- #1 City Build Island
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xreemu
Windows
Collect resources, build structures, and develop a small island in this island-building simulation. As the overseer, you’ll grow your village while defending against invading enemies. Enjoy a unique experience that blends city-building and tower defense gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Strategy 10.7%
- #2 Terrarium Builder
96% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Farming Sim 13.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #3 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
95% 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: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.8%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #4 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 9%
- #5 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 26.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 6.3%
- #6 Aven Colony
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 36.3%, City Builder 34.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Base Building 8.1%
- #7 Biz Builder Delux
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Farming Sim 11.3%
- #8 Rise Against the Invaders
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.7%
- #9 My Colony
91% matchVery Positive90% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 42.8%, Colony Sim 37.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 1.3%
- #10 Banished
90% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 35%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 4.2%
- #11 Forest Camp Story
89% matchVery Positive85% of 238 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Farming Sim 11.4%
- #12 Arcane Shores
89% matchNo user reviews2027
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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 5.8%
- #13 Founders' Fortune
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 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 36.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #14 Gnomoria
87% 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 32.1%, City Builder 29.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%
- #15 Age of Pyramids
86% matchMostly Negative35% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Colony Sim 26%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Base Building 7.1%
- #16 Venture Towns
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 144 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Farming Sim 12%, Strategy 9.9%
- #17 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
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: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 11.8%
- #18 The Blighted Frontier
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 28.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #19 Catizens
84% 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 24.8%, City Builder 23.9%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #20 World Cruise Story
83% matchVery Positive90% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Casual 9.5%
- #21 Spruce
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vatt Labs
Windows · Linux
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Tower Defense 9%
- #22 Dawn of Man
82% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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 42.8%, Colony Sim 34.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6%, Survival 5.1%
- #23 Torp
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobblegoat
Windows · Linux
Torp is a viking age colony simulator where you guide a group of norsemen in their quest to build a peaceful and thriving settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Farming Sim 15.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Base Building 4.6%
- #24 Dream Town Island
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 549 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.6%
- #25 Outlands
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 4.4%
- #26 Fio and the Doomed City
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
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: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Simulation 8.1%
- #27 Rise to Ruins
79% matchVery Positive88% of 7,765 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 30.3%, City Builder 28.4%, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #28 Restikon Foundry
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WithFinity
Windows
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 33.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 7.4%, Survival 5.2%
- #29 Paleon
78% matchVery Positive81% of 424 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 38.6%, City Builder 24.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Survival 6%
- #30 Goblin Colony
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #31 Spirit & Stone
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Base Building 6.3%
- #32 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
77% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 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: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 36.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Building 4.2%
- #33 Kingdom III: Rising Realms
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 12%, Tower Defense 8.6%
- #34 Stonehearth
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 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 35.4%, City Builder 33.9%, Sandbox 7.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 6.6%
- #35 Keepshore
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: fp32.ai LLC
Windows
A calm 3D island town-builder spanning nine ages, from stone huts to electric streets. Raise workshops, wire production chains, work a living market, and grow a town that keeps producing while you're away. Settle a new island to advance the age — every shore you leave sends tribute home forever.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Casual 7.5%
- #36 Orc Colony
75% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 4.7%
- #37 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 27.4%, Farming Sim 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #38 Planetbase
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 32.9%, City Builder 31.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.9%
- #39 Devouring City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%
- #40 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 14.9%, Base Building 7.6%
- #41 SugarMill
74% matchMixed49% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.
Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 17.3%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #42 Sylox
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
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 35.1%, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #43 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 33%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 7.1%
- #44 Settlements Rising
70% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Simulation 8%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #45 Little Porp
71% 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: City Builder 39.5%, Colony Sim 34.5%, Strategy 14%, Casual 6.2%, Building 4.5%
- #46 Village & Monsters
71% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Ilya873Pub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 26.5%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Farming Sim 13.1%
- #47 Mountania
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 30.3%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 8%
- #48 Settlement Survival
69% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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: City Builder 34.8%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Base Building 6.2%
- #49 Isla Paradiso
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 29.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 8%
- #50 Boopie Island
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lord Drw Games
Windows
Build a cozy colony for your Boopies! Keep them happy with swings, flowers, and plenty of cozy surprises — and watch your little village grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 27.8%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 6.7%
- #51 BlockUrbs
69% matchPositive85% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
BlockUrbs is a small city builder game where you can place a variety of structures and roads on tiles to create tiny, detailed and beautiful city sections without worrying about any goals or scores.
Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Casual 9.1%, Building 7.7%
- #52 Colonus
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, City Builder 29.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 5.2%
- #53 Oxygen: First Breath
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #54 Surviving the Aftermath
68% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 34.5%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #55 Sovran's Crusade
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NewFireGames
Windows
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Tower Defense 11.3%, Simulation 10.5%
- #56 Mars Future
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STM GAMES
Windows
Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Simulation 15%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Strategy 12.8%
- #57 LowPolis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 7.7%, Simulation 6%
- #58 Peasants
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 30.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%
- #59 City and War
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Baicheng Zhang
Windows
City And War is a single-player strategy game combining city building, production management, and real-time warfare. Develop your population and industries, manufacture supplies and weapons, and command armies across battlefields and an expedition map.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Farming Sim 17.6%, Simulation 16.1%, Base Building 5.2%