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Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, RTS 16.8%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%

Build your own towers from modular units, adapt mid battle, and master custom defenses in this Build-a-Tower Defense.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.9%, RTS 15.6%, Difficult 14.8%, Sandbox 12%, PvE 10.4%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 14%, RTS 13.5%, Building 9.5%

A unique tower defense game. Where you design and build your defense block by block. With many component that can be combined for different effect. To survive in a hostile world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%

A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 7%

Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 14.3%, RTS 13.4%, Sandbox 13%, Building 9.6%

Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, RTS 14.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 7.8%

Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11.1%, RTS 10.3%

Build your defense base to repel alien invaders. Atahion is a strategy and tactical defense game in which you have to extract resources, build defense towers and use bonuses to complete the mission.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.3%, RTS 23.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Strategy 8.7%

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 29.9%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.5%

Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, RTS 15.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Difficult 9%, Base Building 8.7%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, RTS 17.7%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11%

An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.4%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%

Run an evil asteroid base in the void. Dig, claim, and build your lair, summon entities through Warp Rifts, and repel the Vanguard raids hammering your Void Core — while MALACHAR, your AI narrator, judges your every move.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9%

You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.4%, Strategy 11.4%, RPG 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%

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 27.7%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 8.5%

Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 8.4%

Rise of the Cones is a tower defense game where a relentless army of cones is marching toward your base. They will not stop. Build towers, shape them with branching upgrades, and figure out how to hold the line.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.6%, RTS 19.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Sandbox 19.3%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Base Building 13.1%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Tower Defense 11%, Strategy 9%

Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.7%, RTS 19.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Tower Defense 17.6%, RTS 15.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 12%, Sci-fi 12%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%

Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.2%, RTS 24.5%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 12.2%, Sci-fi 6.6%

Halftime Builders is a game that mixes Tower Defense, Horde Survivor, RTS and Roguelike elements. Pick your defenses, build them up, collect scrap, level up and kill an endless amounts of mobs. Once you die use your hard earned gold to improve your chances and start again!

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 10.1%, PvE 9.1%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 22.1%, RTS 17.6%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Strategy 7%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%

VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, RTS 21.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 12.1%

Crash-land on a dying alien world and bring it back to life. Build automated factories, master real chemistry and nuclear physics, and terraform the atmosphere one gas at a time — while sandworms hunt the power signature of everything you build.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, RTS 19.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 10%

Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.1%, RTS 17.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.9%

Refound a holding in the drowned Vreldsath fens. Nothing regrows, every load is carried home by hand, and what crawls out of the Sundered Places comes without warning. Push outward, dig up the ruins, hold the line, and win by laying a causeway across water that swallowed every attempt before yours.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Strategy 14.4%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 10.7%

FrontierLord is a pixel strategy game to build and guard frontier forts. As lord, build villages, collect wood and ore for production. Place siege gear and wall traps, train troops to repel raiders. Balance building and defense, craft your fort and create your frontier legend.

Why similar: Tower Defense 29.5%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Strategy 11.6%, RTS 9.3%

Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.

Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, RTS 25.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 8.3%

Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10%

Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.9%, RTS 14.4%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 11.3%

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 17.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 10.7%

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 28.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 8.8%

Random Realms Hero Under Siege is a fast-paced single player tower defense RTS where every match is a fresh roll of the dice. Build bases from randomized building options, lead a leveling hero and their army, and hold the line against escalating enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, RTS 16.7%, PvE 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.8%

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.7%, RTS 24.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%

Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Tower Defense 17.2%, RTS 16.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 8.4%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Sandbox 11.6%

Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.5%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 9.9%

Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 17.7%, RTS 16.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 8.1%

Create a buzzing village and become a powerful enough wizard to defend it in this RPG inspired city builder!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, RTS 19.8%, Building 15%, RPG 10.5%, Strategy 9.4%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 19.5%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.6%

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 27.4%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 9.8%

Become part of historical battles, take the lead and help your army defeat the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 20.8%, RTS 19.3%, Sandbox 14%, PvE 10.4%, Strategy 7.3%

A modular tower defense strategy game where you design, build, and upgrade fully customizable towers to survive relentless enemy waves.

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.1%, Sandbox 19.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 10.4%

Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

Why similar: RTS 23.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 13.5%

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 21%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.3%

StarSim: BattleZone is a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in the StarSim universe. Take command of an army and lead your faction to victory. Gameplay includes classic RTS mechanics such as: building a base, gathering resources, researching new technologies, building defences, training units, etc.

Why similar: RTS 31.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 16.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%

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: Tower Defense 24.6%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 8.9%

The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 10.2%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Tower Defense 19.5%, RTS 18.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, PvE 7.6%

Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, RTS 21.9%, Tower Defense 18%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 10.8%

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 37.7%, Base Building 22.4%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9%, Difficult 4.7%

U.F.O. K.O. Tower Defense: Place lasers, missile launchers, sniper turrets, and use combat strategies such as airstrikes and the space ray to repel waves of alien invaders in this sci-fi tower defense game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.7%, RTS 26.2%, Building 18.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 5.5%

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 Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 11.8%, Building 10.8%

"Fog Keeper" is a tower-defense survival game. You will establish defenses on a fog-shrouded alien world, gather resources, research technologies, hold the Energy Tower against the monster hordes that surge in every night, and uncover the true secrets hidden within.

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.5%, Sandbox 18.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 15.9%, Building 8.6%

Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 23.7%, RTS 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Strategy 9.3%