Games like Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
by Suncrash
Timberborn and Factory Town play most like Dream Engines: Nomad Cities. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its city builder, sandbox and base building; 5 came out in the last year and 1 is free or under $10. The best known is Frostpunk, with 114,568 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Automation
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.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,914Factory Town
Nov 17, 2021 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxSimulationCraftingManagementCity BuilderColony SimEconomy👍 4,148Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13, 2019 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Sandbox
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257Frostpunk
Apr 24, 2018 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Survival · Base Building
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
City BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementStrategyPost-apocalypticSteampunkColony SimBuildingBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 114,568Banished
Feb 18, 2014 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Survival · Sandbox
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.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,903Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Automation · Base Building · Sandbox
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationBase BuildingProgrammingSandboxCity BuilderSci-fiRTSMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,886Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Base Building · Survival · Management
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,054Flotsam
Dec 4, 2025 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · City Builder
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimSandboxCity BuilderResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,323The Colonists
Oct 24, 2018 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Automation · Management
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052Against the Storm
Dec 8, 2023 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
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.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingBuildingGrand StrategyManagementResource ManagementHistoricalColony Sim👍 33,367Dwarf Fortress
Dec 6, 2022 · Bay 12 Games
Both: Base Building · City Builder · Sandbox
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
DwarvesColony SimBase BuildingSimulationCity BuilderStrategySandboxManagementBuildingSurvival👍 29,330Oxygen
Apr 7, 2023 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Survival
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyCity BuilderBase BuildingSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimSandbox3DRealistic👍 834Settlement Survival
Oct 24, 2022 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Survival · Management
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.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,712Foundation
Jan 31, 2025 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxManagementResource ManagementBuildingRelaxingEconomy👍 23,073MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Automation · Base Building · Procedural Generation
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20, 2017 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Management · Sandbox
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.
City BuilderColony SimResource ManagementManagementSimulationStrategySandboxBuildingBase BuildingEconomy👍 30,337Dawn of Man
Mar 1, 2019 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Survival · Sandbox
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,107Ancient Cities
Mar 24, 2023 · Uncasual Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Procedural Generation
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
StrategyCity BuilderSurvivalHistoricalSimulationProcedural GenerationRealisticImmersive SimRelaxingModdable👍 1,909
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