- #1 Aven Colony
97% 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 37.5% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 5.2%
- #2 Planetbase
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #3 Oxygen: First Breath
96% 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 25.1%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.9%
- #4 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
95% 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 31.4% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Base Building 6.5%
- #5 New Cycle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 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: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.9%
- #6 Surviving the Aftermath
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 9.1%
- #7 Oxygen
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10%, Survival 8.9%
- #8 Space Haven
91% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9%
- #9 Maia
92% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6% ★, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%
- #10 Colony Simulator
91% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, 3D 2.9%
- #11 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #12 Sphere - Flying Cities
90% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 7.4%
- #13 Endzone 2
89% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%
- #14 Stranded: Alien Dawn
86% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 23%, Survival 17%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8%
- #15 Alien Marauder
88% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 14.7%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.9%
- #16 Ragnorium
86% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #17 T-Minus 30
85% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7%
- #18 Endzone - A World Apart
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 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 38.1%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 8%
- #19 Cliff Empire
84% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 6.7%
- #20 IXION
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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 29.6%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.4%
- #21 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
83% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.6% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Simulation 5.6%, Resource Management 4.1%
- #22 Settlement Survival
82% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 29.9%, Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Building 12.9%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 7.4%
- #23 Oxygen Not Included
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 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 42.6% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 12.5%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 6%
- #24 The Final Earth 2
81% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #25 Farlanders
80% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.1%, Survival 7.1%
- #26 Exogate Initiative
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 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: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #27 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
78% matchVery Positive89% of 696 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #28 Surviving Ceres
76% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Building 16.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.3%, Simulation 8.3%
- #29 Project AURA
79% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Base Building 9%
- #30 Unclaimed World
79% matchMixed50% of 216 reviews2016
Dev: Refactored Games OÜ
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Simulation 35.1%, Survival 19.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #31 After the Collapse
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #32 Farlanders: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Survival 7.4%
- #33 Trappist
75% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #34 Homeseek
75% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: The Iterative Collective
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #35 The Crust
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.4%, Survival 6.5%
- #36 Ascent of Ashes
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12%, Survival 9.8%
- #37 Mercury Fallen
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 6%
- #38 From Glory To Goo
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,455 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #39 Drill Core
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 9%, Building 7.1%
- #40 Paleon
71% 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 40.5% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Survival 11.8%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 7.4%
- #41 Vilset
74% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, Building 17.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 12.3%, Simulation 6.6%
- #42 Poly Universe
73% matchVery Positive87% of 124 reviews2018
Dev: Pouchmouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poly Universe is a survival city-building game in a galaxy where planets are only slightly larger than the colonists who inhabit them.
Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 45.7%
- #43 Planet S
70% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: City Builder 44%, Building 18.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Futuristic 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #44 Horizon
74% matchMixed59% of 477 reviews2014
Dev: L3O Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Why similar: Strategy 33.1%, Simulation 26%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Futuristic 18.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #45 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,161 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 30.5%, Building 21.1%, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 7.6%
- #46 The Last Haven
71% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, City Builder 21.2%, Strategy 14.7%, Colony Sim 11% ★, Survival 10.9%
- #47 Farlight Explorers
73% matchMixed56% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Building 54.7%, Strategy 25.2%, Simulation 20.2%
- #48 PlanetX
69% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 6.5%
- #49 AColony
69% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.8%
- #50 The Colonists
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #51 Desperate Place
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2025
Dev: BruceGalaxy
Windows
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 15.6%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 8.9%
- #52 Sol 0: Mars Colonization
71% matchMixed69% of 409 reviews2016
Dev: Chondrite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Why similar: Base Building 41.4%, Strategy 33.6%, Simulation 25%
- #53 Dawn of Man
67% 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 41.3%, Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Survival 10%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 4.1%
- #54 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 38.7%, Survival 32.4%, Building 18%, Resource Management 9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #55 Colonize Prologue
68% 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 33.8% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Building 13.9%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #56 Surviving the Abyss
66% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 8.8%
- #57 Floodland
68% matchMixed56% of 1,062 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #58 Adaptory
64% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 11.9%, Building 10%, Simulation 8.3%