- #1 Against the Storm
97% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, 4X 12.2% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A highly acclaimed roguelite city-builder that perfectly captures the procedural, mission-based survival feel of As Far As The Eye.
- #2 dotAGE
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,581 reviews2023
Dev: Michele Pirovano
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Tabletop 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, board-game-inspired city builder that emphasizes resource management and survival against harsh environmental disasters.
- #3 The Wandering Village
96% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mobile base mechanic where you build a settlement on the back of a giant creature, mirroring the nomadic nature of your tribe.
- #4 Seeds of Resilience
95% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 23% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that requires careful resource management and building to endure natural disasters.
- #5 Landnama
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: Hex Grid 21.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Survival 8.8%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival city-builder that focuses on strategic expansion and resource management in a harsh, procedural environment.
- #6 Farlanders
94% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, hex-grid strategy game that focuses on building a colony on a challenging alien landscape.
- #7 Terraformers
93% matchVery Positive88% of 3,606 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Survival 17%, Resource Management 16%, Roguelike 15.4%, Management 14.8%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, procedural colony-sim that emphasizes exploration and long-term resource management on a hostile planet.
- #8 Scorchlands
91% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Hex Grid 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hex-grid resource-management game that emphasizes efficient logistics and expansion across stylized, procedural terrain.
- #9 Dice Legacy
92% matchMixed68% of 1,050 reviews2021
Dev: DESTINYbit
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Survival 9.9%, Roguelike 9.1%, Board Game 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city-builder where your actions are dictated by dice rolls, adding a layer of roguelike unpredictability.
- #10 Endzone - A World Apart
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Survival 13.6%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that forces players to manage limited resources while protecting their colony from radiation and drought.
- #11 The Tribe Must Survive
90% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a primitive tribe in a dangerous, dark environment where choices significantly impact survival.
- #12 Synergy
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Building 11.5%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes adapting to a harsh, alien ecosystem through careful resource management.
- #13 Before We Leave
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: Hex Grid 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, hex-grid city-builder that focuses on expanding your civilization across multiple planets.
- #14 Banished
88% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder where managing resources and preparing for harsh winters is vital to your population's survival.
- #15 Settlement Survival
86% 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 23.4% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Building 12.5%, Survival 8.6%, Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep survival city-builder that challenges players to manage complex resource chains while dealing with environmental threats.
- #16 Surviving the Aftermath
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 10%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that requires exploring a dangerous world map to secure resources for your settlement.
- #17 Farthest Frontier
84% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 14.5%, 4X 14.1% ★, Resource Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust resource-management experience with a strong emphasis on survival against the elements and disease.
- #18 Homeseek
86% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: The Iterative Collective
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Difficult 12.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where water scarcity forces difficult choices and strategic planning.
- #19 Citizens: Far Lands
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: RedKar DevsPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, hex-grid city-builder that focuses on efficient placement and resource management.
- #20 Kingdom Two Crowns
82% matchVery Positive90% of 37,612 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Building 17.1%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: While side-scrolling, it captures the nomadic, base-building, and survival essence of protecting a traveling group.
- #21 Founders' Fortune
83% 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends base-building with character management and survival elements.
- #22 Aven Colony
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, City Builder 33.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Survival 4.2%, Resource Management 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that requires managing resources and defending your settlement from environmental hazards.
- #23 Slipways
82% matchVery Positive93% of 2,269 reviews2021
Dev: Beetlewing
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, 4X 15.3% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hex-grid puzzle-strategy game that focuses on building efficient trade routes and managing resources across a galaxy.
- #24 Hexagod
80% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Tabletop 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Roguelike 12%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike, hex-grid city-builder that incorporates puzzle elements into its strategic gameplay.
- #25 Rogue Hex
79% matchVery Positive89% of 252 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: Hex Grid 22.7% ★, 4X 20.3% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%, Roguelike 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy, roguelike game that utilizes hex-grids and grand-strategy elements to challenge the player.
- #26 Marble Age: Remastered
81% matchVery Positive86% of 388 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Building 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, 4X 9.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on the survival and growth of a civilization through resource management.
- #27 Oxygen
81% 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 21.8% ★, City Builder 19%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where managing your oxygen supply and resources is critical to the survival of your people.
- #28 Settlements Rising
78% 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 26.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on resource management and the growth of a settlement in a challenging environment.
- #29 Ragnorium
79% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Survival 12.5%, 4X 10% ★, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes managing colonists in a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #30 Endzone 2
77% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.8%
- #31 Edge Islands
77% 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 29.2% ★, Building 14.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 9.3%
- #32 TFM: The First Men
78% 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 38.9% ★, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.7%, City Builder 9.1%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim that allows for deep customization and management of your tribe's development.
- #33 Mistward
76% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Hex Grid 15.1% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #34 Foundation
72% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #35 IXION
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #36 Lords and Villeins
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #37 First Feudal
76% 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 25.8% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #38 World Turtles
75% matchMixed68% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Re: cOg Mission
Windows · Mac · Linux
The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Hex Grid 21% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Economy 7%, Management 6.7%
- #39 Farlanders: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #40 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.3%
- #41 Exogate Initiative
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 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: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, 4X 13.1% ★, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #42 The Colonists
73% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 11.6%, Economy 8.5%, Management 8.5%
- #43 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
73% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.3%, Survival 6.9%
- #44 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
69% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.2%
- #45 Cliff Empire
71% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Economy 8.7%
- #46 Colonize Prologue
72% matchMixed64% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 9.4%
- #47 Bronze Age - HD Edition
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 367 reviews2017
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
Why similar: City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, 4X 11.1% ★, Building 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%
- #48 Dwarf Fortress
67% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11%, Management 9.9%
- #49 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 23.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Building 12.6%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8.1%
- #50 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #51 Stonehearth
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #52 MicroTown
69% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Hex Grid 14.6% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #53 Land of the Vikings
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #54 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 20%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #55 Egypt: Old Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,240 reviews2018
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.
Why similar: City Builder 14.4%, Building 12.1%, 4X 11.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Survival 10%
- #56 Patron
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.1% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7%
- #57 Stonedeep
70% 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 25.2% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Building 12%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #58 Of Life and Land
65% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 22.7% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #59 From Village to Empire
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2018
Dev: Witch Laboratory
Windows · Linux
From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!
Why similar: Hex Grid 30.1% ★, 4X 19.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 11.5%
- #60 Curious Expedition
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,456 reviews2016
Dev: Maschinen-Mensch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.
Why similar: Hex Grid 32.3% ★, Tabletop 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Roguelike 12.6%, Board Game 11.6%