- #1 Flocking Hell
97% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Sextant Studios
Windows
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 25.5%, Deckbuilding 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Roguelite 9%
- #2 Endzone - A World Apart
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Survival 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 10.7%
- #3 Before the Snow
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wise Puppy
Windows · Mac · Linux
A charming strategic survival game where you build a village. Explore the island you have found yourself on, discover new technologies, but don’t forget to gather resources for harder times. Will you survive the freezing winter?
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Survival 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%
- #4 Frostpunk 2
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 27,213 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Survival 17.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%
- #5 Storm Settlers
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mullet Games
Windows
A survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Build, farm, research, clear sand and protect your people from the storms. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?
Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #6 Town of Tinysville
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 7Seven Studios
Windows · Mac
Town of Tinysville is a deck building roguelike set on tiny maps with huge stakes. Strategically place buildings, grow your deck, and master powerful synergies. Enhance your run using unique chance cards, landmarks, and powerful laws that permanently affect your town.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 29.2%, City Builder 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 11.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #7 Echo Harvest
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SchismProducts
Windows
Build settlements, command the Echoes of former lives, and race against a corruption consuming the world. Echo Harvest is a colony roguelite where every failed timeline becomes part of the history that shapes the next.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 16.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Survival 14.3%, Roguelite 12.9%
- #8 The Mayor’s Hand
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JustCodeIt
Windows
Build the city, manage resources and services, shape your deck, and face new pressures every quarter. In The Mayor’s Hand, every decision shapes your administration: keep Public Trust high and make it to election day.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Deckbuilding 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 10.7%
- #9 Vertical Kingdom
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Deckbuilding 16%, Base Building 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #10 BAIA
91% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 萌新所长
Windows
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #11 The Last Haven
90% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Survival 13.2%
- #12 Aquatico
89% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Underwater 18.9% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Strategy 9.1%
- #13 Coastal Kingdoms
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TW
Windows
Build and explore in this tile placing citybuilding roguelite!
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Strategy 18.5%, Deckbuilding 13.1%, Roguelite 11.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #14 Autolantis
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Find the Lamp Games
Windows
Welcome to Autolantis, a light roguelite strategy city builder where you rule an isolated continent and forge an empire of your own. Shape its future through Tiles, Workers, and Policies, unleash explosive automated production, and lead your empire to the pinnacle of civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Deckbuilding 25.4%, Resource Management 12%, Roguelite 12%, Strategy 10.6%
- #15 Life Below
86% matchVery Positive85% of 212 reviews2026
Dev: MegapopPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Underwater 16.7% ★, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%
- #16 Mermaid Colony
88% matchMixed60% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: M. HankaPub: Liu Lidan
Windows
Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.
Why similar: Underwater 22.9% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%
- #17 Hexfell
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tephra Games
Windows
Hexfell is a cozy strategy game about building tiny island landscapes using a deck of Tiles.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 33.7%, City Builder 31.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Procedural Generation 4.8%
- #18 Island of Embers
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes, and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research, and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive, or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 11%, Nature 9.9%
- #19 Into The Depths
83% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: SmelJey
Windows · Mac
A minimalistic mix of a roguelite city builder and a puzzle game. Assemble your deck, build an outpost and colonize the ever-changing caverns. Discover game-breaking synergies to push deeper into the Depths.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Deckbuilding 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 9%
- #20 Surviving the Aftermath
84% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Survival 16%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%
- #21 Civitatem
84% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
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 36.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 11.7%
- #22 Humanica
81% matchVery Positive94% of 215 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: City Builder 26.3%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #23 Bellfrost
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laserbread
Windows
A roguelike city builder where you lead an expedition to build settlements against the ice. Survive harsh winters, fulfill the needs of your villagers, and explore mystical locations with your heroes. Reclaim the realm one island at a time.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 12.2%, Roguelite 9.2%
- #24 Frostpunk
82% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Survival 16.9%, Resource Management 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Strategy 10.1%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 28.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 14.6%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 11.1%
- #26 Lanternia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skill Potion
Windows
Lanternia is a survival RTS with roguelite and deckbuilding elements. Build, defend, and expand the village in a dark wood, illuminated only with lanterns.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Deckbuilding 21%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #27 Fortuna
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Moon Pirates
Windows
Fortuna is a roguelite ressource manager with pixel art and a twist: You are a Fate Weaver whose loom seems to randomly weave the threads of destiny, like a slotmachine. But you can influence the Looms of Fate by overseeing your allotted Mortals’ villages and ensuring they have a prosperous life.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Deckbuilding 26%, Resource Management 16.3%, Roguelite 12.5%, Strategy 8.8%
- #28 Rise Against the Invaders
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #29 Seeds of Resilience
80% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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: City Builder 26.1%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Nature 10.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #30 Bunker Life
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameIn
Windows
Survive! You need resources. Explore and search items to live.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 25.9%, Survival 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 10.6%
- #31 Hear The Bell Toll
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Syphono4
Windows
A roguelike city-building game focused on short satisfying runs. Buy unique buildings from a shop, place them strategically and manage class synergies and statuses carefully to meet the tribute requirements and survive for 25 years!
