- #1 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
97% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Tower Defense 21%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #2 First Feudal
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #3 Oxygen Not Included
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.4% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 10%, Building 7.9%
- #4 Founders' Fortune
95% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 38.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Building 8.3%, Survival 6%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #5 King's Keeper
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.6%
- #6 Zomboard
94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #7 Settlements Rising
93% 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 27.7% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Tower Defense 8.8%, Building 7.9%
- #8 Wanderers' Outpost
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.2%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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 24.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 8.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #10 Phoenix Hope
91% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.8%
- #11 Hold The Roost
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Tower Defense 22.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 5.8%
- #12 Villagedom
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dazar
Windows
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 9.2%, Medieval 5.7%
- #13 Sect Leader's Decree
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.9%, Building 7.8%
- #14 Embark
88% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 43.9% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 7.7%, Survival 6.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #15 The Wild Age
87% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8%
- #16 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
86% 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 36.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Building 8.1%
- #17 Farmman
85% 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 28.8% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Economy 9.8%, Crafting 8.5%
- #18 Stonedeep
86% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
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 26% ★, Base Building 14.6%, 2.5D 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #19 Common'hood
84% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9%, Management 8%
- #20 Oxygen
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.2%, Survival 8.1%
- #21 Isla Paradiso
83% 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 30.9% ★, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Cozy 8.3%
- #22 Kingdom Workshop
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 9.6%
- #23 TFM: The First Men
82% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 37% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 7.6%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 6.3%
- #24 Lil Guys
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Management 8.3%
- #25 Anvil Saga
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,787 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 8.6%
- #26 Galaxy Pass Station
79% matchVery Positive87% of 268 reviews2023
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Cozy 16.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 8.1%
- #27 Kingdom: Classic
81% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.8%
- #28 Zombie Warz
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GobiGD
Windows · Mac
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Tower Defense 20.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.8%
- #29 Underground Nomads
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 36% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 9.5%
- #30 Grim Realms
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.5%, Management 7%
- #31 Settletopia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 29.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 8.9%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #32 Zombie Cure Lab
76% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Tower Defense 13.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.2%
- #33 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,274 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.8%
- #34 Cosmic Castaway
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Tower Defense 18.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #35 Kolo
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 10.4%, Medieval 7.8%
- #36 Planet Barren Objective
76% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
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 25.2% ★, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.2%
- #37 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
73% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.1%, Economy 6.2%
- #38 MeadowMeld
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeldFire
Windows
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, Cozy 23.2%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 7.6%, Management 6.1%
- #39 Chronocracy
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RegolitePub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Build a unique civilization in a flat world! Explore, extract resources, expand, and battle enemies. Use your time management skills to fend off attacks and face a mysterious threat. Are you ready to create a world that can survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Cozy 13.8%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.4%
- #40 Dig a Little Deeper
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.4%
- #41 Tokeis
72% 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: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9%
- #42 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
74% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 7%, Sandbox 6%
- #43 Red Dust Colony
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
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 37.1% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 9.3%, Building 7.5%
- #44 Border Base
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 8.3%
- #45 Gnome Glen
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.3%
- #46 Castle Formers
71% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11%, Building 9.5%
- #47 Tree House Survivors
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9%
- #48 Aldo: Memory of the Kingdom
69% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Meleiko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 7.7%
- #49 Giantfall
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Birchwood Games
Windows
In a minimalist medieval world, every decision counts. Build, research, and fortify your kingdom as towering Giants and monstrous creatures lay siege to your land. Raise armies, manage your economy, and construct powerful defences to protect your people and hold the line against overwhelming odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.3%
- #50 Settlement Survival
69% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Building 11%, Medieval 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #51 Vilset
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 12.1%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #52 Icetwine
68% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Cozy 19.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.1%
- #53 Feudal Craft
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Tower Defense 10.9%, Building 9%, Economy 8%
- #54 Ratopia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #55 Terra-7
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
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 30.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 10.4%, Building 8.7%
- #56 Edge Islands
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 33.3% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Building 12%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #57 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
Windows
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Tower Defense 16%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.7%
- #58 Siege of Irdor
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Tower Defense 15.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.8%, Survival 7.4%
- #59 Towerfolk
65% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Tower Defense 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8.5%
- #60 Arcbound
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10%, Management 9.3%, Survival 6.1%