Games Like 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 42.5%, Sandbox 21.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 8%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive inspiration for the genre, it offers unparalleled depth in colony management, dungeon building, and emergent storytelling.

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

Why similar: City Builder 58.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 12.8%, RPG 7.3%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the specific loop of managing a town specifically designed to cater to the needs and growth of visiting adventurers.

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 20.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on intricate crafting and building, mirroring the management style found in Towns.

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 48.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: With its voxel-based aesthetic and focus on building and survival, it shares a very similar visual and mechanical DNA with Towns.

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 23.4%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This essential colony simulator provides deep management mechanics and complex character interactions that mirror the survival and building focus of 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%, Sandbox 19.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A robust 3D colony simulator that excels at vertical building and survival management in a challenging medieval setting.

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 13.9%, Survival 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dungeon building with roguelike RPG elements, allowing you to manage your own dungeon while interacting with the world as a hero.

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 47%, Sandbox 23%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the RPG-like social dynamics of your colonists, making every individual's needs and personality central to the settlement's success.

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 32.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art colony simulator features deep world-building and resource management that feels like a modern evolution of the genre.

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 56.8%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 9.3%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city building with tower defense and survival, providing the constant threat and management pressure found in Towns.

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 59.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.4%, Survival 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for survival-focused city building, where managing resources and population needs is the primary challenge.

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 46.7%, Sandbox 20.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a grand-scale city management experience with deep simulation mechanics that allow for massive, thriving settlements.

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: This side-scrolling colony management game emphasizes crafting and base-building while protecting your dwarves from subterranean threats.

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: Features voxel-based building and survival mechanics that directly align with the core gameplay loop of Towns.

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 41.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Crafting 9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social hierarchy and management of a medieval village, providing a unique perspective on population control.

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 50.5%, Sandbox 15%, Building 8.2%, Survival 6.7%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep resource management and survival mechanics that challenge players to grow their town in a hostile environment.

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 58.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: An organic city builder that focuses on villager needs and gridless construction, offering a more relaxed but deep management experience.

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 50.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.4%, Isometric 5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city builder with a fantasy twist that emphasizes production chains and managing the growth of your kingdom.

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 53.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11%, Indie 5.9%, Survival 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city builder that centers on survival and the development of a small settlement into a thriving town.

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 33.9%, Crafting 21.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Building 12.5%, RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes family management and adapting to harsh environments.

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 59.3%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 7.8%, Survival 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity city builder that forces players to balance complex production chains with the harsh realities of survival.

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 39.2%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 13.2%, RPG 8.6%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers incredibly deep management systems paired with strong RPG progression and fantasy-themed world-building.

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 66.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the growth and management of a medieval settlement, emphasizing the daily lives and needs of your citizens.

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 48.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers casual city building with a strong focus on production chains and managing the happiness of your medieval population.

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 34.8%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that focuses heavily on building, defense, and resource gathering in a feudal setting.

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 44.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that prioritizes villager happiness and individual needs, making it a great choice for fans of character-driven management.

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 51.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the management of a town for adventurers, making it a perfect thematic match for the core premise of Towns.

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 43.7%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city building with management and survival, tasking you with building a kingdom from the ground up.

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 18.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony management game that adds a layer of strategy and territory control in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 48.6%, 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 59.4%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 7.6%, RPG 7.1%, Indie 2.9%

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%

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

Why similar: City Builder 52.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 8.2%, 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 38.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.3%, Isometric 6.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 58.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 6.5%, Indie 3.6%

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%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Isometric 5.8%

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 36.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.2%

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 45.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6.2%

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 61.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 5.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Resource Management 5.5%

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 55.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.6%

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 45.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Resource Management 8.1%, Building 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%, Sandbox 23.5%, Building 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 4.3%

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 39.9%, 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 69.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 11%, Indie 6.1%, Fantasy 0.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 56.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9%, Survival 8.2%, Isometric 7.3%

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

Why similar: Crafting 35.1%, Simulation 19.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 10.7%

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Why similar: City Builder 52.2%, Sandbox 19%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Building 4.8%

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 67.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 2.9%

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 47.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 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 8.7%

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 17.3%, 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 9.2%

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%

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

Why similar: City Builder 54.1%, Sandbox 22.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.5%, Indie 4%

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 45.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8%, Strategy 6.5%

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%, Simulation 20.5%, Indie 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 7.5%