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Deckbuilding 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 10.8%
- #32 Kingdom Fortress
78% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MartcororoPub: Dum Spiro Studios
Windows
Command powerful heroes in this turn-based, deck-building village defense game. Build strategic fortifications, deploy loyal troops, and protect settlements across the realm of Valora. Manage resources, unlock powerful cards, and lead your forces against the encroaching darkness.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Deckbuilding 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 12.4%
- #33 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
76% matchVery Positive89% of 639 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 32.3%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Nature 8.3%
- #34 Wood You Settle?!
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Furegus
Windows · Linux
Would You Settle?! is a short settlement-building strategy game that tasks you with growing a tribal settlement on an abandoned fantasy island. Expand your settlement, uncover the island's secrets and trade with locals fast enough to satisfy the Forest King.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Resource Management 17.1%, Strategy 17%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 7.8%
- #35 City of Cards
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grenoble Interactive
Windows
City of Cards takes the best aspects of City Builders and Deckbuilding Card Games, then fuses it into something completely new and innovative. Build cities, watch them thrive, respond to various exciting events, assemble your own custom deck and create your City of Cards!
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Deckbuilding 22.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 10.1%
- #36 Cardopolis
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PULSERIDERPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows
Cardopolis is card based city-builder, where you take on the role of Cardopolis' Mayor. Build up your city card by card, law by law, sector by sector and avoid meeting your investors' ire by reaching your goals in time!
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #37 Paradise Away
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Awakening Studio
Windows
Manage a group of survivals in this base building game set in a tropical island! Will you be able to escape from the island?
Why similar: Strategy 21.5%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 12%
- #38 Block Sprawl
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Koding Nights
Windows
A spatial puzzle strategy game where cards create building shapes. Fit them into tight, constrained grids, expand your city, and use cards to bend rules and unlock actions. Min-max adjacency, terrain, and line bonuses to meet ever-increasing city council demands and engineer massive combo turns.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Deckbuilding 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Roguelite 9.6%
- #39 Offshore Prophets
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Survival 12.2%, Roguelite 11.4%, Strategy 11%
- #40 Roots of Yggdrasil
73% matchVery Positive86% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: ManaVoid Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Deckbuilding 23.7%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #41 Islets Defense
71% matchVery Positive93% of 197 reviews2025
Dev: MiniGoofPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 29.5%, Resource Management 15.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%
- #42 Frostpunk: 1886
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Survival 14.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 11.6%
- #43 ArchOlden
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Possum
Windows
ArchOlden is a meditative puzzle-city-builder.
Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Strategy 18.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 9.1%, Roguelite 8.4%
- #44 Endzone 2
71% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #45 The Crab is Walking
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HypnoheadPub: tinyBuild
Windows
From the makers of The King Is Watching comes a roguelite city builder where your capital sits atop giant creatures. Piece together your city, rain fury with your armies and crab your way across post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Roguelite 10.4%
- #46 Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil
74% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Ascendancy Games
Windows
Be the mayor of this great old town! Construct buildings, recruit soldiers and send them to war. Will you be able to keep Altwaldheim safe?
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Roguelite 11.7%, Strategy 8.9%
- #47 Devouring City
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Survival 11.8%
- #48 IXION
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #49 United Penguin Kingdom
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Survival 17.3%, Resource Management 16.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Nature 5.5%
- #50 Demon Town Maker
69% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Zemon
Windows
A roguelike game blending city-building and resource management! Plan your constructions to generate military and fortify your defenses. Protect your city from waves of invading enemies, adapt your strategies, and overcome every challenge
Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Roguelite 15.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #51 SpellSlinger Towns
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Deckbuilding 21%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Roguelite 9.2%
- #52 Deep Rise
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Max Karnaukh
Windows
Colony management roguelite. After every combat, draft one of three cards to build your run. The surface world ended a thousand years ago. Now the road up is open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 24%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Roguelite 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%
- #53 Green Again
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%
- #54 Desert Ark
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AriesArgali
Windows
Desert Ark is a desert-greening strategy game. Under the protection of a spirit tree, you will build oases outward from the center of the world map, fending off periodic apocalyptic sandstorms.
Why similar: Strategy 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Roguelite 9.3%, Survival 9%
- #55 Chaos Islands
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirex Productions
Windows · Linux
Chaos Islands is a city-builder that unites deck-building and tower defense mechanics with roguelite elements. As the last bastion of humanity forced to escape to the skies to hide from invading forces of demons. Protect your settlement and do not let the evil forces pass.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Deckbuilding 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Roguelite 9.6%
- #56 Fortifend
66% matchPositive88% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Strategy 16.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
- #57 The Archaeologists
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Nature 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #58 Pico Topia
67% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: DNNIS
Windows
A tiny citybuilder where you combine tiles to gather points and unlock new ... tiles!
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Deckbuilding 11.3%, Nature 7.5%
- #59 Urban Forest
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sprouting Potato
Windows · Mac · Linux
Urban Forest is a city building deckbuilder. Use different cards to build up your city to gain support to win the mayor election.
Why similar: City Builder 42.3%, Deckbuilding 34.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Building 4.2%, 2D 2.1%
- #60 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
67% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Survival 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Building 8.1%