- #1 Formica
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Ungar
Windows
Formica is a realistic, top-down RTS where you control hordes of ants and termites. Gather resources and build massive armies to destroy enemy nests and take home the spoils of war!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, RTS 25%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Nature 5.7%
- #2 Kingdom of Bees
97% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: HronPub: Lezy Bee
Windows
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Real Time Tactics 21.2%, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.1%
- #3 Antopolis: The Ant Colony Simulator
96% 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 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.8%, RTS 10.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%
- #4 Bribe The Brave
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brewing Turtle Games
Windows
Rule a fantasy realm where heroes don't take orders - they take bribes. Build your settlement, place gold bounties on deadly monsters, and entice autonomous warriors, rogues, and mages to fight for your cause. Expand, defend, and let coin do the commanding in this indirect-control RTS.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, RTS 26.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 7.2%
- #5 Hivekeepers
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MNXC Games
Windows · Mac
A relaxing and strategic beehive roguelike. Collect honey, hatch bees, and unlock powerful upgrades as your bees defend the hive from hungry invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Real Time Tactics 16.1%, Animals 16% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #6 Nest Rivals
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turning Rook Games
Windows · Mac
Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Real Time Tactics 21.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Nature 8.2%
- #7 Oasis RTS
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spackogames
Windows
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, RTS 25.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Top-Down 4.7%
- #8 Ant Mill Inc
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NorthStarLight
Windows
Feed the nest. Grow the swarm. Devour the world. A dark incremental ant colony game where one ant becomes thousands. Gather food, upgrade the nest, uncover strange offerings, and fight for survival. Face the HUNGER - or become it...
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Animals 16.5% ★, Nature 11.9%, RTS 9%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #9 Ant Colony Idle
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LiliVale
Windows
Grow an underground colony from a single queen. Gather food, hatch workers, assign jobs, and expand your nest. Unlock automation and earn offline progress, then begin new generations with lasting upgrades through nuptial flights and ancestral growth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Underground 25.2% ★, Animals 22.8% ★, Nature 9.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #10 Koloni
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UnwareStudio
Windows
Koloni is a city-building strategy game that puts you in charge of a group of pioneers who have discovered a new land to colonize. However, you're not alone in your quest to settle on this uncharted territory, as other groups have their sights set on the same land.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, RTS 24.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #11 IdleZomb
90% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: STLgame
Windows
IdleZomb: Manage a ruined hospital, create zombies, evolve them, or sacrifice them for DNA. Every decision counts in this post-apocalyptic management game. Early Access focuses on the basics, with content available up to level 20.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Real Time Tactics 20.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #12 Critter Conquest
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NoMicro Studio
Windows
Command tiny critters in a fast paced woodland strategy game. Send swarms between burrows, capture territory, build your colony, and push back enemy creatures.
Why similar: RTS 29%, Real Time Tactics 21.5%, Animals 12% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #13 BioEden
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: Broken Arms GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Step into a cozy management journey as a Keeper and bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed. Craft the perfect biome for dozens of wonderful animal species and use your ingenuity to restore your planet, one ecosystem at a time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Animals 26.7% ★, Nature 19.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 4.3%
- #14 Novus Terminus: First Flags
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BlackStreamGames
Windows · Mac
Novus Terminus: First Flags is a cozy logistics city builder. Found settlements, design road networks and watch your carriers transport goods from flag to flag. Three unique clans, visible supply chains and a handcrafted low-poly world await you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, RTS 27.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Management 5.9%
- #15 Garden of Ants
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wietrack Softwork
Windows
Become the architect of a thriving ant colony in this real-time simulation. Establish and evolve your ant colony, grow specialized worker castes, cultivate fungus, and explore a living world above and below ground where day and night bring shifting challenges and resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7%, Nature 20.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.8%
- #16 Stelvyr: Colony Defense
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CannyEdge Interactive
Windows
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, RTS 25.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 10.2%
- #17 Dwarven Realm
86% matchMixed59% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, RTS 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.1%
- #18 On & Under
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, RTS 20.7%, Underground 14.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #19 Syntaris
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yusuf AKYILDIZ
Windows · Linux
Syntaris is a logistics and automation strategy game with RTS elements, focused on system design over micromanagement. Build industrial networks, organize local economies, set logistics rules, unlock advanced technologies, and capture enemy infrastructure to integrate it into your own base.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, RTS 26%, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #20 The Land of Babel
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kingrokaPub: Me
Windows · Linux
Build and nurture the universe of your dreams with Land of Babel; an expansive simulation city builder. Construct and manage powerful empires, establish intricate and detailed economies, explore unknown lands, embark on captivating quests, and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, RTS 22.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 6.1%
- #21 Trollskog
84% matchMixed56% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Andreas CarlsonPub: Abstract Void Interactive
Windows
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.5%, RTS 45.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Indie 1.3%
- #22 Poly Kingdom: Siege
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Mason Brignac
Windows · Mac
Poly Kingdom: Siege is a medieval kingdom-building and strategy game where you rule as a living king in a dynamic, open world. Build your settlement, command armies, and defend your realm in a feudal society shaped by war, economy, and survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, RTS 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 21.3%, Simulation 5.3%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #23 The Undercity: Last Light
82% 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 43.3%, Underground 28.7% ★, Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #24 Kingdoms in Arms
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IsegrimGames
Windows · Mac
Kingdoms in Arms is a strategy game where you build and manage your kingdom. Build cities, outposts and military camps to conquer the whole island. Besiege your enemies castles and bring down their walls with your siege engines like catapults and trebuchets. Control your armies in real time.
