- #1 Worshippers of Cthulhu
97% matchVery Positive81% of 1,522 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.5%, Alternate History 8.4%
- #2 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
96% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 13.8%, RTS 8.9%, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #3 IXION
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,436 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 30.8 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 20.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #4 Land of the Vikings
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,240 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%
- #5 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
94% matchVery Positive85% of 176 reviews2026
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Historical 10.7%, RTS 9.7%, Economy 9.1%
- #6 Oxygen
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 17.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #7 Nova Roma
92% matchVery Positive94% of 2,044 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 10.3%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #8 Ancient Cities
93% matchMixed63% of 2,134 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Historical 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Economy 8.8%
- #9 New Cycle
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #10 Becastled
90% matchVery Positive82% of 5,571 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.6%, RTS 12.6%, Building 10.5%
- #11 Endzone 2
91% matchMixed68% of 1,037 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 21%, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #12 Frostpunk
89% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Building 6.8%
- #13 Pompeii: The Legacy
89% matchVery Positive83% of 259 reviews2026
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 10.9%, Historical 10.6%, Immersive Sim 8%
- #14 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
88% matchVery Positive82% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 17.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.6%
- #15 Celestial Empire
87% matchVery Positive90% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Economy 12.8%, RTS 12.7%, Historical 12.6%, Building 10.2%
- #16 Against the Storm
86% matchVery Positive95% of 36,338 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 15.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.6%
- #17 Farthest Frontier
85% matchVery Positive86% of 24,898 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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: City Builder 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 9.5%, Economy 8.3%, Historical 8.2%
- #18 Patron
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,181 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 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 21.4%, City Builder 19%, Survival 8.9%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 7%
- #19 The Last Haven
84% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%, RTS 9.3%
- #20 Celestial Empire: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive85% of 405 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 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Historical 9.4%, Base Building 7.9%, Building 7.9%
- #21 Builders of Egypt
84% matchMostly Negative34% of 484 reviews2025
Dev: Strategy Labs
Windows
Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Historical 13.8%, Economy 11.9%, Building 10.6%, RTS 8.4%
- #22 Homeseek
83% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
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 22.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #23 Settlement Survival
81% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.2%, Management 7.8%
- #24 DarkSwitch
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 627 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #25 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
82% matchMixed69% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 28.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #26 Builders of Greece
81% matchMixed56% of 585 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Historical 11.8%, Economy 10.6%, Building 10%, RTS 9.4%
- #27 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
78% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 18.6%, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.8%
- #28 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,564 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: RTS 21.2%, Base Building 19.9%, Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 12.8%
- #29 Dawn of Man
79% matchVery Positive87% of 17,766 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 28.8%, Survival 9.8%, Historical 7.7%, Economy 4.7%
- #30 Colonize Prologue
80% matchMixed64% of 513 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 18.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.4%, RTS 8.4%
- #31 Nebuchadnezzar
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,817 reviews2021
Dev: Nepos GamesPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Economy 11.7%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Building 9.4%, Historical 9%
- #32 Heart of the Machine
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,051 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Historical 9.4%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 9%
- #33 Fata Deum - The God Sim
76% matchMixed59% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 9.2%, RTS 8.8%, Resource Management 8%
- #34 MEMORIAPOLIS
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,767 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Historical 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #35 Floodland
77% matchMixed56% of 1,075 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 22%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 12%, Immersive Sim 7.6%
- #36 The Tribe Must Survive
75% 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 19.9%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 10.3%
- #37 Surviving the Aftermath
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,548 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.3 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 26.4%, Colony Sim 23%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #38 Whiskerwood
71% matchVery Positive93% of 3,148 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 16.4%, City Builder 14%, Historical 10%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%
- #39 Cataclismo
71% matchVery Positive89% of 4,197 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 15.2%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #40 The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
72% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Emerick GibsonPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 10.2%, Isometric 9.6%, Building 8.6%
- #41 Age of Pyramids
76% matchMostly Negative35% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Historical 11.5%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #42 Gord
74% matchMixed54% of 1,002 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 18.5%, RTS 14.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #43 Surviving the Abyss
73% matchMixed65% of 1,066 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, RTS 8.9%
- #44 Kingdom's Deck
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 504 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 Dark Moon
73% matchMixed48% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #46 After Long Night
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 449 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 12.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #47 ALL WILL FALL
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,246 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 8.2%, Economy 7.2%
- #48 Anno 117: Pax Romana
68% matchMixed70% of 12,325 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Economy 12.5%, RTS 12.4%, Historical 10.4%, Building 9.9%
- #49 Endzone - A World Apart
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 13%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 6.5%
- #50 Masters of Albion
68% matchMixed66% of 599 reviews2026
Dev: 22cans
Windows
A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Historical 13.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.2%
- #51 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
66% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 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 15.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Historical 9.8%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #52 Frostpunk 2
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,488 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 15.5%, Colony Sim 8.1%, Strategy 8%
- #53 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,258 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 7%
- #54 Republic of Pirates
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 509 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.8%, RTS 12.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.7%
- #55 Aquatico
69% matchMixed67% of 867 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 21%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.2%
- #56 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.5%, RTS 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #57 Infection Free Zone
66% matchVery Positive81% of 18,136 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.5%, RTS 10.2%, Management 7.9%
- #58 Empires of the Undergrowth
64% matchVery Positive94% of 18,267 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Historical 9.1%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 9%
- #59 The Last City
69% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Tremmi Publishing
Windows
"Survive and thrive in the desert! Lead a group of colonists, build a thriving colony, gather resources, craft tools, and research technologies in 'The Last City' - a challenging survival strategy game."
Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #60 A Game of Humans
70% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.3%