City builders like Mountaincore

Want something that feels replayable and retro the way Mountaincore does? These city builders line up well for what comes next.

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 and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing, Cute
81% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$21.99
Dwarf Fortress
Build a fortress inside a generated mountain and try to keep your dwarves alive through hunger, dragons and madness. You dig rooms, farm, brew beer, craft goods and raise taverns and temples, while a whole simulated world keeps moving around you. Losing is part of it, and the stories are worth it.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro
94% of 29,421 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 702$29.99
Stonehearth
Stonehearth gives city builder fans a small voxel settlement to grow into whatever you like: a trade city, a monastery, or a small empire with walls and warm beds. You keep bellies full, moods up, and raiders out while your hearthlings level up through jobs.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
76% of 10,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$19.99
Don't get lost
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Relaxing
78% of 479 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Beneath the Mountain
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
Replayable
64% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Craft The World
Direct a tribe of dwarves as they dig into a random island, raise a fortified home, and hold it against waves from monster portals. For city builder fans who like small colonies with crafting, defenses, and spells to back up the workers.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Cute
88% of 15,157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 421$18.99
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 and Survival crafting · Replayable
88% of 17,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,207$29.99
Gnomoria
Lead a handful of gnomes from a bare patch of wilderness to a stocked, walled kingdom. You dig, chop, craft, build and set traps, then spend your wealth to draw in more gnomads while keeping raiders out. A loose, replayable colony sim for city builder fans who like starting from nothing.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Retro, Cute
75% of 2,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Stonedeep
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
41% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Colony Survival
Colony Survival is a first-person city builder in a blocky voxel world where you found a colony, put colonists to work as farmers, miners, builders and guards, and hold off a monster horde every night. Grow food, research new jobs and weapons, and expand from slings to gunpowder. Steady, hands-on, and easy to lose an evening to.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
92% of 8,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 120$24.95
A Game of Dwarves
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Relaxing
64% of 370 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Outland Kingdoms
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable
72% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$24.99

Hidden gems like Mountaincore

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood is a city builder about mice founding an island colony under the paw of demanding cat overlords.

$29.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Grow a dozen villagers into a kingdom of thousands in this pixel-art colony sim.

$11.99

Havendock

Havendock is a cozy colony sim where you build a floating town in the middle of the ocean.

$19.99

Of Life and Land

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

$12.49

Odd Realm

Pick one of five races, claim a procedurally generated desert, island, tundra or mountain, and grow it into a kingdom that farms, fishes…

$19.99

Wild West Pioneers

Lead pioneers into the frontier and raise timber camps into stocked, decorated towns.

$19.99

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

Going Medieval

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

$29.99

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

AColony

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community.

$19.99

Farthest Frontier

Raise a medieval town from wild forest to walled city in Farthest Frontier.

$34.99

Newest city builders like Mountaincore

Wild West Pioneers

Lead pioneers into the frontier and raise timber camps into stocked, decorated towns.

$19.99

Folklands

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world.

$8.99

Settler's Domain

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands.

$12.49

CLOUD DWELLERS

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.

$9.99

Going Medieval

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

$29.99

Humanica

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

$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…

$14.99

Territory: Farming and Warfare

Grow a dozen villagers into a kingdom of thousands in this pixel-art colony sim.

$11.99

Pioneers of Pagonia

Lead your Pioneers across fog-covered isles, found settlements, and grow them into busy towns of thousands.

$20.99

Whiskerwood

Whiskerwood is a city builder about mice founding an island colony under the paw of demanding cat overlords.

$29.99

Farthest Frontier

Raise a medieval town from wild forest to walled city in Farthest Frontier.

$34.99

Noble Legacy

Noble Legacy puts you in charge of Greenwood in the years before the Norman Conquest, building a medieval settlement piece by piece.

$24.99