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Looking for games like In the beginning? Here are top strategy recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Sapiens, Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator or This Land Is My Land.

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    83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    83% User Score Based on 2,435 reviews

    Evolve your primitive hunter gatherers through thousands of years of technological advancement. Feed, protect and grow your tribe, build towns and industry, and advance through the ages in this first person civilization builder for PC. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sapiens.

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  2. 52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, monetization
    52% User Score Based on 184 reviews

    Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator.

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  3. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    69% User Score Based on 4,970 reviews

    EXPERIENCE FRONTIER FROM THE OTHER SIDE This Land Is My Land is an open world stealth action game with a living hostile environment which evolves over time independently from player actions If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to This Land Is My Land.

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    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    88% User Score Based on 952 reviews

    Welcome... to New Day! New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more! Within New Day, you'll be able to use the Islander Creator to create your very own original islanders! The Islander Creator featur… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to New Day.

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  5. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    76% User Score Based on 125 reviews

    Creo God Simulator is a game of building, decision-making, survival, and a ton of peasant smiting. As a newly-assigned lesser god, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Creo God Simulator.

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    22%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    22% User Score Based on 4,418 reviews

    An award-winning sandbox game. Craft a living world. Build a civilisation If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Godus.

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  7. 72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    81% User Score Based on 9,076 reviews
    Critic Score 42%Based on 2 reviews

    The Universim aims to revive the glory days of the god-game genre and bring it into the next generation with fresh ideas and ambitious gameplay. With the powers of a god, you are unleashed upon the universe to begin forging your galactic empire in the stars. From dust to the cosmos beyond, your civilization will rise through the ages under your guidance. Yet this is not the same static world you m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Universim.

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  8. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    88% User Score Based on 5,433 reviews

    A challenging godlike village simulator designed to bridge the gap between the complexities of village simulation with the simplicity of classic 90s real-time strategy. Inspired by games like Towns, Gnomoria, Warcraft, Banished and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them. Updated frequently. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rise to Ruins.

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    65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    65% User Score Based on 158 reviews

    Take on the character of an aircraft accident inspector and explain the causes of crashes. Travel to the crash sites, where you will have to: * Secure the Crash Site * gather Evidence * create photographic documentation Having collected the evidence, go to the hangar and solve the puzzle: * inspect the aeroplane parts * iinterview witnesses * reconstruct the wreckage * … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plane Accident.

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    46%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    46% User Score Based on 586 reviews

    Start with nothing and build an empire. Blockscape is the ultimate block building game. You are sent to this world to start a new civilization. Explore, gather materials, craft and build. Build beds and people will move in. Give them food and they will do work for you. Fully procedurally generated worlds. Every game looks and plays different. Play the game you want. Blockscape can be played like … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blockscape.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    76% User Score Based on 2,410 reviews

    Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Basement.

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  12. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    92% User Score Based on 608 reviews

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Deisim.

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  13. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    53% User Score Based on 4,408 reviews

    Savage Lands is a challenging Indie based fantasy survival sandbox experience that takes players on an adventure across a world ravaged by years of war between man and Dragon kind. Players must conquer an ominous and vast open world where every decision counts: craft/loot powerful weapons and armor, explore hostile landscapes and dark dungeons, fight fiendish creatures, gather resources, and build… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Savage Lands.

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  14. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    63% User Score Based on 2,382 reviews

    LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Life is Feudal: Forest Village.

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  15. 84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    84% User Score Based on 1,532 reviews

    King of Retail is a store management simulation game, where you as the owner of a new store must make the right decisions to make your store thrive and bring you the big bucks. Can you handle the pressure, or will you fail miserably in a big bankruptcy? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to King of Retail.

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    15%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    15% User Score Based on 82 reviews

    Blood of Magic is a small open world role-playing game with turn-based battles. Other elements include crafting, town management, recruitment, and exploration which help improve your experience in Auguston. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blood of Magic.

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  17. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    66% User Score Based on 498 reviews

    Construct and rule your own post-apocalyptic city. Judge the lives of the people under you. Set the laws people live by. Be cruel or kind and learn how to survive. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Atomic Society.

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  18. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    88% User Score Based on 4,956 reviews

    A challenging godlike village simulator designed to bridge the gap between the complexities of village simulation with the simplicity of classic 90s real-time strategy. Inspired by games like Towns, Gnomoria, Warcraft, Banished and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them. Updated frequently. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rise to Ruins.

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  19. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    61% User Score Based on 1,068 reviews

    The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Last Haven.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    71% User Score Based on 1,210 reviews

    In Animallica you are racing against extinction. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single species of plant and animal lies in your hands. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Animallica.

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  21. 36%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    32% User Score Based on 144 reviews
    Critic Score 46%Based on 3 reviews

    As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit. Yes, that's right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too. If this is not enough, there are other creatures that will try to do the same, they can trade, fight or help you. Oh, do… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Community Inc.

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  22. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    64% User Score Based on 388 reviews

    Do you like Colonize Prologue? Here is a full feature Colonize game: About the Game Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.Overview Colonize Prologue is a building simulation and it c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Colonize Prologue.

