- #1 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
96% matchMixed52% of 1,856 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Why similar: Mars 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, 3D Vision 13.1% ★, Base Building 6.8%
- #2 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #3 Reshaping Mars
95% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Mars 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.8%, City Builder 7.7%
- #4 My Colony
94% 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 45% ★, City Builder 40.6%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 7.1%
- #5 PlanetX
94% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.5%, War 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 6.6%
- #6 Farlanders
93% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 30.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 8.8%
- #7 Occupy Mars: The Game
92% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.7%
- #8 Per Aspera
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Mars 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.8%
- #9 AColony
91% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Trading 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.7%
- #10 Aven Colony
90% 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 41.1% ★, City Builder 31.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5.3%
- #11 Colony Simulator
89% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Crafting 9.4%
- #12 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Mars 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.6%
- #13 Project Entropy
89% matchMixed52% of 220 reviews2024
Dev: FunPlus International AG
Windows
Welcome, commander, to Project Entropy- an ultimate Sci-Fi and role-playing game with battles in space. In this immersive MMO experience, you will command alien civilizations, conquer uncharted planets, and build Hero fleets.
Why similar: Base Building 40.1%, PvP 21.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Multiplayer 7%
- #14 Sim Companies
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 998 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Become a Business Tycoon. Build your own company from the ground up. Do business in a virtual economy with players all around the world! Gain valuable business skills for free. An advanced, proprietary, Economy simulation model is used to deliver the best gaming experience.
Why similar: Trading 29% ★, Building 18.1%, Crafting 17.3%, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #15 The Colonists
86% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 12%, Building 12%, PvP 7.1%
- #16 Primitive Society Simulator
84% matchVery Positive83% of 687 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, War 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Trading 11.7% ★
- #17 Colony On Mars
87% matchMostly Negative25% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%
You play as an astronaut in a colony on Mars and you need to upgrade your colony, build new constructions and collect resources
Why similar: Base Building 63.9%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 17.1%
- #18 The Settlers: New Allies
85% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #19 MiniState
84% matchMixed60% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Nalu Zou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wage war, trade, and build alliances to build the greatest nation the world will ever know.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 74.7%, Strategy 25.3%
- #20 Planetbase
82% 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 33.6% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 7.8%, Building 5.8%
- #21 Sol 0: Mars Colonization
83% matchMixed69% of 409 reviews2016
Dev: Chondrite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Why similar: Mars 52.5% ★, Base Building 22.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 10.7%
- #22 Surviving the Aftermath
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #23 Mars Colonization
81% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2023
Windows
The time has finally come when we can enjoy a new stage in human development!
Why similar: Mars 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Strategy 11.1%, City Builder 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%
- #24 Galaxy Life
79% matchVery Positive92% of 8,424 reviews2022
Dev: Phoenix Network
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
The universe is full of Starlings, tiny orange aliens that want to take over the galaxy. Create your own space colony, fight epic battles and discover new planets. Train your soldiers, develop your technology and create unimaginable gadgets. Enjoy this huge social game with friends!
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Base Building 16.1%, Tactical 11.6%, Cartoony 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #25 Settlement Survival
78% 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 28.6% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #26 Blacksmith Master
77% 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 28.5% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.8%, Survival 8.2%
- #27 One More Island
80% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Trading 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.9%
- #28 Earth Space Colonies
82% matchMixed50% of 167 reviews2016
Dev: Persona and Pixel studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Earth Space Colonies is a strategy-simulation game where you build space colonies around the Solar system. Establish a first self-sustaining colony on the Red planet with ultimate goal of terraforming Mars. Play three story campaigns all at once: terraform Mars, fight on Ceres and explore Ganymede.
