- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Management 16.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Economy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the efficiency-focused gameplay of Blueprint Tycoon by tasking you with building complex transport networks to move resources.
- #2 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Resource Management 30.5%, Management 23.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, City Builder 13%, Strategy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive game for logistics and automation, challenging you to build and optimize massive, interconnected production chains.
- #3 Rise of Industry
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Management 27.5%, City Builder 19.1%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep economic simulation where you must manage supply chains and production lines across a sprawling map.
- #4 The Colonists
95% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Management 16.3%, City Builder 16%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Inspired by classic settlement builders, it focuses on automating resource delivery using a network of transport bots.
- #5 Production Line : Car factory simulation
94% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 32.2%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 10.6%, City Builder 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the specific challenge of designing an efficient factory floor to maximize output and profit.
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Resource Management 19.8%, Management 18.1%, Economy 13.7%, City Builder 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-management game that places a heavy emphasis on industrial automation and resource logistics.
- #7 Masterplan Tycoon
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Management 30.5%, Resource Management 20.5%, Economy 17.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist resource-management game that focuses entirely on the flow of goods and the efficiency of your production nodes.
- #8 Anno 1800
92% matchVery Positive81% of 30,897 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Economy 17.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features highly intricate supply chain management and city-building mechanics that reward careful planning and logistical foresight.
- #9 Autonauts
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,915 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-building with a unique visual programming system to automate every aspect of your settlement's production.
- #10 Kubifaktorium
91% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Management 16.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony builder that emphasizes automation and the creation of complex production chains.
- #11 Planetbase
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 48.6% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 7.1%, Simulation 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that forces you to manage limited resources and life-support logistics in a harsh, isolated environment.
- #12 Little Big Workshop
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 27%, Simulation 20.1%, Resource Management 14.7%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming but deep management experience where you must optimize a factory layout to fulfill complex production orders.
- #13 shapez
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,210 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Management 29.1%, Resource Management 27.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A pure automation and logistics game that strips away combat to focus entirely on the challenge of processing and transporting shapes.
- #14 Dyson Sphere Program
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Management 27.8%, Resource Management 22%, City Builder 18.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game scales the logistics challenge to a galactic level, requiring complex planning to manage resources across multiple planets.
- #15 Project Highrise
89% matchVery Positive85% of 4,730 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 44.5%, Simulation 18%, Economy 9%, Strategy 8.6%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and efficiency of a vertical space, requiring careful planning of utilities and tenant logistics.
- #16 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
84% 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 30.1% ★, Management 16.1%, City Builder 15.7%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly detailed simulation of a planned economy, requiring mastery over every aspect of logistics and infrastructure.
- #17 MicroTown
86% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a medieval settlement with a strong emphasis on resource gathering and production chains.
- #18 Lords and Villeins
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Management 16.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows you to manage the social and economic hierarchy of a village, focusing on resource distribution and production.
- #19 Good Company
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Management 25%, Economy 17.2%, Resource Management 16%, City Builder 14.8%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: This management game tasks you with building a tech empire by optimizing assembly lines and product development processes.
- #20 Sweet Transit
84% matchMixed68% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Management 22.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 15.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where the entire economy is driven by a complex, player-designed railway network.
- #21 Settlements Rising
83% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
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 35.3% ★, City Builder 17%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes the management of production chains and the survival of your colony through economic growth.
- #22 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Management 18.8%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that features unique water-management and irrigation logistics to keep your beaver civilization thriving.
- #23 Founders' Fortune
82% 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 48.7% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Management 9.9%, Simulation 6.1%, Resource Management 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colony-sim mechanics with resource management, requiring you to build a sustainable economy for your settlers.
- #24 Foundation
79% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 27.5%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that focuses on organic growth and the management of complex production chains for your medieval population.
- #25 Software Inc.
81% matchVery Positive94% of 7,637 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Management 37.7%, Economy 24.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation of running a software company, requiring you to manage office layouts and production workflows efficiently.
- #26 One More Island
82% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Management 16.5%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-building with trade-route management, forcing you to balance resources across multiple island colonies.
- #27 Big Ambitions
78% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Management 44.3%, Economy 24.1%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business management game that requires you to handle logistics, supply chains, and retail operations in a modern city.
- #28 Cliff Empire
80% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Management 14.9%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that requires you to manage resources across multiple small, isolated cliff-top settlements through a shared logistics network.
- #29 Gnomoria
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that provides deep control over resource management and the construction of complex, multi-level bases.
- #30 Banished
78% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 4.5%, Management 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a foundational colony-sim that centers on the delicate balance of resource management and population survival.
- #31 Factory Town Idle
76% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Management 18.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Simulation 4.8%
- #32 Settlement Survival
74% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, City Builder 19%, Management 16.6%, Economy 7%, Resource Management 7%
- #33 Battle Royale Tycoon
77% matchMixed69% of 513 reviews2019
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 28%, Simulation 14.1%, City Builder 14%, Economy 13%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #34 Mad Tower Tycoon
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 438 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Management 17%, City Builder 14%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #35 Synergy
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Management 14.6%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #36 Industry Idle
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Management 20.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Resource Management 18.6%, Economy 15.2%, Simulation 9.7%
- #37 Mega Mall Story
73% matchVery Positive94% of 307 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Design a towering mega mall in this mall management simulation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Management 16.7%, City Builder 15%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #38 My Colony
75% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.2% ★, City Builder 28%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 5.2%, Indie 2.8%
- #39 RPG Tycoon
77% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: Management 26.6%, Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Simulation 10%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #40 Mini Settlers
71% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Management 17.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #41 Game Corp DX
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,083 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Management 46.3%, Economy 20.5%, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 4.4%, Strategy 3.8%
- #42 Crowded Blue Dot
75% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 23.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 8.2%
- #43 Ratopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.8% ★, Management 16.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Economy 6%
- #44 Orrstead
72% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
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: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Management 17.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #45 Scorchlands
70% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
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: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Management 14.8%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 12.3%, Economy 10%
- #46 Idle Colony
70% matchVery Positive83% of 544 reviews2024
Dev: Faith G.
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Management 19.6%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%
- #47 Seeds of Resilience
72% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.3% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Management 15.7%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #48 Dream Town Island
69% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #49 Blacksmith Master
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, Management 15.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Resource Management 10%, Economy 9.8%
- #50 Pocket Clothier
70% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Management 11.2%, Economy 6.5%, Strategy 6.2%
- #51 Aven Colony
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Colony Sim 52.8% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Management 4.5%
- #52 Dungeon Overseer
71% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
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 35.4% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #53 Game Dev Tycoon
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Why similar: Management 51.2%, Simulation 19.5%, Economy 11.4%, Strategy 5.6%, Indie 3.6%
- #54 Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
69% matchMixed62% of 1,256 reviews2022
Dev: TeaForTwoPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Management 16.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9%
- #55 Dream Park Story
67% matchVery Positive88% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Simulation 15.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 8%, Economy 6.6%
- #56 Mad Games Tycoon
68% matchVery Positive91% of 4,414 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 37.8%, Economy 17.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #57 Mini Settlers: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 9.5%
- #58 Automation Empire
68% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Management 21.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Economy 14.7%, City Builder 12.7%
- #59 Mega Mall Story 2
66% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4% ★, Simulation 15.1%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #60 Another Brick in The Mall
67% matchVery Positive83% of 2,425 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Management 26.6%, City Builder 14.1%, Economy 11%, Simulation 9.6%