Games Like Before We Leave

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Economy 15.3%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same focus on automation, logistics, and cute, peaceful expansion as Before We Leave.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Economy 16.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9%, Relaxing 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures a similar cozy, relaxing city-building vibe with a focus on resource management and satisfying progression.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Relaxing 14.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Family Friendly 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing, non-violent approach to environmental restoration that mirrors the gentle nature of Before We Leave.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A delightful city-builder that emphasizes exploration and peaceful settlement management in a vibrant, colorful world.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 35%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9%, Colony Sim 8.2% ★, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less, organic city-builder that prioritizes the cozy, slow-paced development of a medieval village.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Building 15.7%, Relaxing 15.5%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist city-builder focuses on the relaxing, aesthetic placement of buildings on procedurally generated islands.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Relaxing 11.2%, Family Friendly 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a hex-grid system to create a deeply relaxing and meditative puzzle-building experience.

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Hex Grid 22.7% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-grid based game that focuses on resource management and terraforming in a stylized, atmospheric setting.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with a unique premise of living on the back of a giant creature, focusing on management and harmony.

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.

Why similar: Hex Grid 23.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Economy 12.7%, Family Friendly 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique hex-grid world on the back of a giant turtle, emphasizing exploration and sustainable growth.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Building 17%, Sandbox 13.3%, Relaxing 11.2%, Family Friendly 11%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly cozy, stress-free building toy that focuses purely on the joy of creating beautiful, colorful structures.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a complex yet satisfying logistics and automation experience that feels like a more technical cousin to the resource management in Before We Leave.

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: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Space 12.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a classic colony-sim experience focused on managing a space base and keeping the inhabitants happy and productive.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A solid city-builder that balances survival mechanics with satisfying base-building and resource gathering.

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Building 12.9%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing take on the survival city-builder genre, focusing on population management and resource chains.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 8%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Space 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that focuses on building and managing a colony on an alien planet with a similar management loop.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While slightly more complex, it offers a rewarding city-building experience focused on water management and vertical construction.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed space-based colony management experience that emphasizes interior design and resource efficiency.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Economy 15.4%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes environmental harmony and resource management in a unique, alien landscape.

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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Economy 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This underwater city-builder provides a unique aesthetic and a focus on managing resources in a challenging but beautiful environment.

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: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding society with a strong emphasis on resource management and long-term planning in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 7.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, accessible city-builder that balances growth with light defense, maintaining a very approachable feel.

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of space colonies with a clear progression system similar to planetary expansion.

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: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on building a base around an oxygen center, requiring careful resource management.

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: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, sandbox-style city-builder that focuses on building a thriving community on the ocean.

Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Economy 15.3%, Building 11%, Space 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based city-builder that focuses on building production chains across multiple moons and planets.

hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!

Why similar: Hex Grid 34% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 9.8%, Relaxing 8.2%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, hex-grid based city-builder that is designed specifically to be relaxing and visually pleasing.

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Space 13.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 8.2%

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: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused city-builder that emphasizes building a shelter and managing resources against the elements.

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: Hex Grid 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A nomadic city-builder that focuses on resource management and movement, offering a unique take on the genre.

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Hex Grid 14.5% ★, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, small-scale city-builder that focuses on managing the needs of your citizens in a peaceful environment.

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: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 12%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Building 6.6%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Space 9.3%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8.4%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.7%, Space 9.7%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Economy 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Hex Grid 14.1% ★, Space 9.8%, Simulation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Economy 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 8.3%

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: City Builder 25.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.9%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Hex Grid 16.9% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 6%

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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Economy 17.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Building 8.3%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Economy 11%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Economy 13.3%, Space 9.8%, Building 8.7%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Space 11.7%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.2%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Space 11.8%, Building 11%

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 15.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Economy 15.1%, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.9%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Economy 16.9%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9.6%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Hex Grid 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 9.1%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Economy 16.4%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 9.6%

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: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Economy 12%, Building 8.5%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Space 11.4%, Building 10.5%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Economy 8.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.7%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Economy 16.5%, Building 14.4%, Relaxing 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%

Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.

Why similar: City Builder 15%, Space 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Resource Management 11.5%