Games like MachiaVillain
by Wild Factor
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
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$14.99Dwelvers
Dec 19 · Rasmus Ljunggren
Both: Base Building · Villain Protagonist · Management
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Base BuildingVillain ProtagonistUndergroundManagementSandboxDarkFantasyMagicTop-DownBuilding👍 237
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Resource Management
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$24.99Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
Nov 15 · Artefacts Studio
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!
ManagementSimulationFunnySandboxReplay ValueBuildingBase BuildingMedievalFantasyStrategy👍 1,301
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: Base Building · Management · Building
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$4.99Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Mar 7 · Bullfrog Productions
Both: Villain Protagonist · Base Building
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
StrategyGod GameAction RPGSingleplayerReal Time TacticsActionVillain ProtagonistRTSClassicBase Building👍 1,253
$19.99KeeperRL
Feb 29 · Electric Succubi
Both: Villain Protagonist · Base Building
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
UndergroundSimulationRoguelikeVillain ProtagonistProcedural GenerationRetroModdableZombiesVampiresBase Building👍 1,677
-30%$17.49Infection Free Zone
Apr 11 · Jutsu Games
Both: Base Building · Management
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Early AccessBase BuildingPost-apocalypticZombiesCity BuilderStrategyManagementSurvivalSimulationRTS👍 16,573
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: Building · Management · Sandbox
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
-30%$7.69Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Oct 19 · Bone Nail
Both: Base Building
Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.
LovecraftianDating SimHorrorDarkCity BuilderVisual NovelJRPGSimulationBase BuildingCute👍 10,223
$19.99Blood Bar Tycoon
Feb 4 · Clever Trickster Studio, Clever Trickster Productions
Both: Building · Sandbox
Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!
SimulationCasualStrategyBuildingCity BuilderLife SimSandboxCozyFunnyComedy👍 773
$4.99The Kindeman Remedy
Nov 16 · Troglobytes Games
Both: Management · Villain Protagonist
The most blasphemous, diabolical and insane management game ever created. Aided by a lascivious nun in a grim prison, rig executions, conduct horrid experiments and do the unspeakable to cook up your cure-all: The Kindeman Remedy. Do not be afraid. This time, you're the monster.
Medical SimTime ManagementCrimeIncrementalManagementVillain ProtagonistPoint & Click2.5DNoirDark Humor👍 270
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-50%$7.49Dungeon Tycoon
Sep 25 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Management · Sandbox
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
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$9.99Black Forest
Sep 25 · Lemuria
Both: Base Building · Resource Management
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
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$4.99Dungeon Keeper Gold™
Mar 7 · Bullfrog Productions
Both: Villain Protagonist
Build your dungeon & protect it with a labyrinth of dark corridors, a web of deadly traps, an arsenal of powerful spells, and an army of bloodthirsty demons
RPGStrategyGod GameAction RPGReal Time TacticsSingleplayerVillain ProtagonistClassic1990'sRTS👍 591
$7.99Abyssal Breeder's Journal
Aug 27 · sasoriken-games
Both: Villain Protagonist · Management
A dark, text-and-pixel monster-breeding sim. Hatch abominations, train them with a TRPG card hand, and send them off to the surface for good. Stats and Traits inherit down two separate bloodlines, so every generation is a deliberate choice, not a reroll.
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-80%$3.39The Unliving
Oct 26 · RocketBrush Games
Both: Villain Protagonist
Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.
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$14.99Few Nights More
Jan 22 · Aeterna Ludi
Both: Base Building
Few Nights More is a roguelike turn-based RPG based in a world where Vampire Lords seek to conquer lost territories and their place in the world. Design and defend your stronghold, slay your enemies with traps, fulfill your Lord’s true potential, slowly conquering what is rightfully yours.
VampiresRPGRoguelikeTurn-Based StrategyBase BuildingSingleplayerTurn-Based Tactics2DIndieMedieval👍 385
$19.99Castle Craft
Apr 19 · Twin Earth
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
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