Can anyone reccomend me a city builder with similar elements?

[StuckInWashingMachine]

I guess I'm new to this genre, ended up really liking this game. Oddly enough I hated games like endless legend and civilization due to how linear the progression felt in those games, but this game is a bit more free? You can place houses and structures where ever you want and the terrain places a big part in the strategy.
Yeah this is a noob trying to explain why they enjoy this game. any suggestions?

[Chompers]

It sounds like you may enjoy city builders in general as most of them function similarly. Have you played any others? Most don't have combat like this one but some do. For a basic city builder experience done very well, cities skylines is among the best most city builder enjoyers love it. For a more survival based hardcore experience people love Banished. Your options are quite extensive if you elaborate more on aspects you like I can give more pointed recommendations.

[Chompers]

If you like the island gameplay where you create trade routes, focus on logistics, and vertical city progression the Anno series delivers that better than anyone, IMO skip the 2 set in the future

[Chompers]

I looked at your library you're sitting on a mountain of games like myself. If you didn't like cities it's whatever. You own banished so it's worth a try. It's VERY different from KC but at heart it's a medieval city builder so you may dig it. KC was heavily inspired by the stronghold series but I can't really recommend them as the good ones are old and very dated and there hasn't been a good one in ages.

[StuckInWashingMachine]

Originally posted by Chompers:

I looked at your library you're sitting on a mountain of games like myself. If you didn't like cities it's whatever. You own banished so it's worth a try. It's VERY different from KC but at heart it's a medieval city builder so you may dig it. KC was heavily inspired by the stronghold series but I can't really recommend them as the good ones are old and very dated and there hasn't been a good one in ages.

Hmmm, I guess I just like how there are many different elements that go into this game. Yeah the fact that it's a city builder but there are also 4x elements. So competing with other nations, and managing troops to city happyness.
Yeah I bought Banished years ago and never touched it, guess I should start lol.

Honestly the logistics and trading part of this game is my least favorite part about it, I always opt to go straight into war with the one that nation that decides they wanna exploit me and take my money so I kick their ass.

[Chompers]

Well Banished doesn't have combat and the gameplay is more focused and doesn't have a ton of variety so maybe that's not the right choice. KC is sort of unique in the way that it's both a traditional city builder while also implementing loads of traditional RTS elements. I've seen a handful of games that look very similar to KC that just seem like retreads and I haven't played them. Most traditional city builders just don't deal with combat, and the few that have for the most part haven't done it very well.

It sounds like turn based games annoy you, and your interests may overlap with other similar genres. Have you ever played a grand strategy? They run the array from deeply combat oriented like Total War to more diplomacy and kingdom building focused like Crusader Kings. Right in the middle there's Knights of Honor. Total War is a turn based campaign map with real time combat but KoH and all those paradox grand strats have real time campaign maps. The combat in the Crusader Kings / Europa Universalis bla bla Paradox games is kind of insanely basic though IMO you just ram stacks of units against each other and the combat auto resolves. KoH and Total War pull you out of the campaign map for combat into a more intimate large scale military battle where you can manually control all the units. I think you own Total War Shogun 2 which may be the best one based on reality. The best fantasy Total War is the Warhammer series those are a lot of fun. KoH is old and difficult to play on modern systems but the sequel comes out in like 2 weeks.

[YetiChow]

For a good balance of mechanics, and a relatively easy-to-learn (but deep enough to not wear out easily) set of challenges/strategic layer, it's impossible to put too much praise on the Impressions games like Zeus: Master of Olympus (and its expansion Posideon), Pharoah: Master of the Nile, and so on.

They're basically still the gold standard for this sub-genre of "citybuilder in real-time with combat, politics, and stuff happening around you" -- in fact, I would argue that K+C is a modern pared-down successor that distills the core elements of those games. They're old, and the graphics show it, but the gameplay holds up really well; not many games in the last ~20 years have done anything with that formula (although there are some starting to spring up again now!), and when they go on sale they're like $5-10 for the deluxe editions.

