Games Like Towns

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: City Builder 39.1%, Sandbox 20.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a very similar aesthetic and mechanical focus on managing a colony of individuals while building and defending against threats.

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: City Builder 48.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony builder that emphasizes building, crafting, and managing a settlement with RPG-lite combat and exploration.

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: City Builder 35%, Sandbox 23.3%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep character-driven storytelling and survival mechanics that mirror the complexity of Towns.

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 42.4%, Sandbox 21.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 8%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational inspiration for the genre, providing unparalleled depth in simulation, building, and emergent gameplay.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, City Builder 21.8%, Crafting 17%, Building 10%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar side-view perspective with a heavy emphasis on sandbox crafting, building, and managing a group of dwarves.

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: City Builder 51.3%, Crafting 14.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the management of an adventurer-focused town, including questing and gear progression.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 14%, Building 13.8%, Survival 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on dungeon building and management, perfectly capturing the dungeon-crawling aspect of the seed game.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: City Builder 58%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.9%, RPG 7.3%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the core concept of managing a town specifically designed to cater to the needs of visiting heroes.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: City Builder 46.9%, Sandbox 23%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with deep RPG character interactions, allowing you to influence the lives of your settlers directly.

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: City Builder 39.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that offers deep building mechanics and survival challenges within a historical setting.

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: City Builder 56.7%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 9.3%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game mechanics, colony simulation, and tower defense to create a challenging survival experience.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that incorporates RPG elements, survival, and exploration in a procedurally generated 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 59.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.4%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-focused city-builder that set the standard for resource management and harsh environmental challenges.

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: City Builder 41.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing family lines and social structures, adding a layer of depth to the traditional colony-sim formula.

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 49.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Crafting 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and defending a medieval kingdom against external threats, emphasizing city layout and survival.

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 51.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival and building game that emphasizes resource management and defensive construction.

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 46.6%, Sandbox 20.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides large-scale colony management with fantasy elements and complex social systems.

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 50.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.4%, Isometric 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on management, trade, and building a flourishing kingdom.

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 50.6%, Sandbox 15%, Building 8.1%, Survival 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder with deep management mechanics and environmental challenges.

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: City Builder 53.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Indie 5.9%, Survival 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource management, and the growth of a small village.

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: Sandbox 33.8%, Crafting 21.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Building 12.5%, RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily lives and needs of your settlers in a harsh environment.

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 61%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 5.7%, Resource Management 5.6%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a realistic approach to medieval survival and management with a focus on detailed building.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Sandbox 39%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 13.2%, RPG 8.6%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep management mechanics paired with extensive RPG progression and fantasy cultivation themes.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.3%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that focuses on feudal management, progression, and building a self-sustaining settlement.

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: City Builder 44.3%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes character needs, social interactions, and building a thriving community.

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 58.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Building 4.6%

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: City Builder 66%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13.9%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic medieval city-builder that focuses on managing the needs and tasks of your population.

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: City Builder 48.3%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual city-builder that focuses on management and building a medieval kingdom.

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Sandbox 18.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with survival and strategy in a unique post-apocalyptic setting.

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 48.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 6.5%

Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.

Why similar: City Builder 59.3%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 7.6%, RPG 7%, Indie 2.9%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 52.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 7.1%

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: City Builder 38.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.3%, Isometric 6.9%

Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 58.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 6.5%, Indie 3.6%

Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 10%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.2%

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: City Builder 44.9%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Isometric 5.8%

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!

Why similar: City Builder 47.9%, Sandbox 23.5%, Building 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 4.3%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: City Builder 43.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Simulation 6.7%

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: City Builder 44.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 6.8%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Sandbox 19%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Why similar: City Builder 69.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 6.1%, Fantasy 0.7%

Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

Why similar: City Builder 56.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Survival 8.2%, Isometric 7.3%

Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 7%

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

Why similar: Crafting 35%, Simulation 19.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 10.7%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Sandbox 21.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 8.8%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: City Builder 67.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 6%, Indie 2.9%

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: City Builder 48%, Sandbox 18.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 6.8%

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 45.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8%, Strategy 6.5%

Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.

Why similar: City Builder 52.3%, Sandbox 22%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 7.3%, Isometric 6.5%

Purgatory Dungeoneer is a townbuilding roguelite RPG about plundering a psychic hellmaw for personal closure, and the resources to build a village beyond the grave.

Why similar: City Builder 58.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 6.1%, Indie 4.8%

Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%

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: City Builder 43%, Simulation 20.6%, Indie 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 7.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 54%, Sandbox 22.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.6%, Indie 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 46.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 7.5%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: City Builder 44.5%, Sandbox 20%, Building 8%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%

1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 5.1%