Games like Dawnmaker

If the replayable and dark rhythm of Dawnmaker stuck with you, this helps. These games are a good place to start.

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 City builder · Replayable
94% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Vertical Kingdom
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
75% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
As We Descend
A dark, tactical roguelike deckbuilder set in humanity's last city. Lead squads of recruited units on expeditions against titanic foes, play the feudal politics of the Vault-City, and carve a path through three biomes to the core. Every run reshapes your decks, your allies and your odds.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Dark
86% of 1,418 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$13.39
Cardboard Town
Cardboard Town is a city builder played with cards. Draw a hand, place buildings, and keep Money, Electricity, Water, Safety and Environment in balance while disasters and quest cards test your planning. Three Red Alerts end the run, persistent unlocks make the next one better, and every town grows differently.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
79% of 2,068 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Kingdom's Deck
Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder with a day-night rhythm: by day you play building and unit cards to grow a medieval kingdom, by night you defend it against sieges of the darkness. Manage food, wood, gold and stone, cast fire and ice spells, and keep your villagers alive. Short runs, colorful art, one more day.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
71% of 511 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
These Doomed Isles
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
66% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Concrete Jungle
A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
89% of 325 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Seekers of Eclipse
A turn-based roguelike combining city-building and deckbuilding. Build thriving towns as you forge a path towards the eclipse. Strategically produce resources to appease the gods and unleash their divine wrath upon your enemies.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
87% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
A tiny turn-based citybuilder where every building is a combo piece. Pick two of seven guilds, settle a procedural island, and stack placements, heirlooms, and councillors into a score engine that grows from hamlet to metropolis in about 30 minutes.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
96% of 1,983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 413$9.99
Technotopia
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Also in City builder · Replayable
86% of 643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Tiny Kingdom
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Also in City builder and Deckbuilding · Replayable
79% of 151 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
dotAGE
You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that can survive the Prophecy. A turn-based city builder with board-game worker placement, dark comedy and a doom that keeps coming.
Also in City builder · Replayable
95% of 2,579 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59

Cheaper than Dawnmaker

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

As We Descend

A dark, tactical roguelike deckbuilder set in humanity's last city.

$13.39

Kingdom's Deck

Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder with a day-night rhythm: by day you play building and unit cards to grow a medieval kingdom, by night…

$9.99

Concrete Jungle

A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress!

$6.99

Seekers of Eclipse

A turn-based roguelike combining city-building and deckbuilding. Build thriving towns as you forge a path towards the eclipse.

$10.99

Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder

Found a settlement on a random island, choose two guilds, and turn every building placement into a scoring engine.

$9.99

Technotopia

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

$4.99

Tiny Kingdom

Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters.

$10.99

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

Terracards

Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and…

$8.99

Border Pioneer

Found a settlement on the wild edge of the kingdom, grow it with cards from your deck, and keep the walls standing when the month ends.

$7.49

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

Hidden gems like Dawnmaker

Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder

Found a settlement on a random island, choose two guilds, and turn every building placement into a scoring engine.

$9.99

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

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

Rogue Hex

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x.

$19.99

As We Descend

A dark, tactical roguelike deckbuilder set in humanity's last city.

$13.39

Border Pioneer

Found a settlement on the wild edge of the kingdom, grow it with cards from your deck, and keep the walls standing when the month ends.

$7.49

Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure

Draft cards, grow your deck and carve your own way through a grim, hand-drawn realm where death is only the start of the next run.

$19.99

Drop Duchy

Drop terrain and buildings onto the board, grow your forces and march on the enemy fortress in runs that never play out the same way twice.

$5.99

Hearth and Hamlet

Grow a pixel art medieval settlement at your own pace, assigning workers, passing laws and trading as the numbers climb.

$7.99

Technotopia

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

$4.99

TerraScape

Grow a floating medieval town by placing buildings on a hex grid, alone or with a friend.

$14.99

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

$34.99

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