The top results based on the latest update are Kingdom: Classic [Score: 3.6], The Wild Age [Score: 3.6] and Kingdom Two Crowns [Score: 3.2].
The top rated games you can find here are RimWorld [SteamPeek Rating: 11.1] ranked #22, Oxygen Not Included [SteamPeek Rating: 10.5] ranked #8 and Kenshi [SteamPeek Rating: 9.8] ranked #206.
Also don't forget to check the newest releases Colonials Programme [Release date: 2020-12-29] ranked #188, Hell Loop [Release date: 2020-12-23] ranked #99 and Ratropolis [Release date: 2020-12-22] ranked #158.
While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Kingdom Rush Frontiers [SteamPeek Rating: 8.0] ranked #52, Frostpunk [SteamPeek Rating: 9.8] ranked #57 and Make Your Kingdom: Prologue [SteamPeek Rating: 4.5] ranked #64.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
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Release date: 21 Oct, 2015
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
StrategyPixel GraphicsSurvivalColony Sim2DMedievalIndieSingleplayerTower DefenseSide ScrollerResource ManagementGreat SoundtrackCity BuilderSimulationRoguelikeAtmosphericCasualAdventureDifficultAction
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Release date: 4 Feb, 2020
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
StrategyIndieSurvivalColony SimBase BuildingSingleplayerTower DefenseSimulationBuildingMedievalExplorationFantasyAtmosphericRelaxingIsometricCasualRoguelikeShortActionCity Builder
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Release date: 11 Dec, 2018
In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of the Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise!
StrategyAdventureIndieSimulationPixel GraphicsColony SimCo-opMultiplayerBase BuildingLocal Co-Op2DSurvivalGreat SoundtrackTower DefenseSide ScrollerOnline Co-OpFantasyMedievalAtmosphericSingleplayer
Release date: Follow & Whishlist To Get Notified!
Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai is a fantasy survival strategy game set in Feudal Japan.Build your town, gather resources, explore new lands, trade with other cities and defend your town against the risen Yokai threat!
Side ScrollerColony SimCity BuilderSurvivalExplorationTower DefenseBase BuildingCraftingBuildingSandboxRTSStrategy2DSimulationMinimalistPixel GraphicsFantasyAtmosphericAdventureResource Management
Release date: Q3, 2021 - Wishlist & Follow
How good are you of a King? Villagedom is a city-builder / resource management game that will force you to make tough decisions about the development of your kingdom. Grow from a small village to a powerful Kingdom. Protect your citizens and slay your enemies. Be the King!
Side ScrollerColony SimBase BuildingExploration2DTower DefenseBuildingStrategyPixel GraphicsFantasyMedievalAdventureSingleplayerManagementEconomyIndieResource Management
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Release date: 14 Oct, 2019
A regularly updated, brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Tower DefenseColony SimCity BuilderStrategySurvivalPixel GraphicsBase BuildingSimulationGod GameIndieSandboxSingleplayer2DResource ManagementEarly AccessRetroRoguelikeGreat SoundtrackLevel EditorSoundtrack
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Release date: In 2021
Until We Die is a post-apocalyptic strategy game where the remains of survivors took refuge in the Moscow Underground after a global disaster. Command wards to gather supplies and turn an abandoned station into an impregnable fortress-colony capable of resisting any threat.
Tower DefensePixel GraphicsSide ScrollerSurvivalStrategyManagementLinearAtmosphericColony SimBase Building2DActionTutorialPost-apocalypticDarkBuildingSingleplayerIndieUndergroundResource Management
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Release date: 30 Jul, 2019
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalResource ManagementBuildingSingleplayerSimulationManagement2DSandboxStrategySpaceIndieSci-fiExplorationOpen WorldEarly AccessDifficultAdventureSpace Sim
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Release date: 21 Sep, 2020
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder where you start off as an insignificant colony and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a metropolis and empire. The mechanics are complex and true to life, where small events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms. Try the unlimited demo first!
Early AccessCity BuilderColony SimStrategySingleplayerBase BuildingGrand StrategySandboxBuilding2DRTSTop-DownSimulationPixel GraphicsCombatModdableSurvivalOpen WorldMedievalFantasy
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Release date: 30 Nov, 2017
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into a great 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 the battlefield.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalManagementBuildingSandboxResource ManagementCraftingStrategySingleplayerIndieSimulationCity BuilderMedievalTop-DownDifficultOpen World2DEarly AccessRPG
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Release date: 5 Feb, 2018
Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.
