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 39.5%, Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony management game where you guide a small group of gnomes to build a thriving town while fending off attacks.

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 48.7%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines charming voxel building with colony survival and active defense against monsters.

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 51.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly captures the fantasy of building and servicing a town specifically designed to attract and equip adventuring heroes.

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 42.9%, Sandbox 21%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 8%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same deep simulation of a fantasy colony where managing underground threats mirrors Towns' dungeon-adjacent survival.

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 42%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 9%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval society simulator that mirrors the micro-management of citizen needs and resource chains found in Towns.

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 40.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, Crafting 11.6%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony survival game where you build multi-story fortresses and protect settlers from raids.

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 52.6%, Sandbox 16.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on real-time strategy, building, and survival with voxel graphics akin to Towns' aesthetic.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features similar pixelated sandbox colony simulation elements focused on survival and resource management in a fantasy setting.

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 59%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less medieval city builder emphasizing organic expansion and resource management.

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 59.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder where keeping your population alive through harsh winters is paramount.

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 57.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 7.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game mechanics, village building, and intense survival tower defense against monster hordes.

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 26.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Crafting 17.1%, Building 10%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox crafting, strategy, and tower defense with managing a group of dwarves.

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 51.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 8.3%, Survival 6.8%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony builder where you manage resources and citizens through various environmental challenges.

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 44.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 7.4%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim where you build a town, manage colonists' needs, and defend against hostile threats.

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 51.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Isometric 5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval fantasy city-builder with strategic elements and management of a growing populace.

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 46.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city builder where you must design defenses to protect your growing medieval town from Viking and dragon attacks.

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 35.3%, Sandbox 23.3%, Survival 10%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers deep colony simulation and emergent storytelling with strong survival and management mechanics.

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 61.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 5.7%, Simulation 5.5%, Resource Management 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty medieval village simulator with heavy emphasis on survival and resource management.

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 54.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Indie 5.9%, Survival 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city builder focused on helping a small group of survivors establish a thriving settlement.

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 49.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-management colony sim where you guide medieval villagers through survival and expansion.

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 59.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 7.5%, RPG 7.2%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An idle-friendly village simulator that integrates RPG elements and town management.

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 35.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management strategy game where you build a settlement from scratch and protect it from bandits.

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 38.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Isometric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management side of supporting heroes and building a successful fantasy region.

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 45.5%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Isometric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing city-builder sandbox focusing on resource gathering and colony management.

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

Why similar: City Builder 53%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Victorian steampunk city builder centered around production chains and managing citizen needs.

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 66.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval town-building simulation focused on economy management and helping your villagers prosper.

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 44%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Survival 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-building and management game set in a fantasy world with survival elements.

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 40%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A micro-management strategy game focused on designing and running a complex subterranean transit hub.

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 49.1%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Sandbox 9%, Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A casual medieval city-builder and economic simulation focusing on growing a peaceful or prosperous domain.

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

Why similar: City Builder 59.1%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13%, Building 6.5%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where you build a bustling town and attract residents with unique RPG traits.

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 37.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.1%

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 45.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 8.1%, Indie 6.8%

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 48.3%, Sandbox 23.5%, Building 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Resource Management 4.1%

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

Why similar: City Builder 57.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Survival 8.3%, Isometric 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 70.3%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 6.1%, Fantasy 0.7%

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 40.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Crafting 10%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%

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

Why similar: Crafting 35.4%, Simulation 19.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%

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 68.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 2.9%

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 42.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.1%

A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.

Why similar: City Builder 57.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 6.9%, RPG 4.5%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: City Builder 69.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 2.6%, Management 1.8%

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 45.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 6.4%

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: City Builder 41.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 8%, Survival 7.4%

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 58.6%, Crafting 17.2%, Strategy 10.6%, RPG 6.2%, 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 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 21.6%, Survival 20.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, RPG 11%

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

Why similar: City Builder 54.7%, Sandbox 22.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 7.1%, Indie 4%

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 56.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%

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 43.4%, Simulation 20.3%, Indie 10.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 7.5%

A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!

Why similar: City Builder 74.5%, Strategy 18.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Pixel Graphics 1.8%, Management 1.6%

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 52.7%, Sandbox 21.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 7.3%, Isometric 6.5%

TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

Why similar: Simulation 39.5%, Strategy 38.9%, Indie 21.6%

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Sandbox 21.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 7.4%

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 48.3%, Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 12.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 6.8%

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 45%, Sandbox 19.9%, Building 8%, Survival 6.9%, Strategy 6.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 58.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 12.7%, RPG 7.4%, Building 5.1%

Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation

Why similar: City Builder 49.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 16%, RPG 10.9%, Building 3.5%