City builders like Ratopia

Want something that feels cute and colorful the way Ratopia does? These city builders could fill that gap nicely.

Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is a city builder about mice founding an island colony under the paw of demanding cat overlords. You raise housing and workshops, link farms, mines and kitchens into long production chains, and pay the cats their due while keeping your own mice fed, warm and rested.
Also in Colony sim · Cute, Replayable
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 819$29.99
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 · Colorful, Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$19.99
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 · Colorful, Replayable
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Dream Town Island
Found a town on an empty island and grow it house by house into a place people live their whole lives in. You place shops and homes for combo bonuses, reclaim land from the sea, and watch residents find jobs, marry, and raise kids who stay on.
Cute, Colorful, Replayable
95% of 496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$12.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Also in Colony sim · Cute, Colorful, Replayable
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Banished
You lead a group of exiles with little more than clothes and a cart of supplies. You raise homes, farms and workshops in the wilderness, and keep every villager fed, warm and healthy as generations are born and grow old. There is no money and no tech tree, only work, weather and hard choices.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99
Citizens: Far Lands
Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!
Cute, Colorful, Replayable
73% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Citystate II
Build a whole nation one city at a time, up to 64 of them, and run it like an economist with a sense of humor. Zone districts, manage power and water, then set taxes, print money, and watch inflation, unemployment, and riots answer back. Slums or skyscrapers, the choice and the mess are yours.
Replayable
73% of 1,105 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99
Against the Storm
Against the Storm is a dark fantasy roguelite city builder where you serve the Scorched Queen and raise new settlements against endless rain. Lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, balance their needs, and win one town before starting the next.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
94% of 33,692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99
Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Patron
You raise a village into a city, run farms and workshops, and rule over citizens who all have opinions on taxes, religion, and immigration. Good for city builder fans who want politics with their production chains.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
72% of 2,897 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a low-fantasy city builder where a small village can grow into a metropolis and empire. You lay out houses, streets and plazas, feed and employ tens of thousands of simulated citizens, and raise armies for huge real-time battles. Small shortages and grudges can spiral, which keeps every city feeling alive.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 622$24.99

Cheaper than Ratopia

Settlement Survival

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

$19.99

Settlements Rising

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

$18.99

Dream Town Island

Found a town on an empty island and grow it house by house into a place people live their whole lives in.

$12.99

Pixel Colony

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.

$4.99

Citizens: Far Lands

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds.

$5.99

Banished

You lead a group of exiles with little more than clothes and a cart of supplies.

$19.99

Prosperity

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements.

$9.99

Patron

You raise a village into a city, run farms and workshops, and rule over citizens who all have opinions on taxes, religion, and immigration.

$19.99

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

Kapital: Sparks of Revolution

Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital.

$19.99

Microlandia

Microlandia is a cozy-looking city builder with a strict economic core.

$3.99

One More Island

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name.

$19.99

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Go-Go Town!

A hands-on mayor sim where you rebuild a run-down town street by street, turn happy tourists into residents, and set up workers and supply chains…

$27.99

Microlandia

Microlandia is a cozy-looking city builder with a strict economic core.

$3.99

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.

$14.99

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

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the zombie outbreak, you lead the survivors out of the ruins.

$10.79

Dream Town Island

Found a town on an empty island and grow it house by house into a place people live their whole lives in.

$12.99

Technotopia

Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city.

$4.99

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

Feastopia

Feastopia is a rogue-lite culinary city-builder where you raise a food capital to feed a small hatched god.

$13.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

$24.99

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