RPGAdventureIndieActionColony SimPixel GraphicsStrategySimulationSide Scroller2DBase BuildingSingleplayerCity BuilderPlatformerFantasyBuildingHack and SlashExploration
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Release date: 24 Nov, 2014
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress.Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
SandboxCraftingColony SimBuildingSurvivalStrategyIndieSimulation2DMultiplayerRPGSingleplayerOpen WorldCity BuilderResource ManagementFantasyAdventureGod GameTower DefenseSide Scroller
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Release date: 21 May, 2020
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
SimulationStrategyBase BuildingSpaceColony SimSandboxSurvivalSci-fiCity BuilderManagementIndieBuildingResource ManagementCraftingSingleplayerEarly AccessPixel Graphics2DIsometricExploration
Release date: 2021
Night is Coming is a survival, building and development simulation set in a fantasy world. It is inspired by Slavic mythology and the mystique of the Carpathian region. Build your settlement, nurture and protect your people, prepare for impending Darkness... And eventually save the world!
StrategySimulationRPGSurvivalTacticalMythologySingleplayerIndieBuildingBase BuildingExplorationTower DefenseCity BuilderColony SimTop-Down3DColorfulDemonsSupernaturalWerewolves
Release date: Coming Soon
Take on the role of the royal governor sent to rebuild and defend the destroyed border wall. Defend the border against invaders, prepare for a big battle. The barbarians are coming from the east!
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyMedievalRTSTower DefenseReal Time TacticsSurvivalSingleplayerManagementWarSimulationActionCity BuilderCombatStrategy RPGRealisticHistoricalGreat SoundtrackFunny
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Release date: 15 Mar, 2016
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
SurvivalPost-apocalypticBase BuildingPixel GraphicsStrategyManagementRPGResource ManagementBuildingIndie2DSimulationSingleplayerCraftingOpen WorldAdventureSide ScrollerDifficultHorrorEarly Access
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Release date: 23 Feb, 2016
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.
Colony SimSandboxCity BuilderStrategySimulationIndieBuildingSurvivalCraftingSingleplayerIsometricFantasyResource ManagementManagementPixel GraphicsRTSBase Building2DAddictiveEarly Access
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Release date: 21 Aug, 2020
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Colony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationIndieResource ManagementBase BuildingCity BuilderCraftingBuildingIsometricSingleplayerSequelFantasyMedieval
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Release date: 23 Nov, 2018
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Colony SimSimulationStrategySci-fiIndieSurvivalManagementSpaceBase BuildingSingleplayerEarly AccessKickstarterSandboxBuildingCraftingCrowdfundedRTS3DResource ManagementAtmospheric
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Release date: 15 Oct, 2015
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Colony SimCity BuilderBase BuildingSpaceStrategySurvivalSimulationSci-fiResource ManagementSingleplayerManagementBuildingIndieSandboxOpen WorldSpace SimRTSCraftingAdventureAtmospheric
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Release date: 2021
Village elder, help us! Build your village and lead your Pips to fight off hundreds of events in dotAGE, the merciless town builder. Roguelike meets turn-based village building. Will you reach the Apocalypse?
StrategySimulationIndieSingleplayerSurvivalRogueliteBase BuildingBuildingCuteTurn-BasedRetroPixel GraphicsDark HumorCity BuilderMedieval2DFunnyDifficultGreat Soundtrack
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Release date: 17 Oct, 2018
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategyManagementSandboxBuildingSimulationCity BuilderProcedural GenerationWesternSingleplayerSci-fiModdable2DIndieCartoonyTactical RPGSpaceOpen World
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Release date: 21 Oct, 2013
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
StrategyColony SimMedievalRTSBase BuildingClassicSimulationEconomyCity BuilderMultiplayerResource ManagementHistoricalSingleplayerAtmospheric2DGreat SoundtrackIsometricTower DefenseBuildingSandbox
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Release date: 2 Apr, 2020
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationSurvivalIndiePost-apocalypticBase BuildingBuildingSandboxColony SimEarly AccessSingleplayerManagementResource ManagementEconomyProcedural GenerationDifficultReal-TimeRealisticAtmospheric
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