Games Like Valhalla Hills

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 52.4%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Fantasy 7.7%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the mastermind behind The Settlers, this game offers the ultimate modern experience for fans of classic supply-chain management.

The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!

Why similar: City Builder 47.6%, Strategy 26.6%, Vikings 25.6% ★, Singleplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same creative lineage, this game shares the exact management DNA and Viking charm of the seed game.

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: City Builder 40.1%, Vikings 31.1% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the Viking theme while adding a layer of strategic territory expansion and clan management.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Vikings 42.7% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Mythology 11.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on colony survival and Viking-era resource management.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 66.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Management 3.8%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an organic, grid-less approach to city-building that emphasizes the needs of individual villagers, much like the seed game.

Let yourself be enchanted by the new world of Settlers with this modernized History Edition – in the midst of green forests and lush meadows, it will bustle again. You alone hold the fate of your kingdom in your hands. Which strategy will you choose?

Why similar: City Builder 67.5%, Strategy 32.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a primary inspiration for Valhalla Hills, this title provides the definitive classic city-building experience.

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Vikings 64.6% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Fantasy 5%, Management 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends beautiful Viking aesthetics with base-building and strategic combat in a way that feels very familiar.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 65.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Indie 2.9%, Management 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for survival-focused city builders, it captures the same struggle to keep a small population alive in harsh conditions.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 65.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 6.5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the intricate management of resources and population needs, mirroring the core loop of Valhalla Hills.

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

Why similar: City Builder 55.1%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style management game that focuses on the daily lives and needs of your citizens as they build a new home.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 64.1%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the lighthearted, accessible art style and focus on building a sustainable kingdom against environmental threats.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: City Builder 56%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Management 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep colony simulation experience with a focus on survival and architectural planning in a medieval setting.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 66.7%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 11%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: While featuring beavers, the core mechanics of vertical building and complex resource management are a perfect fit for fans of the genre.

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: City Builder 72.2%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 1.5%, Management 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder tracks the progression of a tribe through the ages, emphasizing the same struggle for survival found in the seed game.

A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.

Why similar: City Builder 58.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Indie 5.7%, Fantasy 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city-building with fantasy elements, providing a similar lighthearted management experience.

Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.

Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 19.1%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval survival city-builder that requires careful management of your villagers' needs to ensure the colony survives.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: City Builder 71.4%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 1.4%, Management 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the harsh realities of survival and resource management in a medieval setting.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 58.9%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 13%, Management 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly realistic and deep simulation of village life that will appeal to players who enjoy the management aspects of the seed game.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 64.1%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 8%, Management 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city builder that requires you to manage the happiness and needs of your citizens, much like the pathfinding and needs-based system in the seed game.

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 51.5%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 15.3%, Indie 6.3%, Management 3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist medieval city-builder that focuses on the core mechanics of gathering resources and expanding your settlement.

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 44.7%, Mythology 21.8%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 11%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a traditional city-building experience with a focus on historical progression and management.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Simulation 65.5%, Management 29.9%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more of a life-sim, it captures the Viking-era atmosphere and the satisfaction of building a settlement from the ground up.

SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.

Why similar: City Builder 46.1%, Strategy 26.3%, Simulation 19.5%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a relaxing but challenging colony management experience with a focus on historical production chains.

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

Why similar: City Builder 58%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 4.8%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down city builder that emphasizes survival and strategic planning in a harsh environment.

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 50.3%, Strategy 22.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 5.5%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city builder that tasks you with building a colony in a challenging environment.

Arrange Viking villages in the islands to expand their domains, in this logic puzzle game! After years of battles, a group of Vikings decided to conquer new lands. Under the protection of the god Njord, a new clan sets out in search of glory!

Why similar: Vikings 52.2% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Fantasy 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines Viking themes with puzzle-like city-building mechanics, offering a unique take on the genre.

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

Why similar: City Builder 61.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Indie 4.5%, Management 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: While steampunk-themed, it is a classic-style city builder that rewards careful planning and resource management.

Solve the mystery surrounding the 8th Wonder of the World with your heroes and banish evil from the Earth! Play this RTS-Classic.

Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Strategy 31.7%, Vikings 26.8% ★

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Strategy 22.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Vikings 12.7% ★, Singleplayer 0.3%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Strategy 33%, Simulation 23.3%, Indie 9.6%

This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.

Why similar: City Builder 57.4%, Strategy 21.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Indie 6.1%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: City Builder 56.1%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 15%, Management 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 58.8%, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Vikings 44.8% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 57.7%, Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 57.5%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Management 6.8%, Singleplayer 1%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: City Builder 55.6%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.

Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Mythology 25.2%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 4.8%

Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.

Why similar: Strategy 49.6%, Simulation 36%, Indie 14.4%

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 73.5%, Simulation 21.5%, Management 5%

Exciting adventures of young Ingolf await you! New story filled with magic, treachery and brave feats. Are you ready?

Why similar: Vikings 57.4% ★, Strategy 25.7%, Simulation 17%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: City Builder 67.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 2.2%, Management 1.8%

A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.

Why similar: City Builder 54%, Strategy 22.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 6.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 55.3%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 5.7%, Indie 3.4%

Sons of Valhalla is a roguelike strategy game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses, gather warriors, and lay siege to enemy strongholds, engaging in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.

Why similar: Strategy 49.4%, Simulation 32.9%, Fantasy 15.7%, Singleplayer 2%

Lead a fearless horde of Viking dwarves, strengthen them with legendary equipment, conquer unknown lands, and witness the colossal destruction they leave behind. How far will you be able to take your warriors? The journey to glory begins now!

Why similar: Vikings 76.8% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Fantasy 6.3%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 68.7%, Strategy 24.5%, Indie 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

Why similar: City Builder 46%, Strategy 18.4%, Mythology 15.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Indie 4.6%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 62.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Management 6.3%, Indie 3.3%

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: City Builder 42.3%, Mythology 25.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 5.2%

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 24.3%, Simulation 16%, Management 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 69.9%, Strategy 23.1%, Management 7%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: City Builder 47%, Strategy 30.2%, Simulation 21.4%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: City Builder 64.3%, Strategy 20.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Vikings 39.9% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Management 3%, Singleplayer 0.4%