- #1 Island Dwellers
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Hex Grid 8.2% ★
- #2 As Far As The Eye
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,112 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Hex Grid 16% ★, 4X 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%
- #3 Critias Empire
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Hex Grid 11.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.5%
- #4 1492 - Colonization of the New World
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salty Olives
Windows · Linux
Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.
Why similar: 4X 37.1% ★, Colony Sim 25% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 8.6%, Grid-Based Movement 7.7%
- #5 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
94% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #6 Myriads: Renaissance
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Sleeping Eight Studio
Windows
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
Why similar: 4X 30.5% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Hex Grid 9.3% ★, Resource Management 8.8%
- #7 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
93% matchVery Positive89% of 696 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #8 Astro Protocol
92% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Null Vector Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Astro Protocol is a high-stakes, turn-based 4X space strategy game distilled into intense one-hour matches. Six factions, randomized maps, tech trees, and anomalies ensure every run is unique. Victories are earned against challenging opponents that play to win.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Hex Grid 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Grid-Based Movement 12.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #9 The Ancients
91% matchMixed58% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: GorillaSoftWorksPub: Camlann Games
Windows
The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.
Why similar: 4X 26.4% ★, Hex Grid 16% ★, Grid-Based Movement 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Nature 9.4%
- #10 MicroTown
91% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 19%, Hex Grid 12.1% ★, Resource Management 11%, Management 7.8%
- #11 Flora Domina
90% matchMixed58% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Dave Van VerdegemPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
In this unique take on turn-based 4X strategy, play as a nature goddess that defends her island by playing cards to use nature as your ally.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Hex Grid 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Nature 9.5%
- #12 Void Ascendancy
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #13 Windowed Realms
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Management 7.1%
- #14 Island Master
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Nature 8.4%
- #15 DeckTerra
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Murray Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
4X Deckbuilder where you harness magical spells to expand your empire. Make strategic decisions about what to construct in your cities to fend off enemies and conquer the map across infinite procedural landscapes. Play cards to take your empire from the stone age to the modern era and beyond!
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Hex Grid 17.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Resource Management 8%
- #16 Folk Emerging
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Curious Dynamics
Windows
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Nature 12.3%, Hex Grid 12% ★, Resource Management 7%
- #17 Build The Sun
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 31.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Nature 12.6%, Simulation 5.4%
- #18 BOC: Birth of Cultures
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code::Arts
Windows
BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Hex Grid 17.9% ★, City Builder 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
- #19 Shardorium
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turtle Speed Development
Windows · Mac · Linux
Indie turn-based strategy game. Capture the whole shard by defeating their guards, build your own stronghold, level up your heroes and equip most powerful items!
Why similar: Hex Grid 29.4% ★, 4X 24.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Grid-Based Movement 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.3%
- #20 Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars
83% matchPositive86% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare 2: Cephalopod Wars is the sequel to Wizard Warfare, a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer. Now includes fully simulated naval battles.
Why similar: 4X 37.6% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Hex Grid 18.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 5.6%
- #21 Burned Land
84% matchMixed56% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Koya Game
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, Hex Grid 14.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Perma Death 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 6.3%
- #22 Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
82% matchVery Positive88% of 1,626 reviews2022
Dev: The Secret Games CompanyPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #23 Ultakia
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Simon Alber
Windows
Ultakia is a turn-based space 4X strategy game with distinctive resource management. Explore exotic systems and acquire powerful technologies. Exploit your planets, trade with other races and destroy those who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 36.2% ★, Hex Grid 22.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 6.7%
- #24 Tracktopia
81% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: GalaDev
Windows
Tracktopia is a strategy game with city-building elements, where your city moves on tracks and serves as a super powerful unit. Expand it to boost production, advance technologies, and create smaller units to ultimately defeat the enemy nation!
Why similar: 4X 33.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Grid-Based Movement 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Turn-Based Combat 7.4%
- #25 Monarchs at Play
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MixedMoonGamesPub: Looking for Publisher
Windows
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Hex Grid 15.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #26 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
78% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #27 Pandora: First Contact
81% matchMixed63% of 638 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 52.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Hex Grid 14.2% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 4.5%
- #28 Blueprint Tycoon
79% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 8.1%
- #29 Seeds of Resilience
79% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Nature 11.6%, Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #30 It Takes a Tribe
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Cog
Windows · Linux
ITAT is a single-player strategy set in a harsh and mythical world before cities and civilization. Lead a tribe of hunter-gatherers to fulfil their destiny. Survive, explore, craft, perform rituals, design art and forge a cultural identity. What stories will your tribe tell?
