- #1 Prison Architect
97% matchVery Positive89% of 73,643 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 15.1%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.8%, Management 10.4%, Building 10%
- #2 Hotel Magnate
96% matchMixed59% of 489 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: City Builder 14%, Management 12.2%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #3 Resort Galactica
96% 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 15.9%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #4 Terra-7
95% 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 17%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Simulation 8.9%
- #5 Orrstead
94% matchVery Positive80% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #6 Office Management 101
94% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 11.3%, Capitalism 10.8%, Isometric 9.8%
- #7 Isla Paradiso
93% 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 20%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%
- #8 Oxygen: First Breath
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 8.9%, Building 8.6%
- #9 WildRoot
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 11.2%, Cozy 10%
- #10 Our Freedom: Prologue
91% 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: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 8.8%
- #11 Uber Urban
90% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: J.F
Windows · Mac
Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Isometric 10.6%
- #12 Diluvian Winds
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 388 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #13 Academia : School Simulator
89% matchVery Positive86% of 3,059 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 15%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.5%, Capitalism 10%
- #14 Justice Project
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hopeful Pixels
Windows · Mac
A tycoon game where you build and manage a courthouse. From small-town traffic courts to high-profile criminal cases you are the one in control. Build your courthouse, hire and manage staff, schedule cases and balance the pressures of efficiency and reputation.
Why similar: Management 14.5%, Base Building 13%, Capitalism 12.3%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #15 Dungeon Overseer
88% 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 17.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.3%
- #16 Exoplanet Outpost
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.3%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Isometric 9.6%, Capitalism 8.8%
- #17 Shopping Center Tycoon
86% matchPositive80% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 17.9%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.3%
- #18 Mars Attracts
84% matchVery Positive91% of 257 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: City Builder 13.3%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.5%, Building 8.9%
- #19 Model City
85% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: GTGD
Windows · Mac
Shape a peaceful medieval town beside winding rivers. Lay roads, zone homes, farms, workshops and markets, then watch them grow as you balance demand, services, resources and land value. A relaxing pixel-art city builder with no combat, fail states or imposed objectives.
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Cozy 10.6%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #20 Founders' Fortune
84% 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 26.2%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #21 Festival Tycoon 🎪
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Capitalism 9.8%, Isometric 9.4%, Management 9.4%
- #22 Farmman
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.8%
- #23 Crowded Blue Dot
82% matchMixed59% of 53 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 20.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #24 Egypt
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Management 11.5%, Building 9.6%
- #25 Fosoria
80% 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 24.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 13.1%, City Builder 10.5%, Isometric 7.6%
- #26 Crowncity
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.2%, Economy 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #27 Settlement Survival
78% matchVery Positive85% of 8,017 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 22%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Management 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #28 Food Park Manager
78% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Drix Dev
Windows
Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Cozy 12.2%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 9.6%
- #29 Power of the Ancients
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Cortex Code
Windows · Linux
A mostly peaceful pixely isometric city builder with a bit of magic. Four different people live in the four quadrants of the pyramid. Fishermen, farmers, fire people, magicians. Gather resources, build homes, challenge demons and create a thriving city while preparing for winter.
Why similar: City Builder 14.8%, Isometric 14.2%, Building 12%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #30 Camplandia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OddBall Interactive
Windows
Build and manage a thriving summer camp. Provide your campers with a place to catch fish, kayak, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. Will you create the ultimate summer camp? Or will your reputation as camp director plummet from a bunch of unhappy campers?
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #31 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
77% 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 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Isometric 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%
- #32 Bobbitz
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Indie Katana
Windows
A cozy underground colony sim where nothing can ever go wrong. You never dig, you give the orders, and the Bobbitz do the rest. Carve a home out of the dark, raise a town of little burrowers, and light the deep together. No death, no fail states. Dig at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 13.1%, Cozy 12.3%, Wholesome 9.5% ★
- #33 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,803 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.7%
- #34 Nightlife Tycoon
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Management 14.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 12%, Capitalism 10.4%, Economy 9.8%
- #35 Quartermaster
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quartermaster Team
Windows
Quartermaster is a management strategy simulation in which you will build a top-secret agency to prepare elite spies for their missions! Research high-tech spy gadgets and run specialized training programs. Manage your staff and stay alert for double agents looking to sabotage your operation.
Why similar: Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Management 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #36 Mall Craze
75% matchMixed54% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Milan Timčenko
Windows
Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!
Why similar: City Builder 14.2%, Management 13.5%, Capitalism 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #37 Havenstead
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Cozy 14.7%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%
- #38 Chronocracy
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RegolitePub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Build a unique civilization in a flat world! Explore, extract resources, expand, and battle enemies. Use your time management skills to fend off attacks and face a mysterious threat. Are you ready to create a world that can survive?
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #39 Settlements Rising
72% matchVery Positive81% of 432 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 19.4%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.6%, Building 8.9%
- #40 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 899 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #41 Folklands
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 10.2%, Isometric 9.9%
- #42 Super Company
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Dawn Studio
Windows
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 12%, Management 12%, Capitalism 11.9%
- #43 Datacenter Simulator
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jelle
Windows
A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.
Why similar: Management 15.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Capitalism 14.3%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.7%
- #44 Seeds of Resilience
73% 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 17.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.4%
- #45 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
71% 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 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 10.2%, Building 10%
- #46 All Roads Connected
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.5%
- #47 Mistpaw Ravine
69% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 14%, Cozy 13%, Management 11.5%, Building 10.6%
- #48 School Owner
71% matchMostly Negative23% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
Why similar: City Builder 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Isometric 10%
- #49 Radia Island
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Synergy
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,079 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 14.2%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 11%, Isometric 10.1%, Management 9%
- #51 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,342 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 12.6%, Capitalism 11.8%, Building 10.2%
- #52 Filmmaker Tycoon
69% matchMostly Negative26% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Aternis Level 0Pub: Aternis Interactive
Windows
Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.
Why similar: Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.8%, Isometric 10.7%, City Builder 10.3%
- #53 Pixel Colony
68% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 8.1%, Base Building 7%
- #54 Gnome Glen
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.7%
- #55 Make Your Kingdom
69% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.3%
- #56 Settletopia
67% 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 19.4%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 16%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #57 Foundation
65% matchVery Positive87% of 24,026 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.0 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 29.3%, Management 9.5%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.8%
- #58 Bonanza Burger
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dawg Patch Games
Windows
Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 11%, Capitalism 10.4%, Building 9.4%
- #59 SimCasino
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 757 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.4%, Capitalism 11.8%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%