Games Like Autumn Leaves

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 39.4%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 12%, Building 7.2%, Management 6.1%

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 24.9%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 8%, Survival 7.8%

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Management 7.8%

Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Management 10%, Survival 8.7%

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 30.4%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.2%

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 34.8%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%, Building 8.5%

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 37.4%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 10.9%, Survival 10%, Building 7.1%

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 31.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Management 10.8%, Building 8.4%, Capitalism 7.3%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 6.8%

Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Management 12.7%, Survival 9.2%, City Builder 9.2%

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 40.3%, Base Building 23.7%, Survival 10.2%, Building 7.4%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 18%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.7%

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 19.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 10.3%, City Builder 9.2%

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 31.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 7.8%

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 7.9%, Survival 7.6%

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%, Base Building 22.7%, Management 8%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5.8%

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Management 8.3%

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%, City Builder 15.5%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.5%

Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.9%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Building 8.2%, Management 7.8%

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 34.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10%, Strategy 9.2%

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 30.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 8.8%, Building 7.6%

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 32.7%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 10.3%, Management 10.2%, City Builder 9%

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 33.7%, Base Building 19.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 8.8%

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 27.9%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 7.2%, Management 7.1%

Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.4%

Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%

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 28.8%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.8%

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 29.5%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 11%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.8%

Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Management 8%, Survival 7.8%

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 28.1%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 9.8%, Building 8.9%

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 26.3%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 13.2%, Survival 8.2%, Building 7.6%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.4%

VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Management 8.1%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Strategy 14%, City Builder 13.7%, Management 8.9%

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 31%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.5%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Base Building 19.2%, Management 12.7%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.3%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.1%

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 32.4%, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 12%, Management 11.7%, Survival 9%

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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%

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 28.5%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Management 10.3%, Building 9%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 11.5%, Management 11%, Building 9.9%

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 27.4%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.4%

Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.7%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Management 9.1%, City Builder 9%, Building 7%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 5.7%

Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.2%

Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 6.5%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 8.4%

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 20.9%, Management 9.3%, Survival 8.8%, City Builder 8%

Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 25.4%, Management 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 9.1%

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 31.6%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%

A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Survival 6.8%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 19.1%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.2%

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 33.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 6.9%, Base Building 6.6%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.4%, City Builder 7.8%

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 29.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 13%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7.7%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Management 11.9%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%