City builders like Foundation

Want something that feels relaxing and replayable the way Foundation does? Give these city builders a try when the craving hits.

City Tales - Medieval Era
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!
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
89% of 565 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Town to City
Build a 19th-century Mediterranean town and grow it into a prosperous city, with no grid forcing your hand. Place houses, shops, parks and winding streets where they look right, keep workers, artisans and the bourgeoisie happy, and expand into farming and tourism across multiple towns.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
97% of 6,376 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Also in Colony sim · Relaxing, Replayable
94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Also in Colony sim · Relaxing, Replayable
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Farthest Frontier
Raise a medieval town from wild forest to walled city in Farthest Frontier. You feed settlers through seasons, rot crops, cure plagues, and hold off raiders, all while 190 buildings and a deep farming system keep your to-do list full.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
86% of 24,709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
Hearth and Hamlet
Start with a campfire and grow it into a thriving medieval kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a cozy incremental city builder where you gather food, wood, stone and gold, assign workers, raise buildings from tents to castles, and research laws, trade and magic at a slow, relaxing pace.
Relaxing
79% of 2,391 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$7.99
Hearthlands
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Relaxing, Replayable
82% of 306 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Going Medieval
Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive. Going Medieval is a colony sim about turning that rough camp into a walled medieval town: raise multi-storey halls and workshops, feed temperamental settlers, and hold the gates when raiders come calling.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
88% of 17,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,164$22.49
County of Fortune
Found an entire medieval county, not just one town. Pick where each village goes, let rivers and resources decide what it becomes, and watch trade flow between settlements run by named mayors and rival noble houses. A relaxed, replayable builder where the whole region is your canvas.
Relaxing, Replayable, Atmospheric
80% of 210 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 326$22.49
Founders' Fortune
Founders' Fortune is a bright fantasy village builder where you raise a settlement from bare hands to walled town. You design every house plank by plank, grow seasonal crops, cook meals, trade, research, and keep each villager fed, housed, and in a decent mood while goblins and winter test your plans.
Also in Colony sim · Relaxing, Replayable
81% of 1,864 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$21.99
Settlement Survival
Lead a group of survivors and turn empty land into a lived-in medieval town. You place houses, farms, mines and workshops, keep food, water, heat and jobs balanced, and ride out seasons and disasters. Flexible building, terraforming and trade routes give city builder fans plenty to plan around.
Also in Colony sim · Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$19.99
Kingdoms and Castles
Grow a hamlet into a walled city with its own castle, then keep it fed, taxed, and standing through winter, plague, Vikings, and one fire-prone dragon. Simple to learn and easy to lose an evening to, this is a relaxed medieval city builder with real defenses to plan.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
93% of 30,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 676$19.99

Cheaper than Foundation

City Tales - Medieval Era

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid.

$22.99

Town to City

Build a 19th-century Mediterranean town and grow it into a prosperous city, with no grid forcing your hand.

$29.99

MicroTown

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

$9.99

Settlements Rising

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

$18.99

Hearth and Hamlet

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

$7.99

Hearthlands

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world.

$15.99

Going Medieval

Plague has emptied the world, and three travellers are yours to keep alive.

$22.49

County of Fortune

Place villages across a medieval landscape, grow them into cities, and weave trade between them.

$22.49

Founders' Fortune

Founders' Fortune is a bright fantasy village builder where you raise a settlement from bare hands to walled town.

$21.99

Settlement Survival

Lead a group of survivors and turn empty land into a lived-in medieval town.

$19.99

Kingdoms and Castles

Grow a hamlet into a walled city with its own castle, then keep it fed, taxed, and standing through winter, plague, Vikings, and one fire-prone…

$19.99

Lords and Villeins

A feudal city builder where you zone plots and set taxes while autonomous families run their own shops, own their goods, and haggle with each other.

$24.99

Hidden gems like Foundation

Humanica

Humanica starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones, and hungry settlers to feed and clothe.

$14.99

City Tales - Medieval Era

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid.

$22.99

Town to City

Build a 19th-century Mediterranean town and grow it into a prosperous city, with no grid forcing your hand.

$29.99

Let Them Trade

Found small cities on a wooden-tile map, set what each one makes, then skim taxes off the trade between them.

$17.99

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

A city builder set on steep mountainsides, where flat land is scarce and every production chain has to climb.

$12.49

Hearth and Hamlet

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

$7.99

ALL WILL FALL

Grow a flooded-world settlement into a tall ocean city where every beam has weight.

$22.49

Of Life and Land

Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.

$12.49

County of Fortune

Place villages across a medieval landscape, grow them into cities, and weave trade between them.

$22.49

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

$9.99

Outlanders

Outlanders is a cozy town-building strategy game where charming, hard-working folk build a simpler life with you.

$9.99

Settlements Rising

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

$18.99

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