- #1 Outland Kingdoms
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy RPG 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%
- #2 Founders' Fortune
96% 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 38.5% ★, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.4%
- #3 Guild of Dragons
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
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 23% ★, Dragons 19.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.3%
- #4 First Feudal
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Medieval 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #5 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 23%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #6 Rise Against the Invaders
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.2%
- #7 Airborne Empire
93% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy RPG 14.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Medieval 9.6%
- #8 Kingdoms and Castles
92% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.3% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Medieval 11.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 8.9%
- #9 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
91% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Building 8%
- #10 Dungeons & Kingdoms: Prologue
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, hunt wild animals and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Reap the rewards, unlock new resources and advance your tech.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Medieval 10.4%, Dragons 9.4% ★, Survival 8.9%
- #11 The Wild Age
91% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 12.4%, Medieval 8.7%, Building 8.1%
- #12 Harrowlands
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy RPG 9.1%
- #13 Settlement Survival
88% 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 27.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Medieval 12.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #14 Edge Islands
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Survival 8.1%
- #15 Noble Fates
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Medieval 9.2%, Character Customization 8.7%
- #16 FarHearth
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: matchaserf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 11%, Medieval 10.9%
- #17 Peasants
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Medieval 13.2%, Building 9.1%
- #18 Patron
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Medieval 8.8%
- #19 Aldo: Memory of the Kingdom
83% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Meleiko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Medieval 9.8%, Survival 7.6%
- #20 Arcane Rings
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Base Building 16%, City Builder 15.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Medieval 10.1%
- #21 Planetbase
84% 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 36% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 10.6%, Building 5.1%
- #22 Pinevale Settlements
82% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Medieval 12.9%, Building 10.4%
- #23 Becastled
80% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 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: Base Building 26.4%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Medieval 11.3%, Building 9.4%
- #24 DarkSwitch
81% matchNo user 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 Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Survival 10.2%
- #25 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Medieval 9.4%, Building 8.8%
- #26 Feudal Craft
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Strategy RPG 10.6%
- #27 Settlements Rising
78% 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 31% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Medieval 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #28 Above: Colonies of the Mist
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Building 7.8%
- #29 Siege of Irdor
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, Medieval 10.4%
- #30 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
79% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Medieval 9.4%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7%
- #31 Sky Base Venus
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.3%
- #32 Isla Paradiso
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.6%, Survival 8.8%
- #33 Colony Survival
77% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.3% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 13.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 10.6%
- #34 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 11.5%, Building 9.2%
- #35 Dungeons & Kingdoms
74% matchMixed42% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Medieval 12.5%, Building 10.6%, Strategy RPG 10.1%
- #36 Lil Guys
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Base Building 21.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Survival 12.8%, Building 8.7%
- #37 Castle Formers
75% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 14.3%, Medieval 11%, Building 9.9%
- #38 Survivors of the Wildstone
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Medieval 12.3%, Survival 11.8%
- #39 Black Metal
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inverse OntologyPub: Avaris AS
Windows
Colonize. Explore. Survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Hack and Slash 9.2%
- #40 Banished
74% 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 42.8% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Survival 10.9%, Medieval 7%, Strategy 4.7%
- #41 Orrstead
71% 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 30% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 11.3%, Building 10.9%
- #42 OBRII
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10%, Strategy 8%
- #43 Arcane Shores
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
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 36.1% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Survival 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%
- #44 Cloud Exiles
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy RPG 9.8%
- #45 Sheltered 2
72% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Survival 14.5%, Building 7.8%, Character Customization 7.2%
- #46 Ankh Tower: Protect The Fortress With Dark Magic
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DreamWay Games SA
Windows
Ankh Tower is a dark-fantasy rogue-like strategy. In the depths of darkness, the Ankh remains the only bastion of life. Build your tower wisely using the offensive, defensive and magical capabilities of its floors. Develop your arsenal of spells to defeat evil forces. Protect the Ankh and survive.
Why similar: Dragons 19.3% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Strategy RPG 15.6%, Medieval 12.3%, Survival 8.6%
- #47 Buoyancy
72% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 5.3%
- #48 Lands of Koastalia
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
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 31.9% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Medieval 11.6%, Building 11.4%
- #49 Gnome Glen
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 17.7%, Medieval 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #50 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 45.5% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 5.4%, Survival 4.4%
- #51 Dungeon Settlers
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Strategy RPG 10.1%, Medieval 10%
- #52 Black Forest
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #53 Venusville
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
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 32.5% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 19.8%, Survival 10.8%, Building 7.2%
- #54 Clan & Flood
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Survival 16%, Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.9%
- #55 Pirates Journey
67% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: 2MEDYA
Windows
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy RPG 15.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Survival 11.8%
- #56 Oxygen Not Included
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 44.1% ★, Base Building 26.7%, Survival 14.7%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 2.3%
- #57 Dungeon Renovators
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sentient Play
Windows
Dungeon Renovators is a base-builder and action RPG with online co-op. You are a Renovator: combat-ready craftsmen who reclaim dungeons for humanity, demolish evil structures for materials, then build bases to train, craft equipment, attract workers, level up and rebuild civilization!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 10%, Building 9.3%, Hack and Slash 9.3%
- #58 Ascent of Ashes
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 14.7%, Strategy RPG 11.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #59 LowPolis
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Building 13.3%, Medieval 13.1%, Strategy 7.8%