- #1 Gnomoria
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 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 31.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 7%, Survival 6.7%
- #2 Stonehearth
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,043 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 27.3%, Sandbox 12%, Building 8.1%, Survival 7.6%
- #3 VENOY
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
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 26.8%, RTS 21.3%, City Builder 20.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 10.3%
- #4 Make Your Kingdom
95% matchMixed58% of 196 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 22.1%, RTS 11.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.1%
- #5 WildRoot
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
A cozy colony sim where survival is gentle—but life is alive. Build, farm, cook, craft and grow your settlement as colonists form relationships, help each other, and shape small, meaningful stories together.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 8.1%
- #6 Colonization Simulator
94% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
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 28%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 14.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 6.2%
- #7 Quriocity
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 22.9%, RTS 12.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 7.9%
- #8 pyramida
92% matchVery Positive84% of 750 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 28.4%, RTS 16.2%, Strategy 15%, Survival 11.6%
- #9 Banished
91% matchVery Positive90% of 43,196 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 37.4%, City Builder 33.4%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #10 Hexity
91% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 24.6%, RTS 19.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 5.4%
- #11 Dawn of Man
90% matchVery Positive87% of 17,766 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Colony Sim 35.6%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.5%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #12 Kingdoms Rise and Fall
89% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Little Dreams GamingPub: Little Dreams Games
Windows
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 23.4%, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #13 Farmman
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
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 28%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 8.3%
- #14 Civica: Italian Renaissance
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 24.9%, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Top-Down 4.9%
- #15 Paleon
87% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.3%
- #16 Colonize Prologue
86% matchMixed64% of 513 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22%, RTS 14.2%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 7.5%
- #17 Dwarven Realm
85% matchMixed59% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 23.8%, RTS 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Strategy 7.8%
- #18 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
86% matchVery Positive84% of 834 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 67.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45%, City Builder 24.6%, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 11.4%
- #19 Colony Break
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artical Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 21.8%, RTS 16.9%, Survival 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #20 The First Explorers®
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 19.6%, Sandbox 8%, Building 7.6%
- #21 Kings Town
84% matchMixed58% of 24 reviews2020
Dev: Leturs Labs
Windows
Build up your own civilization in the time of kings and kingdoms. Become the manager of a little town and make it to a great city. Defend it from other kingdoms and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 19.5%, RTS 18.3%, Survival 8%, Building 7.9%
- #22 Arcane Shores
82% 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 32.5%, City Builder 28.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.1%, RTS 7.1%
- #23 ROWBOTS
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevTX
Windows
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17.7%, RTS 14.9%, Sandbox 11%, Nature 6.2%
- #24 Trollskog
82% matchMixed56% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Andreas CarlsonPub: Abstract Void Interactive
Windows
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: RTS 38.8%, Colony Sim 37.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 5.8%
- #25 Icetwine
79% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 20.7%, RTS 17.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 7.7%
- #26 Planeta
81% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 19.5%, RTS 19.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.6%
- #27 Hamlet in a Pond
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pidibidi Games
Windows
Hamlet in a Pond is a unique looking relaxed city builder. Live out your creativity and build your own little slice of paradise in a tiny pond - with no pressure like goals to reach and no stress from juggling resources.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 8%, Family Friendly 7.8%
- #28 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
80% matchMixed66% of 6,003 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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 39.6%, City Builder 35.1%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Building 5.7%
- #29 Escape the End
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 25.7%, RTS 20.1%, Strategy 11.3%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #30 SORALAND
78% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: monacrea
Windows · Mac
Third person strategy game: Collect resources, conquer new areas and grow your civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, RTS 20%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #31 Orrstead
77% matchVery Positive80% of 80 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 27.9%, City Builder 24.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 8.5%, Minimalist 6.8%
- #32 To Save Humanity From Virus
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
To Save humanity From Virus is a building game where you are on a different planet trying to get resources to create a vaccine. The virus hit the earth and the only way to save humanity is to gather resources from the different planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 20.5%, RTS 17.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Minimalist 7%
- #33 Little Porp
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, City Builder 35.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Top-Down 8.8%, Building 6.2%
- #34 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
74% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18.5%, RTS 15%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #35 Founders' Fortune
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 42.1%, City Builder 23.3%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 7.5%, Survival 6.8%
- #36 Kingdoms and Castles
75% matchVery Positive94% of 31,238 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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 24.7%, City Builder 24%, RTS 14%, Sandbox 9.3%, Crafting 7.1%
- #37 Oikizo
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: L2N Game Studio
Windows
Oikizo is a city-building game. Start by placing your first building and a few citizens, then make your city prosper. The strength of Oikizo lies in the ability to manage a city cooperatively with your friends.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 24.7%, RTS 20.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 6.5%
- #38 Colonize
73% matchMostly Negative39% of 177 reviews2026
Dev: Rembrosoft
Windows
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Strategy 6.7%
- #39 Tokeis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 21.6%, RTS 15.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 9%
- #40 Koloni
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UnwareStudio
Windows
Koloni is a city-building strategy game that puts you in charge of a group of pioneers who have discovered a new land to colonize. However, you're not alone in your quest to settle on this uncharted territory, as other groups have their sights set on the same land.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, RTS 23%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 7.6%
- #41 Alpha Lyrae Discovery
74% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: xe2050Pub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
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 31.1%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, RTS 11.9%, Building 7.8%
- #42 Architects of Shangri-La
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 24%, RTS 18.7%, Building 8.2%, Strategy 7.7%
- #43 Catizens
71% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 22.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%
- #44 Above: Colonies of the Mist
71% 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 31.8%, City Builder 27.9%, Strategy 13%, Crafting 7.1%, Building 6.4%
- #45 Forgotten Vale
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 23.8%, RTS 14.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 7.8%
- #46 Latticefall: Zombie setting
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Artur Kasimov
Windows · Linux
Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 23%, RTS 16.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 10.4%
- #47 Iskarn
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iskarn
Windows
Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 23.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8%
- #48 Age After Age
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Farom Studio Ltd
Windows
Age After Age. Build a thriving settlement, shape society across multiple eras, and dominate a living world economy. Choose your path - classic history, Steampunk, Gothic, and more in a deep city-building strategy with evolving logistics, citizen classes, diplomacy, and research.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 26.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 5.6%
- #49 Bergfried
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quid Pro Games
Windows
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 26.5%, City Builder 22.5%, RTS 18.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #50 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive88% of 891 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 25.1%, City Builder 22.1%, RTS 13.8%, Sandbox 11%, Family Friendly 7%
- #51 Seeds of Resilience
70% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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 27.9%, City Builder 23.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 8.8%, Nature 8.7%
- #52 Night is Coming
67% matchMixed64% of 457 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
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 26.4%, RTS 20.8%, City Builder 18.1%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.9%
- #53 Gateworlds
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, RTS 15.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7%
- #54 Tap Craft
68% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 22.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Strategy 7%
- #55 Colony Survival
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,916 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 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 38.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 8.8%
- #56 Settlements Rising
66% matchVery Positive81% of 430 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 31.1%, City Builder 27.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #57 Settletopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 30.8%, City Builder 23.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #58 Desktop Town
66% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: EdelErde
Windows
Desktop Town is a relaxing idle city builder that runs directly on your desktop. Build and decorate your own tiny town, or watch your little citizens go about their day, while doing your usual tasks on the PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 25%, Sandbox 15.1%, Nature 10.2%, Building 7.9%