Games like Empire Architect

"Lethis: Path of Progress" is a 2D city-building game set in a Victorian Steampunk universe, where you manage resources, infrastructure, and trade for your city's growth and citizen's happiness. The game features a campaign mode with 26 missions across three difficulty levels and a sandbox mode for unlimited city-building fun. With over 24 different resources, buildings, and monuments, design and construct your city to meet the Emperor's requests and ensure its prosperity.

"Citadelum" is a strategy game where you must build and manage a settlement, gathering resources, training legions, and expanding territory through tactical combat. Experience advanced armies and explore the world to find mythological objects, while protecting your city with towers and walls. As you grow, establish trade routes and manage your economy to ensure the survival and prosperity of your population.

"Nebuchadnezzar is a single-player historical strategy game set in ancient Mesopotamia, offering a good story and fabulous game mechanics. Experience the culture and mysterious history through its campaign, which includes 12+ historical missions covering colonization to conquest. Enjoy the game's awesome visuals, stellar music, and immersive atmosphere, but be prepared for some grinding."

"Settlement Survival" is a survival city-builder game where you lead your people to a new settlement, providing shelter, food, and protection while managing well-being, happiness, education, and employment. Shape your settlement layout near resources, build housing, recruit Mayors, and prepare for seasonal disasters and environmental threats. Attract residents from foreign cities and create a thriving, prosperous community.

"Rising Lords" is a medieval turn-based strategy game that combines card and board game elements. Manage your kingdom by collecting taxes, resources, and dictating rations, while also expanding your realm and engaging in tactical combat against other lords. Your peasants can become knights or be sent to battle, but beware of the consequences as they may eventually revolt. The game features a campaign mode and robust multiplayer functionality.

"Songs of Syx" is a complex and immersive fantasy city-builder, where you lead a small colony to become a metropolis and empire. The game features a living world with dynamic day-night cycles, weather, and a variety of cultures, gods, and creatures. Every playthrough is unique, with events and content generated procedurally. The mechanics are detailed and challenging, making it easy to learn but difficult to master.

"Caesar III" is a city-building strategy game set in the Roman Empire, where players must design and manage cities to keep citizens happy and meet imperial demands. The game offers an isometric view, with citizens and resources accurately simulated to create a realistic Roman city experience. Players must balance various aspects of city life, such as housing, food, entertainment, and sanitation, to ensure growth and prosperity.

MEMORIAPOLIS is a single-player strategy city-builder where you guide your town through five historical eras, managing resources, politics, and factions to stay in power until the Industrial Revolution. Its compelling mechanics and fantastic visuals enrich a challenging, grinding experience, though it suffers from numerous bugs. Your choices shape a unique, evolving city battling citizens’ needs and historical upheavals.

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 and other things a typical king deals with on a daily basis. The game is very flexible: you can build a powerful realm and rule the lands…

"Aven Colony" is a planetary colonial management simulation game where you build and maintain humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime. Overcome various challenges in managing resources, citizens' needs, and infrastructure, while dealing with the harsh conditions of an alien world. Features include rich simulation elements, diverse environments, and various stages of colony development.