Another series you might like, although it's a little bit left-field of a suggestion, is Rollercoaster Tycoon -- again, there's a lot of sandbox freedom and lots of stuff happening in real-time that you can engage with. Building coasters (and the overall park) scratches the same creative itches as town planning in K+C, there's no combat but there is quite a lot of management you can do (e.g. assigning your workers efficient patrol routes is a bit like ordering soldiers around to pick favourable engagements), and once again because it's an old game it's finished aka feature-complete (not dead! Although there is still a modding scene) so there's HEAPS of content and no half-finished edges or "waiting for the next patch" syndrome -- you can binge RCT 1 and 2 for thousands of hours and still not be done with them.

[StuckInWashingMachine]

Originally posted by YetiChow:

Another series you might like, although it's a little bit left-field of a suggestion, is Rollercoaster Tycoon -- again, there's a lot of sandbox freedom and lots of stuff happening in real-time that you can engage with. Building coasters (and the overall park) scratches the same creative itches as town planning in K+C, there's no combat but there is quite a lot of management you can do (e.g. assigning your workers efficient patrol routes is a bit like ordering soldiers around to pick favourable engagements), and once again because it's an old game it's finished aka feature-complete (not dead! Although there is still a modding scene) so there's HEAPS of content and no half-finished edges or "waiting for the next patch" syndrome -- you can binge RCT 1 and 2 for thousands of hours and still not be done with them.

Lol I played roller coaster tycoon in the 5th grade on my school computer back in the day. Never thought about revisiting it. Let's goooo

[Chompers]

Originally posted by Kix:

Originally posted by YetiChow:

Another series you might like, although it's a little bit left-field of a suggestion, is Rollercoaster Tycoon -- again, there's a lot of sandbox freedom and lots of stuff happening in real-time that you can engage with. Building coasters (and the overall park) scratches the same creative itches as town planning in K+C, there's no combat but there is quite a lot of management you can do (e.g. assigning your workers efficient patrol routes is a bit like ordering soldiers around to pick favourable engagements), and once again because it's an old game it's finished aka feature-complete (not dead! Although there is still a modding scene) so there's HEAPS of content and no half-finished edges or "waiting for the next patch" syndrome -- you can binge RCT 1 and 2 for thousands of hours and still not be done with them.

Lol I played roller coaster tycoon in the 5th grade on my school computer back in the day. Never thought about revisiting it. Let's goooo

If you want to revisit RCT I'd actually recommend not revisiting the original franchise. The original games are pretty dated and difficult to play on modern systems and the modern RCT games are not good. The spiritual successors have come in two forms - Planet Coaster is incredibly popular for a 3d successor albeit with far less leaning on management and more on creativity and custom building. Parkitect leans more toward a traditional successor with more management depth and a more-or-less 2d perspective.

[Semper Fil]

Take a look at the Tropico series, bro

[Star Lord]

Originally posted by Semper Fil:

Take a look at the Tropico series, bro

Second this. Tropico series is really good. I have a soft spot for Tropico 2 as it centered around pirates and building a pirate base.

[Chompers]

Tropico is great. The latest one actually adds a lot of accessibility to a franchise that was a bit dated before this latest 6th entry, I liked it quite a bit.

[margalus]

Caesar 3 & Caesar 4.

[Turek the Terrible]

Rise to Ruins is a nice village builder slash tower defense game.

[Chompers]

Originally posted by Turek the Terrible:

Rise to Ruins is a nice village builder slash tower defense game.

You can turn the difficulty down if you want, but by default Rise to Ruins is one of the more intense builders I've played. It's definitely more on the RTS side but its similar in the sense that you're building while defending against waves of monsters. You also have magic spells so it's sort of like the old Majesty games where you're kind of a god looming over this colony and your hand influences the environment. It's a great game, only developed by one guy tho and development has been on pause for a while now because the guys house is a construction catastrophe or something like that.

[axterio]

Thinking things into consideration if you want a more hardcore game then check out They Are Billions, you might like it but still it's similar to Kingdoms and Castles just not exactly because it has zombies but I just think fondly of They Are Billions.