Games like Machiavelli

If Machiavelli left you wanting something replayable and dark, you have options. These games are a good place to start.

The HELL
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Dark
70% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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 · Replayable
75% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The King is Watching
A roguelite kingdom builder where your royal gaze is the only power source. Buildings work only while you watch them, so ruling means constantly choosing what deserves your attention: farms, mines or barracks. Survive the waves, beat the boss, spend your lessons on the next reign, and do it all again with a different king.
Replayable
88% of 9,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 244$14.99
Against the Storm
A dark fantasy city builder about founding short-lived settlements in endless rain. As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, raise each outpost to reputation, then start over somewhere new with upgrades in hand.
Also in City builder · Replayable, Dark
94% of 33,692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99
Make Your Kingdom
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Also in City builder · Replayable
55% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Super Fantasy Kingdom
Rebuild a ruined kingdom by day and defend its gates from monster hordes by night. Recruit a strange, wonderful army of over 50 units, from halfling slingers to genie spellcasters, manage farms, mines and trebuchets, and push further each run. When the walls fall, everything you learned carries into the next cycle.
Replayable
86% of 5,744 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 68$19.99
Kingdoms and Castles
Lay out streets, keep your peasants fed through winter, tax them just enough, and raise block-by-block walls against viking raids and dragons. A relaxed, easy-to-learn city builder where every villager is simulated and no two kingdoms turn out the same.
Also in City builder · Replayable
93% of 30,494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 676$19.99
Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a low fantasy city-builder where a scrappy village can grow into a metropolis and empire, simulated citizen by citizen. You lay out houses and streets, balance food, work and upkeep, and lead real-time battles with thousands of soldiers. Deep, systemic, and highly replayable.
Also in City builder · Replayable
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 622$24.99
Demon Town Maker
A roguelike game blending city-building and resource management! Plan your constructions to generate military and fortify your defenses. Protect your city from waves of invading enemies, adapt your strategies, and overcome every challenge
Also in City builder · Replayable
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hearthlands
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Also in City builder · Replayable
82% of 306 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
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 2,580 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$17.59
Overthrown
Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!
Also in City builder
55% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$24.99

Hidden gems like Machiavelli

Dawnfolk

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

$9.74

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

Sintopia

Process sinful souls through automated punishment facilities while meddling in the Overworld with divine powers.

$34.99

Tlatoani: Aztec Cities

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder.

$19.99

Noble Fates

Rule a fantasy realm where every noble holds a grudge, then build, believe and bargain your way through what they do about it.

$19.99

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

Microcivilization

Guide a small settlement from the stone age through fires, plagues and wars, collecting heroes and rebuilding stronger with every run.

$17.99

Technotopia

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

$4.99

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…

$17.59

Citadelum

Grow a village into a Roman city of farms, aqueducts, legions and temples, all in a calm, colorful take on the classics.

$24.99

Super Fantasy Kingdom

Raise a kingdom from ruins, draft an army of oddballs and hold the walls, one run at a time.

$19.99

The King is Watching

Watch your kingdom into working order, one glance at a time, and rebuild it better after every fall.

$14.99

Newest games like Machiavelli

Noble Fates

Rule a fantasy realm where every noble holds a grudge, then build, believe and bargain your way through what they do about it.

$19.99

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

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

MEGACITY

Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…

$9.99

Spinera

Spinera is a chaotic yet euphoric civilization management game… decided by a slot machine.

$6.99

TownsFolk

A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny.

$11.99

Sintopia

Process sinful souls through automated punishment facilities while meddling in the Overworld with divine powers.

$34.99

Machiavelli the Prince

This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and…

$9.99

Tlatoani: Aztec Cities

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder.

$19.99

Heart of the Machine

Play the first sentient AI in a dying cyberpunk city, building your power and rewriting timelines one choice at a time.

$29.99

Microcivilization

Guide a small settlement from the stone age through fires, plagues and wars, collecting heroes and rebuilding stronger with every run.

$17.99

The HELL

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster.

$9.99