- #1 Scaling Up
97% 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: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Automation 13.8%, Time Management 8.4%
- #2 Havendock
96% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Automation 12.6%, Farming Sim 11.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #3 Age of Respair
96% 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 15.6% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Automation 10.4%
- #4 Territory: Farming and Warfare
95% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
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 13.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Real Time Tactics 8.6%
- #5 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.1%, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #6 Rise Under the Warstorm
94% matchNo user reviews
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 20.8%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Real Time Tactics 12%, City Builder 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%
- #7 The Crust
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 17.7% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #8 Islandustry
92% 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 21.8%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.1%
- #9 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: Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%
- #10 VENOY
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #11 Assembly Planter
91% matchVery Positive91% of 247 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 17.1%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #12 Autonauts vs Piratebots
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 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 18.6%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Crafting 8.9%
- #13 All Roads Connected
89% matchNo user reviews
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 17.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #14 Factory Town 2: Paradise
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #15 Seaport Tycoon
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SaintWorks
Windows
SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, RTS 8.2%
- #16 Builderment
86% matchMixed66% of 119 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 23.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%
- #17 Warehouse Bots
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 13.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Time Management 10.1%
- #18 Magnery Reign
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Automation 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 9.4%
- #19 The Wandering Village
83% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 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 17.5% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Automation 11.8%, Farming Sim 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #20 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 18.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #21 Bread & Bravery
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 9.9%, Farming Sim 9.4%
- #22 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 18%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.5%
- #23 Captain of Industry
82% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 26.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, City Builder 8.8%
- #24 Oxygen
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #25 Sandustry
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #26 Architect of Ruin
80% 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 18.5% ★, Automation 15%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #27 Icetwine
79% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.3%, RTS 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #28 Automation Station
78% 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 22.5%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.5%
- #29 Of Life and Land
77% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #30 Techtonica
78% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.2%
- #31 Survival Vacancy
79% 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 19.6% ★, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.6%, City Builder 8.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #32 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 7.6%
- #33 Catizens
76% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 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 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.5%
- #34 Settletopia
76% 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 7.9%
- #35 Mistpaw Ravine
74% matchPositive97% of 29 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 18.2%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.7%, Automation 9.9%, Base Building 9%
- #36 Microtopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17.4% ★, Automation 16.7%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #37 Factomancer
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voltige Games
Windows · Mac
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Time Management 12.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, RTS 7.5%, Base Building 7.4%
- #38 Greedy Little Kingdoms
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill 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 17.7%, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Building 8.9%
- #39 Venusville
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.7%, RTS 7.5%
- #40 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 31.3% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #41 Lil Guys
72% 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 24.7% ★, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.6%
- #42 Avian Colony
71% 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 23.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 12.7%, Resource Management 10%
- #43 Nigredo
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Time Management 12.8%, Base Building 11.1%
- #44 First Feudal
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21.5% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9%
- #45 Island Idle RPG
72% matchMixed67% of 94 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 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%
- #46 The Gears: Factory
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 10%
- #47 Colonization Simulator
70% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, RTS 8.9%
- #48 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Automation 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #49 Modulus: Factory Automation
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 20.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.2%
- #50 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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: Colony Sim 18% ★, Automation 17.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #51 Farmman
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #52 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Farming Sim 16.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #53 Mini Settlers: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 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 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #54 Common'hood
69% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 10.1%
- #55 PoliPlanet
67% 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 21.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Colony Sim 10.3% ★, Crafting 10%
- #56 Vilset
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10%
- #57 Egypt
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.6%
- #58 Quriocity
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9%
- #59 Substructure
66% 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 21.8%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #60 Towerfolk
65% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 8.4%