- #1 Fio and the Doomed City
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #2 Spruce
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vatt Labs
Windows · Linux
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.6%, Simulation 9.6%
- #3 Terrarium Builder
96% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Simulation 18%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Relaxing 7.6%
- #4 Rise to Ruins
95% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Tower Defense 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Strategy 8%, Simulation 5.9%
- #5 Age of Pyramids
94% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #6 Banished
94% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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: City Builder 42.6%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #7 My Colony
93% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 48.2%, Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.2%
- #8 SugarMill
92% matchMixed50% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.
Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 20%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Sandbox 5.1%
- #9 Dubai Builder
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Tower Defense 12.8%, Simulation 11.2%
- #10 Bloons Monkey City
90% matchVery Positive91% of 6,589 reviews2020
Dev: Ninja Kiwi
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!
Why similar: City Builder 44.2%, Tower Defense 36.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #11 NOVA ATLANTIS
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Simulation 21%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #12 Village & Monsters
89% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Ilya873Pub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Farming Sim 14.5%
- #13 Forest Camp Story
88% matchVery Positive84% of 217 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Simulation 17%, Strategy 14.7%, Farming Sim 13.5%
- #14 Sylox
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Tower Defense 24.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #15 Square Mining Builder
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: codegamerstudio
Windows
Build a village inside the mine of your dreams! Collect resources, catalog up to 200 different rare ores, manage your villagers and face random events, all in a procedural map with cozy pixel art!
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Tower Defense 21.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Farming Sim 13.1%
- #16 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 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: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 16.2%, Sandbox 3.4%
- #17 Biz Builder Delux
85% matchPositive83% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 15.1%, Farming Sim 13.8%
- #18 NuTREEnts
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goose Machine
Windows
NuTREEnts is a casual tower defense game about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, City Builder 31.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 6%
- #19 City Life 2008
84% matchVery Positive81% of 244 reviews2008
Dev: Monte CristoPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
Why similar: City Builder 53.5%, Simulation 23.8%, Strategy 22.8%
- #20 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
83% 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: City Builder 32.9%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #21 Town Tower
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Humbertronics Arts
Windows · Linux
A strategic tower defense game where management is key. Build houses to generate villagers, gather resources, and erect an impenetrable defense. Withstand increasingly powerful waves of enemies and prevent them from destroying your tower.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Tower Defense 27.5%, Strategy 20.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #22 Villager comes alive
82% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Marcel GloerfeldPub: 255pixel Studios
Windows
building up you own village and defend it
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Tower Defense 20.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #23 Numbers & Nodes
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Strategy 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Simulation 15%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #24 Dream Town Island
80% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Farming Sim 16.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.7%
- #25 新城镇
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: 初稿
Windows
这是一个休闲放置类的城市模拟游戏,玩家可以通过人口增长和发展经济来建造更多的建筑,在游戏中体验从小乡镇发展成为大城市的过程。
Why similar: City Builder 49.2%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 18.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #26 Settlements Rising
79% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Tower Defense 11.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%
- #27 Dawn of Man
79% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 49.5%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #28 City Builder Pro
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #29 Colonus
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A cozy medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Simulation 20.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #30 Alien Land
77% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.8%
- #31 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
77% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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: City Builder 45%, Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #32 Demon Castle Story
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Tower Defense 22.8%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 14%
- #33 Mars Future
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STM GAMES
Windows
Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Farming Sim 15.2%
- #34 Alpha Lyrae Discovery
76% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: xe2050Pub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #35 Kingdoms and Castles
75% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #36 Cities XL Platinum
76% matchMixed58% of 1,631 reviews2013
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...
Why similar: City Builder 60.9%, Simulation 21.3%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #37 Treetopians
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #38 Aven Colony
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Colony Sim 32% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 2%
- #39 SPQR:Shadows of The Legion
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1k1 studios
Windows
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Tower Defense 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 10.9%
- #40 Luckitown
72% matchVery Positive84% of 262 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.3%, City Builder 31.6%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #41 Venture Towns
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Farming Sim 14.9%, Strategy 12.9%
- #42 Forebearers
73% matchMixed48% of 109 reviews2019
Dev: Sandspire Interactive
Windows
This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 62.1%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 18.5%
- #43 Beware of Light
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Strategy 22.8%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #44 Hexity
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 16.6%, Relaxing 4.8%
- #45 Mr.Knight
71% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PixelsjoyPub: DIanku
Windows
Whenever night comes, there will be many monsters in the quiet woods. Our Knights need to build strong defense measures to protect the princess from being taken away by monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Tower Defense 32.2%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #46 Children of the Nile: Alexandria
72% matchVery Positive84% of 163 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Children of the Nile: Alexandria is an addition to the base Children of the Nile game, adding a new mini-campaign focused on the rise of the city of Alexandria. Using the unique city-building dynamics of Children of the Nile, you will carve out a new dynasty to rule all of Egypt, and build the greatest city of the ancient world!
Why similar: City Builder 53.8%, Simulation 23.2%, Strategy 17.4%, Sandbox 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #47 Foundation
67% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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 51.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Colony Sim 10.4% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #48 Outlands
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 17%, Resource Management 2.6%
- #49 Spirit & Stone
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Simulation 19%, Strategy 17.2%, Resource Management 3.4%
- #50 SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited
67% matchVery Positive85% of 706 reviews2024
Dev: MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 32%
SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!
Why similar: City Builder 55.7%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 19.2%, Singleplayer 1%
- #51 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 10.1%
- #52 Orc Colony
70% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Sandbox 5.4%
- #53 Distant Kingdoms
69% matchMixed44% of 303 reviews2021
Dev: Orthrus Studios
Windows
A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.
Why similar: City Builder 64.5%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 16.6%
- #54 Gnomoria
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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.
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 10.4%
- #55 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
68% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #56 Pixel Colony
66% matchPositive95% of 39 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 38.6%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Relaxing 9.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.4%
- #57 Town of Honor
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Craftsoft
Windows
“Town of Honor” is a town-building simulation game with roguelike elements set in a remote rural town. As mayor, you must construct buildings, produce and process resources, keep residents happy, and win regular elections.
Why similar: City Builder 54.6%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 21.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #58 Scaling Up
65% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.2%, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 8.2%