- #1 Taste of Power
97% matchMixed67% of 68 reviews2019
Dev: OneOcean LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Show your strategic talents in Taste of Power! It's a RTS set in an alternate medieval world, where Europe, Middle East, and China confront each other. Develop unique technologies and lead warriors into an epic battlefield – the victory is yours!
Why similar: RTS 70.2%, Strategy 16.8%, Base Building 13.1%
- #2 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
96% matchVery Positive84% of 806 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 67.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6% ★, RTS 28.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #3 VENOY
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: RTS 37.7%, Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 5.1%
- #4 Reignfall
95% matchVery Positive89% of 424 reviews2018
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.7% ★, RTS 22.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Strategy 4.8%, Indie 1.3%
- #5 pyramida
94% matchVery Positive84% of 743 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, RTS 28.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 4.1%
- #6 Striking Gold
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sluff Gaming
Windows
Control a western mining town and build it up to become the largest mining operation in the race for finding gold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, RTS 33.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 3.1%
- #7 Buoyancy
93% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Base Building 5.8%
- #8 Hexity
92% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, RTS 35.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 1%
- #9 Civica: Italian Renaissance
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: RTS 36.5%, Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Base Building 2.7%
- #10 Escape the End
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, RTS 34.8%, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 2.8%
- #11 Convenience Stories
90% matchVery Positive93% of 242 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4% ★, RTS 34.1%, City Builder 11.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Indie 1.1%
- #12 Oikizo
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: L2N Game Studio
Windows
Oikizo is a city-building game. Start by placing your first building and a few citizens, then make your city prosper. The strength of Oikizo lies in the ability to manage a city cooperatively with your friends.
Why similar: RTS 36.5%, Colony Sim 35.9% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Strategy 6%, Base Building 4.1%
- #13 Becastled
88% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: RTS 33.3%, Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 7%
- #14 Kingdoms Rise and Fall
89% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Little Dreams GamingPub: Little Dreams Games
Windows
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, RTS 34.7%, City Builder 18.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 3.2%
- #15 Hot Springs Story 2
87% matchVery Positive85% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A "hot" new hot springs resort sim with a ton of new exclusive features!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42% ★, RTS 39.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Strategy 2.8%, Indie 0.3%
- #16 Architects of Shangri-La
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, RTS 32.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 6.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #17 Tempest Rising
85% matchVery Positive88% of 10,866 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 83.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 5.5%
- #18 Mega Mall Story 2
86% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1% ★, RTS 36.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Indie 1.1%
- #19 Dwarven Realm
84% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, RTS 37.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #20 They Are Billions
84% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 39.8% ★, RTS 35%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #21 The Omins
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: RTS 45%, Colony Sim 41% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #22 Arclands
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jon Keller
Windows · Mac
Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!
Why similar: RTS 38.7%, Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 4.3%
- #23 Jumbo Airport Story
82% matchVery Positive92% of 354 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!
Why similar: RTS 39.6%, Colony Sim 36.2% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Base Building 1.2%
- #24 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
80% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, RTS 34.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 6.5%, Base Building 6.4%
- #25 Forged Battalion
81% matchMixed58% of 1,108 reviews2018
Dev: Petroglyph
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Why similar: RTS 85.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Indie 3%
- #26 Celtic Kings: Rage of War
81% matchVery Positive90% of 170 reviews2019
Dev: Haemimont Games
Windows
Celtic Kings: Rage of War is an RTS classic by Haemimont Games, originally released in 2002. It is the first game of the award-winning franchise Celtic Kings
Why similar: RTS 83.3%, Strategy 16.7%
- #27 Buggos 2
78% matchVery Positive84% of 509 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, RTS 30.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%
- #28 BattleMore
79% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Heat Wave Games
Windows
From battling rocket squirrels to lead zeppelins, this goofy single player RTS will keep your hands full and APM high.
Why similar: RTS 83%, Strategy 17%
- #29 Colonize
78% matchMostly Negative38% of 168 reviews2026
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
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: RTS 39.1%, Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 5.4%, Base Building 2.5%
- #30 Meridian: New World
79% matchMixed48% of 530 reviews2014
Dev: Elder GamesPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Slip into the role of Daniel Hanson, commander of the first mission to a remote planet called Meridian. Assured of the fact that the planet is uninhabited, the unexpected reception of a distress call from the surface could mean many things, none of which you are prepared for.
