- #1 Factory Town 2: Paradise
97% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 14.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Trains 10.4% ★, Economy 9%
- #2 Scaling Up
96% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Farming Sim 16.5%, City Builder 16%, Automation 12.8%, Economy 6.7%
- #3 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 19.6%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 8.6%
- #4 Captain of Industry
95% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Economy 10.1%, City Builder 10.1%
- #5 Kubifaktorium
94% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Trains 11.6% ★, Economy 9%
- #6 Factory Town
93% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 7.5%
- #7 Bottlecappers
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShardanaForge
Windows
Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Economy 11.9%, Capitalism 11.5%, Colony Sim 11%, City Builder 9.8%
- #8 Odd Realm
92% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Mining 8.4% ★
- #9 Fill the Sky
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Automation 20.9%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 6.8%
- #10 Steam & Stones
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 13.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Trains 12.7% ★, Base Building 8%
- #11 Cog Foo
90% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Base Building 11.1%
- #12 Capital City
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tjenstech
Windows
Capital City combines city, resource, and transport management within an infinite steampunk fantasy world. Mine resources, build factories and logistics networks. Transport raw and processed materials and goods to your city to ensure it keeps growing and expanding.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 14%, Economy 12.5%, Automation 8.8%, Management 7.1%
- #13 Kingdom Workshop
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Automation 12%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 9.8%
- #14 TOWERPUNK
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TESSERAX GAMES
Windows
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 14.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.2%
- #15 All Roads Connected
86% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Farming Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 9.1%
- #16 Terraform Co: Factory and City
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 19%, Automation 11.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.6%
- #17 Frontera
85% 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 25.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 12%, Simulation 9%, Crafting 6.4%
- #18 Another Brick in The Mall
86% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 19%, Colony Sim 15.2%, City Builder 13.2%, Management 11.6%, Economy 9%
- #19 Farmman
84% 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 23.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 8%
- #20 Resource chill
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 15%, Economy 8.3%, Capitalism 8.3%
- #21 Truck City
82% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #22 Moose Miners
83% matchMixed69% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 144.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8%, Automation 12.4%, Trains 10.4% ★, Mining 10% ★, Economy 9.4%
- #23 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Trains 12.3% ★, Automation 11.8%, Economy 9.7%
- #24 My Drug Cartel
80% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, Automation 14.9%, Economy 11.2%, Farming Sim 10.5%, Management 8.7%
- #25 Prison Architect
81% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.1%, Economy 7.6%
- #26 Islandustry
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 6.4%
- #27 Automation Empire
81% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 9.6%, City Builder 9.5%, Trains 7.4% ★
- #28 Greedy Little Kingdoms
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Automation 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 7.9%
- #29 Isla Paradiso
79% 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 26.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 12.7%, Management 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #30 CENTAVO
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 21.6%, Economy 13.5%, Capitalism 10.4%, Management 8.8%
- #31 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
78% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 22.3%, Farming Sim 18.5%, Economy 15.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 10.6%
- #32 Incremental Town RPG
77% matchMixed60% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Farming Sim 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%
- #33 Project Oasis
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 9.1%
- #34 Property Pro
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 10.6%
- #35 Radia Island
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8.8%
- #36 Deep Space Directive
75% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 13%, Economy 12.9%
- #37 The Blighted Frontier
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 13%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #38 Mistpaw Ravine
73% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Farming Sim 14.8%, Automation 9.1%, Management 9%
- #39 Evoker's Gambit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
Play alchemy by building a city and meeting the needs of the population. Extract matter from demonic rift and transform it into a resource. Explore your paths of transmutation. Exploit the synergy of systems to save the visiting deity. Protect it from corporate fools who do not see its power.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.7%, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Capitalism 12.4%, Economy 8.9%
- #40 Terra-7
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 8.5%
- #41 Oxygen: First Breath
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 22.3%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 10.3%, Management 7.5%
- #42 MegaFactory Tycoon
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Management 8.4%, Capitalism 7.1%
- #43 Mini Settlers: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.8%, Trains 8.6% ★
- #44 Dream Town Island
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 549 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 19.9%, Farming Sim 18.5%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #45 Farmous
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Besir KAYRAN
Windows
Build your dream farm, create production chains, mine valuable resources, expand your village, and grow a thriving farming empire.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.6%, Automation 18%, Mining 13.7% ★, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.1%
- #46 Paystreak
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Northwright Games
Windows
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Automation 20.5%, Economy 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Capitalism 10.8%
- #47 Founders' Fortune
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 35.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 5.8%, Economy 5.6%
- #48 Resort Galactica
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 9.1%, Management 9%
- #49 Factory on a Train
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Trains 16.7% ★, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Mining 9.3% ★
- #50 Lords and Villeins
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 25.7%, City Builder 19.1%, Management 9.7%, Economy 9.5%, Crafting 5.9%
- #51 Goblin Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.2%
- #52 Crowded Blue Dot
71% matchMixed59% of 53 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 23.5%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 5.9%
- #53 First Feudal
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 7.5%
- #54 Survival Vacancy
70% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 9.8%, City Builder 9.8%, Management 7.6%
- #55 Necromancer's Workshop
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Farming Sim 9.7%, Economy 9.3%
- #56 Wildwood: A Town Building Game
67% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Thermal Expansion Games
Windows
Welcome to Wildwood, the ultimate town building game. Start from nothing. Provide food, shelter and protection for your settlers. Forage for resources, research new technologies, Craft new items, construct new buildings and grow from a surviving colony into a thriving one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Trains 10.3% ★, Base Building 10%
- #57 Medieval Lord Tycoon
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HayatePub: Onigokko
Windows
A pixel art medieval lord simulator! Farm, chop wood, hunt yourself—or delegate to townsfolk. No meddling in daily lives; govern via taxes & laws. When enemies attack, higher prestige means more peasants rally to fight. Balance survival & strategic rule—build your medieval realm, forge your legacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, Farming Sim 13.9%, City Builder 13.9%, Automation 12.4%, Economy 9%
- #58 Rise Under the Warstorm
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 12.8%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #59 Manufactur’ inc.
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Mining 9.6% ★, Economy 7.8%
- #60 Virum:Colony
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 11.1%, Automation 6.7%