- #1 Ostriv
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 17.4%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Historical 11.2%, Farming Sim 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #2 Summa Expeditionis
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 227 reviews2024
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 18.4% ★, Farming Sim 12.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Historical 8.9%
- #3 Medieval Frontiers
96% 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 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 12%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #4 Catizens
95% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 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 20.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Farming Sim 14%, Building 9.7%, Crafting 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 19.6% ★, Mining 11.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 11.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, City Builder 8.6%
- #6 Above: Colonies of the Mist
94% 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 23.5% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Cinematic 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Building 7.8%
- #7 Surviving Ceres
93% matchVery Positive87% of 137 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 11.4%, Building 11.2%
- #8 Farmman
92% 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 19.3%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #9 Oxygen
91% 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 19.6% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.7%
- #10 The HELL
91% matchVery Positive92% 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 17.8% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Grand Strategy 12.8% ★, Time Management 10.8%, Cinematic 9.1%
- #11 Lil Guys
90% 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 25.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9.6%
- #12 TinyCraft Town
89% matchMixed65% of 37 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 19.7% ★, Mining 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Farming Sim 15.3%, Base Building 9.9%
- #13 Celestial Empire: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive85% of 370 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 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Historical 11.7%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%
- #14 Forestia
88% matchNo user reviews2026
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 26.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Farming Sim 14.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Base Building 10%
- #15 Ranchbound
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Grow your ranch, raise cattle, lead cowboys, and trade with settlers in a new real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 15.5%, Grand Strategy 14.1% ★, Colony Sim 11% ★, Farming Sim 10.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #16 Paleon
86% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 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 17.1%, Survival 12%, Building 9.8%, Historical 8.2%
- #17 Make Your Kingdom
86% matchMixed58% of 195 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 21.2% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 10.1%
- #18 My Townies
85% 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 18.5% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Time Management 11.6%, Building 9.1%
- #19 Oxygen: First Breath
84% 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 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #20 Founders' Fortune
84% 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 33.2% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.6%, Survival 6.9%
- #21 Woodland Rebels
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beak Berry Games
Windows · Mac
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.5%
- #22 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
82% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 27% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.5%
- #23 Wild West Pioneers
81% 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%, Mining 13.2% ★, Historical 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #24 Scaling Up
80% matchPositive85% of 26 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 17.9%, Time Management 11.9%, Building 7.8%
- #25 First Feudal
82% 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 22.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #26 Clan & Flood
81% 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 23.7% ★, Building 13.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Historical 9%
- #27 Frontier Roots
79% 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 16.5%, Time Management 13.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #28 Of Life and Land
78% 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 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Farming Sim 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Historical 10.1%
- #29 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
79% 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 24.4% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Historical 11.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #30 Isla Paradiso
77% 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 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Building 12.1%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #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 23.9% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.4%
- #32 Death By FrostByte
78% 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 19.6% ★, Mining 18.8% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.7%
- #33 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
74% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Historical 11.2%, Base Building 10%
- #34 Patron
76% 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 25.7% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Survival 10.5%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #35 Terrarium Builder
75% 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 24.9% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Farming Sim 19.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 8.3%
- #36 Avian Colony
74% 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 16.9%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.7%, Survival 10%
- #37 MOAI 7: Mystery Coast
76% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: GamefjordPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Hika-Ri is strong and brave and Kao-Ri is skilled in magic, but neither of them were prepared for what happened the day bandits landed on their uncharted shores. Guide Hika-Ri as he embarks on an epic adventure to save his sister from an unknown fate!
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Time Management 15%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.4%
- #38 Lord Of Anatolia
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
A real-time city-building and strategy game set in 1300s Anatolia. Build your settlement, manage resources, expand your economy, train soldiers, research new technologies, and defend your beylik against enemy forces.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Time Management 9.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #39 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
75% 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 30.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%
- #40 Rise Against the Invaders
73% 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 26.8% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #41 Harvest Village
72% 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 20.6% ★, City Builder 17%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Management 9.9%
- #42 World Turned Stone: Apocalypse
73% 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 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%
- #43 World Turned Stone
72% 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 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%
- #44 Oceaneers
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable 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 20.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.3%
- #45 Mars Colony Builder
71% 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 22.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #46 Mistpaw Ravine
69% matchPositive97% of 29 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 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.8%
- #47 The HELL Prologue
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 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 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.5%
- #48 Cog Foo
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Farming Sim 15%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Time Management 9.2%
- #49 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Grand Strategy 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Survival 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #50 Nova Roma
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
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 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #51 Motile Works
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Time Management 10.1%
- #52 Whiskerwood
66% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Grand Strategy 16.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 11%, Base Building 10.1%
- #53 EndZ Village
71% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: DEVCLIED
Windows · Mac · Linux
EndZ Village is a 2D post-apocalyptic zombie survival game developed by DEVCLIED. This 2D survival game immerses you in a post-apocalyptic world infested with zombies, where humanity is fighting endlessly against the constant onslaught of infected zombie hordes.
Why similar: Mining 21% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #54 Gateworlds
68% 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 25.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.5%
- #55 Nigredo
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Time Management 16%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.4%
- #56 HistoriCity: Florence
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Historical 13.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 9.3%
- #57 MOAI 6: Unexpected Guests Collector's Edition
69% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: GameOn ProductionPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Join two heroes on one grand adventure! Guide Hika-Ri and Kao-Ri on the adventure of their lives and enjoy countless hours of fun on the enchanted island of Tapa-Tui!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Time Management 14.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10%
- #58 Tap Craft
68% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Farming Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Historical 8.5%, Building 8.2%
- #59 Havendock
65% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Farming Sim 15%, City Builder 14.4%, Time Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.8%
- #60 Brave Village
66% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Tenten Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a casual adventure simulation game where you'll manage a small village and explore dark mines. Upgrade villagers and buildings, craft equipment and food, defeat evil goblins, and reclaim lost lands.
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.1%, Top-Down 7.8%