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Hex Grid 9.8% ★, Grid-Based Movement 8.9%, Simulation 7.5%
- #31 Ymir
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5.1%
- #32 Dwarf Guild Mania
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: QuarkbluePub: Kennedy Publishing House
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Hex Grid 15.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Grid-Based Movement 10.1%
- #33 The Mystic
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: PipeDream
Windows
The Mystic is a dark fantasy, turn-based strategy game. Become a follower of the first gods, gain their favour, overthrow the High King by innovative combat and magic systems and establish harmony. The game offers an exciting campaign full of twists, battles and difficult decisions and multiplayer.
Why similar: 4X 42% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Hex Grid 15.4% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #34 HUMANKIND™
75% matchMixed69% of 28,231 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Hex Grid 9.2% ★
- #35 Cities Domination
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: D Green Games
Windows
Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Hex Grid 19.2% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Procedural Generation 6.6%
- #36 Fleeting World
76% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Nature 9.8%, Management 7.3%
- #37 Wild West Pioneers
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 6.2%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #38 Beard of Stone
74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Dwarfaparte Games
Windows
4x turn based strategy mixed with real time (turn stealing) bidding mechanics. Complete single player or competitive online matches with up to 4 players in a single sitting, while telling the history of a fantasy world from the creation of its continents to the twilight of its gods.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Hex Grid 18.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Strategy 6.6%, Turn-Based Combat 6.4%
- #39 Wild Haven
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IOGenisys LLC
Windows · Mac
A short, relaxing nature builder about restoring a broken world. Start with a small shrine, clean up the pollution, and expand your powers as you build. Strategically place wildlife and plants to restore the ecosystem and watch your forest grow!
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Nature 16.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 5.2%
- #40 Make the Empire Great Again
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Hex Grid 17.1% ★, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #41 Numbers & Nodes
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Resource Management 19.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.4%
- #42 Orc Colony
74% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #43 Pirate Plight
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #44 Powerplay
71% 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: 4X 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Simulation 5.8%
- #45 City Builder Pro
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.5%
- #46 Rise And Grind!
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 6%
- #47 Ever War
69% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Utium Games
Windows
Ever War is a turn-based strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. This game combines empire-building, resource management and large-scale tactical turn-based battles.
Why similar: 4X 39.1% ★, Hex Grid 19.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.7%
- #48 Wizard Warfare
71% matchVery Positive98% of 60 reviews2019
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.
Why similar: 4X 48.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Hex Grid 12.6% ★, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Strategy 7.7%
- #49 Empis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyle Meadows
Windows
Empis is a turn-based strategy game that focuses on short and sweet multiplayer matches. Choose from individual factions each with their own unique units and upgrades, unlock technology, and build sprawling cities with buildings and fortifications.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, Hex Grid 22.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #50 Settler's Domain
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Procedural Generation 9%, Management 6.5%
- #51 Mini Gal4Xy
71% matchPositive84% of 38 reviews2019
Dev: Jérôme BodinPub: Le Studio des Ténèbres
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mini Gal4Xy is a light strategy game set in space.
Why similar: 4X 45.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 4.9%
- #52 HIVECRAFT
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dandelion.family
Windows · Mac
Breed bees, collect nectar and make honey! But remember that there may be a bear lurking nearby, who will not miss the opportunity to eat a sweet treat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Hex Grid 15.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 9.2%, Nature 8%
- #53 Havenreach: Last Refuge
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leonix Games Studio
Windows
Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.
Why similar: 4X 34.7% ★, Hex Grid 18% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #54 Humanica
66% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Nature 10%, Management 9.7%
- #55 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
66% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 10.5%, Nature 9.5%
- #56 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
69% 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: 4X 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Management 6.7%
- #57 Lands of Rumour
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.
Why similar: 4X 34.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Hex Grid 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Management 8%
- #58 Exogate Initiative
65% 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: 4X 27% ★, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 8.7%
- #59 Banished
67% 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 40.3% ★, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 5.3%