Games Like Songs of Syx

Songs of Syx

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. 

★ NORLAND ★ WHISKERWOOD ★ KINGDOMS AND CASTLES ★ EMPIRES OF THE UNDERGROWTH ★ AGAINST THE STORM ★ NOVA ROMA ★ WORKERS & RESOURCES: SOVIET REPUBLIC ★ YMIR ★ MANOR LORDS ★ SOLARGENE ★ HEART OF THE MACHINE ★ BLACKSMITH MASTER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Whiskerwood

93% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …flatten land, carve mountains apart, and dump stone into the ocean to create new farmland.
  • …use smuggling schemes and tax-evasion loopholes to avoid paying the cats.
  • …follow one specific mouse's commute, then rebuild your trains and elevators so that single daily route runs better.
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Kingdoms and Castles

94% 👍 OF 20K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …build castle walls and towers block by block, then stack them absurdly high to mount long-range weapons on top.
  • …watch a dragon fly over your fortifications and burn your fields or granary from the middle of town.
  • …toggle archer and ballista jobs right before an attack so villagers man the defenses, then turn them off to stop paying garrisons.
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Empires of the Undergrowth

94% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …build living pontoons out of ants to cross gaps and scale huge creatures in later missions.
  • …stage ridiculous arena fights like one American bullfrog versus 1,000 ants just to see what happens.
  • …steal and mix traits from other ant species, building hybrid armies as you unlock new genetics through missions.
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Against the Storm

95% 👍 OF 36K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …pause anytime, pick up most buildings, and relocate them without penalty to rebuild your whole layout mid-crisis.
  • …open a new glade and immediately get stuck with a timed curse or ruin you have to deal with.
  • …draft only a few random buildings each run, even if they don't match what you can currently make.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

91% 👍 OF 26K
About This Game

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.

In this game, you can…

  • …turn building a single asphalt road into an end-to-end chain: quarry gravel, mine coal, generate power, refine oil into bitumen, then feed an asphalt plant and coordinate pavers and trucks.
  • …trace one barrel of oil from distant pumps to trains, through storage tanks and a refinery, then split it into fuel for stations and bitumen for asphalt.
  • …sell oil, build and sell planes, fly in tourists from either side of the border, and turn that revenue into a fully self-sufficient republic.
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Heart of the Machine

92% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

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.

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Blacksmith Master

83% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

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.