Games like Hearth and Hamlet
by Phorust Studios
Kingdoms and Castles and Factory Town Idle play most like Hearth and Hamlet. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its city builder and resource management; 4 came out in the last year, 11 are free or under $10 and 1 has co-op. The best known is Cities: Skylines, with 227,313 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20, 2017 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Management
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👍 30,337Factory Town Idle
Jan 8, 2024 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Idler · Incremental · Resource Management
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
CasualIdlerIncrementalMinimalist2DResource ManagementFantasyCity BuilderAutomationColony Sim👍 1,235City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Relaxing
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 550Manor Lords
Apr 26, 2024 · Slavic Magic
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementSandboxResource ManagementBuilding👍 77,135Foundation
Jan 31, 2025 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Resource 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👍 23,073Idle Kingdom Builder
Nov 5, 2018 · NeoBird
Both: Incremental · City Builder · Idler
Idle Kingdom Builder 👑 Click to create your own kingdom! Coordinate, plan, build and extend your domain. Download the idle-game now and become king!
SimulationFree to PlayCasualIncrementalCity BuilderIdler2DCartoonColorfulBuildingTower Wizard
Jun 19, 2025 · Barribob
Both: Incremental · Idler · Resource Management
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
IncrementalIdlerResource ManagementStrategyFantasy2DPixel GraphicsColorfulBuildingMagic👍 8,799Cities: Skylines
Mar 10, 2015 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingManagementStrategySandboxSingleplayerEconomyModdableResource Management👍 227,313Microcivilization
Jan 22 · Ondrej Homola
Both: Incremental · Base Building · Resource Management
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
IncrementalBase BuildingResource Management4XHistoricalStrategyAutomationInventory ManagementCity BuilderMythology👍 1,437Against the Storm
Dec 8, 2023 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Building
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👍 33,367Spiritstead
Aug 6 · Turbo Dog Games
Both: City Builder · Incremental · Building
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
CozyCity BuilderIncrementalCuteAtmosphericBuildingManagementRelaxingSingleplayerIndie👍 154Farthest Frontier
Oct 23, 2025 · Crate Entertainment
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
BuildingCity BuilderStrategyMedievalResource ManagementAgricultureEconomyHistorical4XColony Sim👍 24,491Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24, 2023 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 65,457Castle Clicker : Idle City Tycoon
Oct 2, 2017 · Autotelic Games LLC
Both: Incremental · Building · City Builder
Castle Clicker is a more strategy focused clicking game that required you to think about how to manage your resources and build your city. If you're looking for a more in depth but still casual clicking game, this is for you!
Free to PlayIncrementalIndieCasualStrategySimulationBuildingCity Builder2DReal-TimeBanished
Feb 18, 2014 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Resource Management
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👍 37,903Kingdoms Reborn
Nov 2, 2020 · Earthshine
Both: City Builder · Base Building · Management
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingMultiplayerManagementStrategyCo-opEconomyResource ManagementMedieval👍 8,863Industry Idle
Sep 13, 2024 · FishPond
Both: Idler · Resource Management · Base Building
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
AutomationIdlerResource ManagementBase BuildingStrategyIncrementalSimulationCity BuilderBuildingTransportation
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