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Games like Banished

2014PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive18.99 €

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

Economy and management
Building and crafting
Sandbox with your own goals
Deep systems to master

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The closest matches for Banished are Dawn of Discovery, Manor Lords and Foundation. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Banished special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Banished

Best alternative overall: Dawn of Discovery 96% match – Economy and management
Newest alternative: Foundation 95% match – released 2025

Best match

Dawn of Discovery

96 %Match

2009PC90 % positive

A medieval city-builder and economic sim where you settle islands, craft trade chains and keep citizens happy across both European and Oriental cultures. Diplomacy and occasional naval skirmishes add variety to its detailed, relaxing city planning.

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Manor Lords

Economy and management

A medieval city-builder and strategy game where you grow a 14th-century Franconian village through detailed production chains. It adds tactical real-time battles and a strong focus on historical authenticity.

Foundation

Building and crafting

A relaxed medieval city-builder where towns grow organically without a rigid grid and you manage resource chains. Full mod support and a creative sandbox approach invite long, calm building sessions.

Caesar III

Economy and management

A classic city builder set in ancient Rome: you keep citizens fed, watered, entertained and protected while managing trade and provinces. The blend of logistics and careful planning is its main appeal.

Pharaoh

Deep systems to master

A classic ancient Egypt city builder where you lay out housing, farm around the Nile floods, manage trade and raise monuments like pyramids. Supply logistics, pleasing the gods and occasional invasions make for a calm yet demanding flow.

Farthest Frontier

Economy and management

A detailed city-builder with survival pressure where you found a settlement in the wilderness, manage resources and keep your villagers alive through seasons, disease and raiders.

Europa 1400: The Guild

Economy and management

You rise as a merchant in late medieval Europe, building guilds, production chains and trade routes while fighting your way past nobles and rivals. It blends economic simulation with real-time strategy in a historically inspired world.

Kingdoms and Castles

Building and crafting

A relaxed city-building sim where you grow a small hamlet into a kingdom with an imposing castle. Viking raids, dragons and harsh winters keep planning and defense important.

Settlement Survival

Economy and management

A city-builder where you guide survivors to a new home: clear land, grow crops, hunt, gather resources and develop trade and professions until a large, thriving settlement emerges.

Anno 1404: History Edition

Economy and management

A classic city-builder set between the medieval Occident and the Orient, where you grow trade empires, keep citizens supplied and sail goods across the seas. The History Edition brings the game and its Venice expansion to modern PCs in high resolution.