Games like Ian's Rocket

If Ian's Rocket scratched a colorful and replayable itch for you, keep reading. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Let Them Trade
Found cities on a wooden board-game map and let them trade while you collect the taxes. You place the buildings, the towns run their own economies, and cheeky bandits keep your knights busy. A calm, colorful kingdom builder you tinker with at your own pace.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
85% of 1,087 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$17.99
Anno 1800
Build a Victorian town into a soot-stained industrial city, then keep it fed, clothed, electrified, and more or less happy. Anno 1800 is a strategy city-builder about production chains, trade routes, and tricky choices between profit and people.
Replayable, Relaxing
81% of 30,306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,913$59.99
All Roads Connected
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Replayable, Relaxing
93% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
County of Fortune
Found an entire medieval county, not just one town. Pick where each village goes, let rivers and resources decide what it becomes, and watch trade flow between settlements run by named mayors and rival noble houses. A relaxed, replayable builder where the whole region is your canvas.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
78% of 194 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 326$22.49
How Empires Work
An incremental grand strategy game where a small click grows into an empire. Tax, trade, conquer and colonise, then turn your repeated chores into institutions that run themselves for centuries. All under the firm, perfectly reasonable guidance of Her Imperial Majesty, who expects results.
Colorful, Relaxing
91% of 43 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$8.99
Captain of Industry
Start with a ship, a crew and an empty island, and end with rockets and a space station. Captain of Industry is a factory builder about mining, reshaping land, farming, keeping people alive, and chaining refineries and assembly lines all the way to nuclear power.
Replayable, Relaxing
90% of 11,272 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,888$34.99
CivIdle
Lead a civilization from huts and hunting to virtual reality in this idle empire builder. Place buildings on a procedurally generated map, climb a tech tree of 100+ technologies, raise world wonders and trade with other players. Numbers go up, the empire grows, and every run starts somewhere new.
Replayable, Relaxing
73% of 1,157 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 231Free
Trade Conquest
Turn wealth into political power in this modern Grand Strategy game. Build a global economic empire, manipulate governments, and challenge the world's superpowers through Economic supremacy or military Conquest.
Replayable
67% of 78 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Industry Idle
Build a factory empire from a single plot: mine resources, chain together 130+ factories, and sell on a market that reacts to what you and other players do. Optimize every production line or let the AI run it while you're away. Calm, minimalist, and quietly addictive.
Replayable, Relaxing
77% of 1,490 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
Kingdom's Life
Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.
Replayable
64% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Celestial Empire
Ancient China needs a governor, and the Emperor has picked you. Found a city among mountains and rivers, build production chains from farm to silk robe, trade with neighbouring settlements and keep the gods on your side through harsh winters. A calm, colorful city builder where every playthrough grows differently.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
89% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Next Reign: Kingdom
Grow a single field into a medieval kingdom in this incremental strategy game. Gather resources, build industries, automate production and command armies in tactical battles. Every milestone unlocks something new, and the systems keep stacking. A calm, colorful pixel world that respects your time and never rushes you.
Colorful, Replayable, Relaxing
92% of 185 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$4.99

Cheaper than Ian's Rocket

All Roads Connected

Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.

$8.99

How Empires Work

Tax, trade and conquer as a small kingdom grows into a self-running empire, at your own pace.

$8.99

Iron Village

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village.

$7.99

Kingdom's Life

Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state.

$6.99

Next Reign: Kingdom

Build an idling medieval economy, automate its industries and lead tactical battles as your realm grows.

$4.99

Blueprint Tycoon

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

$2.99

Nova Patria

Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power.

$11.99

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

The Trade Prince

The Trade Prince is a logistical economic simulation game in which you build automated trade networks across multiple planets to produce…

$9.99

Factory Town Idle

Grow a small fantasy town by putting workers to work, crafting goods and trading them for steady, satisfying growth.

$1.24

River Town Factory

A meteorite hurls you back a thousand years to River Town, where you open a workshop and build automated production lines in ancient times.

$8.69

Kingdom Inc.

Automate mines and forges, build crafting chains and outfit adventurers, all while a fantasy plot unfolds in the fortress-city of Yensburg.

$7.99

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Next Reign: Kingdom

Build an idling medieval economy, automate its industries and lead tactical battles as your realm grows.

$4.99

Celestial Empire

Found a mountain city, grow it from farm fields to silk robes, and answer to the Emperor and the gods alike.

$19.99

Let Them Trade

Place towns on a cheerful board-game map, collect their taxes, and let the little economies hum along at your own pace.

$17.99

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

DSS 2: War Industry

In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy.

$17.99

Space industrial empire

Click mines and smelters into place, research new tech and grow a single production line into a fleet that conquers planets.

$5.99

County of Fortune

Place villages across a medieval landscape, grow them into cities, and weave trade between them.

$22.49

Pioneers of Pagonia

Settle the foggy isles of Pagonia, befriend its tribes and piece together what broke the world, alone or with friends.

$20.99

Settlements Rising

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

$18.99

Tiny Civilization

A whole civilization on one small board. Drag matching tiles together to gather food, industry and culture, guide humanity from the stone age to…

$1.99

CivIdle

Found a settlement, research your way through the ages and watch your civilization expand one building at a time.

Free

Industry Idle

Mine resources, connect production lines and grow a calm, minimalist economy at your own pace.

Free

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