Games Like Wizdom Academy

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Economy 15%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Immersive Sim 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the most direct thematic match, focusing on building and managing a magical academy with unique student progression.

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Management 18.4%, Building 15%, Sandbox 13.9%, Economy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most robust school management mechanics, focusing on curriculum, student needs, and facility expansion.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 11.9%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the core management loop of building a school, hiring staff, and balancing the needs of a growing student body.

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Building 15.5%, Management 14.9%, Economy 14%, Base Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: A perfect blend of magic-themed building and colony management that mirrors the aesthetic and gameplay loop of Wizdom Academy.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 23.9%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 13%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more comedic, it provides the definitive experience for managing a university campus with specialized rooms and student satisfaction.

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 21.6% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Economy 11%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar architectural freedom and colony management style set in a medieval world that feels grounded and immersive.

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 23.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy colony-sim that emphasizes leadership and decision-making, allowing you to shape the lives of your subjects.

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: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines medieval city-building with complex character management and social dynamics that mirror the recruitment aspects of Wizdom Academy.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 9.1%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that focuses on building a thriving settlement with unique management challenges.

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 30% ★, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 10%, Moddable 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, providing the deep resource management and emergent storytelling that drives the genre.

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 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Building 10.2%, Economy 10.2%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a specialized crafting facility, mirroring the resource and production loops of Wizdom Academy.

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: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity medieval city-building experience with strategic elements that reward careful planning and expansion.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-sim heavily inspired by Chinese mythology that features deep magic systems and character development.

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 20.2% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Building 10%, Management 9.3%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that requires complex logistics and vertical expansion, challenging your ability to manage space effectively.

A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 20%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A magic-focused management game that emphasizes sandbox play and cozy, creative building.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Building 12%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational blueprint for facility management games, focusing on layout, security, and the daily routines of inhabitants.

Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.

Why similar: Management 52.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Automation 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a dark fantasy setting with management and strategy elements centered around a magical school.

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 47.1% ★, Building 23.5%, Sandbox 20.8%, Simulation 7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that focuses on survival and family management, sharing the meticulous resource planning found in Wizdom Academy.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Economy 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, fantasy-themed city builder that captures the whimsical spirit of managing a growing community.

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 35.3% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that balances building, resource gathering, and the personal needs of your settlers.

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: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 13.3%, Building 11%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that focuses on economy and survival in a challenging environment.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim that allows for deep customization and character-driven progression.

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: Colony Sim 17% ★, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.7%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that offers immense depth in building and managing a thriving gnomish settlement.

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 21.9% ★, Real-Time 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes survival and infrastructure management.

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: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10.5%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony builder that requires careful resource management to overcome environmental challenges.

School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.

Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Building 16.4%, Management 13.7%, Economy 12.1%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused simulation game that tasks you with building and running a successful school.

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a dungeon, providing a unique twist on the colony-sim genre.

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 25.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Building 13%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 7.7%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 11.9%, Management 11.3%

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 31.7%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Management 10.3%, Economy 10%, Building 9.6%

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the management of individual human needs and societal growth.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.4%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Economy 12.8%, Management 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%

Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!

Why similar: City Builder 15%, Building 14.9%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.7%

"Soul Academy" is an academy simulator with automatic battle MOBA. You will manage a shabby soul academy, recruiting and training students. Your ultimate goal is to challenge various academies across the continent and reach the top.

Why similar: City Builder 29%, Building 23.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Building 11.3%, Economy 11.3%, Management 9.2%

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 26.6%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.3%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 15%, Grand Strategy 14.8% ★, Economy 9.5%, Management 8.7%

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 23% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.3%, Immersive Sim 9.1%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 10.4%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9%

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: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%

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 23.6%, Economy 18%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 14.6%, Management 14.1%

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: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Management 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Economy 9.6%

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: City Builder 24.4%, Management 20.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Economy 16.4%, Base Building 11.6%

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: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 18%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.1%

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: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.8% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Economy 9.3%, Building 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 26.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 21% ★, Grand Strategy 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.6%

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 15.4%, Automation 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Economy 13.3%, Management 11.3%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Immersive Sim 10.9%

Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.

Why similar: Management 44.8%, Economy 40.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 5.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%

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 19.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Management 10.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Automation 9.6%

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: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 12.4%, Management 12%, Base Building 11.3%

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 28.1% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Economy 9%, Building 8.2%, Management 8%

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 23.5% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.7%

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 16.7%, Management 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.5%