Games Like Cliff Empire

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same post-apocalyptic colony management feel with a focus on resource scarcity and environmental hazards.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the post-apocalyptic city-building experience, requiring players to protect their citizens from radiation and extreme weather.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sci-fi colony-sim experience where managing oxygen, power, and food is critical for survival in a hostile environment.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 8.3%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title features complex resource chains and management of a space-faring station, echoing the logistical challenges found in Cliff Empire.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the post-apocalyptic theme and the core necessity of managing life-sustaining resources to keep a colony alive.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive survival city-builder, focusing on extreme environmental management and difficult moral choices in a frozen wasteland.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Resource Management 16.6%, Economy 15.1%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at complex supply chain management and industrial automation, appealing to players who enjoy the economic depth of Cliff Empire.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Economy 12.4%, Futuristic 11.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a futuristic setting with multi-location logistics, requiring players to balance economies across different environments.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Building 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes survival and the reconstruction of society through careful resource management.

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: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its unique focus on verticality and water management provides a similar architectural challenge to building on cliffs.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 10.2%, Futuristic 8.3%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fresh spin on the genre by moving the city-building experience underwater, requiring unique resource management strategies.

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 18.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony simulation with ship-based base building, requiring careful management of resources and crew in a sci-fi setting.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique roguelite take on city-building where managing resources in a harsh, ever-changing environment is the primary objective.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features futuristic, vertical city-building and resource management on a hostile moon.

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 40.9%, Colony Sim 33% ★, Strategy 6.4%, Economy 6.2%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and progression of a small colony, emphasizing the struggle against environmental challenges.

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 24.4%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Building 9.7%, Management 8.6%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-heavy city-builder that challenges players to manage production chains and population needs in a survival-focused setting.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep economic simulation that will satisfy players who enjoy the complex trade and production chains of Cliff Empire.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on lunar base building and automation, providing a similar sci-fi industrial management experience.

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic management game that tasks players with building a self-sustaining colony in a post-apocalyptic world.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Strategy 9.7%, Colony Sim 7.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the survival city-builder mechanics with deeper societal management and complex resource logistics.

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 33.9%, Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that established the foundation for many modern colony-sim games focused on resource management.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the post-apocalyptic survival mechanics, offering a more polished experience for fans of the original.

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: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sci-fi colony-sim experience on an alien planet, focusing on base expansion and resource management.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Tower Defense 12%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with intense survival mechanics, requiring players to defend their colony against constant threats.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 9.2%, Tower Defense 7.9%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that focuses on base-building and resource management while dealing with a post-apocalyptic zombie threat.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-sim elements with survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 54%, Resource Management 18%, Strategy 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on environmental restoration, providing a satisfying, non-violent take on the post-apocalyptic city-builder genre.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical city management and complex logistics, appealing to those who enjoy the architectural scale of Cliff Empire.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Management 8.5%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.5%

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 34.7%, Economy 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.9% ★, Resource Management 8.1%, Management 7.2%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Colony Sim 8.4% ★

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.7%

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: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%

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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Economy 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8%

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 34.8%, Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 5.6%

Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Time Management 9.2%, Management 9%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.2%

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....

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 6.7%

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 12%, Management 8.6%, Futuristic 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Tower Defense 9.4%

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 14.5%, Management 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.6%

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Base Building 13%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 11.2%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.7%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 13.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%

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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Economy 13.9%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%

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 21%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.5%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 10.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 9%

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 25.5% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.4%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Strategy 9.6%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Futuristic 10.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.3%

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 23.6% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

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 21.7%, Economy 17.3%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10.8%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Economy 14%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%