- #1 Havendock
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,915 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 14.6%, Farming Sim 13%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #2 Cat Cafe Manager
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,151 reviews2022
Dev: Roost GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!
Why similar: Cats 20.6%, Building 19.8%, Management 16.4%, Life Sim 16.4%, Strategy 8.9%
- #3 Flotsam
95% matchVery Positive81% of 4,433 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 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 21.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%
- #4 Founders' Fortune
96% 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 32.7%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #5 Cattails: Wildwood Story
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,879 reviews2023
Dev: Falcon Development
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Farming Sim 18.1%, City Builder 18%, Cats 13.1%, Life Sim 9.7%
- #6 Stonehearth
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,032 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 32%, City Builder 23.7%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7.7%
- #7 Calico
93% matchVery Positive87% of 4,997 reviews2020
Dev: Peachy Keen GamesPub: Whitethorn Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!
Why similar: Cats 28.5%, Building 15.1%, Life Sim 14.3%, Character Customization 13%, Cute 9.5%
- #8 The Wandering Village
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,256 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 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?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 19.6%, Farming Sim 11.8%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #9 AColony
92% matchVery Positive89% of 136 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 23.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #10 The Colonists
91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,228 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%
- #11 Settlement Survival
90% matchVery Positive86% of 7,950 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.9 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: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 22.6%, Building 12%, Survival 8.5%, Management 7.8%
- #12 CLOUD DWELLERS
89% matchVery Positive91% of 77 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 11%, City Builder 7.5%
- #13 Outlanders
89% matchVery Positive90% of 494 reviews2023
Dev: Pomelo Games
Windows
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Building 20.4%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.1%
- #14 Minami Lane
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,535 reviews2024
Dev: BlibloopPub: Doot Tiny Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Cats 13.6%, Life Sim 13.3%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.8%
- #15 Diluvian Winds
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 386 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.0 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 23.8%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.8%
- #16 Fabledom
86% matchVery Positive85% of 7,602 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 7.7%
- #17 Ratopia
85% matchVery Positive88% of 4,710 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 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 24.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #18 United Penguin Kingdom
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 442 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 20%, Survival 11.9%, Management 11.2%, Building 9.7%
- #19 Learning Factory
84% matchVery Positive86% of 516 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Cats 15%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 12.2%
- #20 Critter Cove
83% matchVery Positive95% of 1,888 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Farming Sim 19.5%, Cats 13.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Life Sim 10.3%
- #21 MewnBase
82% matchVery Positive93% of 1,439 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 14.6%, Survival 11.9%
- #22 Odd Realm
81% matchVery Positive85% of 1,005 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #23 Embark
84% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 7.2%
- #24 Cattails | Become a Cat!
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,678 reviews2017
Dev: Falcon Development
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Become a cat! Cattails is a unique animal simulation RPG. Hunt for food, fight invading cats, explore to gather herbs, and socialize with other cats in an expansive open world. Get married and raise a family of kittens, befriend your neighbors, and learn to live in the dangerous wilderness!
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.5%, Cats 22.2%, Life Sim 16.3%, Character Customization 11.2%, Survival 10.5%
- #25 Little Kitty, Big City
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 13,525 reviews2024
Dev: Double Dagger Studio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
Why similar: Cats 37.5%, Sandbox 23.7%, Cute 9.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Exploration 8.4%
- #26 Settlements Rising
81% matchVery Positive81% of 428 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: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #27 Surviving Ceres
79% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Farming Sim 14.3%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #28 Dream Town Island
78% matchVery Positive96% of 490 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Farming Sim 15.4%, Life Sim 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #29 Citizens: Far Lands
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: RedKar DevsPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 24%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Management 8.1%
- #30 Cavern Adventurers
78% matchMixed65% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 27.4%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 7.4%
- #31 Pathless Woods
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,107 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 16.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #32 Autonauts
77% matchVery Positive90% of 4,938 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.3%, Crafting 9%
- #33 Pan'orama
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,344 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 15%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #34 SteamWorld Build
75% matchVery Positive84% of 2,187 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%
- #35 PurrPlate
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2026
Dev: LeankomGames
Windows
In this sunlit feline paradise, become the owner of a one-of-a-kind restaurant designed with your dream "Purr Plate"! Team up with over 100+ quirky cat staffers--from paw-kneading bakers to servers tumbling adorably over their own tails--to create your purrfect woodland café!
