Games like Tethered

In "The Mims Beginning," players foster a civilization of small, cute creatures known as Mims, guiding them through challenges like resource management and external threats. The game features both peaceful and combat-focused scenarios, with a focus on strategy and planning. Players must ensure the survival and prosperity of their Mims colony across various planets and environments.

"Pine is a single-player open world action-adventure simulation game with a vibrant world filled with intelligent creatures. As you help your tribe find a new home, you must engage with the game's ecology, exploring, bartering, crafting, and fighting in six distinct biomes. The game's large-scale ecology is dynamic, with creatures fighting for survival and changing the world around you even when you're not involved."

"Bad North: Jotunn Edition" is a real-time tactics roguelite where you defend your kingdom against Viking invaders on procedurally-generated islands. Command your troops to utilize the unique terrain of each island, with the goal of ensuring your people's survival in this charming but brutal game. Failure results in the blood of your subjects staining the ground, making every battle a desperate fight.

"Rise to Ruins" is a godlike village simulator that combines elements from classic real-time strategy and resource management games, with twists of tower defense and survival. The objective is to manage a village, defend against monsters at night, and expand during the day, with the knowledge that failure is common, but provides learning opportunities.

"DYSMANTLE" is an open-world, single-player or local co-op game with a dense atmosphere, interesting plot, and spectacular gameplay/graphics. You must escape a post-apocalyptic island by fighting creatures, breaking objects for materials, exploring, surviving, building outposts, crafting, hunting/taming animals, farming, and solving puzzles. The game is known for its humor, good music, and being very grinding.

Townsmen VR is a medieval city-building game in virtual reality. Gather resources, construct buildings, and manage your town's economy and population. Experience a new level of immersion with intuitive controls and 360-degree views of your bustling kingdom.

Upcoming medieval strategy game for PC that combines deep, organic and realistic city building with large scale, tactical battles.

"Thronefall" is a strategy game that simplifies traditional strategy mechanics while incorporating hack-and-slash elements. Players build up their kingdom during the day, defend it at night, and balance economy and defense. The game offers various strategies, such as building archers, walls, or mills, and choosing between ranged combat or charging into battle. The goal is to survive the night and see the sunrise over your kingdom.

Equilinox is a single-player 4X game that offers stunning visuals and an exceptional soundtrack, but can be very grinding with plenty of bugs. As a low-poly nature simulation game, it allows players to create and manage their own ecosystem in an engaging and highly emotional atmosphere, currently being developed in Java using OpenGL.

Northgard is a strategy game set in a newfound continent filled with mystery and danger, based on Norse mythology. As a clan of Vikings, you must manage resources, assign vikings to jobs, and survive harsh winters, vicious foes, and unique strategic opportunities to expand your territory. Achieve different victory conditions such as conquest, fame, or loyalty to the gods.