- #1 Lil Guys
71% 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 43% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Colorful 8.4%, City Builder 7.3%
- #2 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
68% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, 4X 20% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #3 Paleon
68% 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 57.9% ★, Survival 17.8%, Simulation 11.3%, City Builder 8.2%, Strategy 4.2%
- #4 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
70% matchMixed69% of 359 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Simulation 8%, City Builder 7.3%
- #5 Odd Realm
66% 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 41.1% ★, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #6 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
67% 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 47% ★, Survival 14%, City Builder 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Stylized 6.9%
- #7 SuperColony
66% 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 46.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Simulation 9%, Stylized 6.8%
- #8 The Colony
69% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 79.1% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #9 Beneath a Dead City
65% 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 47.5% ★, Procedural Generation 16.1%, Survival 16%, Simulation 8.9%, City Builder 6.4%
- #10 Northrealm Tribes
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevSanja
Windows · Linux
"Northrealm Tribes" offers an engaging gaming experience where you can immerse yourself in the thrilling history of the Vikings and build your own settlement in a perilous yet exhilarating world. Are you ready to establish and rule your own Viking realm?
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.2% ★, Stylized 16.5%, 3D 9.8%, Casual 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #11 King's Keeper
65% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9% ★, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Combat 8.3%
- #12 Founders' Fortune
66% 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 58.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, City Builder 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Crafting 6%
- #13 Corbel
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Not A Robot Games
Windows · Linux
Play as a giant and build a micro medieval city in this unique city builder. Pick up villagers and command them to do your bidding, create production lines and manage resources while defending against hoards of pillaging gnomes. Get involved yourself and help gather resources, transport, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Stylized 11.9%, City Builder 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #14 Island Master
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, Procedural Generation 15.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Colorful 6%
- #15 Embark
68% 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 62.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 4.2%
- #16 Peasants
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1% ★, Stylized 12.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Colorful 8%
- #17 Banished
66% matchVery Positive90% of 42,976 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 56.3% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 4.5%
- #18 Hexoplanet
64% 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 48.6% ★, Procedural Generation 16.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Colorful 5.6%
- #19 Gnomoria
67% 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 50.8% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, City Builder 10.6%, Simulation 9%
- #20 Above: Colonies of the Mist
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6% ★, Crafting 11%, Simulation 10.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 7.9%
- #21 Keziah's Realm
63% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bonny Studios
Windows
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7% ★, Procedural Generation 18.4%, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Combat 5.6%
- #22 Our Dear Kingdom
64% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 83% ★, Simulation 8.2%, City Builder 5%, Strategy 3.8%
- #23 Colony Simulator
65% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1% ★, Simulation 17.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Crafting 12.5%, 3D 6.8%
- #24 All My Gods
67% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 75.4% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 7%, Casual 5%
- #25 Orc Colony
66% 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 61.5% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 7.4%, City Builder 5.9%
- #26 Settletopia
64% 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 43% ★, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 9.3%
- #27 NOVA ATLANTIS
64% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.5% ★, Simulation 20.8%, City Builder 13.1%, 3D 8%, Strategy 3.3%
- #28 Penta Terra
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barking Mudpuppy LLC
Windows
An enchanting fantasy colony simulator where the world comes alive through intricate simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.5% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, 3D 7.8%, Immersive Sim 4.4%
- #29 Humanica
61% 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 33.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Stylized 11.5%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, City Builder 9.6%
- #30 Mars Colony Simulator
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mars Simulator
Windows
Build humanity’s first home on Mars. Mine resources in first person, construct life-sustaining domes, grow lush vegetation, and launch rockets to reconnect with Earth in this immersive colony-building simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.8% ★, Simulation 19%, Crafting 13.1%, 3D 7.6%, Immersive Sim 4.4%
- #31 The Gears: Factory
63% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Combat 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, City Builder 8%
- #32 Abyssals
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1% ★, Simulation 16%, City Builder 11.3%, Stylized 9.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #33 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 55.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, City Builder 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Simulation 5.5%
- #34 Void Ascendancy
62% 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: Colony Sim 43.7% ★, 4X 23.4% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #35 Spirit & Stone
62% 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 45.8% ★, Simulation 17.5%, City Builder 11.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #36 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
63% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2% ★, Simulation 18.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 8%, Colorful 6.8%
- #37 Arcane Shores
62% 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 49.9% ★, Survival 15.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 4.7%
- #38 After the Collapse
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, City Builder 7.8%
- #39 Surviving Ceres
60% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, Crafting 18.4%, Survival 17%, Simulation 10.7%, Colorful 3%
- #40 Marsbound
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8% ★, Survival 15.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Strategy 8.3%, 3D 5.8%
- #41 Catizens
60% 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 42.1% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 13.3%, City Builder 9.2%, Simulation 7.8%
- #42 Dawn of Man
62% matchVery Positive87% of 17,626 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Colony Sim 56.2% ★, Survival 16.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Strategy 4.4%
- #43 Maia
64% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 5.5%, Crafting 3.9%
- #44 The Promised Land
64% matchVery Positive87% of 776 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 74.8% ★, Strategy 6.5%, City Builder 6.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Casual 5.5%
- #45 Skytropolis
64% matchPositive79% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: Mythical City Games
Windows · Mac
Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.
Why similar: Colony Sim 83.7% ★, Simulation 16.3%
- #46 Endless Vine
60% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Circuit Root
Windows
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3% ★, Procedural Generation 17.4%, Survival 14%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 8.5%
- #47 Terraspace
59% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Black Apple
Windows
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, Survival 10.5%, Stylized 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%, City Builder 9.7%
- #48 Fleeting World
63% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Stylized 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Strategy 8.7%
- #49 Don't get lost
61% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
Windows · Linux
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Stylized 10.1%, City Builder 8.1%
- #50 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
63% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 49.4% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Simulation 6.4%
- #51 Settler's Domain
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9% ★, Survival 15.1%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, City Builder 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #52 Hexagge
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.8% ★, Simulation 18.2%, City Builder 12.2%, Stylized 10.9%, 3D 7.1%
- #53 Stranded: Alien Dawn
59% matchVery Positive85% of 10,878 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Survival 21%, Crafting 15.6%, Simulation 10%, Combat 8.1%
- #54 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
63% matchMixed66% of 5,983 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.1% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Survival 10.9%, Simulation 6.6%, Crafting 4.5%
- #55 OBRII
59% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.2% ★, Stylized 14.5%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Strategy 8.4%
- #56 Kingdom Simulator
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vivid Horizon Games
Windows
Build, rule, and conquer in this immersive Kingdom Simulator. Shape your medieval realm, manage resources, navigate challenges, and strategize for the prosperity of your kingdom. Will you be a benevolent monarch or a cunning conqueror?
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.8% ★, Simulation 13.3%, 3D 8.1%, Colorful 6.6%, Casual 4.1%
- #57 TFM: The First Men
61% 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 56.6% ★, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 6.6%
- #58 Never Secure
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1% ★, Survival 19.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 5.5%
- #59 Frontera
59% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Crafting 14.3%, City Builder 11.7%, Combat 5%