Why similar: RTS 81.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Indie 3.4%
- #31 Dawn of Man
77% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Colony Sim 51% ★, City Builder 30.4%, RTS 11%, Strategy 5.5%, Open World 1.4%
- #32 PlanetX
76% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, RTS 36%, City Builder 17.8%, Strategy 6.1%, Base Building 3.3%
- #33 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
76% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: RTS 39.3%, Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Base Building 2%
- #34 Kingdoms and Castles
75% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Colony Sim 48.4% ★, City Builder 27.6%, RTS 13%, Strategy 5.9%, Base Building 4.5%
- #35 Night is Coming
74% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: RTS 38.4%, Colony Sim 34.6% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 6.8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #36 My Colony
75% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.9% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Indie 2.7%
- #37 Oasis RTS
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spackogames
Windows
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: RTS 46.5%, Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 2.8%
- #38 Anthill Village
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lychee Game Labs
Windows
Now that ants have evolved thumbs, they're unstoppable! Help them build villages, scour the land for resources and fend off creatures 100 times their own size.
Why similar: RTS 37.4%, Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 6.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #39 Colonization Simulator
73% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8% ★, RTS 29.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 5.5%
- #40 Northgard: Definitive Edition
72% matchVery Positive85% of 68,002 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: RTS 44.3%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Base Building 5.1%
- #41 Venusville - Prologue
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: RTS 37.6%, Colony Sim 37% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 5.9%, Base Building 1.6%
- #42 The First Explorers®
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: RTS 39.2%, Colony Sim 36.2% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #43 Folklands
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, RTS 31.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 6.6%, Strategy 4%
- #44 Aven Colony
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 58.7% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 7%, Base Building 6.4%, Indie 1.2%
- #45 Venusville
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, RTS 25.5%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #46 Warrior Kings: Battles
71% matchVery Positive91% of 323 reviews2014
Dev: Black CactusPub: Strategy First
Windows
Warrior Kings: Battles maintains the excitement that made Warrior Kings a leading RTS. It is a stand-alone title that adds a new strategic and tactical dimension to the series.
Why similar: RTS 80.6%, Strategy 19.4%
- #47 Goblin Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, RTS 34.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 6.9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #48 Quriocity
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, RTS 27%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 7.2%, Strategy 5.5%
- #49 Survivors of the Wildstone
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, RTS 33.5%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 5.4%, Strategy 3.5%
- #50 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: RTS 38%, Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #51 Kingdoms Reborn
68% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 28%, RTS 20.6%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 4.4%
- #52 Field & Sky
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbitami Entertainment
Windows
Field & Sky is a realistic open-world homestead builder where you inherit family land and shape it into a thriving rural property. Build farms, raise livestock, connect to a nearby town, and explore your land from above or at ground level at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, RTS 37.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #53 The Great Beyond
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, RTS 36.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #54 Powerplay
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: RTS 40%, Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 5.7%
- #55 Empires:The Rise
68% matchMixed61% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: 阿龟与阿飞Pub: MZ Times
Windows
《Empries:The Rise》 is the a Cross-Platform Real-Time-Strategy (R.T.S.) game. Choose your nation and conquer those, who stand in your way!
Why similar: RTS 80.1%, Strategy 19.9%
- #56 Banished
66% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Colony Sim 56.9% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 6.3%, RTS 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
- #57 Hearthlands
67% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Colony Sim 38.1% ★, RTS 31.9%, City Builder 21.9%, Strategy 6%, Indie 2.2%
- #58 reconquest
67% matchMixed55% of 263 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows · Mac
Reconquest is a real-time strategy base building game. After World War III, mankind got close to extinction. You have to reconquer Earth by making better strategic decisions than your opponents.
Why similar: RTS 79.9%, Strategy 20.1%
- #59 Majesty 2 Collection
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,531 reviews2011
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes...
Why similar: RTS 76.1%, Strategy 16.4%, Base Building 7.5%