- #1 Scaling Up
97% matchPositive86% of 29 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: Colony Sim 17.7%, Farming Sim 16%, Automation 16%, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #2 Havendock
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,948 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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: Automation 14.5%, Colony Sim 14%, City Builder 12.2%, Farming Sim 12%, Base Building 10%
- #3 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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: Automation 20%, Colony Sim 14.6%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #4 Gridmax
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 13%, Farming Sim 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #5 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Automation 28.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Colony Sim 10.4%, City Builder 10.4%
- #6 Rise Under the Warstorm
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%
- #7 The Crust
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Automation 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #8 Agromatic
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
An industrial empire builder where the workforce is the automation. Hire specialists with their own traits and put them to work wherever the operation needs them, mines, workshops, rail depots, research labs. You decide what gets built. They make it run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 19.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Farming Sim 15%, Base Building 11.2%
- #9 Builderment
91% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 9.8%
- #10 Kingdom Workshop
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #11 Islandustry
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 14.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #12 Skyberry Garden
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%
- #13 FACTORY I
89% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 8.7%
- #14 Factory Town 2: Paradise
88% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Automation 20.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #15 Odd Realm
87% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 18.7%, Automation 15%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #16 Autonauts vs Piratebots
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 523 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Farming Sim 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.6%, City Builder 12.5%, Crafting 8.4%
- #17 All Roads Connected
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Farming Sim 12.9%, Resource Management 11%
- #18 Beyond These Stars
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #19 Assembly Planter
86% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Farming Sim 14.8%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #20 Galaxy Scavengers
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Colony Sim 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #21 Plantile
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daivy
Windows · Linux
Plantile is a grid-based game about building your plant factory. Start from a single seed, expand your production overtime, and reach full automation by utilizing advanced tiles!
Why similar: Automation 28.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Farming Sim 13.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #22 Timberborn
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Automation 15.6%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%
- #23 Age of Respair
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 13%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #24 CircuitVeil
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Automation 23.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.2%
- #25 Necromancer's Workshop
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10%, Farming Sim 8.8%
- #26 Greedy Little Kingdoms
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #27 HavenCraft
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Automation 20.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 6.7%
- #28 Microtopia
78% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #29 Radia Island
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #30 Survival Vacancy
80% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #31 The Blighted Frontier
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 8%, Simulation 7.1%
- #32 Factorio
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 32.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Crafting 8%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #33 Automation Station
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, City Builder 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #34 Avian Colony
76% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #35 Territory: Farming and Warfare
74% matchVery Positive85% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.1 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: Automation 17.6%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #36 Belts of Iron
73% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 9.4%
- #37 Phantasm Cube
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 39.7%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #38 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 5.9%
- #39 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #40 The Wandering Village
72% matchVery Positive92% of 8,415 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 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 18.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 13.6%, Farming Sim 11.9%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #41 Mini Settlers: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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: Automation 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #42 Microtopia: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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: Automation 19.6%, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #43 Mistpaw Ravine
71% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Farming Sim 14.1%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%
- #44 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 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 19.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #45 Factoriant
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 28.9%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 13.2%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #46 Settletopia
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #47 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 32.5%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 8.5%
- #48 PoliPlanet
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%
- #49 ALL WILL FALL
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #50 Founders' Fortune
71% 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 32%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 6.5%, Sandbox 6%
- #51 Modulus: Factory Automation
67% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #52 Substructure
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 8.8%
- #53 Architect of Ruin
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #54 CivDle
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Star Software
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.2%
- #55 Lil Guys
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 7.4%
- #56 CosmoFab
66% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StrabSphace
Windows
CosmoFab is a factory-building game focused on mining, production, and automation. Mine resources and build production lines to create a fully automated industrial system. Defend your base against relentless hostile creatures, explore the planet, and complete your mission.
Why similar: Automation 33.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 14.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Simulation 7%
- #57 Truck City
66% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 19.8%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #58 Catizens
66% 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 21.5%, City Builder 18.1%, Farming Sim 14.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #59 Island Idle RPG
68% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Farming Sim 14.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Automation 12.8%
- #60 Dinky Guardians
67% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Automation 25%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%