Why similar: RTS 27.7%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Real Time Tactics 17.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 6%
- #25 Terrahold
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SMAR Studio
Windows
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, RTS 25.4%, Nature 6.6%, Real Time Tactics 6.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #26 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, Underground 34.3% ★, Management 6.5%, Top-Down 5%, Strategy 4.6%
- #27 Rifles & Runes
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orange_Universe
Windows
A real-time strategy game blending extraction, cards, and fantasy exploration. Lead a modern army through a portal, scout unknown lands, build mines and radar, repel counterattacks, hold your outposts, and extract before the world’s attention overwhelms you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, RTS 27.3%, Real Time Tactics 19.3%, Strategy 9.8%, War 4.8%
- #28 Mega Mall Story 2
79% matchVery Positive94% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, RTS 24.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 3.8%
- #29 Pitchfork Battles
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kvass Da Valenki
Windows
Gain power over resources, build powerful kingdoms and strengthen your army to protect your people from enemies. Send your heroes into battle and lead your army to victory, become a great ruler who will be remembered forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, RTS 21.8%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, Nature 8.2%, Simulation 7%
- #30 Ukraine War 2022
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Table Software
Windows
Ukraine War 2022 is a real-time, tactical land and air warfare simulation game focusing on the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.
Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Real Time Tactics 26.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Tactical 7.6%, War 6.5%
- #31 VENOY
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, RTS 29.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 6.8%, Management 5.6%
- #32 Convenience Stories
76% matchVery Positive92% of 304 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, RTS 23.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Casual 2.6%
- #33 Settle and Battle: New Empires
75% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Attic Games Studio
Windows · Mac
A homage to classic real-time strategy games. Gather resources, build an empire, and command powerful armies to conquer the world. Lead six unique tribes, expand your territory, and engage in epic battles with hundreds of units on screen. Dominate in 18 missions and procedurally generated maps!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, RTS 24.7%, Real Time Tactics 19.3%, Top-Down 6.4%, Strategy 6.4%
- #34 Pocket Clothier
75% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.8%, RTS 17.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Management 4.7%
- #35 The Colony
77% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 77.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 11%
- #36 Villfell
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Greyhearth
Windows
Send a scout. Dispatch your army. Grow your realm while they march. It's the browser-empire loop that ate your nights — rebuilt as a single-player RTS, one full run from frontier to final battle in about 3 hours. No alliances, no always-online, no getting farmed in your sleep.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 26.1%, RTS 21.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 11%
- #37 Malignus
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, Underground 17% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Top-Down 5.5%
- #38 Kings Town
76% matchMixed58% of 24 reviews2020
Dev: Leturs Labs
Windows
Build up your own civilization in the time of kings and kingdoms. Become the manager of a little town and make it to a great city. Defend it from other kingdoms and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, RTS 23.3%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Nature 7.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #39 Queen to Bee
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shouty Knot Games Pub: Shouty Knot Limited
Windows · Mac
A cozy resource management game where you play as the Queen Bee. Good decisions for your loyal subjects will go a long way, as well as taking the time to know each and every one! Build cute new rooms and boost your honey production for a healthy hive. Will you be the next Queen?
Why similar: Colony Sim 47%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Nature 11.8%, Management 6.3%
- #40 Ants Times Infinity
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Slug Disco
Windows
Craft your nest underground, finding powerful combinations of chambers and pheromones to build the perfect ant-spawning engine. Then unleash them in their thousands onto the surface, directing workers to fuel the swarm while soldiers and champions push out to conquer enemy territories.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Nature 9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #41 ダンジョンに生息だ!
71% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: ドクローネPub: 腐葉堂
Windows
『ダンジョンに生息だ!』はマウスとキーボードを使用してダンジョンの生態系を自分好みに構築し、クリスタルの破壊を目論む冒険者を撃退する2Dダンジョン・マネージメントゲームです。 あなたは大地の精霊ラスタによって召喚された自然神です。あなたの持つ「ダンジョンをお手入れする力」を使ってダンジョンの地形を組み換え、生物を生み出し、捕食と繁殖に満ちた理想的なダンジョンを築き上げましょう。
Why similar: Underground 22.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 22.1%, RTS 19.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 11.6%
- #42 Our Dear Kingdom
72% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 77.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5.9%, Resource Management 4.3%, Management 3.8%
- #43 Anthill Village
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lychee Game Labs
Windows
Now that ants have evolved thumbs, they're unstoppable! Help them build villages, scour the land for resources and fend off creatures 100 times their own size.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, RTS 24.1%, Nature 14.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 5.3%
- #44 Beetle Uprising
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, RTS 17%, Real Time Tactics 16.7%, Nature 12.7%, Management 6.4%
- #45 Phero
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flattermouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Phero is a small-scale nature simulation game where you grow flowers, gather nectar and balance an ecosystem. Introduce different insects species, observe them interact and stay on top of the food chain to prepare your plants for infestations.
Why similar: Animals 29.1% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, Nature 15.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Management 5.5%
- #46 The Omins
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build settlements, fight enemies, unite different races, and gain divine powers in this strategy game blending colony sim and RTS with a touch of classic god games. As their Umak, guide generations of Omins through a network of portals, from world to world, in search of the peaceful lands of Ominia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, RTS 30.7%, Strategy 8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Tactical 4.5%
- #47 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
72% matchVery Positive84% of 858 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.7%, RTS 24.8%, Strategy 11.6%
- #48 Building Hope - Refugee Camp Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gyroscoping games
Windows
Building Hope is a refugee camp building and management game. Refugee camps are the only hope for the ones who have had to leave their homes, and your duty is to provide them with a safe environment. But there is no one way to run a refugee camp!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, RTS 23.4%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #49 SkillGrid
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Real Time Tactics 22.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 13%, Tactical 5.3%
- #50 Nights of Nil
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glass City Games
Windows · Linux
Reclaim the islands of Nil in a top-down action-strategy adventure. Switch between any villager, build settlements, survive escalating night raids, complete quests, and drive the necromancer from the archipelago.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, RTS 28.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Top-Down 3.5%
- #51 Gnome RTS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luke Vincent
Windows · Linux
Gnome RTS is a real-time strategy dungeon crawler where you direct a colony of gnomes and escape a cursed labrynth. Command Gnomes to clear out dungeons and discover hidden treasure while you slog your way through the underworld to retrieve the Boulder of Fate and save the forests above.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, RTS 21.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #52 Hexity
69% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, RTS 25.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 4.1%
- #53 Moorfall
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Smartstift
Windows
Schwarzmoor has broken into Grimmwald. Moorfall is a top-down real-time strategy game: lead your captains across the moor, call volunteers to arms out of your villages, and take the enemy's ground village by village, before he takes yours.
Why similar: RTS 33.5%, Real Time Tactics 24.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Top-Down 8.6%, Tactical 5.3%
- #54 Cartoon Craft: Rise of Mutation
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio NAP
Windows · Mac
A story-driven real-time strategy game inspired by classic RTS. Experience a mission campaign filled with memorable characters, unexpected alliances, and humor. Build your kingdom, command Humans and Orcs, create custom maps, and share your battles with the world.
Why similar: RTS 33.5%, Real Time Tactics 24.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Tactical 4.8%
- #55 Underworld Overseer
66% matchVery Positive91% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Myron Games
Windows
Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, RTS 20.9%, Underground 18.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 15%, Strategy 5.3%
- #56 Biosphere-3
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Biekka Games
Windows · Mac
Biosphere-3 is a God-view Ecosystem Sandbox. Splice DNA to design species, watch them forge food webs and survival strategies. Raise volcanoes or glaciers to shape a dead planet. Unleash lightning, acid rain or hurricanes to steer evolution. Awaken as the creator — the last biosphere is yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Animals 15.7% ★, Nature 12.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #57 Orc Colony
70% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.1%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12%, Management 6.5%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #58 Goblin Colony
67% 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 35.5%, RTS 22.3%, Underground 19.8% ★, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #59 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
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!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Underground 22.7% ★, RTS 16.9%, Resource Management 7.1%, Management 6.4%
- #60 Recovery Syndicate
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, RTS 24.1%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 6.4%