Games Like DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

★ IXION ★ SETTLEMENTS RISING ★ SURVIVING THE ABYSS ★ DIPLOMACY IS NOT AN OPTION: SHAREWARE ★ MAKE YOUR KINGDOM ★ ENDZONE - A WORLD APART ★ SETTLEMENT SURVIVAL ★ SURVIVING THE AFTERMATH ★ OXYGEN: FIRST BREATH ★ BANISHED ★ PYRAMIDA ★ BLACKSMITH MASTER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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IXION

79% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

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?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Inside a Starship
  • …Balance Six Sectors
  • …Explore Anomalous Worlds
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Settlements Rising

81% 👍 OF 436
About This Game

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.

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Surviving the Abyss

65% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Hold Back the Darkness
  • …Engineer Better Clones
  • …Explore by Submarine
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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware

92% 👍 OF 826
About This Game

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …face 25,000 enemies hitting your castle walls at once.
  • …freeze time mid-siege to breathe, reposition, and issue orders before unpausing into the chaos again.
  • …harvest soul crystals from the dead, build magical monuments, then fire beam spells and summon Dark Knights to clean up survivors.
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Make Your Kingdom

58% 👍 OF 197
About This Game

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

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Endzone - A World Apart

77% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Food and Water
  • …Protect Against Radiation
  • …Build a Scrap Settlement
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Settlement Survival

85% 👍 OF 8.1K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reshape Rivers and Lakes
  • …Build Long Production Chains
  • …Trade for Rare Blueprints
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Surviving the Aftermath

70% 👍 OF 4.6K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Survivor Colony
  • …Scout the Wasteland
  • …Establish Resource Outposts
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Oxygen: First Breath

89% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Keep the Oxygen Center Running
  • …Seal Toxic Cracks
  • …Prepare for Harsh Weather
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Banished

90% 👍 OF 43K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …accept nomads into a town hall and watch your food reserves collapse overnight.
  • …run out of tools and have your economy grind to a halt within a year.
  • …have a lone 22-year-old woman become the foundation of a town for 60 years.
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pyramida

84% 👍 OF 762
About This Game

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build the Pyramid
  • …Farm, Hunt, and Mine
  • …Assign Villager Jobs
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Blacksmith Master

84% 👍 OF 2.8K
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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Run a Medieval Forge
  • …Mine Ore and Timber
  • …Forge Weapons and Tools