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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, City Builder, Base Building.

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Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Q4 2026
Developer: Pixel Cells
Publisher: Polden Publishing
Genres: Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    97% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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: Grand Strategy 12.9%, Colony Sim 11.9%, 4X 11.7% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Base Building 7.7%

  2. #2 Radia Island
    96% 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 15.9%, City Builder 14.1%, 4X 13.1% ★, Base Building 7.9%, Resource Management 7.2%

  3. #3 Rogue Carrier
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Strategy 6.2%

  4. #4 Manor Lords
    95% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
    Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 12.6%, 4X 12.6% ★, Colony Sim 11.4%, City Builder 9.8%, Base Building 7.5%

  5. #5 Against the Storm
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
    Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 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: Grand Strategy 12.7%, 4X 12.1% ★, Colony Sim 11.5%, City Builder 10%, Base Building 7.6%

  6. #6 Hexroads
    94% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Ivan Konorkin
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build a small kingdom by day and survive the night. Hexroads is a fantasy city-builder RTS where you capture towns, grow your economy, command defenders, cast spells, and choose new rewards each dawn.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.4%, City Builder 12%, Colony Sim 11.7%, 4X 11.3% ★, Base Building 9%

  7. #7 Nova Roma
    93% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
    Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Grand Strategy 14.4%, Colony Sim 12%, City Builder 11.5%, 4X 11.3% ★, Base Building 8.7%

  8. #8 Songs of Syx
    92% matchVery Positive94% of 9,302 reviews2020
    Dev: Gamatron AB
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 42.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 14.3%, 4X 14.2% ★, Grand Strategy 14.1%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 8.1%

  9. #9 Cataclismo
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
    Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Grand Strategy 12.9%, 4X 11.8% ★, Colony Sim 11.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Base Building 7.6%

  10. #10 Whiskerwood
    90% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
    Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Grand Strategy 13.7%, Colony Sim 13%, 4X 12.1% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%

  11. #11 Kingdoms and Castles
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 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 15.3%, City Builder 15.2%, 4X 13.2% ★, Base Building 7.6%, RTS 7.5%

  12. #12 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
    Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 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: Grand Strategy 14.6%, City Builder 13%, Colony Sim 10.8%, 4X 10.7% ★, Base Building 8.7%

  13. #13 Farmman
    89% 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 19%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.7%

  14. #14 Tokeis
    88% 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 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Economy 10.9%, RTS 8.3%, Management 8%

  15. #15 Empires of the Undergrowth
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
    Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.5%, 4X 12.5% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 8.3%

  16. #16 Corsair Cove
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 3,566 reviews2026
    Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Grand Strategy 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.3%, City Builder 12%, 4X 9.5% ★, Base Building 9%

  17. #17 Heart of the Machine
    85% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
    Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.2%, 4X 12.7% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%

  18. #18 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
    86% matchMixed58% of 459 reviews2025
    Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

    Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Grand Strategy 14.4%, Colony Sim 11.6%, City Builder 11%, RTS 7.5%

  19. #19 Oxygen: First Breath
    84% 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 17.1%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%

  20. #20 Powerplay
    82% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2026
    Dev: Frantic
    Windows · Mac

    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 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 12%, RTS 11.5%

  21. #21 Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator
    83% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Emily HortonPub: Turtletop Software
    Windows

    Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.

    Why similar: Underground 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Grand Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

  22. #22 Crowded Blue Dot
    84% 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 18.9%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.7%

  23. #23 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.4%, 4X 15.8% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 6.9%

  24. #24 Terra-7
    81% 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 20.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.4%

  25. #25 Pirate Plight
    80% 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 15.5%, 4X 14.7% ★, City Builder 14.3%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%

  26. #26 Resort Galactica
    79% 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 18.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.9%

  27. #27 Make Your Kingdom
    81% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
    Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
    Windows

    Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9%

  28. #28 Arcane Shores
    79% matchNo user reviews2027
    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 22.4%, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 10.5%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8%

  29. #29 Settlement Survival
    78% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.7%, Survival 8%

  30. #30 Quriocity
    77% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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 19.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, RTS 8.1%

  31. #31 Isla Paradiso
    77% 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 21.5%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 11.5%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%

  32. #32 Founders' Fortune
    76% 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 28.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 6.4%

  33. #33 Egypt
    75% 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: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.6%, Economy 8.4%

  34. #34 Goblin Colony
    75% 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 24.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.7%

  35. #35 Prison Architect
    76% 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 18.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.9%

  36. #36 Reshaping Mars
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 834 reviews2023
    Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

    Why similar: 4X 15.3% ★, Grand Strategy 14.6%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 11%

  37. #37 The Undercity: Last Light
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
    Windows · Mac

    Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Underground 15.7% ★, Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%

  38. #38 Pixel Colony
    73% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
    Windows · Linux

    Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 20.4%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.2%

  39. #39 First Feudal
    74% 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 19.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%

  40. #40 Tides of Tethys
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Black Rust LLC
    Windows

    A tactical exploration building game where you explore the uncharted depths of Tethys; scavenging resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. As the Overseer, lead expeditions of Knights through the dark trenches and the unknown, and help them rebuild their lost Kingdom.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%, RTS 8.5%

  41. #41 Oxygen
    72% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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 17.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Economy 8.2%

  42. #42 Cartel Tycoon
    71% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,818 reviews2022
    Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 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 12.9%, City Builder 11.7%, RTS 11.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.6%

  43. #43 Ymir
    73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
    Dev: Thibaud Michaud
    Windows
    Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 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 21.6%, 4X 19.4% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Grand Strategy 11.9%, Economy 11.2%

  44. #44 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
    71% 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 20.6%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.8%, Underground 7.9% ★

  45. #45 Colonial Winds
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dark Shift Games
    Windows · Mac

    Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.

    Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Grand Strategy 14.3%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, 4X 8.9% ★

  46. #46 One More Island
    71% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 19.8%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.4%

  47. #47 Ratopia
    68% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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 19.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.7%

  48. #48 Empires Edge
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Kaser Studio
    Windows

    Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic 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: Colony Sim 16.3%, City Builder 13.4%, 4X 12.6% ★, RTS 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%

  49. #49 Buggos
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,436 reviews2022
    Dev: Intrepid Marmot
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.3%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12%, RTS 10%, Building 8.7%

  50. #50 Arc of Icarus
    69% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: 13B Productions
    Windows

    Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, 4X 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

  51. #51 SeaColony
    67% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
    Dev: Emindev
    Windows

    SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9%, Survival 8.5%, Management 8.3%

  52. #52 Property Pro
    68% 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: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.2%

  53. #53 Seeds of Resilience
    70% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.3%

  54. #54 Lost Heaven Station
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Varnonsoft
    Windows

    Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%

  55. #55 Exogate Initiative
    67% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 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: 4X 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 10.5%, RTS 8.9%

  56. #56 Kingdom Wars 4
    69% matchMixed66% of 241 reviews2021
    Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%

    It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.

    Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.1%, 4X 13.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.9%, City Builder 11.9%, RTS 9.3%

  57. #57 Forgotten Vale
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Rospeath Studios
    Windows

    Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 10%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.5%

  58. #58 Aztecs: The Last Sun
    66% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
    Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows

    Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9.7%, RTS 8.5%

  59. #59 Wild West Pioneers
    65% matchMostly Positive76% of 326 reviews2026
    Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows

    Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, 4X 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Economy 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%

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