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263 games like Foundation

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01 Depraved Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, PC

Depraved

74%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild We...

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Foundation

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Real Time Strategy (RTS) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Historical Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

02 Timberborn Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

Timberborn

67%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? Timberborn is a sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amoun...

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Foundation

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Patron Cover

2021 · PC

Patron

67%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

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Foundation

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Historical Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 Havendock Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

Havendock

66%

Havendock is a cozy colony sim set in the heart of the ocean. Players build a thriving town from the ground up — welcoming new settlers, managing resources, and exploring new lands at their own pace. The game features character creation, resource collection fr...

Your match for

Foundation

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 Banished Cover

2014 · PC

Banished

65%

Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The...

Your match for

Foundation

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Real Time Strategy (RTS) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Historical Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Settlement Survival Cover

2022 · Mac, PC

Settlement Survival

65%

In this city-builder, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. With limited supplies you will claim land, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather supplies, build your city, expand commerce, and develop trades to build a bustling and unique...

Your match for

Foundation

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

07 Going Medieval Cover

2026 · PC

Going Medieval

57%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Your match for

Foundation

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Historical Theme ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

08 Fabledom Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS5

Fabledom

54%

Once upon a Village.. Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is the ideal laid back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, trade and use diplomacy to ally or challenge your neighbors, and most importantly, find yourself a prince or princess a...

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Foundation

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 No Man's Sky Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

No Man's Sky

48%

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarch...

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Foundation

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Don't Starve Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Don't Starve

48%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Your match for

Foundation

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 Stronghold: Warlords Cover
47%

The next chapter in Firefly Studios' real-time strategy series, Stronghold: Warlords is Firefly's first game to recreate the castle economies of the Far East. In Warlords you take command of Mongol hordes, imperial warriors and samurai clansmen as you lay sieg...

Your match for

Foundation

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Real Time Strategy (RTS) Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Historical Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Farthest Frontier Cover

2025 · PC

Farthest Frontier

46%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to sustain your advancing town. Produce craft items for villagers to trade, consume, equip and fight with as yo...

Your match for

Foundation

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Minecraft: Java Edition Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Minecraft: Java Edition

45%

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining...

Your match for

Foundation

45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Fortnite Cover

2020 · Android, Mac, Switch

Fortnite

45%

Fortnite is a free-to-play online game where you and your friends can create, play and battle. Be the last player standing in Battle Royale and Zero Build, experience a concert or live event, or discover over a million creator-made games, including racing, par...

Your match for

Foundation

45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 Frostpunk Cover

2018 · Mac, PC, PS4

Frostpunk

44%

Frostpunk, the newest title from the creators of This War of Mine, is a society survival game where heat means life and every decision comes at a price. In an entirely frozen world, people develop steam-powered technology to oppose the overwhelming cold. You f...

Your match for

Foundation

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

43%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

Your match for

Foundation

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 Cities: Skylines Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Cities: Skylines

42%

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balanc...

Your match for

Foundation

42% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 Fallout: New Vegas Cover

2010 · PC, PS3, X360

Fallout: New Vegas

40%

In this first-person Western RPG, the player takes on the role of Courier 6, barely surviving after being robbed of their cargo, shot and put into a shallow grave by a New Vegas mob boss. The Courier sets out to track down their robbers and retrieve their carg...

Your match for

Foundation

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Far Cry 3 Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Far Cry 3

40%

Explore an island playground as stunningly beautiful as it is diverse – from mountain ranges to swampy grasslands and white sandy beaches. Fight your way through the island’s towns, temples, river ports and more. Encounter a diverse and realistic cast of char...

Your match for

Foundation

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Open world Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Survival Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Survival Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

40%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

Your match for

Foundation

40% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

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