City builders like Emberwake

Miss the retro and tense pull of Emberwake? Give these city builders a try when the craving hits.

pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
84% of 710 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
68% of 362 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Night is Coming
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark, Replayable
59% of 387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Replayable
94% of 676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.74
Black Forest
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?
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark, Replayable
33% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
MIGLORN
Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Replayable
70% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Rise to Ruins
Rise to Ruins is a pixel-art village sim with a day-night split: build and feed your settlement by day, hold off monster waves by night. You place homes, farms and workshops, raise walls and towers, recruit guards and golems, and lend a hand with godlike powers. Losing is part of the plan.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
87% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$14.99
Nested Lands
Nested Lands is a dark medieval settlement RPG where you rescue survivors, give them roles, and grow a plague-ravaged village into something that lasts. You gather, craft, farm, and defend through harsh weather and winter, alone or in online co-op. Grim, demanding, and full of consequence.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark, Replayable
74% of 535 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Whispers in the Forest
Whispers in the Forest is a single-player base defense strategy game where you must build, upgrade, and defend your base against demonic creatures in a cursed forest. Manage your resources, lead your troops, and survive the darkness of the night as you fight to protect your only hope for salvation.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
65% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
A medieval keep under siege, and you are not the army but the civilians keeping it alive. You build workshops, stretch food, craft arrows and bandages, then sneak through the occupied city at night for scraps. Grim, tight, and absorbing for city builder fans who like survival logistics.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark, Replayable
80% of 1,380 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$24.99
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
A colony sim set after the gates of hell opened. You settle survivors in an isolated valley, raise farms, workshops and spike walls, then send teams out to scavenge while demons press closer. For city builder fans who want their building plan to double as a survival plan.
Also in Colony sim · Tense, Dark, Replayable
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
76% of 213 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99

Cheaper than Emberwake

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

BEACONFALL

A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management.

$3.24

ShoreTiles

Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game.

$6.99

Timber and Stone

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world.

$4.99

Monsters are Coming!

Monsters are Coming! puts your city on wheels and rolls it straight through monster country.

$8.99

Hearth and Hamlet

Start with a campfire and grow it into a thriving medieval kingdom.

$7.99

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Brave Village

This is a casual adventure simulation game where you'll manage a small village and explore dark mines.

$4.99

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a dark city builder about keeping the last city on Earth alive through an endless winter.

$29.99

Demon Town Maker

A roguelike game blending city-building and resource management! Plan your constructions to generate military and fortify your defenses.

$2.99

Amber Trail

Amber trail is a pixel art 2D side scrolling real time strategy mixed with hack'n slash action.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Emberwake

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

Hearth and Hamlet

Start with a campfire and grow it into a thriving medieval kingdom.

$7.99

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

$34.99

dotAGE

dotAGE is a turn-based city builder with roguelite bones: you lead a handful of Pips into an empty valley and grow a medieval village while the…

$17.59

Cataclismo

Cataclismo is a city builder where every house, quarry and wall exists to hold back the Mist.

$29.99

Monsters are Coming!

Monsters are Coming! puts your city on wheels and rolls it straight through monster country.

$8.99

Settlements Rising

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.

$18.99

ShoreTiles

Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game.

$6.99

Becastled

Build a sunny medieval town by day, then hold its walls against Moon Beasts by night.

$19.99

Nested Lands

Nested Lands is a dark medieval settlement RPG where you rescue survivors, give them roles, and grow a plague-ravaged village into something that…

$14.99

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

$9.99

New Cycle

You found a small settlement and grow it toward an industrial metropolis, balancing food, water, tools, clothes, health and work while sandstorms…

$29.99

Newest city builders like Emberwake