- #1 Citizens: Far Lands - Prologue
97% matchVery Positive88% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Build, strategize, and conquer with Citizens: Prologue - the free city-building and puzzler game for strategy masterminds! Extract resources, manage your population, and build the ultimate settlement. Ready to take on the challenge? Download now and discover the magic of Citizens: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 13.5%, Agriculture 11.6% ★, Time Management 8.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%
- #2 Urbek City Builder
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Agriculture 13.6% ★, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #3 Settlement Survival
96% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 23.1%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 10.6%, Agriculture 7.7% ★, Management 7.3%
- #4 Farlanders
95% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 12%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #5 Founders' Fortune
94% 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 34.8%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #6 Lords and Villeins
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 23.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Medieval 9.6%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #7 Patron
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Medieval 8.1%, Building 7.1%
- #8 First Feudal
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Medieval 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #9 ISLANDERS
91% matchVery Positive94% of 16,788 reviews2019
Dev: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 13.8%, Minimalist 12.8%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #10 Kingdoms and Castles
91% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 7.9%
- #11 Farthest Frontier
89% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Agriculture 14% ★, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #12 Folklands
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2026
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 25.6%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 11.4%, Economy 10.9%, Management 8%
- #13 Settlements Rising
89% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 23.8%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Medieval 9.1%, Building 8.3%
- #14 Settler's Domain
88% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 24.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Economy 9.8%, Medieval 8.5%
- #15 Dorfromantik
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,653 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Resource Management 12.1%, Minimalist 11.4%, Sandbox 11%
- #16 Orrstead
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 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: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.6%, Medieval 9.1%
- #17 Havendock
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 18.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Agriculture 15.3% ★, Time Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #18 Power to the People
84% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 13.4%, Economy 13.3%, Management 11.3%
- #19 Villagers
86% matchMixed54% of 391 reviews2016
Dev: bumblebee.Pub: Avanquest Software Publishing Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
Why similar: City Builder 55.8%, Medieval 16.4%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13.2%
- #20 Civitatem
85% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Medieval 12.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #21 Mini Settlers
82% matchVery Positive81% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 18.9%, Minimalist 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.9%
- #22 Foundation
79% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 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 32%, Medieval 11.4%, Colony Sim 11%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #23 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
83% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 29.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Medieval 8.2%, Building 6.8%
- #24 The Colonists
82% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Building 10.9%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #25 Factory Town
80% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 8.3%
- #26 Kubifaktorium
81% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 26.2%, City Builder 22.6%, Building 11.4%, Economy 10.4%, Management 8.2%
- #27 Seeds of Resilience
81% 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 24.8%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 9.4%
- #28 Of Life and Land
78% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 20.9%, City Builder 19%, Resource Management 10.4%, Medieval 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #29 Edge Islands
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 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 27.2%, City Builder 14%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 7.6%
- #30 Outlanders
77% matchVery Positive90% of 515 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 33.4%, Building 17.2%, Resource Management 16.9%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 7.3%
- #31 Blueprint Tycoon
79% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 8%
- #32 United Penguin Kingdom
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 26.6%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.2%
- #33 Banished
76% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, City Builder 30.8%, Sandbox 6.4%, Medieval 6.1%, Strategy 5.1%
- #34 Feudal Baron: King's Land
76% matchMixed40% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Resource Management 16.3%, Medieval 13.7%, Time Management 12%, Management 9.4%
- #35 Land of the Vikings
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,266 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 22.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #36 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 22.3%, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9%
- #37 Catizens
73% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 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 29.7%, City Builder 24.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.8%, Management 7.8%
- #38 Cardboard Town
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,329 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%
- #39 Hearthlands
75% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 24%, Medieval 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #40 Marble Age: Remastered
73% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #41 Synergy
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 21.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 10.8%, Building 9.9%
- #42 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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 25.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 12%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #43 SteamWorld Build
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 27%, Resource Management 15.1%, Economy 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #44 CLOUD DWELLERS
70% matchVery Positive86% of 92 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 33.9%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.7%, City Builder 7.9%
- #45 Moons of Ardan
72% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Pandora Technology
Windows
Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 20.5%, Agriculture 15.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #46 Paragon Pioneers
72% 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 27.8%, City Builder 23.2%, Building 12.2%, Medieval 11.4%, Economy 10.3%
- #47 Celestial Empire
68% matchVery Positive89% of 732 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11%, Economy 10.7%
- #48 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 21.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Medieval 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%
- #49 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
70% 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 32.8%, City Builder 28.5%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.9%
- #50 Scorchlands
68% matchVery Positive89% of 140 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 9.9%
- #51 City Tales - Medieval Era
66% matchVery Positive89% of 627 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 13.4%, Management 9.7%
- #52 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 10.5%, Economy 8%
- #53 City idle
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 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 39.9%, Building 13%, Economy 11.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%
- #54 Colonize
68% matchMostly Negative41% of 212 reviews2026
Dev: Rembrosoft
Windows
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 29.7%, Agriculture 13.7% ★, Medieval 8.9%, Strategy 7.1%
- #55 Town to City
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,135 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Economy 9.9%, Agriculture 8.5% ★
- #56 Kingdoms Reborn
67% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 31.8%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Medieval 7.7%, Management 7.5%
- #57 Ostriv
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Agriculture 9.5% ★, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 7.8%
- #58 Territory: Farming and Warfare
64% matchVery Positive85% of 766 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.8%
- #59 The Promised Land
69% matchVery Positive87% of 782 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Resource Management 6.7%, Time Management 5.9%