Games Like Timberborn

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 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Farming Sim 8.8%, Automation 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Another survival city-builder with a distinctive non-human setting, recurring environmental crises, and a strong focus on keeping a fragile settlement sustainable.

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 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Nature 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D voxel colony sim lets you design multi-level settlements, manage survivors, and optimize production chains in a way that closely mirrors Timberborn's vertical building and freeform base planning.

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 15.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on terraforming, resource pipelines, and reshaping the map into an efficient industrial settlement makes it a great match for Timberborn's engineering side.

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%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you love balancing housing, production, and biome-specific constraints, this offers the same constant settlement-optimization loop in a more run-based format.

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 15.7%, Automation 11.1%, Farming Sim 10.5%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A water-focused colony builder about scarce resources, recycling, and survival in a flooded world that shares Timberborn's distinctive environmental flavor.

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 35.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 10.7%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its fluid simulation, automation, survival logistics, and vertical construction scratch a very similar systems-heavy colony-management itch.

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 26.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed frontier town sim with seasonal survival pressure, supply chains, and satisfying settlement growth for players who enjoy Timberborn's management depth.

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 27.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.5%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Timberborn's approachable colony-management loop of building out infrastructure, stabilizing production, and surviving environmental stress.

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 27.7%, Voxel 11.1% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This voxel colony sim has you shape a blocky settlement room by room while juggling citizens, crafting, and growth, echoing Timberborn's toy-box construction feel.

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 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Colony Sim 12%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its droughts, water scarcity, and survival-first settlement management line up especially well with Timberborn's disaster-preparedness gameplay.

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 41.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.7%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its organic, painterly city building and relaxed sandbox pacing suit Timberborn players who enjoy sculpting efficient settlements more than chasing combat.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival settlement builder remains one of the closest matches for Timberborn's focus on labor, storage, food, and long-term town planning.

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 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 14.5%, Voxel 13.7% ★, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A blocky colony-and-automation hybrid where you build vertically and optimize worker logistics, overlapping nicely with Timberborn's engineering-heavy design.

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 36.5%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 12%, Management 8.3%, Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the Banished-style formula with more automation, trade, and broader sandbox progression that should appeal to Timberborn fans.

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 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent fit for Timberborn's gentler automation side, blending cute city growth with conveyors, routing, and production 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 28.7%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Another colony survival builder centered on resource bottlenecks, environmental threats, and steadily upgrading a settlement from scrappy to stable.

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: If you want Timberborn's colony simulation taken to a much deeper extreme, this delivers unmatched emergent settlement management and logistics.

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 35.5%, Farming Sim 28.2%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It turns everyday survival, production chains, and building placement into a cozy but demanding colony sim with strong emergent settlement stories.

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 23.1%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view colony sim blends worker management, economy, and base building in a way that will click if you enjoy Timberborn's busy settlement logistics.

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 28.6%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 7.5%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers compact colony management, life-support balancing, and careful expansion in a hostile environment, hitting a similar survival-builder rhythm.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 24%, Survival 15.7%, Management 9%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Timberborn, it asks you to establish a self-sufficient colony, manage individual workers, and solve environmental problems through smart base planning.

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: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Automation 12.4%, Farming Sim 12%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter colony builder on open water with farming, crafting, and automation that captures some of Timberborn's playful engineering charm.

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 28.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: While it drops the city-builder layer, its focus on automation, throughput, and landscape-scale production chains strongly overlaps with Timberborn's industrial side.

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 33.5%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 5.3%, Strategy 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying arc of placing buildings, securing food, and helping a vulnerable settlement survive increasingly complex needs.

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 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 14.4%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Cute robot settlers, road networks, and production-chain planning make this a natural recommendation for Timberborn players who like calm logistics sandboxes.

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 16.9%, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

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%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on balancing settlement growth with the surrounding ecosystem makes it a smart pick if Timberborn's nature-first worldbuilding is part of the appeal.

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 21.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This underwater city-builder emphasizes layered expansion, resource management, and environmental pressure in a way that echoes Timberborn's verticality and water theme.

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: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful colony sim with individualized settlers, crafting chains, and modular base building that captures some of Timberborn's accessible but engaging management feel.

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: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 29.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines town-building, survival pressure, and hands-on infrastructure planning for players who want a rougher, more defense-oriented colony sim.

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 42.5%, Nature 28.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%, 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 39.6%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Colony Sim 7.6%

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 24.6%, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.2%

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 29.7%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 20.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

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 22.5%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

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 21.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.2%

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 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 25.2%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.3%, Management 7.9%

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 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.2%

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.6%

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 28.5%, Voxel 23.6% ★, Building 12%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 18.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 7%

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 25.3%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 15%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 15.2%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.6%

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%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.7%

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 20.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 10.5%

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 31.4%, Base Building 22.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 9.5%, Building 5.7%

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 35.9%, Colony Sim 33.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5.9%

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 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Nature 9.1%, Building 8.6%

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 21.7%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8%, 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 21.2%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.7%

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 23.4%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Base Building 9%, Farming Sim 8.7%, Building 7.7%

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 29.2%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.6%

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% ★, Automation 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.3%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%

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 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 8%

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 18.6%, Science 14.7%, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.3%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Building 8.5%