- #1 Solargene
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 813 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, 4X 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Mars 11.5% ★, Building 8.2%
- #2 The Crust
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,376 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Space 10%, RTS 9.8%, Building 9%
- #3 IXION
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 16,993 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Space 14.2%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #4 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
67% matchVery Positive91% of 25,087 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 72.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, 4X 15% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.4%
- #5 Against the Storm
67% matchVery Positive95% of 35,439 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, Grand Strategy 16% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.1%
- #6 Anno 2205™
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,259 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: 4X 22.7% ★, City Builder 11.9%, RTS 9.7%, Futuristic 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%
- #7 Planetbase
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,259 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Space 11.8%, City Builder 10.1%, Building 6.1%
- #8 Oxygen Not Included
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,747 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 23.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 5.9%
- #9 Empires of the Undergrowth
65% matchVery Positive94% of 17,267 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 17.8% ★, Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.1%
- #10 Northgard: Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive85% of 67,966 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: RTS 21.3%, 4X 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 13% ★, Base Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.2%
- #11 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,002 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.4%, Space 9.3%
- #12 Space Haven
64% matchVery Positive86% of 9,707 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Building 11.1%, Space 9.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #13 Industries of Titan
64% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 21% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #14 Farthest Frontier
61% matchVery Positive87% of 23,572 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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.
Why similar: 4X 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, RTS 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%
- #15 Distant Worlds 2
63% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,475 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 36% ★, Grand Strategy 25% ★, Space 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.6%
- #16 Dune: Spice Wars
61% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,234 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, RTS 15.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10%
- #17 Cliff Empire
61% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Futuristic 10.4%, Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.1%
- #18 Founders' Fortune
61% matchVery Positive80% of 2,165 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Base Building 19%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 9%, Simulation 5.8%
- #19 Pioneers of Pagonia
58% matchVery Positive82% of 5,187 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9%
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
60% matchVery Positive93% of 30,808 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, RTS 7.3%
- #21 Ratopia
58% matchVery Positive88% of 4,642 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Building 15%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #22 They Are Billions
60% matchVery Positive85% of 50,587 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 26.7%, RTS 20.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 6.2%
- #23 Stellaris
60% matchVery Positive86% of 191,574 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 142.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, Grand Strategy 24.9% ★, Space 15.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.8%
- #24 Kingdoms Reborn
58% matchVery Positive91% of 9,521 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 13.9%, RTS 11.3%, Management 8.6%
- #25 Dyson Sphere Program
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 89,959 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Space 16.3%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 8.2%
- #26 Aven Colony
59% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7%
- #27 Exogate Initiative
56% matchMostly Positive76% of 698 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 15.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.1%
- #28 Per Aspera
57% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Mars 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #29 Settlement Survival
56% matchVery Positive86% of 7,838 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Building 15.7%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.7%
- #30 Timberborn
53% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,637 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Building 14.6%, City Builder 13%, Management 10.2%
- #31 New Cycle
55% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,778 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13%, City Builder 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #32 Cartel Tycoon
56% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,714 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: RTS 21.1%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #33 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
55% matchMixed54% of 226,468 reviews2023
Dev: 鬼谷工作室
Windows
Median: 30.7 hrsMean: 72.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.
Why similar: Management 43.3%, Simulation 27.7%, Exploration 23.2%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #34 Aquatico
55% matchMixed67% of 856 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.1%, City Builder 10.6%, Futuristic 9.5%
- #35 Astro Colony
54% matchVery Positive82% of 2,507 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Space 13.1%, Building 12%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #36 Surviving the Abyss
54% matchMixed65% of 1,043 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.1%, City Builder 8.5%
- #37 Powerplay
55% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 19.5% ★, RTS 16%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #38 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
53% matchMixed61% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Grand Strategy 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, RTS 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #39 觅长生
53% matchVery Positive93% of 30,966 reviews2023
Dev: Chalcedony Network
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 42.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里,你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅,也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境,更可以和游戏中的角色互动,与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。
Why similar: Strategy 39.9%, Simulation 28.1%, Exploration 19.4%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 5.7%
- #40 The Wandering Village
52% matchVery Positive92% of 8,057 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.9%
- #41 Going Medieval
51% matchVery Positive90% of 20,101 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #42 Foundation
52% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Building 11.4%, RTS 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
- #43 Offworld Trading Company
55% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,669 reviews2016
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Space 9.2%, Management 8.4%
- #44 The Planet Crafter
52% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,071 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.0 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Building 21.8%, Space 17.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Exploration 8.3%
- #45 Escape From Duckov
51% matchVery Positive84% of 101,208 reviews2025
Dev: Team SodaPub: bilibili
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Why similar: Base Building 71.7%, Exploration 25.3%, Indie 2.9%
- #46 PlanetX
53% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17.8% ★, RTS 15.8%, Building 8.9%, City Builder 7.1%
- #47 MARS
54% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyborg Dreams
Windows
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Mars 21.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 12.1%, 4X 7% ★
- #48 Wandering Sword
52% matchVery Positive95% of 40,424 reviews2023
Dev: The Swordman StudioPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
Median: 22.5 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
Why similar: Strategy 83.3%, Singleplayer 16.7%
- #49 Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion
52% matchVery Positive85% of 24,096 reviews2023
Dev: 半瓶醋工作室(Half Amateur Studio)Pub: XD
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.
Why similar: Strategy 46%, Simulation 36.9%, Indie 8.8%, Singleplayer 8.3%
- #50 Dying Light: The Beast
51% matchVery Positive87% of 65,218 reviews2025
Dev: Techland
Windows
Median: 23.3 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.
Why similar: Exploration 80.5%, Singleplayer 19.5%
- #51 Patron
54% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,135 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #52 Plan B: Terraform
51% matchVery Positive91% of 3,457 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Mars 25% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.8%
- #53 shapez 2
51% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,176 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Building 16.3%, Management 14.8%, Futuristic 13.5%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #54 Bongo Cat
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 95,019 reviews2025
Dev: Marcel ZurawkaPub: Irox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 26.7 hrsMean: 261.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Why similar: Simulation 68.7%, Singleplayer 16.4%, Indie 15%
- #55 Sultan's Game
50% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 32,694 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Strategy 41.8%, Singleplayer 16.1%
- #56 Upload Labs
51% matchVery Positive92% of 6,383 reviews2025
Dev: EnigmaDev Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect
Why similar: Simulation 33.4%, Management 26.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Futuristic 10.2%, Space 8.1%
- #57 Magicraft
51% matchVery Positive93% of 15,925 reviews2024
Dev: Wave GamesPub: bilibili
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
"Magicraft" is a Roguelike game that uses a variety of spells to match unimaginable spell effects, and the construction of ultra-high degrees of freedom cannot even be exhausted by developers.
Why similar: Singleplayer 53%, Indie 47%
- #58 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
53% matchVery Positive86% of 23,409 reviews2020
Dev: GSQ Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 58.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, Simulation 19.2%, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 7.5%
- #59 暖雪 Warm Snow
52% matchVery Positive93% of 38,426 reviews2022
Dev: BadMudStudioPub: bilibili
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.
Why similar: Singleplayer 52.9%, Indie 47.1%