Games Like TownCraft

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: Simulation 46.2%, Strategy 43.8%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an organic, grid-less approach to medieval city building that perfectly captures the chill, creative spirit of TownCraft.

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

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Simulation 41.8%, Indie 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down aesthetic and focuses on the satisfying process of growing a small settlement into a bustling town.

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: Strategy 46.4%, Simulation 42.3%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational survival city-builder that focuses on managing resources and population growth on an empty plot of land.

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Strategy 70.5%, Indie 29.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on small-scale, cozy city building where you manage the daily lives and needs of your villagers.

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: Strategy 60.5%, Simulation 39.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, grid-based city builder that balances building a beautiful town with light defensive strategy.

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Simulation 56.6%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the specific tavern-management and shop-building aspects that make TownCraft's economy so engaging.

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Strategy 49.4%, Simulation 48%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a classic medieval city-building experience with a strong emphasis on managing production chains and citizen needs.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Strategy 44.2%, Simulation 41%, Indie 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that allows you to manage the social hierarchy and production of a medieval village.

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the unique management of a town designed to support adventurers, mirroring the shop-management feel of TownCraft.

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: Simulation 49.2%, Strategy 36.7%, Indie 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep resource-management game that challenges you to build a thriving community from scratch.

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: Strategy 51.3%, Simulation 48.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, objective-based city builder that focuses on cozy aesthetics and clever resource allocation.

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: Strategy 54.8%, Simulation 45.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly realistic and organic approach to town building that rewards careful planning and patience.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Strategy 67.4%, Simulation 32.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that emphasizes social dynamics and resource management in a medieval setting.

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: Strategy 52.7%, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival mechanics with town building, requiring you to manage resources through changing seasons.

Strategy, trade and empire building on the old Silk Road. Spice Road is a town building, social and economic simulation game full of original challenges.

Why similar: Strategy 43.2%, Simulation 41.2%, Indie 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the economy and management aspects of building a trade-based settlement.

In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?

Why similar: Simulation 50.8%, Strategy 49.2%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city builder that balances complex resource management with the aesthetic development of your town.

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: Strategy 46.3%, Simulation 43%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, voxel-based city builder that focuses on the relaxing aspects of town expansion.

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic neighborhood with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: Simulation 54.5%, Indie 24%, Strategy 21.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, time-management-focused city builder that emphasizes quick growth and efficiency.

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Strategy 41.5%, Simulation 40.2%, Indie 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused simulation game that emphasizes economic growth and town development.

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: Simulation 50.3%, Strategy 49.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, idler-style game that focuses on the simple joys of farming and village life.

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a management-heavy experience focused on building and maintaining a medieval estate.

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

Why similar: Simulation 39.7%, Strategy 39%, Indie 21.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sandbox city builder that allows for creative town design and management of inhabitants.

Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!

Why similar: Strategy 91.1%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city builder that focuses on the challenges of establishing a new settlement.

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, Simulation 47.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, pixel-art city builder that emphasizes building infrastructure and managing village growth.

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Strategy 50.8%, Simulation 49.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the management and survival of a small group in a challenging environment.

An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.

Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, Strategy 40.7%, Indie 16.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management game that focuses on the growth and success of a small town.

A unique blend of a Soothing Simulation and an Idle Game with Music, Decoration, Fishing, Cooking, Farming and more...

Why similar: Simulation 75.7%, Indie 24.3%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that focuses on the cozy, relaxing aspects of managing a small town and its inhabitants.

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Strategy 49.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the incremental management and expansion of a city through strategic choices.

RealmCraft is the original Sandbox Game. Build Cubes & Explore 30+ Blueprint Worlds in 3D. Try to Survive & Use 100+ Types of Blocks to Build Your Unique Town.

Why similar: Simulation 42.8%, Strategy 42%, Indie 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation that offers creative freedom in building and managing your own world.

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: Simulation 63.1%, Indie 36.9%

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

Why similar: Simulation 57.8%, Strategy 31.5%, Indie 10.7%

Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!

Why similar: Simulation 66.3%, Indie 33.7%

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 40.4%, Indie 16.6%

Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Why similar: Strategy 46%, Simulation 37.2%, Indie 16.8%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: Simulation 94.4%, Indie 5.6%

Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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

Why similar: Strategy 43.4%, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 15.8%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: Simulation 43.7%, Strategy 39%, Indie 17.3%

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Simulation 74.9%, Indie 25.1%

HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

Why similar: Strategy 48%, Simulation 35.9%, Indie 16.1%

Tile Town is a chill strategy game set on a hexagonal grid. Plop down various building tiles to get the highest score possible, all while creating a colorful medieval town in the process. Unlock new levels or go for a stroll in the first person mode.

Why similar: Strategy 95.7%, Indie 4.3%

Forge gear, run a shop, and send mercenaries into danger so you don’t have to. A cozy-but-clever crafting sim where business booms, heroes bicker, and dungeons provide all the “supply chain” problems you’ll ever need.

Why similar: Simulation 64.7%, Strategy 35.3%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Simulation 47.9%, Strategy 43.6%, Indie 8.5%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Simulation 85.4%, Indie 14.6%

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

Why similar: Simulation 45.3%, Strategy 41.1%, Indie 13.6%

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

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: Strategy 51.7%, Simulation 48.3%

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: Strategy 100%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: Strategy 43.4%, Simulation 39%, Indie 17.7%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Simulation 41.5%, Indie 10.9%

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: Simulation 54.6%, Strategy 36%, Indie 9.4%

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: Simulation 48.9%, Strategy 41.3%, Indie 9.9%

A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!

Why similar: Simulation 52.7%, Strategy 44.5%, Indie 2.7%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Simulation 53.1%, Strategy 30.1%, Indie 16.8%

A cozy crafter with tons of things to create, sell, or just have fun making. Every recipe always makes a bit of CRUFT too, so you should probably clean up after yourself!

Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 45.7%

Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Why similar: Simulation 48.4%, Strategy 37.4%, Indie 14.2%