
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
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Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

Clan & Flood
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.

The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
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.
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 23.9% ★, Political Sim 16.7% ★, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 30.6% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
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 35.5% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 6.6%, Building 6.3%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 9.2%, Tower Defense 8.9%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 9%
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 29.1% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.1%
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 28.5% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 8.2%, Building 7.5%
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 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Survival 8.4%
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 25.8% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Tower Defense 6.7%
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 21% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Political Sim 11.1% ★, Survival 9.4%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Political Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 31.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 5.6%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 15%, Survival 7.2%, Management 7%
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Political Sim 16.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 10.2%
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 28% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.2%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%
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 25.6% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 10%, Building 7.3%
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.3%
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 28.7% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Tower Defense 13.8%, Survival 11.1%, City Builder 7.6%
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 22.9% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
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 27.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
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 21.9%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 8.4%
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Tower Defense 8.8%
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 9%, Management 8.4%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Management 8.4%
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 32.6% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%
A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.4%
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 37.1% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11%, Building 6.5%
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 8.8%
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 33.5% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Survival 8.2%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.6%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 7%
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 25.6% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.4%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8%, Survival 7.9%
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, World War II 16.1% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 37% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 5.6%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 9.1%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 7%, Strategy 6.9%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 7.3%
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Tower Defense 8.5%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Tower Defense 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 7.3%
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: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 24%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 8.7%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Tower Defense 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 8.6%
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 39.4% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5.2%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Tower Defense 12.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 10.7%
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 29.6% ★, City Builder 22%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.5%
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Political Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 11.8%, Management 8.4%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 8.7%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, Base Building 20%, City Builder 7.4%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 6.3%
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 8.5%
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Political Sim 17.2% ★, Resource Management 9%, Building 8%
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.8%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 8.3%