Games Like Vertical Kingdom

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Card Game 19%, City Builder 17.9%, Management 12.5%, Roguelite 10.4%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of using cards to manage resources and build structures in a compact, satisfying loop.

Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Card Game 14.5%, Building 13.3%, Deckbuilding 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that uses card-based mechanics to build and manage a growing city.

Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Deckbuilding 19.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with roguelite deckbuilding mechanics, requiring careful planning to expand your civilization.

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Base Building 23.5%, Building 17.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the verticality and sky-bound theme of the seed game, focusing on managing a mobile, elevated city.

Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.

Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Deckbuilding 25.5%, Card Game 17.3%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: An early pioneer of the card-based city-building genre that emphasizes strategic placement and deck management.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A premier roguelite city-builder that forces players to adapt to changing conditions and resource constraints.

A unique blend of base- and deckbuilding wrapped in a medieval fantasy universe and humorous plot. Build and defend your towers using magical cards. Win artifacts to obtain immense power. Complete challenges, adapt to RNG and conditions of five worlds to become a master wizard!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 16.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Card Game 14.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features card-based base building with a focus on managing vertical tower layouts and resource efficiency.

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Deckbuilding 13.4%, Card Game 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that tasks you with building and defending a city against waves of enemies.

Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 16.6%, Base Building 13%, Roguelite 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on card-based farming and resource management, offering a similar 'building through cards' experience.

Rebuild your kingdom and explore a vibrant fantasy world in this roguelite city builder. Defeat hordes of monsters with a unique team of defenders as you harvest, build, mine, cook, brew, and grow. But if your defenses should fail, be prepared to watch it all burn!

Why similar: Card Game 29.9%, Deckbuilding 28.5%, Roguelite 20.8%, Strategy 9.6%, 2D 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends roguelite strategy with kingdom management, emphasizing tactical decision-making.

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Roguelite 18%, Resource Management 15.1%, Management 9.2%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that emphasizes adapting your structures to unique environments and challenges.

A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Cozy 18.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.2%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling city-builder that shares the cozy, pixel-art aesthetic and focus on building a unique settlement.

As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Card Game 11.6%, Roguelite 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense and city-building, requiring you to fortify your settlement against incoming threats.

Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Deckbuilding 14.9%, Card Game 14%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A compact city-builder that utilizes deckbuilding mechanics to drive the growth of your settlement.

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Roguelite 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses dice as a central mechanic for city management, providing a similar tactical, turn-based feel to card-based builders.

This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.

Why similar: Card Game 32.1%, Roguelite 24.4%, Deckbuilding 17.6%, Strategy 13%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based strategy game that focuses on the political and management aspects of running a city.

A unique roguelike card-based tower defense game. Strategically place cards, manage resource transport, balance production with combat, and craft distinctive decks to claim victory.

Why similar: Card Game 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Roguelite 13.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses card-based mechanics to manage logistics and defense, fitting the strategic profile of the seed game.

A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Building 15.2%, Roguelite 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that uses turn-based combat and resource gathering to fuel your expansion.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 50%, Building 31.4%, Cute 11.3%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Perfect for players who enjoy the pure, creative joy of vertical building without the pressure of resource management.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: City Builder 41%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Resource Management 20.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing tile-placement strategy game that rewards careful spatial planning and pattern recognition.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Resource Management 16.9%, Management 16.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you build a city on the back of a giant creature.

Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Card Game 18.5%, Deckbuilding 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based survival and management game that shares the aesthetic and strategic depth of the seed game.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Resource Management 15.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Cute 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An environmental city-builder that focuses on restoration and strategic placement rather than traditional expansion.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful resource management and strategic expansion in a harsh environment.

The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?

Why similar: Card Game 27.9%, Deckbuilding 25.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Roguelite 17.3%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that emphasizes tactical combat and base management in a challenging environment.

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Resource Management 20.4%, Building 19.5%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical tower management and resource allocation in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Urban Cards is a roguelike capitalist deckbuilder. Play your cards right, steal from your opponents, build your business, and amass a fortune to win!

Why similar: Card Game 26.2%, Deckbuilding 24.9%, Roguelite 21.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based management game that focuses on the economic side of city building and resource flow.

