
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
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Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

Beyond These Stars
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

RimWorld
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.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Automation 8.5%, Moddable 7.5% ★
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 21.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Moddable 10.9% ★, City Builder 8.4%, Survival 7.2%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Automation 11.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9.6%
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 16.1% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Moddable 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 7.3%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 16.6% ★, Automation 12.2%, Moddable 11.3% ★, City Builder 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Moddable 10.2% ★, City Builder 9%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 20.5% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Moddable 11% ★, Management 7.5%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 9.2%, Survival 7.5%, Management 7.3%
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 18.5% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 12.1%, Moddable 9.7% ★, Resource Management 8.5%
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 16.8% ★, Automation 12.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%
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 22.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Moddable 9.1% ★, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 7.8%
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 12%, Moddable 9.6% ★, Resource Management 9.5%
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 18.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.7%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Automation 10.1%, Moddable 8.9% ★, Base Building 8.8%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 9%, Building 7.9%
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 21.9% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.4%
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 20.4% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.4%
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 30.9% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
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 20% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.6%, Moddable 8.8% ★
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Building 6.8%, Sandbox 6.5%, City Builder 6.3%
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 16% ★, Automation 15%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 11%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 26.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 7.7%, Resource Management 5.6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 19.1% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 7.8%, Building 7.6%
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
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 19.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.4%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Building 7.7%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.9%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Automation 9.7%, Management 9%
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 17.3% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Resource Management 8%
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 7.6%
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 5.9%
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 20.1%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 9.3%
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 21.2% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.7%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 10.1%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.3%
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Moddable 11.5% ★, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 7.8%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%, Survival 6.6%
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, Base Building 10.9%, City Builder 9.8%, Building 8.3%
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 17.2% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7.8%
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 8.6%, Automation 7.5%
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 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 21% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 22.6% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
A casual factory builder for everyone. Construct production lines, complete objectives, and unlock new machines as you grow your industrial empire—no stress, no combat, just satisfying progress.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Base Building 15%, Moddable 13.3% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 9.5%
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 26% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.7%, City Builder 8%, Sandbox 6.5%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.5%
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 21.3% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 10.5%, City Builder 8.5%, Building 8%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.1%
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 16.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.4%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.1%
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Sandbox 7.7%