- #1 Another Brick in The Mall
97% matchVery Positive83% of 2,431 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 19.9% ★, City Builder 14%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Automation 10%, Base Building 9.2%
- #2 Casino Resort Tower
96% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 22.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 11.1%, City Builder 10.3%, Capitalism 10.2%
- #3 SIM Chef: Restaurant management
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernardo Nunes PinheiroPub: Becaptain
Windows · Mac
SIM Chef is a restaurant management simulator. Build and decorate, manage employees, create hundreds of classic dishes and drinks, make decisions and become the number one in the world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 22.7% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Capitalism 10.4%, Automation 7.2%
- #4 Isla Paradiso
95% 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 26.3%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%
- #5 DigScape
94% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build, mine, and manage your own industrial zone in this relaxing 3D simulation game. Plan production, automate systems, and expand your operations step by step as you create a thriving environment.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Simulation 8.9%
- #6 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
94% 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 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 9%
- #7 Our Freedom: Prologue
93% 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 21.8%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 8.7%
- #8 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tec Enterprise
Windows
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 15.9%, 4X 10.4% ★, Economy 10.1%, Strategy 9.6%
- #9 The Blighted Frontier
91% 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 28.5%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 7.3%
- #10 Virum:Colony
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Economy 8.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #11 Prison Architect
91% matchVery Positive89% of 73,449 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 15%, Capitalism 8.5%, Strategy 8%
- #12 Oxygen: First Breath
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,655 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Economy 8.6%
- #13 GUILDMAKER
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LEONAN
Windows
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Shop Keeper 17.6% ★, Strategy 12.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Simulation 8.2%
- #14 Academia : School Simulator
88% matchVery Positive86% of 3,034 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Capitalism 12.4%, Economy 8.8%
- #15 Hexagge
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 27.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Economy 7.6%, Base Building 7.2%
- #16 Big Market Simulator
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mobaroid
Windows
Build and manage a massive supermarket. Order products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your business into the ultimate shopping destination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Capitalism 7.3%
- #17 Terra-7
85% 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 23.9%, Strategy 17.6%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Simulation 9.5%
- #18 Aven Colony
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,759 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 34.9%, City Builder 32%, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 5.3%
- #19 Fosoria
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 13.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Management 7.9%
- #20 Warehouse Bots
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 21.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Capitalism 9.5%, Automation 7.2%
- #21 Crowded Blue Dot
84% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 17%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #22 ARCWATT: Power Empire
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CODEUM GAMES
Windows
Plan, power, and protect a city that runs on the grid you build. Place producers, balance demand, survive storms and surges.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.8% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Automation 6.7%
- #23 T-Minus 30
82% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 7%
- #24 Sylox
81% 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 31.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 7.3%
- #25 Founders' Fortune
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,183 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 34.9%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 7.2%, Economy 4.6%
- #26 Arc of Icarus
80% 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 29.3%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #27 Island Master
79% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #28 Resort Galactica
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 7.6%
- #29 Resource chill
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Capitalism 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Automation 9.2%
- #30 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
78% matchVery Positive86% of 200 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 30.5%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #31 Deep Space Directive
77% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 17%, Economy 11.2%, Automation 8.4%
- #32 Food Store Simulator
76% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: mobaroid
Windows
Run your own food store! Buy products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your shop into a bigger business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 24% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.1%
- #33 Multiplayer Supermarket Simulator
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Supermarket Simulator
Windows
Run your own supermarket with your buddy! Set product categories/prices, handle checkout, hire staff, expand your store, source goods, grow & sell crops, build town relations, and become the town’s richest resident!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%
- #34 Windowed Realms
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 7.3%
- #35 Avian Colony
75% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 7.7%, Automation 6.8%
- #36 Kingdom Workshop
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Economy 10%
- #37 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
74% matchVery Positive89% of 632 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 9.2%, Management 7.7%
- #38 Passive Income
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReallyMushroom
Windows · Mac
Passive Income is an idle-ish simulator game where you can build houses, get upgrades, and gain money over time! Chill out and relax as you rip rent out of little cartoon people's pockets. Grow your passive income now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22.1%, Capitalism 11.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Economy 7.4%
- #39 Peasants
73% 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 28.6%, City Builder 26.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 5.9%
- #40 Fio and the Doomed City
73% 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: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #41 Above: Colonies of the Mist
72% 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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 6.5%, Economy 6.4%
- #42 Dungeon Overseer
74% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Economy 11.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #43 Greedy Little Kingdoms
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Strategy 10%, Automation 9.2%
- #44 Wild West Pioneers
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 21.1%, 4X 12.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Economy 8.3%
- #45 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
71% 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 26.8%, City Builder 26.2%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #46 Arcane Shores
70% 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 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Economy 10.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #47 Kingdoms Reborn
71% matchVery Positive91% of 9,636 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Economy 7.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #48 OBRII
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Strategy 17%, Base Building 13%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #49 Venusville
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #50 Rise Against the Invaders
69% 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 30.4%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 18%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 5.9%
- #51 The Archaeologists
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 15.1%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Simulation 9.3%
- #52 Revival and Exploration
68% matchMixed63% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: CMS GearPub: HONGKONG DELAN CO., LIMITED
Windows
Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.7% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Economy 7.6%
- #53 Winterreach Emporium
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Large Lads
Windows
Run your own fantasy ski shop in the frosty peaks of Winterreach. Stock magical gear, serve a variety of races, hire and manage staff, research upgrades, and adapt to festivals, shortages, and the shifting demands of a living, lore-rich world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 23.6% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Automation 10%, Strategy 9.2%
- #54 Kingdom Square
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mete İlhan
Windows
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 24.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #55 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 7.5%, Economy 7.3%
- #56 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 23.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 9.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #57 Captain of Industry
67% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Economy 10.3%
- #58 Skyline Settlers
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 28%, Strategy 14.4%, Economy 11.1%, Management 5.1%
- #59 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
65% matchPositive97% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, 4X 17.4% ★, Strategy 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 8.2%
- #60 Spirit & Stone
66% 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 27.5%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%