- #1 Powerplay
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 17% ★, Colony Sim 14% ★, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 11.1%
- #2 Pirate Plight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.3%, RTS 11.9%, Economy 10.8%
- #3 Dungeon Overseer
96% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Economy 14.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.4%
- #4 Aztecs: The Last Sun
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 9.6%, RTS 9.2%
- #5 Folklands
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 13.9%, RTS 10.9%, Building 10.3%
- #6 Empires Edge
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a 4X-lite strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Tyrants: Fight Through Time (Mega Lo Mania). Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 14.8%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #7 Civica: Italian Renaissance
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, RTS 14.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
- #8 Flooded
92% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 14.1%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, RTS 13.4%, Isometric 11.4%, Economy 9.5%
- #9 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
91% 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 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Isometric 12.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 8.9%
- #10 Farthest Frontier
90% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: 4X 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Economy 10.1%
- #11 Colonization Simulator
91% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.5%, RTS 10.7%, Isometric 8.9%
- #12 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
89% matchVery Positive86% of 9,888 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Economy 11.8%, RTS 11.1%, Isometric 10.5%
- #13 Northgard: Definitive Edition
89% matchVery Positive85% of 68,002 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, RTS 15.8%, 4X 13.1% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Economy 9.1%
- #14 Arcane Shores
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 15%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 7.1%
- #15 Critias Empire
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.
Why similar: 4X 21.9% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #16 Insect Empires
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.8%, RTS 11.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #17 Isla Paradiso
85% 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 24.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Economy 16%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.6%
- #18 Stronghold HD (2012)
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,246 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 13.6%, RTS 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%
- #19 Resort Galactica
84% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.2%, Economy 11%
- #20 Bunny Bunker
82% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Polyspice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 13%, RTS 12.5%, Building 10.5%
- #21 Goblin Colony
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, RTS 12.9%, Underground 11.8% ★, Base Building 11.6%
- #22 Roadworks 2
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Taxsoft
Windows
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 20.1%, Building 17.4%, RTS 14.4%, Strategy 9.2%
- #23 MuMu get to Work
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 青涩柠檬工作室
Windows
This is a simulation management and home-building game where you can raise all sorts of slimes. These slimes will cultivate farmland, bake bread, and produce various unique goods. Plan your shops to sell goods to customers and earn plenty of coins. As your wealth accumulates, build your own town.
Why similar: Creature Collector 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 8.8%
- #24 Country Architect
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #25 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tec Enterprise
Windows
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: City Builder 17%, 4X 16.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #26 Ymir
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, 4X 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 15.8%, Building 7.3%
- #27 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #28 Pico Islands
79% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BitSpree GmbH
Windows · Mac
Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 16.1%, Isometric 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #29 Egypt
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13%, Economy 11.8%, Building 10.6%
- #30 Farmman
77% 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 18.5%, Economy 15%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.3%
- #31 Crowded Blue Dot
78% matchMixed58% of 52 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 20.7%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 9.4%
- #32 Boogie Fungi
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobbly Lines
Windows · Linux
Build and maintain a colony of Mushrooms, keep them happy with constant parties and make sure to deploy some defenses to deal with foragers
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Creature Collector 18.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Isometric 13.4%, City Builder 12%
- #33 Frontera
76% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 16.1%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 8.8%
- #34 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 10.8%
- #35 Tokeis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Economy 16.7%, RTS 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #36 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
72% matchVery Positive92% of 10,053 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Economy 11.8%, RTS 10.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #37 Within a Dead City
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Isometric 12%
- #38 Aquis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 17.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 13.4%, RTS 12.2%
- #39 nStations
75% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: OxeLiz
Windows · Mac
Construct and manage your colony anytime, anywhere, any device!!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 10.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Isometric 9.3%
- #40 Prison Architect
74% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Economy 10%
- #41 Oxygen: First Breath
73% 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: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #42 Angkor: The Holy City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%
- #43 Wild West Pioneers
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, 4X 19.1% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 Pioneers of Pagonia
69% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 13%, RTS 12%, Base Building 10.9%
- #45 Architects of Shangri-La
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.1%
- #46 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
72% 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 32.5% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #47 Crowncity
70% 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 19.5%, Economy 14.7%, Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Isometric 9%
- #48 Quriocity
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.4%, RTS 10.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #49 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Isometric 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #50 Tenants of the Shade
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 15.1%, 4X 12.2% ★, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.9%
- #51 Kingdoms and Castles
70% 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: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #52 Age of Respair
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.4%, RTS 11.1%, Building 10%
- #53 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 10%
- #54 One More Island
69% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 15%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%
- #55 Orrstead
68% 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 23% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Isometric 12.7%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%
- #56 The First Explorers®
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 17%, RTS 15.5%, Building 10.9%
- #57 Cartel Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, RTS 14.3%, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #58 Arclands
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jon Keller
Windows · Mac
Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 16.6%, RTS 16%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 7.9%
- #59 Celestial Empire: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%
- #60 Outta This Kingdom
68% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Alawar SouthpointPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Outta This Kingdom combines awesome time management fun with a kicking fantasy twist to create casual gameplay the whole family will love! Rebuild a kingdom warring factions tore apart as you defeat Land Elementals, outwit an Ice Queen and go toe-to-toe with Gingerbread Barbarians!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Isometric 11.7%, Building 11.1%