- #1 Infection Free Zone
97% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Zombies 12.6%, Time Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #2 After Inc: Revival
96% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.9% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Zombies 11.2%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #3 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
96% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.
Why similar: Zombies 52.5%, Simulation 33.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #4 Rebirth evolution
95% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.9% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Zombies 12.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #5 Cartel Tycoon
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: City Builder 50.7%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Resource Management 8.5%, Action 7.8%
- #6 Zombie Cure Lab
94% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Time Management 24.3%, Zombies 15.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.6%
- #7 Zombie Graveyard Simulator
93% matchVery Positive90% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!
Why similar: Zombies 45.4%, Simulation 31.3%, Action 14.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #8 The Walking Trade
92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,435 reviews2026
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.
Why similar: Simulation 60.4%, Zombies 20.8%, Stylized 18.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #9 Industries of Titan
91% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Tactical 12.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #10 Software Inc.
91% matchVery Positive94% of 7,637 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Time Management 53.5%, Simulation 26.7%, Strategy 19.8%
- #11 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
90% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Outbreak Sim 39.2% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Zombies 13.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 7.8%
- #12 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
89% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.6% ★, Time Management 22.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 4.1%, Resource Management 1.4%
- #13 Post-Apo Builder
88% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.7% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Time Management 17.9%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 4.7%
- #14 GhostControl Inc.
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 179 reviews2014
Dev: bumblebeePub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Develop your own strategy and build your business well.
Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Tactical 33.6%, Simulation 30.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #15 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,463 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Crime 53.8%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #16 Widget Inc.
86% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Time Management 54.8%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 12.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #17 Bastide
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 346 reviews2020
Dev: MedievalNexus
Windows
Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.
Why similar: City Builder 45.7%, Strategy 23.7%, Simulation 21.3%, Action 9.3%
- #18 Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue
85% matchVery Positive88% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue!
Why similar: Zombies 36.8%, Simulation 28.8%, Stylized 17.2%, Action 15.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #19 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Octo Games studio
Windows
Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!
Why similar: Zombies 31.2%, Action-Adventure 24.3%, Simulation 22.3%, Action 12.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #20 City of Gangsters
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,534 reviews2021
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
Why similar: Crime 61.1%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #21 Exogate Initiative
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Aliens 20.4%, Tactical 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 10.3%
- #22 Dustland Delivery
81% matchVery Positive88% of 1,154 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Strategy 32.5%, Zombies 32.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #23 Schedule I
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 288,530 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Crime 53.7%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Action 6.2%
- #24 SimPocalypse
82% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Time Management 29.8%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #25 Dead Unending
82% matchMixed46% of 117 reviews2023
Dev: Tyler HudsonPub: Tylario
Windows
A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?
Why similar: Zombies 38.8%, Action-Adventure 27.9%, Stylized 18.4%, Action 14.9%
- #26 DEADCRAFT
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 153 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Farm the dead to stay alive in DEADCRAFT, a new twist on the zombie survival-action genre! As a half-zombie, grow an army of loyal undead followers and build an arsenal to equip them to take revenge on the rulers of humanity's last city.
Why similar: Zombies 39.5%, Simulation 23.8%, Action 16.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Stylized 9.2%
- #27 Decision: Red Daze
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 872 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 57.2%, Action 21.7%, Strategy 18.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #28 Portobugia
78% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2024
Dev: Bogland Studio
Windows
Portobugia is a management/survival/inspection game where you manage a port and must supply a city with goods and food. To do so you must unload boats, but, be careful, some of them could be infected! You will also face difficult events, to fight them, you can upgrade, construct and research!
Why similar: City Builder 43.8%, Time Management 26.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Resource Management 6.2%, Stylized 5.4%
- #29 The Last Haven
79% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Strategy 32.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Zombies 8.2%, Resource Management 4.6%
- #30 Evil Labs
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.5% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #31 Drill Core
74% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Aliens 13.9%, Stylized 11%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #32 Surviving the Aftermath
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 56.9%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Tactical 3.8%, Resource Management 0.6%
- #33 SteamWorld Build
75% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 71.9%, Strategy 17.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #34 Rise of Industry 2
75% matchMixed67% of 198 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Tactical 20.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #35 Life Inc.
