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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Open World, Survival, Crafting, City Builder.

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Urban Survival is an open world Survival game, in a city setting. Survive the harsh elements of life on the streets. Find supplies for crafting make-shift weapons and shelters. Learn to cook using what you've got. Build a base of operations, grow your gang, and become a nomad king.

Reviews: 8 user reviews — 100% — of 8 reviews
Released: 2020-09-25
Developer: Helix Games
Genres: Action, Simulation, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2023
    Dev: Firedanger Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Legacy is open world of exploration, survival, crafting and city building. Start as a primitive and naked man or woman and build your character and tribe. You will pass traits on to your offspring and losing a tribe member in battle can have serious consequences. Your decisions will be your legacy.

    Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Economy 14.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.8%

  2. #2 It Takes a Village
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hoftware.io
    Windows

    It Takes a Village is a city-building RPG taking inspiration from games like Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing. Venture into a procedurally generated world filled with monsters, dungeons, and more as you collect resources to build up your village to push back the evil that infests your world.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 13.5%

  3. #3 Witching Well
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Shiitake Knights
    Windows

    Witching Well is a magic sandbox where you craft spells, explore, shape your surroundings, and play at your own pace. Collect ingredients, craft magic, meet unique creatures, and transform the world around you.

    Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Life Sim 19.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Physics 9.4%

  4. #4 Arcadia: The Crystal Wars
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Thoranar Gaming
    Windows

    Arcadia is an open-world, squad-based fusion of role playing and strategy, combining traditional RPG elements such as character skills, talents, quests, dungeons, and raids with strategic base-building, farming, and crafting.

    Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 11.2%

  5. #5 Coronation
    94% matchMixed66% of 105 reviews2021
    Dev: Twin Sword Studio
    Windows

    Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Real Time Tactics 22.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Action RPG 11%

  6. #6 Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Madnetic Games
    Windows

    Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!

    Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Life Sim 12.1%

  7. #7 Oxygen
    92% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 18.6%, Economy 13.9%, Survival 13%, Crafting 11.3%

  8. #8 Sengoku Dynasty
    91% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
    Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows
    Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

    Why similar: City Builder 26%, Life Sim 16.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12.1%

  9. #9 Pixel City
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ZCN Games
    Windows

    A fully pixelated city? Here, you take on the role of a penniless character, embarking on your life adventure starting in a rental house. You will try to survive, purchase, and interact ...And what else will you encounter??

    Why similar: Life Sim 28.2%, Open World 16.2%, Economy 14.9%, Perma Death 14.2%, Survival 10.8%

  10. #10 Medieval Businessman
    90% matchVery Positive98% of 128 reviews2024
    Dev: Teamey
    Windows

    Welcome to the Empty Patch of Land. Can you create your own beautiful kingdom here? In this strategy in real time you can build farms, taverns, barracks, and more.

    Why similar: Real Time Tactics 42.6%, City Builder 38.8%, Economy 18%, Singleplayer 0.6%

  11. #11 Survive the Fall
    89% matchMixed69% of 656 reviews2025
    Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

    Why similar: Real Time Tactics 19.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 12.1%

  12. #12 JOIN US
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Wolf Haus Games
    Windows

    Start a doomsday cult of your very own! Recruit followers, build your compound, customize your cult’s beliefs, and defeat enemies in this 1-4 player co-op, action-packed, open-world survival experience. Can you survive the Apocalypse?

    Why similar: Perma Death 17.5%, Economy 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.8%

  13. #13 Bellwright
    88% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
    Dev: Donkey Crew
    Windows
    Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

    Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 16.4%, Life Sim 12.5%

  14. #14 HARM Weather Warfare
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Aurora Studio
    Windows

    He is prepared to do anything to save himself and his daughter from the violent grasp of death. Face anomalies, solve the mystery of extreme weather changes and find the origin of a mysterious object. HARM is a survival FPP in which you will not only battle your own weakness but also face a brutal..

    Why similar: Life Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.3%

  15. #15 Street Life: It’s Mine Now!
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ling Chen
    Windows

    Homeless survival management game. Survive winter, pay debts, and avoid being a medical research guinea pig. Scavenge, repair, run a stall or shop for a legal living. Break in, steal, and sell on the black market. Or build a gang, recruit a crew, and fight street bullies. Choose your path. Survive.

    Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Life Sim 18.4%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Base Building 15.1%

  16. #16 Kai Yuan
    85% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2023
    Dev: Crown Game
    Windows

    This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.

    Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Base Building 24.6%, Real Time Tactics 19%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 6.9%

  17. #17 Ruin
    86% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2021
    Dev: Blue Ink Games
    Windows

    Ruin is an open world, top down fantasy survival game. Players control a group of units as they survive in a large world full of danger.

    Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 12.3%

  18. #18 Mega Fast Food: A Fast Food Simulator Game
    84% matchNegative15% of 20 reviews2024
    Dev: SimZone
    Windows

    Build and manage your own fast food store. Decide how your store will look like, hire the best staff, manage inventory, offer drive-thru, create your own custom food menu. Become the best and most popular fast food store in town!

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    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: LiteralNest
    Windows

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  20. #20 Break The Chain
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Devlo Games
    Windows

    You are chained… and the world is against you. Break the Chain is a puzzle solo and co-op experience that tests your intelligence and patience. Every chain you break brings you one step closer to freedom.

    Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Life Sim 19.9%, Economy 15.7%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 7.8%

  21. #21 Guild of Dragons
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Artcue
    Windows · Mac

    Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Base Building 16%, Survival 14.6%, Economy 14.5%, Open World 13.7%

  22. #22 Kings Shire
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Wombat Games
    Windows

    Build your dream castle and defend it against invaders in this unique building game with complex economy, in which every good is simulated.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Real Time Tactics 20.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 12.7%, Crafting 11%

  23. #23 Arbeiter
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Umigame Studios
    Windows

    Arbeiter is a survival-management game about working-class life. Form unions, spread your ideology, or carve your own path while dealing with hunger, stress, and fatigue. Can you change the system while counting every penny?

    Why similar: Economy 18.8%, Life Sim 17.7%, Open World 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 9.3%

  24. #24 Skyclimbers
    80% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paratope
    Windows

    Build your kingdom, choose your class, and tame monsters in this Multiplayer City-Building RPG that takes place in a procedurally generated anime-themed universe.

    Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 12.2%, Action RPG 11.7%, Open World 11.4%

  25. #25 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 531 reviews2021
    Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Real Time Tactics 20.3%, Economy 19.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 13.5%

  26. #26 Pocket City 2
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 128 reviews2025
    Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

    Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Economy 22.6%, Base Building 18.9%, Open World 11.8%, Cartoony 7.4%

  27. #27 Enshrouded
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
    Dev: Keen Games GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Open World 21.4%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 16.2%, Action RPG 9.7%

  28. #28 Cannibal Island: Survival
    78% matchMixed50% of 14 reviews2024
    Dev: EchoTale Games
    Windows

    It was a dark and stormy night when the helicopter had to make an emergency landing on an isolated island. Unfortunately for them, fate had a cruel twist in store. As the storm progressed, the chopper was violently tossed and turned until it landed on an isolated island shrouded in mystery.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Survival 23.1%, Crafting 22.3%, Loot 14.7%, Open World 12.6%

  29. #29 Oxygen: First Breath
    78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 22.5%, Economy 17.1%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 8.9%

  30. #30 Journey Of Life
    79% matchMixed56% of 754 reviews2021
    Dev: Hyperion Studio Limited
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.

    Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 15.2%, Open World 14.1%

  31. #31 Chinese Frontiers
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 485 reviews2025
    Dev: SolidGamesPub: Big Cheese Studio
    Windows

    Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

    Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Life Sim 17.3%, Crafting 16.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 11.3%

  32. #32 FarHearth
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: matchaserf
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 15%, Perma Death 14.5%, Crafting 12.6%

  33. #33 Doomsday School
    75% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
    Dev: Doomsday
    Windows

    This is an RPG survival game You will play a human in the zombie world, to survive and fight

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  34. #34 Bee Craft Sweet
    74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
    Dev: Ultimate.Games
    Windows

    Real-time simulation game of bees Can you survive?

    Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Real Time Tactics 18.2%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 6%

  35. #35 Monastery Builder
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SolidGames
    Windows

    Become a monk in a medieval European monastery. Be diligent with your duties, and develop and expand your friary. Learn plenty of useful skills and contribute to raising the standard of living for the local community.

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  36. #36 Frontier Roots
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MoroiGames
    Windows

    Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.

