City builders like Hell Architect

Hooked on the funny and dark side of Hell Architect? Browse these city builders for your next favorite.

Sintopia
Sintopia puts you in middle management at Hell Incorporated, running a punishment facility that processes sinful souls for profit. You build purification lines, hire imployees, and prod the living Overworld along so the dead keep arriving. A colorful, retro-styled strategy sim with a bureaucratic sense of humor.
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Dark, Replayable
80% of 986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$34.99
The HELL
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Dark, Replayable, Surreal
70% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Ruinarch
Ruinarch flips city builders upside down: instead of founding a town, you torment one. Villages grow, trade and bicker on their own while you play a bored evil god, seeding rumors, curses and monsters until the whole soap opera burns. Worth playing to watch a living settlement unravel because you nudged it.
Also in Colony sim · Funny, Dark, Brutal
62% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Prison Architect
Prison Architect hands you an empty plot and asks you to build a working prison, from cell blocks and canteens to guards, schedules, and reform programs. Get the balance wrong and expect floods, fires, fights, and full-blown riots. Get it right and watch your strange little society run.
Also in Colony sim and Tycoon · Dark, Replayable
84% of 63,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 540$29.99
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 · Dark, Replayable
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
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 · Dark, Replayable, Retro
87% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
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 Prophecy throws poison, disease, earthquakes, and kittens at it. Assign workers, chain dozens of resources, and rebuild smarter each run. Cute pixels, mean odds.
Also in Colony sim · Funny, Replayable, Retro
95% of 2,579 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59
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 · Replayable, Retro
94% of 676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
SteamWorld Build
Build a Steambot town on a dying planet, then dig under it to find the tech that gets you off. SteamWorld Build pairs relaxed city-building with hand-dug mines, puzzles and treasure, wrapped in colorful hand-drawn art and a Western-flavored soundtrack.
83% of 1,906 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
MicroTown
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Retro
94% of 446 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
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

Cheaper than Hell Architect

The HELL

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster.

$9.99

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…

$19.99

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.

$14.99

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

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

MicroTown

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

$9.99

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…

$11.99

pyramida

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

$2.99

Pile Up!

"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different…

$9.99

Settlement Survival

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

$19.99

Empire Architect

Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure.

$14.99

Outlanders

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

$9.99

Hidden gems like Hell Architect

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

Fill Up The Hole

Build a village with one civic duty: make trash and throw it in the hole.

$2.99

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

Craftlings

Guide a village of tireless little workers through handcrafted puzzle levels, one production chain at a time.

$19.99

Sintopia

Sintopia puts you in middle management at Hell Incorporated, running a punishment facility that processes sinful souls for profit.

$34.99

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

ALL WILL FALL

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

$22.49

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

Worshippers of Cthulhu

Lead the Cult of Cthulhu and build island cities to wake your god.

$24.99

Cataclismo

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

$29.99

Outlanders

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

$9.99

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