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Ostriv

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.

★ HUMANICA ★ SETTLEMENT SURVIVAL ★ LAND OF THE VIKINGS ★ PATRON ★ BLACKSMITH MASTER ★ NORLAND ★ OF LIFE AND LAND ★ CELESTIAL EMPIRE: PROLOGUE ★ BANISHED ★ TIMBERBORN ★ MAKE YOUR KINGDOM: PROLOGUE ★ WHISKERWOOD ★ WE ♥ IT 
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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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Land of the Vikings

73% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Gridless Villages
  • …Match Vikings to Jobs
  • …Stock Up for Winter
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Patron

72% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Social Policies
  • …Prepare for Winter
  • …Build Production Chains
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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
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Norland

82% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Medieval Town
  • …Manage Noble Rivalries
  • …Direct Peasant Work
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Of Life and Land

86% 👍 OF 365
About This Game

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

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Celestial Empire: Prologue

86% 👍 OF 427
About This Game

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

REL Sep 10, 2025 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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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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Timberborn

96% 👍 OF 25K
About This Game

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build a dam so high you flood half the map and most of your village.
  • …dig canals and blast new channels with explosives to create artificial lakes that carry you through week-long droughts.
  • …replace most of your workforce with robot beavers that run factories and mines 24/7.
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Make Your Kingdom: Prologue

77% 👍 OF 411
About This Game

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game where you need to survive, revive and develop a settlement. You are a founder of a new settlement! Choose the best way to develop and achieve your goals. Find a way to win the people's favor by satisfying their needs.

REL Apr 30, 2020 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Whiskerwood

92% 👍 OF 3.8K
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.

Player reviews say 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.