- #1 Beware of Light
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Strategy 20.5%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #2 Arcane Shores
74% 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: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.3%
- #3 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
73% 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 30.6%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #4 LowPolis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Strategy 15.5%, Building 11.9%, Casual 5.8%
- #5 Exile
71% 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: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 9%
- #6 United Penguin Kingdom
71% 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 30.8%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Economy 10%
- #7 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Building 8.7%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #8 Skyline Settlers
70% 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: City Builder 35.3%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Economy 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #9 Banished
71% 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: City Builder 40.6%, Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 3.6%
- #10 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: City Builder 33.4%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Economy 10.1%
- #11 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
71% 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: City Builder 40.4%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Strategy 8.5%, Resource Management 8.2%, Survival 7.4%
- #12 ISLANDERS: New Shores
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,145 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Building 12.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Puzzle 6.7%
- #13 Little Porp
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: City Builder 41%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Strategy 17%, Building 7.6%, Casual 6.7%
- #14 Pixel Colony
68% 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: City Builder 33.9%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 8%
- #15 Dustoria
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Voxel Bytes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shape a quiet settlement in a forgotten desert. Keep your people comfortable, manage scarce resources, and slowly expand your city.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Casual 9.5%, Building 8.4%, Colony Sim 7.2% ★
- #16 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
68% 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: City Builder 36.9%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Survival 10.4%
- #17 Dawn of Man
68% 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 46.1%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Economy 3.7%
- #18 Kingdoms and Castles
68% matchVery Positive93% of 30,808 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 41.3%, Colony Sim 26% ★, Strategy 10%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #19 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,338 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Casual 7.4%, Building 5.9%
- #20 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: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Strategy 11%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #21 Settlement Survival
65% 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 33.6%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.2%, Agriculture 6% ★
- #22 RoundUrbs
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
RoundUrbs is a tiny relaxing city builder game where you place different commercial, residential, house, nature, industrial etc. circular tiles connected to each other to create unique and beautiful city.
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Strategy 20%, Casual 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #23 QuadUrbs
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
QuadUrbs is a relaxing minimalistic city builder game where you can place various tiles next to each other to build detailed city quickly without worrying about resource management. You can either place tiles perfectly to get maximum score or place them as you want to create city of your dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 13.2%, Puzzle 10%, Casual 7.1%
- #24 Patron
66% 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: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 7.4%
- #25 Foundation
63% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 48%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Building 8%, Economy 7.5%
- #26 Outlands
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.3%, Building 6.5%
- #27 Green With Energy
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: OrbifoldPub: Gameparic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A relaxing game where you become a power engineer and iteratively design, test and build power grid designs. Balance budget and efficiency across a variety of biomes. Will you build resilient systems, or cobble something together with duct tape? It's your choice.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Strategy 13%, Building 11.2%, Logic 10.1%, Economy 9.9%
- #28 Income Roads
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kiara24
Windows
Road system economic sim. Factorio meets MiniMetro.
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Building 10.4%, Economy 8.5%, Logic 7.9%
- #29 pyramida
66% matchVery Positive84% of 743 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Strategy 22.7%, Survival 14.4%, Indie 2.5%
- #30 Rise Against the Invaders
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 37.1%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #31 IXION
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 16,993 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #32 Oxygen: First Breath
64% 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: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 9.5%
- #33 The City Must Grow
65% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Tunaic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.
Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%
- #34 HistoriCity: Florence
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Agriculture 8.7% ★
- #35 Real Communism
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marlowe Development
Windows
Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Building 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 Settler's Domain
64% 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: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%
- #37 Settlements Rising
62% matchVery Positive81% of 410 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #38 Fleeting World
65% 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: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Building 14.9%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #39 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
64% 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 28.7% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9%
- #40 Hexarium
62% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Myuxen
Windows
A minimalistic traffic management game where you build and maintain a bustling road network as demand constantly grows. With an ever-expanding environment and endless challenges, how long can YOU keep the traffic flowing?
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Building 14.8%, Puzzle 9.4%, Casual 8.4%
- #41 Tile Cities 2
62% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Strategy 22%, Casual 12.1%, Building 9.4%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #42 HexaUrbs
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
HexaUrbs is a relaxing minimalistic city builder game about placing variety of hexagonal tiles strategically next to each other to create a beautiful and thriving city.
Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Building 14%, Puzzle 9.1%, Casual 7.3%
- #43 Ostriv
63% matchVery Positive95% of 7,345 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #44 Gnomoria
64% 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: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.1%
- #45 Ancient Aliens: The Game
63% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows · Mac
What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Isometric 6.1%
- #46 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
62% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Isometric 6.9%, Building 6.8%
- #47 A Little Age
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Benerot
Windows
A cozy city builder where each settlement you build has its own little economy. You must manage the flow of resources between them to guide their development. Organize settlements towards a common goal through resource management
Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Isometric 7.2%, Building 6.7%
- #48 Gnome Glen
61% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Economy 9.1%, Building 9%, Resource Management 9%
- #49 Frostpunk
61% matchVery Positive93% of 132,423 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 10.2%
- #50 Stonehearth
62% 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: City Builder 38.4%, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Building 12%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #51 Merging City
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havoc Minds
Windows
In this chill strategic puzzle city building game, you get to choose when to place land and buildings such as houses, shops and factories, with no RNG. Expand your city by getting points through placing buildings to their desired location or merge the same buildings to upgrade to bigger buildings
Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Colony Sim 11% ★, Logic 7.8%
- #52 ISLANDERS
61% matchVery Positive94% of 16,705 reviews2019
Dev: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Why similar: City Builder 39.7%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Building 12.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #53 Hamlet in a Pond
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pidibidi Games
Windows
Hamlet in a Pond is a unique looking relaxed city builder. Live out your creativity and build your own little slice of paradise in a tiny pond - with no pressure like goals to reach and no stress from juggling resources.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Strategy 12%, Building 7.3%, Isometric 6.7%
- #54 Endzone - A World Apart
61% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,806 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Survival 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Building 6.8%
- #55 Above: Colonies of the Mist
61% 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: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Strategy 18.9%, Building 8.5%, Economy 6.5%
- #56 Meadowside Mayor
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Levente Harsányi
Windows
Meadowside Mayor is a puzzle-like city builder. Where it's your job is to build a city, from a hand of buildings you were given, but each building has its own rules of placement, so each hand bringsnew and new challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 47.7%, Isometric 12.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #57 Oxygen
60% 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: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 9.5%
- #58 Storm Settlers
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mullet Games
Windows
A survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Build, farm, research, clear sand and protect your people from the storms. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?
Why similar: City Builder 49.9%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 16%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 7%