Games like Citadels
If Citadels is your kind of game, the closest matches are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Ignis Corruption and They Are Billions — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its artistic style stands out, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked Citadels also play
Steam players who put hours into Citadels also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Top pick for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Ignis Corruption
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Citadels.
In this Procedural City-Building and Survival game, you must manage your resources, expand your village, assemble an army and destroy the source of evil, which changed the entire eco system of a land that was once prosperous and peaceful.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Third-strongest match for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares castle building and a challenging mood with Citadels.
Ranked #4 for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadels.
Ranked #5 for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
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 survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Ranked #6 for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares castle building with Citadels.
Ranked #7 for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Ranked #8 for Citadels fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares castle building and a challenging mood with Citadels.
Reviewers of Citadels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Stronghold Crusader 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Reviewers of Citadels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares castle building and a challenging mood with Citadels.
Reviewers of Citadels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares ai pathfinding with Citadels.
Reviewers of Citadels cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Citadels at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadels.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadels.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadels.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Action with Citadels.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citadels on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadels.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Citadels.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares castle building with Citadels.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Age of Empires II (Retired)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadels.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Citadels.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.
Frequently asked about Citadels
- How much does Citadels cost?
- Citadels is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Citadels?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citadels are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Ignis Corruption, They Are Billions.
- Who developed Citadels?
- Citadels was developed by Games Distillery s.r.o. and published by HandyGames.
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