Games Like Whiskerwood

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core theme of managing a mouse civilization with a focus on complex economic systems and colony survival.

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: Diplomacy 10.2% ★, Grand Strategy 9.8% ★, 4X 9.6% ★, Colony Sim 9.1%, Moddable 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of fantasy-themed colony building and intricate production chains that require constant adaptation.

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 9.9% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Diplomacy 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 9.3%, Moddable 7.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same sense of rivalry and survival against larger threats by focusing on insect colony management.

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 21%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Whiskerwood, this game features an industrious animal society that must engineer its environment to survive harsh conditions.

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: Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, City Builder 13%, Historical 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Diplomacy 6.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a grounded, historical city-building experience with deep production chains and strategic depth.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Moddable 14.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Survival 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, it provides the deep emergent storytelling and management depth found in Whiskerwood.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.7%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled simulation depth and complex base-building mechanics that will appeal to fans of Whiskerwood's intricate systems.

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: Colony Sim 16.2%, Moddable 14.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Historical 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that excels in base-building and vertical construction, mirroring the architectural challenges of Whiskerwood.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: 4X 13.5% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Grand Strategy 12.6% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Moddable 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: It allows for massive scale colony management with complex social simulations and deep economic systems.

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 28.7%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers an organic approach to city-building that emphasizes the growth and development of your population.

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: 4X 15.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Building 9.9%, Historical 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging city-builder that focuses on survival, resource management, and the constant threat of environmental hazards.

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: Grand Strategy 10.2% ★, 4X 10.2% ★, Colony Sim 10%, Moddable 8.4% ★, City Builder 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval kingdom sim that focuses heavily on the social dynamics and management of your population.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 11% ★, Colony Sim 10.2%, City Builder 9.5%, Diplomacy 8.1% ★, 4X 7.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: For those who love the complex production chains of Whiskerwood, this game offers the most detailed economic simulation available.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Building 19%, Sandbox 17.9%, Open World 14.6%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes historical living and resource management in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

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: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical city-builder that challenges players to manage resources across different mountain altitudes.

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 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces players to make difficult moral choices to keep their society alive.

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: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 21.4%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique creature-based city-building mechanic that requires careful balance and resource management.

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: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 20%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.5%, Survival 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that focuses on agriculture and managing the needs of your growing population.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 27.3%, Survival 7.5%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that established many of the resource management tropes found in modern colony sims.

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that offers a similar sense of discovery and building in a fantasy world.

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: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 9.3% ★, Economy 7.2%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a strong focus on social management and research trees that dictate your colony's growth.

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 25.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Building 12.8%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based colony sim that features a unique aesthetic and deep management mechanics centered on surviving the apocalypse.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 13.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony sim that blends management with RPG elements, allowing for deep interaction with your subjects.

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: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel colony sim that emphasizes building and defending your settlement from various threats.

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 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Historical 10.4%, Base Building 9%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that focuses on realistic construction and complex economic interactions.

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Historical 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes the relationship between your settlement and the surrounding nature.

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: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.2%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter, more accessible city-builder that still provides satisfying base-building and defense mechanics.

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: Grand Strategy 10% ★, Diplomacy 9.4% ★, 4X 9.2% ★, Colony Sim 9%, City Builder 8.1%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.7%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that allows for competitive or cooperative development of your civilization.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4%, Moddable 12.2% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 8.6%

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes exploration and managing the unique needs of survivors.

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 15%, Moddable 14.9% ★, Historical 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A historical survival city-builder that focuses on the development of early human societies.

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Building 10%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: 4X 19.8% ★, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Historical 10.6%

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 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Management 8.3%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 9.7%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Diplomacy 10.5% ★, Grand Strategy 9.9% ★, 4X 9.5% ★, Colony Sim 9%, Moddable 8% ★

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: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 27.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7.1%, Survival 6.1%

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: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 9.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 9%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Diplomacy 24.2% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%

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: Diplomacy 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 8.8%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 6.3%

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: Diplomacy 13.8% ★, 4X 13.2% ★, Grand Strategy 12.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.3%, City Builder 10.6%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Economy 18.8%, Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 12.5%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Diplomacy 16.1% ★, Economy 8.2%, Sandbox 8%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 29.6%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Survival 8.7%, Historical 8%, Sandbox 5%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, Economy 14.1%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 11.1%

Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Historical 9.1%, Economy 8.3%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Moddable 8.8% ★

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 7.8%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Historical 14.7%, Economy 14.6%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Historical 11.2%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.3%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: 4X 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.5%

Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.7%