- #1 Shanhe Builders
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Build an ancient mountain settlement in a deterministic 3D colony survival sim. Choose settlers, plan shelters, farms, workshops, storage and defenses, then survive hunger, winter, illness, trade demands and social strain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.7%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 7.8%
- #2 The HELL
96% matchVery Positive90% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, Grand Strategy 13.3% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Mining 10.8% ★, Cinematic 8.9%
- #3 Ostriv
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,621 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Historical 11.3%, Farming Sim 9.7%, Base Building 9%
- #4 Medieval Frontiers
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 12%, Farming Sim 11.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #5 Survival Vacancy
94% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 11.9% ★, Mining 11.6% ★, Base Building 9.3%, City Builder 8.8%
- #6 Catizens
94% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Farming Sim 14%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8%
- #7 The Blighted Frontier
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 8.4%, Survival 6.6%
- #8 Rogue Carrier
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Historical 8.9%
- #9 Summa Expeditionis
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 323 reviews2026
Dev: Lobico GamesPub: Megalevel
Windows
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Farming Sim 12.6%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Historical 9.9%
- #10 Odd Realm
91% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Mining 14.7% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.2%
- #11 Above: Colonies of the Mist
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Cinematic 10.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 7.8%
- #12 Farmman
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #13 Surviving Ceres
89% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Farming Sim 15.7%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11.4%
- #14 Oxygen
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #15 Manor Lords
86% matchVery Positive84% of 90,512 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Historical 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Colony Sim 8.2%
- #16 Lil Guys
87% 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 25.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.2%, Management 9.2%
- #17 Agromatic
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
An industrial empire builder where the workforce is the automation. Hire specialists with their own traits and put them to work wherever the operation needs them, mines, workshops, rail depots, research labs. You decide what gets built. They make it run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 17.2%, Farming Sim 16.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Mining 8.6% ★
- #18 TinyCraft Town
85% matchMixed59% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
TinyCraft Town is a simple 2D pixel art survival game focused on light resource management, crafting, and exploration. Gather materials, cook food, fish, build workstations, craft weapons and restore a small ruined village. Inspired by games like RuneScape and Conan Exiles—without the complexity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Mining 15.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Farming Sim 15.3%, Base Building 9.8%
- #19 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
84% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Historical 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%
- #20 Celestial Empire: Prologue
83% matchVery Positive86% of 416 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 17.2%, Historical 11.9%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%
- #21 Forestia
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Pick Games
Windows
Armed with only a small axe, explore a forest consumed by darkness. Gather resources, craft tools, and defend the sacred altar from nightly monster assaults. Restore the altar and bring life back to the land in this 2D survival action fantasy game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #22 Ranchbound
82% matchMixed50% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Raise cattle, develop your ranch, hire cowboys, buy land, and invest in local businesses in a real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 10.9%, Farming Sim 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%
- #23 Paleon
81% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Survival 11.9%, Building 9.8%, Historical 8.2%
- #24 Make Your Kingdom
82% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.4%, Survival 9.4%
- #26 ALL WILL FALL
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 6.8%
- #27 My Townies
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erkurheart Inc.Pub: N/A
Windows
My Townies is an immersive mixed city-building game, you’re not just an overseer. Begin with a modest farm settlement and transform it into a sprawling metropolis, with every townie, building, and resource under your command. Relax watch your city grow and play mini games
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Farming Sim 16.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Time Management 11.4%, Building 9.2%
- #28 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.7%, Survival 7.1%
- #29 Malignus
78% 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 28.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Mining 10.2% ★, Simulation 7.2%
- #30 Gateworlds
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 9.1%, Management 9%
- #31 Worlds Explorers
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Open World Survival Craft 12.9% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Management 10.3%
- #32 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
77% matchVery Positive86% of 205 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
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 26.8%, City Builder 25.2%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.5%
- #33 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
75% matchMixed65% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #34 Clan & Flood
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Building 14%, City Builder 13%, Survival 12.9%, Historical 9.1%
- #35 Meer's: Escape
75% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Meer's
Windows
Meer's: Escape is an island version of the classic city simulation. The game expands on some of the deep-rooted tropes of the city-building experience while introducing new gameplay elements to recognize the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a real city.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Farming Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Top-Down 5.7%
- #36 Scaling Up
74% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Farming Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Time Management 11.7%, Building 7.9%
- #37 First Feudal
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 644 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10%
- #38 Wild West Pioneers
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 17.4%, Mining 12.8% ★, Historical 9.6%, Base Building 8.7%
- #39 Rogue Drone
73% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: KBGS
Windows
A sci-fi mining and base-building game where efficient mining is the key to survival. Gather crystals, expand your colony, upgrade your defenses, and withstand increasingly dangerous nightly attacks.
Why similar: Mining 32% ★, Colony Sim 14.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Time Management 8.5%, Base Building 7.5%
- #40 Frontier Roots
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Time Management 13.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 10%
- #41 Of Life and Land
72% matchVery Positive86% of 364 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 18.1%, City Builder 16.2%, Farming Sim 13.3%, Base Building 11%, Historical 10.2%
- #42 Isla Paradiso
73% 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 25.3%, City Builder 23.8%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #43 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Historical 11.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 World Turned Stone: Apocalypse
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! The first stage of terraforming the world from the beginning of the apocalypse. Provides a discount for the full game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%
- #45 World Turned Stone
71% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.4%
- #46 Settletopia
70% 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 23.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.1%
- #47 Patron
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 25.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Survival 10.7%, Historical 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%
- #48 Oceaneers
68% matchVery Positive89% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.3%
- #49 Wall World Strategy
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Mining 14.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.4%
- #50 Avian Colony
69% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
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 25.1%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #51 Terrarium Builder
70% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Farming Sim 19.5%, Simulation 10%, Building 8.4%
- #52 Rise Against the Invaders
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #53 Mistpaw Ravine
66% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Farming Sim 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.4%
- #54 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
69% matchMixed69% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 30.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 9.4%
- #55 Harvest Village
67% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.
Why similar: Mining 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Colony Sim 9.8%
- #56 Stone to Stars
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OnlyLogic
Windows · Mac
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #57 Nova Roma
64% matchVery Positive94% of 2,244 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Historical 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #58 Mars Colony Builder
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
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 22.7%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 10%, Survival 9.5%
- #59 Death By FrostByte
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Mining 18.4% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.5%
- #60 Exipelago
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: reiti.net
Windows
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Mining 17.6% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%