City builders like The HELL

Looking for that same dark and tense spark as The HELL? These city builders line up well for what comes next.

Hell Architect
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Dark, Replayable, Surreal
64% of 359 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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.
Dark, Replayable, Surreal
80% of 986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$34.99
Cataclismo
Cataclismo is a city builder where every house, quarry and wall exists to hold back the Mist. You raise fortresses brick by brick from wood and stone, house citizens, gather resources and research new tech, then hold the walls each night as waves of Horrors test what you built.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
88% of 3,974 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$29.99
New Cycle
You found a small settlement and grow it toward an industrial metropolis, balancing food, water, tools, clothes, health and work while sandstorms, wildfires, disease and refugee crises get in the way.
Dark, Replayable
79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$29.99
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.
Replayable
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 622$24.99
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.
Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
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.
Dark, Replayable
94% of 33,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$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.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$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!
Replayable
73% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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.
Replayable
95% of 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59
Celestial Empire
As governor of a province in Ancient China, you raise a few peasant huts into a city fit for the Emperor's visit. You lay out production chains, keep food and resources flowing through harsh winters, trade by caravan, and court gods whose blessings help your people grow.
Replayable
89% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
ALL WILL FALL
Grow a flooded-world settlement into a tall ocean city where every beam has weight. You balance supports and materials, run food, water and power, keep three factions working, and face storms and hard choices. Collapse is always possible, which makes a standing city feel earned.
Dark, Replayable
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49

Cheaper than The HELL

Citizens: Far Lands

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

$5.99

Post-Apo Builder

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts!

$5.99

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

Frostpunk

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

$2.99

Hearth and Hamlet

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

$7.99

Urbek City Builder

Urbek City Builder drops money entirely: you build with food, coal, skilled work and 30-odd other resources.

$2.84

Pixel Colony

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

$4.99

Epoch Cycle

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.

$8.99

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

pyramida

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

$2.99

The people of Sea, Sun & Salt

Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island.

$6.49

Babel Legacy

Babel Legacy is a relaxing idle city builder where you mine ores, raise houses, and carry progress forward through legacies until your settlement…

$4.99

Hidden gems like The HELL

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

Celestial Empire

As governor of a province in Ancient China, you raise a few peasant huts into a city fit for the Emperor's visit.

$19.99

After Inc: Revival

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

$10.79

Sintopia

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

$34.99

Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder

Found a Roman city on the frontier, keep it fed and happy, then hold its walls when barbarians and beasts come for it.

$14.99

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

Citadelum

Citadelum is a Roman city builder where you raise a settlement into a marble city, keep it fed with farms, fisheries and wine, and guard it with…

$24.99

Newest city builders like The HELL