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Cats 19.5%, Farming Sim 19.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 6%
- #36 Mistward
75% matchMixed62% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 6.7%, Survival 6.5%
- #37 Lords and Villeins
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 970 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9.5%
- #38 Of Life and Land
73% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #39 Kittens Game
72% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Nuclear Unicorn
Windows · Linux
Kittens Game is game where you manage a village of kittens as they acquire resources and unlock new technologies. Build the ultimate civilization and bring them to the space!
Why similar: Strategy 38%, Building 30.2%, Crafting 23.2%, Casual 8.5%
- #40 Whiskerwood
71% matchVery Positive93% of 3,112 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 19%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #41 Desktop Cat Cafe
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: samyamPub: Zippyzappy Games
Windows
Build your dream cat cafe in this tiny cozy management sim that lives at the bottom of your screen! Unlock exciting new recipes, decorate your space with our wide variety of goodies, and watch cute cat helpers take care of the cafe while you're doing other things.
Why similar: Cats 19.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 14.2%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #42 Kubifaktorium
74% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #43 Cat Simulator: Meow
72% matchMixed62% of 227 reviews2026
Dev: Cat Studio
Windows
To be a cat, to be a free cat.
Why similar: Cats 17.2%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Life Sim 12.1%
- #44 Cat Colony Crisis
73% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: Devil's Cider Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are tasked with helping a colony ship full of space-faring cats deal with a mysterious disease outbreak! Will you act fast and stop the spread of this disease or will it spread unchecked and ravage your Cat Colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Cats 25.5%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 6.8%, Cute 4.6%
- #45 RimWorld
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 241,365 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 60.2 hrsMean: 264.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #46 City idle
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 222 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Building 13%, Crafting 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.7%
- #47 Nekokami - The Human Restoration Project
68% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: Rocket-in-Bottle
Windows
Start an epic world-building adventure with Nekokami! Architect beautiful, peaceful worlds in a far-future universe ruled by Cats. Befriend wondrous yet whimsical spirits of nature. Restore and manage extinct Humans. With Cats in charge, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Why similar: Cats 27%, Building 24.5%, Life Sim 22.1%, Cute 10.1%, Colorful 8.1%
- #48 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 31.1%, City Builder 24.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%
- #49 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 10,816 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 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 24.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #50 Paragon Pioneers
70% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 9.4%
- #51 Timberborn
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,121 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 20.5%, Farming Sim 12.1%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #52 The Universim
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,579 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 22.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #53 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 827 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Survival 7.8%
- #54 Goblins of Elderstone
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 402 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #55 Synergy
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,052 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.9 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: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #56 Bean Meets Paw
65% matchVery Positive95% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: XINGXIAN NET
Windows
Build your dream cat café! Design cozy spaces with cute furniture, bake cat-themed treats, and hire fluffy staff (baristas, bakers, cashiers). Grow from a small shop to a feline empire by unlocking bakery equipment and decorations. Attract unique cats to be your café's star attraction!
Why similar: Crafting 27.3%, Life Sim 24.2%, Management 21.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Cute 8.3%
- #57 World Turtles
68% matchMixed67% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Re: cOg Mission
Windows · Mac · Linux
The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 27.8%, Management 8.6%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #58 Time to Morp
66% matchVery Positive83% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: Team HalfBeardPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Farming Sim 15.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #59 Capybara Spa
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,670 reviews2022
Dev: Cozy Bee Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own capybara spa in this relaxing point and click simulation game! Grow fruits, craft soaps and clean towels to pamper the capybaras during their visit. Furnish the mountain with gardens, baths and decorations to design the best capybara spa!
Why similar: Farming Sim 25.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 13.3%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 8.7%
- #60 Echoes of the Plum Grove
65% matchVery Positive88% of 3,091 reviews2024
Dev: Unwound GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.9%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Life Sim 11.9%, Management 10.8%