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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Building, Strategy.

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Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 75% — of 93 reviews
Released: 2025-03-24
Developer: LS Games
Genres: Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    71% 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 35.6%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

  2. #2 Settletopia
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.4%

  3. #3 Our Freedom: Prologue
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
    Windows

    The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 12%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 8.6%

  4. #4 Ratopia
    67% 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 24.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 12.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Management 8.1%

  5. #5 TFM: The First Men
    69% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.5%

  6. #6 Embark
    70% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
    Dev: Overly Complicated Games
    Windows

    Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 6%

  7. #7 RimWorld
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,937 reviews2018
    Dev: Ludeon Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Management 7.3%, Building 7.1%

  8. #8 Terra-7
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Gamyeon
    Windows · Mac

    A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 10.5%

  9. #9 Colony Survival
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 8,806 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 11.7%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

  10. #10 Mars Colony Builder
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: GameHunters
    Windows

    Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.1%

  11. #11 Settlements Rising
    65% matchVery Positive81% of 410 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Management 7.4%

  12. #12 Oxygen: First Breath
    66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 10.4%, Management 7.2%

  13. #13 Lil Guys
    65% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9%

  14. #14 Sect Leader's Decree
    65% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alena Selezneva
    Windows

    Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 8.1%

  15. #15 Oxygen Not Included
    65% 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 37.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.6%, Management 6.1%

  16. #16 Kingdoms and Castles
    66% 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 32.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 6.6%

  17. #17 Beyond These Stars
    65% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 11.1%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

  18. #18 Lost Heaven Station
    65% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Varnonsoft
    Windows

    Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%

  19. #19 Starship Colony
    65% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

    A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8%

  20. #20 Pick Me Up
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
    Windows

    Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 10.1%, Management 7.5%

  21. #21 Settlement Survival
    64% 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 25.9%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 8.9%

  22. #22 First Feudal
    65% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 7.4%

  23. #23 Blacksmith Master
    62% matchVery Positive84% of 2,470 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 8.5%

  24. #24 Arcane Shores
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Absent Slumber
    Windows

    Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 7.5%

  25. #25 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    63% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.2%

  26. #26 Farmman
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

  27. #27 Architect of Ruin
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

  28. #28 Paleon
    63% matchVery Positive83% of 404 reviews2023
    Dev: Paleodev
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 12%, Building 11.3%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

  29. #29 Oxygen
    64% matchMostly Positive73% of 861 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%

  30. #30 Dwarf Fortress
    62% matchVery Positive95% of 30,790 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

  31. #31 Rise Against the Invaders
    63% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 7.8%

  32. #32 Make Your Kingdom
    65% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
    Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
    Windows

    Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 12.8%, Management 9.5%

  33. #33 SuperColony
    63% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Antic Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 7.8%

  34. #34 Resort Galactica
    63% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Stupid Name Studios
    Windows

    Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 13.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

  35. #35 Isla Paradiso
    63% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 16%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 9%

  36. #36 Planetbase
    65% 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 33.1%, Base Building 18.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 6.8%, Building 6.1%

  37. #37 Orrstead
    63% matchVery Positive82% of 77 reviews2024
    Dev: IndividualKex
    Windows

    Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

  38. #38 CLOUD DWELLERS
    62% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
    Windows

    CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 14.9%, Management 11%, Strategy 6.4%

  39. #39 Humanica
    60% matchVery Positive95% of 114 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
    Windows

    Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.6%

  40. #40 Patron
    63% 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 30%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.6%, Survival 7.9%

  41. #41 Outland Kingdoms
    62% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
    Dev: GBL
    Windows

    Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 6.3%

  42. #42 Gnome Glen
    62% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%

  43. #43 Stonehearth
    64% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,966 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 6.5%

  44. #44 Space Haven
    63% 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 24.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.7%, City Builder 10%, Sandbox 8.5%

  45. #45 Gnomoria
    64% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11%, Strategy 7.1%

  46. #46 Nuclear Crawler
    62% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
    Windows

    Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 14.8%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.9%

  47. #47 Angkor: The Holy City
    61% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: William Parsons
    Windows

    Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

  48. #48 Orc Colony
    64% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
    Dev: Luzon Games
    Windows

    Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%, City Builder 8.5%

  49. #49 Prison Architect
    62% matchVery Positive89% of 73,086 reviews2015
    Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%

  50. #50 Beneath a Dead City
    61% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonroof Studios
    Windows

    Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Management 11.8%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 8.4%

  51. #51 Catizens
    59% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
    Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%

  52. #52 Forgotten Vale
    60% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Rospeath Studios
    Windows

    Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

  53. #53 Exile
    59% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
    Dev: JD7 Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Building 12%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%

  54. #54 WildRoot
    60% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rahul Das
    Windows

    Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 10.9%

  55. #55 Seeds of Resilience
    62% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

  56. #56 Of Life and Land
    58% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
    Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.2%

  57. #57 Containment Director
    60% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Glamorous Games
    Windows · Mac

    You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 22.2%, Building 14.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Simulation 10.4%

  58. #58 Tokeis
    60% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Toe Key
    Windows

    Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.1%

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