- #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 31.7%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%
- #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 26.5%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Simulation 16.7%, 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 27%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #4 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,364 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.5 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 34.6%, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Casual 6.3%
- #5 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 32.1%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 9.1%
- #6 Aven Colony
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 36.6%, City Builder 34.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.2%, Base Building 8.1%
- #7 Biz Builder Delux
92% matchPositive83% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Farming Sim 11.3%
- #8 My Colony
91% matchVery Positive90% of 265 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Colony Sim 37.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Indie 1.3%
- #9 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 31.7%, Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 8.8%
- #10 Banished
90% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 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: City Builder 37.6%, Colony Sim 35.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 8%, Survival 4.1%
- #11 Forest Camp Story
89% matchVery Positive84% of 220 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 12%, Farming Sim 11.4%
- #12 Arcane Shores
89% 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: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 29.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Building 5.8%
- #13 Founders' Fortune
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 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 37.2%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6%
- #14 Gnomoria
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 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 32.3%, City Builder 29.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #15 Age of Pyramids
86% matchMostly Negative35% of 87 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 36.1%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Base Building 7.1%
- #16 Venture Towns
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Farming Sim 12%, Strategy 10%
- #17 Our Freedom: 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 25.4%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Base Building 11.8%
- #18 Catizens
84% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 25%, City Builder 23.6%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Simulation 7%
- #19 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 32.5%, City Builder 28%, Simulation 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.8%
- #20 World Cruise Story
83% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 21.8%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Casual 9.4%
- #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 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Tower Defense 9%
- #22 Dawn of Man
82% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 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 42.4%, Colony Sim 34.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 6.1%, Survival 5%
- #23 Rise to Ruins
81% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.7 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 30.4%, City Builder 28.1%, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 7%
- #24 Outlands
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 28%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Base Building 4.4%
- #25 Dream Town Island
80% matchVery Positive96% of 460 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #26 Torp
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goat Head Studios
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%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Farming Sim 15.3%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 4.6%
- #27 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 30.8%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%
- #28 Paleon
78% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 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 38.7%, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 6%
- #29 Spirit & Stone
78% 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 6.3%
- #30 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
77% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 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%, Colony Sim 37%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Building 4.1%
- #31 Stonehearth
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 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 35.7%, City Builder 33.5%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 6.6%
- #32 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
75% 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 29.7%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 15%, Base Building 7.6%
- #33 Orc Colony
76% matchMixed60% of 42 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 40.7%, City Builder 17%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 4.7%
- #34 Planetbase
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 33.2%, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5%
- #35 Settlements Rising
73% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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 29.3%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Simulation 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #36 Sylox
74% 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 35.3%, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #37 Village & Monsters
74% 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 28.2%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 14%, Farming Sim 13%
- #38 Little Porp
73% 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 39.1%, Colony Sim 34.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Casual 6.2%, Building 4.5%
- #39 SugarMill
75% matchMixed49% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 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 39.3%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #40 BlockUrbs
72% matchPositive84% 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 45.1%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 13%, Casual 9.1%, Building 7.7%
- #41 Surviving the Aftermath
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 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 33.8%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #42 Arc of Icarus
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 28.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #43 Isla Paradiso
71% 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 32.8%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.7%, Base Building 8%
- #44 Mars Future
71% 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%, Colony Sim 26.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Strategy 12.9%
- #45 Colonus
71% 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 35.6%, City Builder 29.4%, Simulation 19.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 5.2%
- #46 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 28.3%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #47 Peasants
70% 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 32.2%, City Builder 30.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%
- #48 LowPolis
70% 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 36.9%, Colony Sim 28%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 7.6%, Simulation 6.1%
- #49 Edge Islands
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 30.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.7%
- #50 Lost Heaven Station
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 9.2%
- #51 NOVA ATLANTIS
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Colony Sim 35.2%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #52 Dream Park Story
68% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 22.7%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 14%, Casual 8%
- #53 Settletopia
68% 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 28.5%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #54 Terra-7
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 15.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #55 Colony Simulator
68% 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: City Builder 37.5%, Colony Sim 33.2%, Simulation 18.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Indie 0.7%
- #56 Mound Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVA Devs
Windows
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Colony Sim 31.5%, Strategy 15.8%, Base Building 6.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #57 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Colony Sim 32.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Base Building 7.9%, Building 5.5%
- #58 Compact Colonies
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 9%, Base Building 6.5%
- #59 The Population Must Grow
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 32.3%, Simulation 18.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 5.4%