- #1 Flotsam
97% matchVery Positive81% of 4,557 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Automation 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you construct a floating town from garbage and debris in a flooded world.
- #2 Aquatico
96% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Building 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder set on the ocean floor that challenges you to manage underwater resources and vertical base expansion.
- #3 Timberborn
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,063 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Automation 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features advanced water physics and vertical construction, forcing you to master irrigation and dam-building to survive droughts.
- #4 Floodland
96% matchMixed56% of 1,082 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.5 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 31.7%, City Builder 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic city-builder focuses heavily on society management and survival in a world reclaimed by rising sea levels.
- #5 Surviving the Abyss
94% matchMixed65% of 1,077 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 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 24.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This underwater colony-sim requires you to manage a research facility while dealing with the crushing pressure and dangers of the deep sea.
- #6 Surviving the Aftermath
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,564 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with exploration and combat in a post-apocalyptic setting where every decision impacts your survival.
- #7 Endzone 2
93% matchMixed68% of 1,062 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 22%, City Builder 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes exploration and the struggle to rebuild civilization in a radioactive wasteland.
- #8 Frostpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 136,920 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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 23.1%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive survival city-builder that forces players to make brutal political and ethical decisions to keep their society alive.
- #9 Going Medieval
90% matchVery Positive89% of 21,304 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Economy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a robust 3D construction system that allows for complex vertical building and defensive planning in a colony-sim format.
- #10 Frostpunk 2
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,879 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Resource Management 12%, Colony Sim 8.6%, Base Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with deeper political systems and large-scale city management in a harsh, frozen post-apocalyptic world.
- #11 Buoyancy
92% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Strategy 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where your entire settlement is a floating platform that must navigate ocean currents and resource scarcity.
- #12 New Cycle
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,859 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 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 22.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on the transition from survival to industrialization while managing societal needs.
- #13 Space Haven
88% matchVery Positive86% of 11,064 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 22.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for modular, physics-aware ship construction and deep crew management in a hostile space environment.
- #14 Captain of Industry
89% matchVery Positive90% of 11,435 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.6 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 20%, Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 13%, Resource Management 11.3%, City Builder 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intricate automation and logistics, requiring players to manage massive industrial chains on a remote island.
- #15 The Wandering Village
87% matchVery Positive92% of 8,401 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Automation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim where you build your settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature while managing environmental survival.
- #16 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
86% matchVery Positive91% of 26,981 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 14%, Economy 7.2%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex supply chain and logistics management in the genre, perfect for players who enjoy deep simulation.
- #17 IXION
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,575 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 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: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9%, Building 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource management, and the political stability of your crew.
- #18 RimWorld
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 244,900 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 265.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 9%, Management 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering deep social dynamics, political storytelling, and complex base-building mechanics.
- #19 Foundation
83% matchVery Positive87% of 24,095 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.1 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 32.5%, Colony Sim 13%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: An organic city-builder that focuses on grid-less construction and complex social interactions within your population.
- #20 Settlement Survival
84% matchVery Positive85% of 8,039 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22.8%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes trade, disaster management, and population growth.
- #21 Planetbase
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,410 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 32.3%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 4.9%, Strategy 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that tasks you with building a self-sufficient base on an alien planet with limited resources.
- #22 Infection Free Zone
82% matchVery Positive81% of 18,465 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Uses real-world map data to create a post-apocalyptic base-building experience focused on defense and scavenging.
- #23 Against the Storm
82% matchVery Positive94% of 37,178 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that challenges you to manage multiple colonies under constant environmental pressure and resource constraints.
- #24 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
81% matchVery Positive82% of 1,466 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 10.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features challenging vertical city-building mechanics where you must manage resources across different mountain altitudes.
- #25 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,711 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Automation 12.7%, City Builder 12%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A lunar colony-sim that emphasizes automation, resource extraction, and complex base-building in a harsh environment.
- #26 Havendock
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,943 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 15.2%, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet strategic colony-sim where you build a thriving town on a series of interconnected ocean rafts.
- #27 Oxygen
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where you must manage oxygen levels and energy production to keep your colony alive.
- #28 Norland
78% matchVery Positive82% of 10,324 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony-sim that prioritizes political intrigue, family dynamics, and complex social simulation.
- #29 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
79% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, City Builder 7.9%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a base and managing survivors in a world overrun by demons, requiring careful resource and research management.
- #30 Modulus: Factory Automation
76% matchVery Positive92% of 839 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.8%
- #31 After the Collapse
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 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 25.8%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that blends base-building with tactical combat and scavenging in a dangerous world.
- #32 Endzone - A World Apart
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,976 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 5%
- #33 Cliff Empire
77% matchVery Positive87% of 4,368 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: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #34 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,841 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #35 Microtopia
74% matchVery Positive87% of 964 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 14.8%, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #36 Settlements Rising
75% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #37 Corsair Cove
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,842 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7%
- #38 The Last Haven
76% matchMixed61% of 1,534 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 23%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #39 Of Life and Land
72% matchVery Positive86% of 362 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #40 Oxygen: First Breath
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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 19.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 7.2%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #41 Nova Roma
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,226 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #42 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 832 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 22.6%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Automation 8.4%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #43 Blacksmith Master
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,719 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #44 Maia
75% matchMixed44% of 1,064 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 43.5%, Base Building 14%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #45 Whiskerwood
68% matchVery Positive92% of 3,254 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #46 Before We Leave
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,724 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #47 Patron
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 29%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 6.1%, Economy 5.6%
- #48 Oceaneers
68% matchVery Positive89% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 7.5%, Management 5.8%
- #49 Land of the Vikings
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,257 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8%, Building 6.3%
- #50 Aven Colony
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,778 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 39.8%, City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 5.4%
- #51 Lords and Villeins
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 975 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.3 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 29.7%, City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.8%, Building 7.5%
- #52 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,086 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 8.1%, Sandbox 8%
- #53 Noble Fates
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,482 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 27.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 7.1%
- #54 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 314 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 20.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Automation 10.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #55 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 6,012 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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 38.5%, City Builder 29.7%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 5.6%, Strategy 4.4%
- #56 STARIO: Haven Tower
65% matchVery Positive95% of 353 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Automation 11.3%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #57 Cataclismo
65% matchVery Positive89% of 4,268 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #58 Kingdoms and Castles
67% matchVery Positive94% of 31,368 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.5%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #59 Factory Town
66% matchVery Positive91% of 4,473 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 18.2%, Automation 14.2%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.5%