Brutal city builder hidden gems
Settlements under constant attack link these brutal hidden gems, including RimWorld, Reignfall and Hell Architect. You lay out streets, housing and workshops, keep food and supplies moving, then defend the same blocks with walls, traps and militias. Gore and loss sit right next to zoning and growth, giving you city building where care and cruelty shape every district.
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After Long Night
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
72% of 384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99Reignfall
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
88% of 407 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Hell 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.
64% of 359 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Ruinarch
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.
62% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$24.99RimWorld
RimWorld starts you with three shipwreck survivors on a distant world and lets you grow their camp into a fortified colony. You place rooms and workshops, farm and craft, trade and fight, while colonists fall in love, sulk, break down and get back to work. Every failure is a good story.
97% of 211,575 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28,175$34.99Medieval Kingdom Wars
It's 1336 and the Hundred Years' War is on. Start as a minor lord, grow your towns, serve a scheming King, and fight sieges where you build, train and bleed in real time. Grand strategy on the map, hands-on RTS in the streets, and no reloads to save you.
76% of 2,237 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99Sacrifices
Faith and blood! In this god-game-meets-city-builder, rule and guide a mesoamerican village through the trials and tribulations of everyday life in the heart of a ruthless jungle!
61% of 54 Steam reviews are positiveFree
