Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Clockwork Empires
A unique colonial city-building simulation game
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Clockwork Empires launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Build the world’s first sentient supercomputer
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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Animarium▲69Your little and strange world populated by Maroons
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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a free-to-play medieval MMO tower defense
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Escape a cold, inhumane factory and free yourself!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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An incremental game about building up a giant swarm of bugs.
2015 · swarmsim.github.io · its alternatives →
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Isoland▲59One of the most anticipated independent puzzle games
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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It all started as an experiment to see if I could build a game making heavy use of Deno and its SQLite driver. After sharing an early build in the „What are you working on?“ thread here, I got the encouragement I needed to polish it and make a version 1.0 for Steam. So here it is, Microlandia, a SimCity Classic-inspired game with parameters from real-life datasets, statistics and research. It also introduces aspects that are conveniently hidden in other games (like homelessness), and my plan is to continue updating, expanding and perfecting the models for an indefinite amount of time.
Dec 2025 · microlandia.city · its alternatives →
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Battle rival pirates, build your island, raise an army
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Jamestown▲71A four player co-op adventure on British Colonial Mars
2015 · jamestownplus.com · its alternatives →
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Medieval Multiplayer Builder with Crafting and More
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A city planning deck building game!
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A modern take on the classic city builder
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A persistent-world real time strategy game
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Craft and grow your own village
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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