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  37. #37 ERRANTE
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2022
    Dev: Errant Interactive
    Windows

    This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.

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  38. #38 Last State
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Miroslav Sendlai
    Windows

    Survive the untamed wilderness in a world reclaimed by nature. Hunt, craft and explore across vast procedural landscapes. Build your shelter, master survival skills and forge your path in the ruins of civilization. Every choice matters. Will you thrive or merely survive?

    Why similar: Perma Death 24.9%, Base Building 24.2%, Life Sim 20.2%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 8.9%

  39. #39 Descending
    75% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: oldnag
    Windows

    Descending is a hardcore open world survival in which you are alone in a struggle for survival against these creatures. Please do not buy this unless you want to support further development of the game. There will be bugs and stuff broken.

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  40. #40 ContractVille
    71% matchVery Positive81% of 5,683 reviews2025
    Dev: MYM Games StudiosPub: FiftyEight Studios
    Windows
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!

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  41. #41 Pohinki Simulator
    71% matchMixed65% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: Niphilist Studios
    Windows

    Pohinki Simulator is a survival game set in a polish neighbourhood, where you need to explore the open world in search for trash in order to survive and gain power. Build structures, experiment with found items, and become the most powerful bum alive!

    Why similar: Perma Death 20%, Base Building 18.9%, Life Sim 18.8%, Survival 14.1%, Physics 11.1%

  42. #42 Farmman
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

    Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Economy 20.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12.2%

  43. #43 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Three-headed Giant
    Windows

    Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.

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  44. #44 Bee Craft
    72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
    Dev: Ultimate.Games
    Windows

    Real-time simulation game of bees Can you survive?

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  45. #45 Rustic City
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tiny Can of Brains
    Windows

    Design charming habitats for small quirky creatures in this relaxing citybuilder.

    Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Life Sim 28.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Character Customization 6.7%

  46. #46 Greenfeet Haven
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Owlycode makes games
    Windows

    A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.

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  47. #47 The Islands
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Trash Studios
    Windows

    An open-world survival game. Use your environment to craft items and structures. Physics based with weather and day/night. More than 50 different animals. Combat and non-combat activities fishing.

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  48. #48 Alek - The Lost Kingdom
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 403 reviews2021
    Dev: Jessy LemieuxPub: Blackmyers Studio
    Windows

    Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.

    Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Economy 18.1%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%

  49. #49 Sapiens
    69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

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  50. #50 UMeFate
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AntyVersum
    Windows

    Life sim community been long waiting for a game, where their input can influence their imaginary and dream world of life simulation. This may be as basics as house building, but going as complex like family and friends relations. Here game emphases on modding (i.e. lua) and performance.

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  51. #51 Delivery Boy
    68% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2024
    Dev: Poroshin Develop
    Windows

    Become the best courier in Crystal City and build your own delivery business. Explore a big city, complete tasks, collect resources and build your own delivery services.

    Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Open World 14.3%, Economy 13.6%, Crafting 13%

  52. #52 Of Peaks and Tides
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: CyancookGames
    Windows

    Step onto this vast ancient land shaped by intuitive physics, and form a new world born of your imagination. Explore solo or team up online with friends. Reforge the mortal realm devastated by divine wrath. Feel the world shift with your every move. Your lands await. Will you answer?

    Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Open World 20.2%, Survival 19%, Action RPG 15.4%, Base Building 12.7%

  53. #53 Mr. Prepper
    68% matchVery Positive80% of 5,315 reviews2021
    Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

    Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 17.6%, Life Sim 15.7%, Economy 14%

  54. #54 Pathless Woods
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
    Dev: AniYa Games Studio
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 15.5%

  55. #55 Ascent of Ashes
    66% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    Why similar: City Builder 23%, Real Time Tactics 22.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Survival 12.7%

  56. #56 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
    66% matchVery Positive86% of 9,888 reviews2023
    Dev: Firefly Studios
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Real Time Tactics 26.4%, Economy 16.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 8.5%

  57. #57 Noble Legacy
    65% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
    Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
    Windows

    Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?

    Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Economy 17%, Life Sim 16.9%, Base Building 12%, Open World 11.4%

  58. #58 Rogue Station
    67% matchMostly Positive78% of 228 reviews2023
    Dev: Quint Studio
    Windows

    This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Real Time Tactics 21.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Perma Death 17.3%, Survival 12.1%

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