This is a DBG Game! By choosing various cards to add to the deck, your majesty needs to make wise decisions to cope with the effects of different years and dynastic changes. This huge and beautiful country is on your shoulder. Long live your majesty!

Why similar: Trading Card Game 21.5% ★, Card Game 16.1%, Deckbuilding 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based management game where you make strategic decisions to keep your kingdom afloat.

HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.

Why similar: Wholesome 23% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Deckbuilding 13.2%, Cozy 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, wholesome colony sim that focuses on efficient village layout and growth.

Flocking Hell is a deeply strategic roguelite where you defend your pasture from demonic invasion. It blends calm exploration with auto-battler combat, offering a mix of easy-to-learn mechanics and thought-provoking gameplay. It also has a LOT of sheep 🐑😈

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Deckbuilding 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Roguelite 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that incorporates city-building elements with a unique, fast-paced card-based progression.

Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Card Game 21.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%

Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Card Game 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%

Islets Defense is a turn-based tower defense game in which you build a small village to gather resources and defend your castle. Carefully plan your actions, as each move brings the enemy waves closer! Strategize building placements and play your cards wisely, as timing and order are key.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Card Game 17.5%, Management 10.9%, Roguelite 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%

Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

Why similar: Card Game 25.2%, Deckbuilding 22.6%, Roguelite 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%

From cropland to forest, from academy to conqueror's guild, expand territory of your kingdom. As the kingdom grows, crises will quietly arise. No worries: prepare to use the resource cards to train a group of powerful guardians to eliminate enemies and protect your kingdom.

Why similar: Card Game 35.2%, Strategy 17.3%, Roguelite 15.2%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%

"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 14.8%, Roguelite 13.2%, Management 11.5%

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 17.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Card Game 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Building 10.6%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 13%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 10.8%

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 23.3%, Card Game 21.9%, Roguelite 16%, City Builder 13.3%, Survival 9.8%

A hardcore roguelite card game where deck-building strategies are at the core of everything! With a vast array of cards, random dungeons, a wealth of encounter events, and diverse enemies, it awaits your exploration and challenge.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 29.3%, Card Game 24.2%, Trading Card Game 22.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Strategy 7.8%

A unique roguelike deckbuilder + base-building tower defense game. Build powerful defenses in the last bastion of light, fend off relentless waves of darkness, and protect the final goddess!

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Card Game 15.5%, Deckbuilding 14.5%, Roguelite 10.8%

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 47.2%, Base Building 20.7%, Building 16.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Indie 1.4%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Deckbuilding 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Strategy 7.3%

A new sensation!? City-building × Roguelike game *Super Tax City*. Choose and place your favorite facilities from randomly drawn options! The combinations are endless! Create a profitable city that's uniquely yours!

Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Deckbuilding 29.4%, Roguelite 19.9%, Resource Management 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%

Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.

Why similar: Card Game 32.5%, Deckbuilding 27.9%, Roguelite 19.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Cute 4.4%

Castle Cardians fused card games,roguelike and real time colony defense together. Build your powerful deck, defend the castle and beat invaders.

Why similar: Trading Card Game 25.2% ★, Card Game 22.1%, Deckbuilding 22%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Strategy 7.4%

The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Deckbuilding 13.6%, Roguelite 12.9%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Roguelite 30.1%, Building 18%, Strategy 15.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.1%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 11.5%

We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!

Why similar: Card Game 28%, Deckbuilding 23.9%, Roguelite 15.2%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 7.4%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 32.3%, Strategy 12.3%, City Builder 11.4%, 2D 4%

Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Card Game 19.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Deckbuilding 12.9%, Management 6.8%

Craft a legendary deck and lead your troops to protect the Kingdom for the glory of the Han Dynasty in this fast-paced deck-building strategy roguelike. The Kingdom is on the verge of disaster against the Yellow Turbans rebellion, and only you – and your skills as a general – stand in their way!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 26.5%, Card Game 25.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Roguelite 15.9%, Strategy 7.9%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Building 13.6%, Management 12.4%

Discover the ultimate farming roguelike experience! Build, craft, and grow your farm to pay off the increasing rent. No slow-paced walking or social distractions—just click! Reclaim the joy of strategic farming in diverse maps and let your cursor guide you to success. Play your way, rent won’t wait!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12.3%, Roguelite 12.2%

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 33.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 9%