73% matchVery Positive91% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Sergio Garcia
Windows
💼 Start broke. Build an empire. Climb the career ladder, invest in stocks and real estate, or launch your own business from scratch. Every decision shapes your destiny. Millionaire or bankrupt—you decide.
Why similar: Time Management 53.7%, Simulation 33.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 3.8%
- #36 Community Inc
78% matchMostly Negative40% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: T4 InteractivePub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit. Yes, that's right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too.
Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Simulation 27.9%, Strategy 27.3%
- #37 Flesh Eaters
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead
Why similar: Zombies 46.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Action 20.7%, Tactical 10.7%
- #38 City Defense Z
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 300 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Why similar: Time Management 35.3%, Zombies 20.5%, Tactical 16.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Action 7.2%
- #39 Incident Commander
76% matchMixed49% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: BreakAway Games
Windows · Mac
Sudden disaster has put the town at risk, and you are the Incident Commander! It is up to you to control the responder teams who can stop the growing threat and save the community. The mayor is watching. Can you keep the public safe and stay within budget?
Why similar: Tactical 34.3%, Strategy 32.7%, Simulation 30.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #40 Horror Tycoon
74% matchMixed62% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Smidge Games LLC
Windows
Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.
Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Strategy 26.9%, Simulation 24.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Singleplayer 2%
- #41 Dead Engine
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
Why similar: Zombies 51.3%, Strategy 29%, Action 17.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #42 Mech Engineer
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 902 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Strategy 25.2%, Simulation 24.9%, 2.5D 22.8%, Stylized 13.8%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #43 Rise of Industry
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 54.8%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 18%, Resource Management 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #44 Settlements Rising
70% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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 56.4%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Stylized 7.3%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #45 NecroCity
72% matchMixed52% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: City Builder 57.6%, Strategy 19.1%, Zombies 14.1%, Tactical 8.2%, Singleplayer 1%
- #46 Embers of the Night
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 巨浪游戏
Windows
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.5% ★, Zombies 17.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Action-Adventure 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #47 Desynced
66% matchVery Positive81% of 1,825 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #48 Urbek City Builder
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 60.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 16%, Resource Management 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #49 AdvertCity
73% matchMixed53% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: VoxelStorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A cyberpunk advertising tycoon game. Explore a massive procedural city, and plaster your adverts all over it. Float around cyberspace and post links online. Watch the economy of the city evolve with the effects of your decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 22.4%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #50 Republic of Pirates
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 476 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Time Management 24%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 11.3%, Tactical 7.1%
- #51 T-Minus 30
68% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 39.7%, Time Management 22.4%, 2.5D 13.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.7%
- #52 Valand
69% matchMixed66% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: LOMS Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Valand is a Viking Age city builder. With your own strength you have to rebuild the whole settlement and bring it to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 57.5%, Simulation 18.7%, Tactical 13.5%, Action 10.3%
- #53 Dev Inc
70% matchMixed60% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: Huntah
Windows
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Time Management 62.8%, Simulation 29.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #54 Jurassic World Evolution
67% matchVery Positive87% of 54,890 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Simulation 24.9%, Strategy 21.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Resource Management 3.9%
- #55 Moonshine Inc.
69% matchMixed65% of 205 reviews2022
Dev: Klabater
Windows
We love moonshin’. Now, you get to play a story-rich management game focused on crafting moonshine, brandy, whisky, and vodka. You’ll ferment, distill, then name your booze how you want it. You’ll run that business big. Smart, yet discreetly. Cause ain’t nothin’ illegal... ‘til you get caught!
Why similar: Crime 70.5%, Strategy 29.5%
- #56 Project AURA
70% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 48%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 16.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #57 Project Hospital
67% matchVery Positive89% of 9,018 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: City Builder 57.6%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Stylized 9.4%, Resource Management 3.2%
- #58 Bio Inc. Redemption
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,788 reviews2018
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 68.3% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Zombies 10%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #59 Military Incremental Complex
63% matchVery Positive85% of 627 reviews2025
Dev: Space Kraken Studios
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.
Why similar: Simulation 54.3%, Strategy 28.8%, Resource Management 16.9%
- #60 Power to the People
66% matchVery Positive82% of 543 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
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