Why similar: City Builder 44.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 18.4%, Survival 18.2%
- #29 Land of the Vikings
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 23%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10%, Survival 7.5%
- #30 Offworld Trading Company
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,669 reviews2016
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.9%, PvP 10.4%, Survival 6.5%
- #31 Exogate Initiative
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.6%, Tactical 10.1%
- #32 Russian Village Simulator on Mars
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: VD Games
Windows
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
Why similar: Base Building 37%, Crafting 26%, Survival 14.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Exploration 9.1%
- #33 Surviving Ceres
76% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 14%, Survival 10.1%
- #34 Project Rebearth
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 154 reviews2026
Dev: Program Sam
Windows · Mac · Linux
A massive online multiplayer where everyone plays on an exact replica of planet earth. The game is set 1000 years into the future where you rebuild society. Grow your town, trade with other players, face challenges and discover the rich history of this suspiciously empty planet.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.5%, Trading 10% ★, Strategy 9.8%
- #35 Solargene
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Mars 19.4% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.3%
- #36 Farlanders: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.7%
- #37 Colony Survival
74% 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 34.6% ★, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Survival 9.4%
- #38 Industries of Titan
74% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.3%, Tactical 9.7%
- #39 Meeple Station
75% matchMixed57% of 941 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 13.3%, Survival 8.2%
- #40 Catizens
72% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 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 26.9% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
- #41 Planet S
71% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Building 21.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%, 3D 5.7%
- #42 Astro Colony
71% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #43 Operation: New Earth
73% matchMixed61% of 819 reviews2016
Dev: Hunted Cow Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Operation: New Earth is an intense sci-fi multiplayer strategy game in which you must command an advanced military facility to defend Earth from a hostile alien invasion. Create an alliance, gather resources, and unlock advanced technology to level up your stronghold!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 47.1%, Strategy 20.6%, Tactical 11.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Multiplayer 7%
- #44 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
68% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.7%
- #45 Planetiles
70% matchVery Positive84% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: MythicOwl
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into Planetiles, where strategy and creativity converge. Build and transform barren planets into flourishing worlds. Outwit natural disasters, develop vibrant habitats, and navigate complex challenges. Embrace a boardgame-like depth with thoughtful planning and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Mars 40.4% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #46 War Planet Online: Global Conquest
72% matchMixed63% of 961 reviews2017
Dev: Gameloft
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Build your army, dominate your region and lead your alliance to conquer the globe!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 20.6%, War 18.5%, Building 15%, Tactical 13.4%, PvP 11.3%
- #47 Epic Astro Story
70% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8% ★, City Builder 31%, Simulation 10.8%, Exploration 5.8%, Building 4.1%
- #48 Nova Empire
71% matchMixed53% of 283 reviews2022
Dev: Gamebear Tech
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Build up a Space Empire and establish control of the Galaxy and the Universe! Nova Empire is a multiplayer space game in which the aim is to build your empire and conquer the galaxy in epic space battles against your rivals with other allies worldwide!
Why similar: Base Building 27.2%, PvP 24%, Strategy 18%, Exploration 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%
- #49 Battlesmiths: Blade and Forge
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 481 reviews2025
Dev: Ragnarocket
Windows · Mac · Linux
Craft. Battle. Grow. Join thousands of players in the ultimate tactical RPG where every piece of gear is forged by you — and every fight tests your strategy.
Why similar: Trading 30.2% ★, War 21.2%, Crafting 19.5%, Tactical 16.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #50 Lords and Villeins
68% 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 36.4% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Strategy 7%
- #51 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Mars 30.3% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%
- #52 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
69% 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 33.1% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #53 Whiskerwood
64% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.5%, Survival 7.9%
- #54 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
67% matchMixed63% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #55 Mountaincore
66% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%
- #56 Settlements Rising
65% 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 30.9% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #57 Mars Colony:Challenger
70% matchMixed65% of 119 reviews2014
Dev: HyperKat Games
Windows
Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars. At its core, the game was derived from a simulator where everything is interactively tied together.
Why similar: Mars 65.6% ★, Simulation 27.2%, Survival 7.1%
- #58 Going Medieval
61% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #59 Stronghold Kingdoms
69% matchMixed64% of 9,483 reviews2012
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, War 11.5%, Base Building 10%