Games like Mind Over Magic
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Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
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$24.99Spellcaster University
Jun 15 · Sneaky Yak Studio
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
MagicSimulationColony SimBase BuildingManagementImmersive SimSingleplayerEconomyChoices Matter3D👍 3,424
$29.99Dwarf Fortress
Dec 6 · Bay 12 Games
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
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👍 29,308
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: Colony Sim · Building · Survival
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👍 257
$19.99Academia : School Simulator
Jan 28 · Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Both: Management · Colony Sim · Base Building
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
ManagementCity BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSimulationBuildingCapitalismEconomyStrategySandbox👍 2,844
-10%$4.49Gridmax
2 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · Survival · Management
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-80%$4.99As Far As The Eye
Sep 10 · Unexpected
Both: Building · Colony Sim · Survival
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
StrategyBuildingColony SimCity BuilderTurn-Based StrategyTabletopSandboxSingleplayerSurvivalHex Grid👍 1,642
$9.99Castle Story
Aug 17 · Sauropod Studio
Both: Colony Sim · Building · Survival
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Colony SimStrategyBuildingSandboxMultiplayerSurvivalOpen World Survival CraftIndieTower DefenseSingleplayer👍 9,281
$24.99Noble Fates
Dec 14 · Xobermon, LLC
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderSandboxCharacter CustomizationBase BuildingStrategy3DTop-DownManagement👍 1,385
$34.99Pioneers of Pagonia
Dec 11 · Envision Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Base Building · Management
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
StrategyResource ManagementColony SimOnline Co-OpFantasyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementProcedural GenerationPvE👍 4,794
$24.99Len's Island
Jun 19 · Flow Studio
Both: Survival · Building · Crafting
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalFarmingBuildingDungeon CrawlerOpen WorldNatureCraftingSandboxExploration👍 5,936
$11.99Rogue AI Simulator
Jan 11 · Nerdook Productions
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Building
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
SimulationResource ManagementArtificial IntelligencePolitical SimGod GameBase BuildingColony SimRPGBuildingManagement👍 364
$24.99Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Nov 24 · GSQ Games
Both: Colony Sim · Survival
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
SimulationMartial ArtsRPGSandboxStrategyMythologyXianxiaColony SimSurvivalWuxia👍 19,113
$19.99Potion Tycoon
Oct 4 · Snowhound Games
Both: Management · Building
Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!
ManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxShop KeeperStrategyMagicEconomyAutomationResource Management👍 629
$29.99War for the Overworld
Apr 2 · Brightrock Games
Both: Base Building · Management
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
CultBase BuildingDungeon CrawlerSandboxManagementDark ComedyOld SchoolSimulationGod GameStrategy👍 6,495
$29.99SpellForce: Conquest of Eo
Feb 3 · Owned by Gravity
Both: Tactical RPG · Crafting
On a journey to great magical might, explore and control the lands of Eo in this ever-changing turn-based strategy role-playing game. Field armies and heroes in tactical combat, finish hundreds of quests, and gather spells and artefacts to become the most powerful mage of all.
StrategyRPGTurn-Based StrategyTactical RPGGrand StrategyStrategy RPG3DFantasyTop-DownCrafting👍 2,149
$19.99Sorcerer King: Rivals
Sep 22 · Stardock Entertainment
Both: Tactical RPG · Building
Explore a rich fantasy world, go on quests for powerful weapons, and forge a new civilization in Sorcerer King: Rivals. Can you build a civilization to topple the malevolent Sorcerer King and become a god yourself?
4XTactical RPGGrand StrategySandboxPvETurn-BasedTurn-Based StrategyStrategy RPGBuildingCharacter Customization👍 255
$24.99AutoForge
Mar 27 · Siege Games
Both: Base Building · Crafting · Building
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Early AccessAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSandboxCraftingBuildingProcedural GenerationExplorationMultiplayer👍 439
-60%$7.99Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Dec 13 · niceplay games
Both: Crafting · Management
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
CraftingSingleplayerRelaxingSimulationMedievalManagementIndie2DResource ManagementSandbox👍 37,896