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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, City Builder, Resource Management, Survival.

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Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Reviews: Mixed — 56% — of 820 reviews
Released: 2019-08-30
Developer: Devs on a Boat
Genres: Indie, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 1.4 hrs
Mean playtime: 4.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 58%

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    97% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
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    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Survival 6.8%

  2. #2 Aquatico
    96% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
    Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Strategy 6.9%

  3. #3 Space Haven
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%

  4. #4 Surviving the Aftermath
    95% 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: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%

  5. #5 New Cycle
    94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Survival 7.5%

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    94% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    93% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Strategy 8%, Base Building 7.3%, Resource Management 6%

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    91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

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    92% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
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  10. #10 Settlement Survival
    90% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
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    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.

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  11. #11 Kingdoms and Castles
    89% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  12. #12 Ratopia
    87% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    88% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

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  14. #14 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    89% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
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    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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    86% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    84% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    Windows
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    80% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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  29. #29 Stonehearth
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    Windows
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    78% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
    Dev: Thunder Devs.
    Windows
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    75% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
    Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    75% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
    Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
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    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
    Dev: yevhen8
    Windows
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    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
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    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%, Survival 6.7%

  36. #36 Aven Colony
    77% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    74% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    74% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
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    72% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
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    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 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!

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    73% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
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    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
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    70% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
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    66% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
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    73% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
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    69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
    Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
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    68% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
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    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 36.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 7.1%, RTS 7.1%

  53. #53 Humanica
    66% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
    Windows

    Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 25%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 6.6%

  54. #54 Frostpunk 2
    66% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

    Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

  55. #55 Sapiens
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 7%, Strategy 4.9%

  56. #56 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    70% 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 47.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 6.2%

  57. #57 After the Collapse
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13%, Survival 7.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

  58. #58 My Colony
    69% 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 53.4%, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Indie 2.9%, Simulation 2.8%

  59. #59 AColony
    67% 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 44.7%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 5.4%

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