Games Like Rise to Ruins

Rise to Ruins

A 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.

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Kingdom Two Crowns

90% 👍 OF 39K
About This Game

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …prepare an assault force, enter a portal, and set off a bomb that destroys the cliff portal and permanently changes the island.
  • …swap to a different monarch mid-run by paying coins at a stained-glass building, and each one has a unique power.
  • …turn into a swarm of bats and zip across the land at high speed.
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Guardians of the Sanctree

75% 👍 OF 376
About This Game

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

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Drill Core

85% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Direct Miners Underground
  • …Build Shaft Turrets
  • …Defend the Drill
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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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Goblins of Elderstone

73% 👍 OF 403
About This Game

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?

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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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DarkSwitch

78% 👍 OF 785
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Tree City
  • …Light the Fog
  • …Connect City Layers
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

92% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …crank the map scale up to battles with up to 10,000 units, then defend your walls while massive armies and siege engines collide.
  • …snowball a whole mission by setting up the market to auto buy and sell, then turning a slow start into instant domination.
  • …play timed trails where you start behind, stabilize your economy under a clock, and grind through hours-long back-and-forth wars.