- #1 Void Ascendancy
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Exploration 3.9%
- #2 Build The Sun
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 10%, Simulation 7.5%, Minimalist 5.6%
- #3 Splinter Colony
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cast and Wrought Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern recreation of the 1994 4x strategy game, Reunion. After many generations of being separated from Earth, the colony is self-sufficient enough to develop a mission to reconquer and reunify Earth.
Why similar: 4X 42.9% ★, Colony Sim 29% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Exploration 5.2%, Simulation 4.8%
- #4 Island Dwellers
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Strategy 7.4%, Procedural Generation 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #5 Powerplay
71% 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 31.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Simulation 7.9%
- #6 Space One - Electron
72% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Simulation 6%
- #7 A Planet of Mine Legacy
73% matchMixed63% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Minimalist 7.8%, Automation 6.6%
- #8 Underground Nomads
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Automation 11.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 7%
- #9 Wild West Pioneers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Simulation 7.1%, City Builder 6.8%
- #10 Pirate Plight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 7.4%
- #11 Microtopia: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 10%, Crafting 7.8%, Resource Management 7%
- #12 Exogate Initiative
66% 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 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #13 Factoriant
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Colony Sim 12.3% ★, Minimalist 10%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #14 Order: The New Dawn
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, 4X 26.4% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8%, Exploration 5.3%
- #15 The Glorious Colony
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeLIAS Studio
Windows
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Automation 24.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Exploration 6.8%, Management 5.2%
- #16 1492 - Colonization of the New World
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salty Olives
Windows · Linux
Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.
Why similar: 4X 42.8% ★, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Strategy 14%, Simulation 11.5%, 2D 2.3%
- #17 SkillGrid
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%
- #18 Mini Settlers: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Automation 16.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Minimalist 9.1%, Simulation 9%
- #19 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 26.1% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #20 SimPocalypse
67% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 29% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Simulation 6.4%
- #21 Settletopia
65% 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.8%, City Builder 7.5%
- #22 Architect of Ruin
65% 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 25.8% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #23 Microtopia
63% matchVery Positive88% of 901 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #24 Spirit & Stone
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 14.7%, City Builder 9.3%, Base Building 7.1%
- #25 Underfoot Queens
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ElVillano
Windows · Linux
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #26 Trappist
64% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 8.8%, City Builder 6.3%
- #27 Frontiers of the Realms
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jonas Alber
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sent to the edges of your kingdom as a noble, you must explore new lands, build settlements, and compete against rival lords. Plan wisely, manage resources, and decide in short, strategic turns who will gain fame, power, and influence in the Frontiers of the Realms.
Why similar: 4X 38.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Minimalist 5.4%
- #28 Spaceflight Factory
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, 4X 17.1% ★, Automation 15.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #29 Dawn Apart
62% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 10%, Strategy 8%
- #30 Vilset
65% matchMostly Negative38% of 69 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 8%
- #31 Adaptory
61% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Automation 16%, Base Building 13.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #32 TFM: The First Men
64% 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 38.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%, Procedural Generation 6.2%
- #33 Project: Zenith Expanse
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build colonies across the stars in a deep space colony sim. Trade legally or run the underground. Keep your people alive - or don't.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #34 ReFactory
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%
- #35 The Crust
61% 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 27.8% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #36 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%, City Builder 6.9%
- #37 Odd Realm
61% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%
- #38 Deep Space Directive
61% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, Automation 21.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #39 Goblins of Elderstone
62% matchMostly Positive74% of 389 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 7%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #40 Rise Under the Warstorm
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Automation 21.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8%
- #41 Nova Historia
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 49.5% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #42 Frontline Logistics: Isarian Warfare
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Immersive Pixels Studio
Windows
A tactical survival and outpost management sim driven by dynamic battlefield events. War isn't just about combat—it’s about the daily lives of your soldiers. Keep logistics running, scavenge every usable resource, and do what you can to ease the harsh reality of life on the frontlines.
Why similar: 4X 34.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 6.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #43 Factory Town
62% matchVery Positive91% of 4,418 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #44 Eternity
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firedrake GamesPub: Ground Control Studios
Windows
An unforgettable journey of discovery, hope, and survival, as you strive to unlock the secrets of the universe and pave the way for humanity's destiny. By intertwining Exploration, Adaptive Gameplay, and Survival, ETERNITY offers a rich and immersive experience.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 8.3%, Automation 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #45 Cosmic Castaway
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #46 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 35.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%
- #47 Hexoplanet
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirnic Interactive
Windows · Mac
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, Automation 18.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Base Building 6.8%
- #48 Terra-7
61% 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 31.1% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Base Building 11%, Management 7.7%
- #49 Numbers & Nodes
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 12.6%
- #50 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
59% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Management 4%
- #51 Kingdom Workshop
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 9.7%
- #52 Clipper
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Automation 24.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 8%
- #53 Planet Valley
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anomaly Pixel
Windows
Overview: Manage resources and defend your base against alien attacks. Design: Build structures, collect resources and defend your colony with defense towers. Automation lets you focus on strategy.
Why similar: 4X 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Automation 10.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 7%
- #54 Astro Colony
61% 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 26.9% ★, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #55 Reshaping Mars
61% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 29.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #56 Founders' Fortune
62% 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 44.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7%
- #57 Our Freedom: Prologue
60% 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 29.4% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 15.7%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 8.5%
- #58 Orc Colony
63% 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 46% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Resource Management 6%, City Builder 5.3%
- #59 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
59% 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 41.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 6.2%
- #60 Oxygen: First Breath
60% 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%, City Builder 8.9%