- #1 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
74% 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 27.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 21.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #2 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,291 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8%
- #3 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: 4X 34.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 6.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #4 Earth of Oryn
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Earth of Oryn
Windows · Mac
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31% ★, 4X 21.7% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #5 Order: The New Dawn
68% 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 26.2% ★, 4X 22.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #6 Powerplay
68% 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 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #7 Mega Prison
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chute Apps
Windows · Mac
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 44.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 6.4%, Survival 5.8%
- #8 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: 4X 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #9 Squars
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Countryside Studio
Windows · Linux
Explore a hostile world, survive endless waves of dark entities, use your clicks as a resource, and grow stronger with every run. Find and upgrade powerful modules and unlock new technologies in this real-time-with-pause roguelite mixing tower defense and clicker gameplay. Everything is square.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.1%
- #10 Industries of Titan
67% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.5% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #11 SimPocalypse
68% 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 25.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #12 Flotsam
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 4,227 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #13 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 31.3% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 8.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #14 Oxygen Not Included
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,747 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7%
- #15 Exogate Initiative
65% 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 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #16 SpaceSlog
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Produno Games Studios
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 22.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.7%
- #17 Diplomacy is Not an Option
64% matchVery Positive85% of 11,461 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 22.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Military 8.8%
- #18 Here Comes The Swarm
63% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 7.2%
- #19 TFM: The First Men
65% 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 36% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Sandbox 9%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #20 Cataclismo
62% matchVery Positive89% of 4,073 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8%, Management 7.4%
- #21 Space Drilling Station
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #22 Void Ascendancy
63% 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 41% ★, Colony Sim 29% ★, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 4.3%
- #23 Whiskerwood
61% matchVery Positive93% of 2,728 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.7%
- #24 New Cycle
62% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,778 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8%
- #25 From Glory To Goo
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,433 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #26 Settletopia
63% 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #27 Crowded Blue Dot
65% 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: Real-Time with Pause 21% ★, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 11.6%
- #28 Wild West Pioneers
63% 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 27.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 6.9%
- #29 Magnery Reign
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Military 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 8.5%
- #30 Rise And Grind!
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 6.8%
- #31 Manor Lords
61% matchVery Positive85% of 85,222 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #32 Falling Frontier
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stutter Fox StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.2% ★, 4X 28.5% ★, Military 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 7.6%
- #33 Norland
61% matchVery Positive81% of 9,633 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #34 Fragile Existence
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fragile ContinuumPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Save humanity from the brink of extinction in this sci-fi strategy game of survival. Travel among the stars to seek out resources, establish and develop colonies to sustain civilization, and grow your military might to push back against an overwhelming threat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.9% ★, 4X 26.3% ★, Military 12.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 7.9%
- #35 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
65% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
Dev: Jim Offerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #36 Starship Colony
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #37 Repterra
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chute AppsPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 40.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Military 7.9%, Isometric 5.5%
- #38 Edge Islands
61% matchMostly Positive75% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Sandbox 12%, Management 10.8%, Survival 6.5%
- #39 Pick Me Up
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Base Building 16%, Real-Time with Pause 15.8% ★, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #40 Times of Progress
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30% ★, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #41 Offshore Prophets
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Real-Time with Pause 20.6% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 11.5%, Base Building 9.6%
- #42 Heart of the Machine
59% matchVery Positive93% of 1,813 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #43 Against the Storm
60% matchVery Positive95% of 35,439 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #44 Empires of the Undergrowth
59% matchVery Positive94% of 17,267 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.7%
- #45 Advisors at the End of the Universe
61% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Flux-Soul
Windows · Linux
AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35.5% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.3%
- #46 Stellar Dynasty
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua R.D. Wilson
Windows
A sci-fi, 4X, real-time strategy game. Build, fight, and explore to survive against an unstoppable alien threat. Carry the fight from one galaxy to the next as you battle back from the brink of extinction, and unlock the secrets of the past to restore your people to the path of galactic super power.
Why similar: 4X 36.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 32.3% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 6.1%, Procedural Generation 3.1%
- #47 Pirate Plight
61% 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 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Tactical 9%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #48 CastleOn
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Military 17.7%, 4X 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #49 Pawnholm
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #50 Nova Roma
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8.7%
- #51 Beyond These Stars
60% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.1%
- #52 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
60% 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 29% ★, Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Management 8.4%, Tactical 8.3%
- #53 Beyond Astra
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.1% ★, 4X 30.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9%, Wargame 6.9%
- #54 Nuclear Crawler
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Isometric 6.9%
- #55 Ecopunk
58% matchVery Positive84% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #56 NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
62% matchMixed70% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31% ★, 4X 23% ★, Military 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Tactical 7.4%
- #57 Terra Invicta
57% matchVery Positive81% of 8,993 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.2% ★, 4X 27.6% ★, Military 12.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.3%
- #58 Embark
62% 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 46% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 6.7%, Management 6.2%
- #59 Architect of Ruin
60% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 9.8%