- #1 Clan & Flood
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Political Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 9.4%
- #2 Populus
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stalwart Fox Entertainment
Windows · Linux
A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 7.4%, Medieval 5.3%
- #3 MEMORIAPOLIS
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Building 6.8%
- #4 Kingdoms and Castles
95% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 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 34.4%, Colony Sim 33.9% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.1%
- #5 Little Porp
94% 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: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Top-Down 6.2%, Building 5.7%
- #6 Ancient Polis
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PKP Games
Windows
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Historical 9.5%
- #7 Age of Pyramids
93% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Historical 7.5%
- #8 Banished
92% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 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% ★, City Builder 35.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Sandbox 7%, Medieval 3.5%
- #9 Dawn of Man
91% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 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 39.7%, Colony Sim 37.4% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 6.2%, Historical 5.4%
- #10 Paleon
90% matchVery Positive83% of 406 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 41.8% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 7.3%
- #11 LowPolis
89% 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 33.1%, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Strategy 17.5%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 6.6%
- #12 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
89% matchMixed66% of 5,984 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 40% ★, City Builder 36.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 5.5%, Medieval 5%
- #13 Stonehearth
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 38.6% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 8.7%
- #14 Anno 1404 - History Edition
87% matchVery Positive82% of 3,444 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Strategy 16%, Political Sim 14.2% ★, Building 9.8%
- #15 Gnomoria
86% 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 36.7% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 7.3%
- #16 Frontier Governor
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Political Sim 23% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Historical 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #17 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 18.5%, Sandbox 5.1%, Medieval 5%
- #18 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
84% 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: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Building 7.2%, Medieval 5.2%
- #19 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
84% matchVery Positive84% of 806 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 67.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Strategy 18.2%, Medieval 5.9%
- #20 Civitas Rise
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Renewal Art Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Civitas Rise是一款古典社会模拟游戏。本游戏中,数千名玩家共同建设一座座著名的汉代时期东西方城市,发展经济系统,制定社会规则,沉淀文化记忆。玩家们的群体决策会对城市产生不可逆的深远影响。
Why similar: Political Sim 39.8% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Historical 6.6%
- #21 OBRII
81% 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 34.6% ★, City Builder 31%, Strategy 19.4%, Building 7.9%, Top-Down 6.8%
- #22 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
82% 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 32.8% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Top-Down 4.7%
- #23 My Colony
82% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7% ★, City Builder 43.2%, Strategy 12.1%
- #24 Noble Fates
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Building 6.7%
- #25 Peasants
79% 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 35.5% ★, City Builder 29%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 7.7%, Medieval 7.7%
- #26 Fleeting World
80% 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 30%, Strategy 21.4%, Building 11.8%, 3D 3.7%
- #27 Zeus + Poseidon
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,911 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Colony Sim 38% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Historical 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #28 Skyline Settlers
78% 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 34.4% ★, City Builder 33.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Medieval 7.1%, Building 6.9%
- #29 Orrstead
78% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #30 Lunar City Builder
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Miuze
Windows · Mac
Welcome to Lunar City Builder: An innovative city builder where success hinges on balancing the demands of bosses, lobbies, and citizens to create a thriving city that reaches for the stars in happiness and ratings
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Political Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 8.8%
- #31 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Political Sim 24% ★, Strategy 14.7%, Building 7.3%
- #32 Beware of Light
76% 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: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 35.6%, Strategy 25.7%
- #33 Tropico 7
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #34 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
75% 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: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Strategy 21.1%, Historical 7.8%, Building 5.3%
- #35 Patron
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 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 34.1% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 6.1%, Historical 5.8%
- #36 VENOY
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 6%
- #37 Motile Works
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Political Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #38 My Townies
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erkurheart Inc.Pub: N/A
Windows
My Townies is an immersive mixed city-building game, you’re not just an overseer. Begin with a modest farm settlement and transform it into a sprawling metropolis, with every townie, building, and resource under your command. Relax watch your city grow and play mini games
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Political Sim 21.4% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #39 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 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 45.5% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.9%
- #40 Make the Empire Great Again
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Political Sim 20.6% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Building 4.9%
- #41 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% 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 37.4% ★, City Builder 35.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Building 10.1%, 3D 2.6%
- #42 Sylox
71% 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 41.7% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 17%, Top-Down 5.3%, Building 5%
- #43 Anno 1602 History Edition
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Political Sim 22.5% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Historical 5.9%
- #44 Orc Colony
73% 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 47.8% ★, Strategy 19.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 6.7%
- #45 Aven Colony
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2% ★, City Builder 37.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Sandbox 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #46 Colony Break
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artical Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, City Builder 24%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 13.3%, PvE 3.9%
- #47 Anno 1701 History Edition
69% matchVery Positive86% of 194 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Historical 5.9%
- #48 Lords and Villeins
70% 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 32.8% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 7.9%
- #49 Colonize Prologue
70% matchMixed64% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 8.3%
- #50 Crowncity
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.4%
- #51 Lord Of Anatolia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
A real-time city-building and strategy game set in 1300s Anatolia. Build your settlement, manage resources, expand your economy, train soldiers, research new technologies, and defend your beylik against enemy forces.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Political Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Top-Down 3.8%
- #52 Pharaoh + Cleopatra
69% matchVery Positive92% of 2,537 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 48.4%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Strategy 18%, Historical 12.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #53 Farmman
67% 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 33.2% ★, City Builder 29%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 9%
- #54 Tap Craft
68% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 6.6%
- #55 Luthenia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: arthurluthen
Windows
Shape a new society in Luthenia, a deep colony simulation game. Don't give direct orders—pass laws, respond to crises, and manage a living economy. Guide your people from primitive survival to a complex civilization where every individual settler matters.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Top-Down 3.7%
- #56 Skyberry Garden
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, City Builder 37.5%, Strategy 21%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #57 Take town
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Merragamm
Windows
Urban Planning Simulator (puzzle) build and manage your city! You are the mayor of a small town develop it and earn money.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.8% ★, City Builder 32.5%, Strategy 19.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #58 Hamlet in a Pond
67% 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 31.6%, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 5.9%
- #59 Our Dear Kingdom
66% 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 64.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 6.9%, Medieval 3.8%