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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Colony Sim, City Builder.

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Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Coming soon
Developer: Purple X Studios
Genres: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% 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.

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  2. #2 Founders' Fortune
    96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
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    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    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 33.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

  3. #3 Ratopia
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 22.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Management 8.6%

  4. #4 Settlements Rising
    95% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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.

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  5. #5 Lil Guys
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

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  6. #6 Oxygen: First Breath
    94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7.9%

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    93% matchMixed58% of 195 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: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.9%

  8. #8 Beneath a Dead City
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonroof Studios
    Windows

    Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 13%, Management 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%

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    92% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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.

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  10. #10 Settlement Survival
    91% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    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 TFM: The First Men
    90% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

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  12. #12 Gnome Glen
    89% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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.

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  13. #13 Starship Colony
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

    A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.

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  14. #14 Pawnholm
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hugimugi
    Windows · Linux

    Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11%, Management 8.9%

  15. #15 Beyond These Stars
    86% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

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    86% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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.

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    85% 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.

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    84% 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’

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    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: rick
    Windows

    Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

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    83% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.7%

  21. #21 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.

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  22. #22 Survival Vacancy
    82% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

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    82% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.9%

  24. #24 Architect of Ruin
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.7%

  25. #25 CLOUD DWELLERS
    80% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
    Windows

    CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

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  26. #26 Terra-7
    79% 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.

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    78% 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 19%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 10%, Survival 8%

  28. #28 Oxygen Not Included
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

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    77% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
    Dev: Sonderlust Studios
    Windows

    Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.9%

  30. #30 Kingdoms and Castles
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

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  31. #31 WildRoot
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rahul Das
    Windows

    Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11%

  32. #32 Quriocity
    76% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
    Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
    Windows · Mac

    Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

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  33. #33 Lands of Koastalia
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Asaloda Games
    Windows

    Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.

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  34. #34 Nyric
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Lovelace Studio
    Windows

    Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.

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    76% 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.

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  36. #36 Isla Paradiso
    74% 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: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 24.1%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%

  37. #37 Edge Islands
    73% 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!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%

  38. #38 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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....

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  39. #39 Planetbase
    75% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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.

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    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
    Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
    Windows · Linux

    A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

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    72% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
    Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 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 24.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%

  42. #42 Pick Me Up
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
    Windows

    Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.4%

  43. #43 After the Collapse
    71% 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 25.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 10%, Sandbox 9.4%

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    70% 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: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.1%, Survival 7.7%

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    71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

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  46. #46 First Feudal
    71% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
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    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

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  47. #47 Gateworlds
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hydrarch
    Windows · Mac

    Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.

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    69% matchVery Positive81% of 77 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.

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    68% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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  50. #50 Endzone 2
    67% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

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    70% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
    Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 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.

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  52. #52 Gnomoria
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    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.

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    68% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
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    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!

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    69% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
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    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    68% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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  56. #56 Island Master
    67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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.

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    64% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
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    Windows
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    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

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    67% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

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