- #1 Frontier Roots
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Nature 8.3%
- #2 Farmman
75% 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 23.9% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 13.4%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 8.6%
- #3 Exile
70% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 22%, Economy 13.2%, Management 9.9%, Nature 9.2%
- #4 Arcane Shores
70% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Economy 14.7%, Survival 8.4%, Management 6.1%
- #5 Isla Paradiso
70% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Economy 15.6%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #6 Frontera
69% 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 27.7% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 15.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Management 6%
- #7 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
69% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Economy 12.9%, Management 10.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #8 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Economy 13.9%, Nature 11.7%, Management 10.8%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
69% 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% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 8.3%
- #10 Going Medieval
66% matchVery Positive90% of 20,101 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 12.4%, Nature 9.5%, Base Building 9%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
68% 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 37.6% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 12%, Economy 6.8%, Management 6.6%
- #12 Seeds of Resilience
69% 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 24% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 13.5%, Nature 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #13 Make Your Kingdom
68% 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 24.1% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 13.1%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #14 One More Island
68% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Economy 14.5%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%
- #15 Pixel Colony
67% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Management 11.8%, Economy 8%, Survival 7.7%
- #16 Kolo
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 8.8%
- #17 Compact Colonies
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 11.7%, Nature 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #18 Kingdoms Reborn
66% matchVery Positive91% of 9,521 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.6%
- #19 Sylox
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 11%, Base Building 8.3%, Management 6.8%
- #20 Oxygen
65% 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 23.7% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 8.2%
- #21 United Penguin Kingdom
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 426 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Economy 17.2%, Management 12.9%, Survival 9.7%
- #22 Lil Guys
64% 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 31.1% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 11.1%, Survival 9.5%
- #23 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 26.7% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Management 9%
- #24 Odd Realm
63% 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 28.2% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #25 MicroTown
65% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.6%
- #26 Paragon Pioneers
64% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Economy 14.3%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 10%
- #27 Skyline Settlers
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 30%, Economy 16.3%, Management 8%, Strategy 6.5%
- #28 Endzone 2
62% matchMixed69% of 1,001 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #29 Patron
64% 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 26.4%, Economy 11.8%, Survival 9.6%, Management 7.7%
- #30 The Fire Must Grow
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Economy 15.5%, Management 9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #31 Zoo Park Story
63% matchVery Positive88% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Nature 14.2%, Economy 7.7%, Management 6.4%
- #32 Diluvian Winds
62% matchMostly Positive73% of 379 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Economy 13%, Base Building 10.5%, Nature 10.1%
- #33 Voxelony
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShinyScale Games
Windows
Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 14.5%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 8.1%
- #34 Lords and Villeins
63% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.5%, Crafting 7.4%
- #35 Above: Colonies of the Mist
62% 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 30% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Crafting 7.4%
- #36 Tokeis
62% 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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Economy 17.8%, Management 11.8%, Survival 8.5%
- #37 Country Architect
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Economy 11.4%, Management 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%
- #38 Crowded Blue Dot
64% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.4%, Economy 6.9%
- #39 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 33% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #40 Crow's Nest
62% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Polyburg Studio
Windows
Embark on a journey in this city builder game, crafting and managing your own pirate island. Keep your crews satisfied and your captives in check, all while sending your ships out to gather gold from your nautical adventures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #41 Guild of Dragons
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9%
- #42 Dawn of Man
63% 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: City Builder 38.7%, Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Survival 9.6%, Economy 6.2%, Strategy 4.3%
- #43 Settletopia
61% 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 29.2% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 7.5%
- #44 Settler's Domain
61% 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 31.1% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Economy 10.7%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.8%
- #45 Pico Islands
61% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BitSpree GmbH
Windows · Mac
Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 17.8%, Management 11%, Crafting 5.6%
- #46 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Fuel Games
Windows
Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 12%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8%
- #47 Hexagge
61% 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 33% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 7%, Simulation 7%
- #48 H3X@G0N@L
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 7%
- #49 Aquatico
61% matchMixed67% of 856 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #50 Blacksmith Master
59% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.8%
- #51 Banished
62% 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 39.1% ★, City Builder 35.5%, Survival 8.3%, Economy 5.1%, Strategy 4.6%
- #52 Factory Town 2: Paradise
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%
- #53 Ratopia
58% matchVery Positive88% of 4,642 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 11.1%, Survival 8.8%
- #54 After the Collapse
61% 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 28.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 11.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #55 Paleon
60% 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 42.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Survival 11.8%, Management 5.8%, Simulation 4.9%
- #56 Generation Exile
58% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Nature 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 10.2%
- #57 Settlement Survival
60% 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: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #58 T-Minus 30
61% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Management 11.5%, Economy 8.3%
- #59 Planetbase
62% 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 34.9% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 8.6%, Management 5.7%