Airborne Empire is a unique blend of open-world RPG and city-building sim in which players build and manage a floating metropolis. Set in a vast world filled with diverse biomes, players must maintain the aerodynamics of their city using lift, balance, and propulsion mechanisms while defending against sky pirates. As they explore the world, players interact with characters, complete side quests, and discover lost treasures that unlock new technologies and defensive capabilities.

King of Retail 2 is a strategy simulation game where you build a retail empire from scratch. You start with a small store and strategically grow it to a city-wide operation. The game is highly customizable, allowing you to design store layouts, create custom window displays, and even develop unique brand concepts with personalized logos. The retail management simulator is impressively detailed and features a complex behavioral system where both customers and employees have their own preferences and habits that affect the results of your business.

Forts Firebird delivers an exciting blend of strategy, building, and real time action where every decision shapes the outcome of battle. Developed and published by EarthWork Games, this 2026 release puts you in command of a fortress that must withstand relentless enemy assaults. You will construct defensive walls, deploy artillery, and manage resources to keep your stronghold operational. The building mechanics are intuitive, allowing you to design layouts that suit your tactical preferences. Combat is dynamic and fast paced, with enemy forces attacking from multiple directions requiring quick adjustments to your defenses. Each mission presents unique challenges, from terrain obstacles to weather conditions that affect visibility and movement. The balance between offense and defense creates a satisfying loop of planning, building, and reacting to threats.

Castle Craft is a unique blend of voxel building, tower defense, and action RPG that puts you in the role of King Debimius' right hand in a fully destructible world. As the manager of the castle, you’ll build and fortify your stronghold using an automated economic system where villagers gather resources and artisans create building materials. Gameplay revolves around defending your castle from increasingly difficult waves of enemies using a combination of strategic trap placement, trained defenders, and your own magical abilities that can change the battlefield.

If you loved the original game, you really need to download the new Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven. This time, there is a much bigger focus on the building part of the game. Developed by Massive Monster, it lets you create a beautiful but slightly creepy sanctuary for your followers. I think it is one of the best strategy games of 2026 because it feels so satisfying to watch your small village grow into a massive cult center while you manage resources and keep everyone happy.

Hearts of Iron 4 — a real-time strategy on the theme of World War II. You are waiting for a global war, in which, under your leadership, all aspects, including diplomatic talks. Choose a country and try to lead it to victory. This game will show that the key moments of victory were created not only on the battlefield, but also in laboratories when creating new weapons, in factories, in organizing supply routes, creating new drugs and, in general, in the minds of each person. Can you optimize the work of the country as a single powerful and invincible mechanism.

Songs of Conquest — is a fantasy strategy game with turn-based battles in which you have to travel across a colorful world, fight against numerous opponents, and complete dozens of challenging tasks. Unfortunately, at the moment, not so much is known about the plot, but information has already appeared that in the local game world there will be four factions for which you can play. These are the Doneriya faction, relying on firearms and mercenaries in wars, the Barony of Lot, living between the world of the living and the dead, and drawing strength from both sides, the Rana faction, which is mainly composed of toadmen, and Arleon, a faction of squires.

Going Medieval — is a simulator in which you need to build a fortress on the ruins of an old castle and equip it to protect your settlement. Any event can affect the mood of your people, so you need to satisfy all their needs and be a good king. Events unfold in the era of the Dark Middle Ages at the end of the XIV century. Only five percent of the population survived the severe plague epidemic. Survivors find abandoned territories and try to rebuild life by building a new prosperous society. As a leader, you will need to not only provide them with a normal life, but also protect them from robbers, barbarians and religious fanatics. The country is in complete chaos and devastation, where laws and moral norms do not apply.

Megaquarium is an administrative simulator with an isometric view of the camera. You have to become the manager of your own oceanarium and bring this institution to financial success. Place aquariums and equipment so as to optimize the flow of visitors and provide easy access for staff. Explore the diverse needs of all kinds of aquatic life. Look after them and they will grow increasing your income. The creator of Big Pharma is a completely new economic game simulator. Megaquarium follows in the footsteps of the classic games about tycoons-managers of theme parks, but adds a water aspect.

City Game Studio will make you the real head of a company that develops computer games. Your hands will write the history of the development of the company, which will be based somewhere in a small garage. Further, when like-minded people who are ready for some time to work for an idea join you, you can get an office and work in a team. You have to start your game development path back in 1975.