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  23. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    57% User Score Based on 2,772 reviews

    A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shelter and crafting powerful weapons needed to survive. Every decision counts, because one mistake can lead to an unfortuna… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Savage Lands.

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    78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    81% User Score Based on 836 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Kainga is a ancient fantasy village builder where your environment affects your culture, technology and strategy. Advance and adapt to the pressures of the climate, beasts and other tribes. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kainga.

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  25. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 852 reviews

    What could be better than having a million? Have a Billion? But this will not give you all power over the world. Your goal is not to make a lot of money - but to start printing them. Become a Federal Reserve System and you become greatest! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Evil Bank Manager.

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  26. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    66% User Score Based on 460 reviews

    The Gold River Project throws you and your friends on an epic camping survival adventure! Try to escape a grueling experiment across one of the largest private nature reserves in the Pacific Northwest. You are being watched, studied and manipulated at every turn. Solve the mysteries within and try to survive another day. CAMP SOLO OR WITH FRIENDSWelcome to Gold River! A remote camping adventure yo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Gold River Project.

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  27. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    71% User Score Based on 224 reviews

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nested Lands.

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  29. 58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    58% User Score Based on 450 reviews

    Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Camping Simulator: The Squad.

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  30. View Game
    88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 13,488 reviews

    Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is optimized for the thousands of moving parts that come with building humongous cities. The game features in-depth resource management akin to the Anno (Dawn of Disc… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Foundation.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    71% User Score Based on 376 reviews

    Start Over is a thrilling multiplayer survival game that takes you to a deserted island where you must build a base, craft equipment, and defend against waves of enemies. Collaborate with other players to build a thriving community, or become a lone wolf. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Start Over.

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  32. 62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    62% User Score Based on 1,069 reviews

    Ruinarch is a simulation sandbox game where you create obstacles and cause conflicts in procedurally generated fantasy worlds. Inspired by story generator games like Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress, weaving tales of both anguish and humor is central to Ruinarch’s gameplay. The game gives you all the infernal tools you'll need to toy with people's lives and relationships. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ruinarch.

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  33. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    83% User Score Based on 350 reviews

    COMPLETELY REBUILT FROM THE GROUND UPTornado: Research and Rescue has been recreated from scratch in a new Unity project, replacing the original 2023 release with a fundamentally new storm-chasing experience. The rebuild features completely redesigned tornadoes and destruction, larger procedural environments, deeper research and rescue gameplay, an overhauled career and progression system, improv… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tornado: Research and Rescue.

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  35. 58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    58% User Score Based on 225 reviews

    Dinosis Survival is a TPS with dinosaurs based on a mysterious story. Survive, hunt and solve a mystery of the world that fall. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dinosis Survival.

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  36. 12%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    12% User Score Based on 647 reviews

    Godus Wars mixes tactical Real Time Strategy gameplay with the mechanics of the God-Game genre. It’s fun, it’s simple and it’s brutal. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Godus Wars.

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    36%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization
    36% User Score Based on 250 reviews

    Party Hard Tycoon puts you behind the scenes, managing themes, budgets, and talent. From retro nights to foam fests, glamor shows to disco-fueled get-downs, build the perfect nightclub to throw the ultimate party. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Party Tycoon.

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  38. 48%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    48% User Score Based on 124 reviews

    Blacksmith Legends is a RPG simulation strategy game where you inherit a small workshop and build your way up. Your job is to craft/modify your recipe's, manage your workshop/employees, become hero or villain with, compete against other blacksmith's in the Kingdom. Impress or dethrone your King! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blacksmith Legends.

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    41%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    41% User Score Based on 1,328 reviews

    Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Maia.

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  40. 53%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    53% User Score Based on 15,950 reviews

    Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Osiris: New Dawn.

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    80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    80% User Score Based on 801 reviews

    The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the America. Join the race with the first billionaires and squeeze them out of the market. Use your brilliant mind and indomitable will to do it or dirty methods of a competitive struggle. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plutocracy.

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  42. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 9,193 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 3 reviews

    Kingdom is a 2D side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kingdom: Classic.

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  43. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, gameplay
    68% User Score Based on 580 reviews

    KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to KeepUp Survival.

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  44. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    69% User Score Based on 1,044 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bounty Train.

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    56%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    56% User Score Based on 469 reviews

    Survisland is a survival sandbox focused on Realism, located in a vast procedural generated world. Taste every bitter and sweet as a lone man lost in wild islands, use your wit and strength to confront every challenge the Nature gives you. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Survisland.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 7,478 reviews

    MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist that can happen at any time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mist Survival.

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    72%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    72% User Score Based on 4,652 reviews

    KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to KINGDOMS.

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  48. 34%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization
    34% User Score Based on 99 reviews

    World of Castles is a realistic medieval-themed city building game, featuring unique combinations of modular castle construction, village management and facing various threats to your village. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to World of Castles.

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  49. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    68% User Score Based on 576 reviews

    Manage a space transportation company. Supply humanity with with everything it needs to colonize the galaxy. In this tycoon game, grow your company from a local transport agency into a galactic logistics empire! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interstellar Transport Company.

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    47%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, story
    43% User Score Based on 1,175 reviews
    Critic Score 64%Based on 2 reviews

    As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to StarDrive.

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