Games Like Startopia

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 27% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Space 11.9%, Management 5.8%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, God Game 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Real-Time with Pause 10.6% ★, Management 8.1%

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 32.2% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Management 14.8%, Real-Time with Pause 12.4% ★, Simulation 8.7%, Comedy 8.4%

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 20.9% ★, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.8%, Space 11.1%, Management 9.5%

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 23.1% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

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 31.1% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 6.6%, Strategy 6.5%

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 21.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 12%, Space 10.2%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.2% ★, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 9.2%, Management 7.2%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, City Builder 33.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

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: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Management 11.9%, RTS 8%

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Management 13.1%, God Game 11.8% ★, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.8%

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: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Space 16.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 6.6%

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 21% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Space 9.1%

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 38.9% ★, Base Building 24.6%, Management 10.1%, Space 6.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

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 36.2%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Management 11.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Space 20.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 9.9%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 23.6%, God Game 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 6%

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 22.5% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Management 14.4%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%

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 28.2% ★, Base Building 24.5%, RTS 16.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Real-Time with Pause 9.6% ★

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.7% ★, RTS 19.9%, Space 16.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 12.7%

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% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Management 23.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 6.8%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Strategy 6.8%, Sandbox 5.5%, Simulation 5.5%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.6%

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 37.7% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 4.7%

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: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Management 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Sci-fi 8.6%

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: City Builder 33%, Space 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%, RTS 9.2%

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Management 14.7%, Sandbox 10%

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: City Builder 24.5%, RTS 19.6%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Management 8.8%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 19.6%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, RTS 14.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 8.1%

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, God Game 20.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Management 14.8%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 27.4% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.

Why similar: RTS 33%, Real-Time with Pause 19% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 13%, Sci-fi 11.4%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 15.4%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 23.5%, Space 18.3%, City Builder 13.4%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 8.7%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

Why similar: City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, RTS 12.1%, Space 10%, Management 9%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Management 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Real-Time with Pause 13.4% ★, Base Building 12.4%

Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10.3%, Space 9%

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 34.8%, Simulation 19%, City Builder 10.2%, Funny 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%

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: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 25.9%, City Builder 24.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Comedy 9.3%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Management 30%, Real-Time with Pause 18.6% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 6.5%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Management 7.3%

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.7%

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: Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%, RTS 10%

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Management 14.3%, Life Sim 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Simulation 18.1%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 7.7%

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: Space 22.1%, God Game 18.2% ★, Simulation 15.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Sci-fi 8%

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Base Building 29%, Real-Time with Pause 16% ★, Comedy 10.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 8.8%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Base Building 34.3%, Management 19.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14%, Space 10.7%, RTS 8.8%

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 24.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 9.6%

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: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 23.7%, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 13.5%

Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?

Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Management 17.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Sandbox 8.3%