2%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10.4%

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 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Nature 9.1%, Building 8.6%

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 28.8%, City Builder 27.8%, Voxel 10.9% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in 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 22%, Voxel 21.4% ★, Automation 17.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 18.7%, Science 14.8%, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 8.4%

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 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 8.1%

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Building 8.6%

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

Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

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% ★, Automation 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 22.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 9.6%, Building 5.6%