Games Like 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 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Nature 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel-based settlement building, vertical construction, and colonist survival loop make it one of the closest overall matches to Timberborn's 3D sandbox feel.

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 18.6%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Automation 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs charming city-building with harsh environmental cycles and careful resource planning, echoing Timberborn's balance of coziness and survival pressure.

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 35.8%, Base Building 18%, Survival 10.7%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Timberborn, it turns fluid management, production chains, and layered base design into a deep colony-sim puzzle.

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 24.9%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Timberborn is sprawling automation and reshaping the land to feed industry, this is a natural next step.

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Though structured differently, it scratches the same colony-builder itch with intricate production chains, environmental pressure, and settlement specialization.

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 27.5%, Voxel 11.1% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This blocky colony sim emphasizes modular building, citizen jobs, and emergent settlement growth in a similarly playful sandbox.

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 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city-building with conveyor-and-rail logistics, capturing Timberborn's satisfying shift from manual labor to elegant automation.

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 26.8%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.4%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is another survival-focused settlement sim where careful worker assignment, storage planning, and supply chains determine whether your town thrives.

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers detailed resource processing, city growth, and survival management in a way that feels very familiar to Timberborn players.

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 36.2%, Colony Sim 33.4%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its village survival, labor allocation, and long-term resource balancing hit the same 'keep the settlement stable through every season' tension.

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 15.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Automation 11.3%, Farming Sim 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic colony-building and scavenging economy create a similarly scrappy, systems-driven survival sandbox.

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 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Automation 14.8%, Voxel 13.7% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cute modular colony-building and transport automation feel like a more factory-leaning cousin to Timberborn.

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%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Nature 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly asks you to build around a hostile ecosystem, manage scarce essentials, and adapt your settlement to environmental limits.

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 32.6%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: You build a settlement under recurring ecological disasters and tight survival constraints, with infrastructure placement and resource security at the core.

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 40.9%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.6%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its freeform layout and organic city growth appeal to the same players who enjoy Timberborn as a relaxed-but-optimizable builder.

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 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxed but strategic town-building loop with clear production chains, expansion planning, and a cozy sandbox tone.

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This post-collapse city-builder focuses on survival, production chains, and adapting your settlement to environmental hardship.

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 22.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players who want Timberborn's colony-management depth turned all the way up, it offers endless systemic settlement simulation.

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 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 14.7%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its adorable colony management and logistics-driven expansion mirror Timberborn's gentle aesthetic wrapped around serious optimization.

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 28.3%, Colony Sim 21%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the same post-human rebuilding fantasy, centered on colony survival, scarce resources, and gradual infrastructure growth.

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 29.3%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It trades sandbox freedom for harsher survival choices, but the pressure of keeping a settlement alive under changing conditions is very similar.

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 27.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 7.6%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Timberborn, it is all about keeping a fragile colony alive through smart layout, infrastructure, and closed-loop resource planning.

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 29%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the colony angle but doubles down on the automation, throughput, and iterative problem-solving that Timberborn fans often love.

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 29.2%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This space colony-builder mixes survival crises, population management, and sector-by-sector city planning in a way Timberborn fans may appreciate.

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 27.1%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a gentler, nonviolent colony-building pace focused on efficiency, expansion, and resource networks.

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 34.9%, Farming Sim 28.4%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim emphasizes seasonal survival, base layout, and making a small community self-sufficient under harsh conditions.

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 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its ecology-aware settlement management and nature-first design capture the environmental side of Timberborn especially well.

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 41.8%, Colony Sim 33.6%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 5.4%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another survival settlement loop where worker allocation, storage, and long-term planning matter as much as building placement.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of above-ground city-building and below-ground expansion creates a layered progression that should appeal to fans of Timberborn's vertical planning.

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 18.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Automation 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

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 21.2%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 42.1%, Nature 28.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

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 39.1%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Colony Sim 7.7%

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%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.2%

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 24.4%, Automation 21.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.1%

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 17.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.1%

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 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.6%

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 28.1%, Voxel 23.7% ★, Building 11.9%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10%

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 25.6%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 11%, Resource Management 8.4%

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%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Base Building 9%, Farming Sim 8.7%, Building 7.7%

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 18.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 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 21.4%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.2%, Building 7.1%

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 20.9%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.6%

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 24.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.8%

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 35.6%, Colony Sim 33.2%, Resource Management 7.4%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5.9%

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 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.3%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 9%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%

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 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 8%

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 21.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Management 10.6%

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 29.5%, Management 15.7%, Base Building 15%, Building 14%, Sandbox 12.4%

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 31.6%, Base Building 22%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 9.5%, Building 5.6%

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 20.9%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Building 8.5%

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 18.5%, Science 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.2%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Voxel 18% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 34.3%, Voxel 26% ★, Building 11.4%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%