Games Like Colonize

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 30.4%, RTS 20.7%, Strategy 6.3%, 3D 2.8%

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: Colony Sim 44.1%, City Builder 40%, Strategy 6.8%, Medieval 6.6%, Building 1.5%

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 51%, City Builder 29%, Base Building 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Medieval 3.1%

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 22.2%, Colony Sim 21.4%, RTS 17%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Medieval 6.3%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Medieval 7%, Base Building 4.4%

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 29%, City Builder 26.1%, RTS 20.9%, Medieval 7.7%, Strategy 7.1%

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 35.9%, Colony Sim 34.8%, Agriculture 8% ★, Strategy 4.5%, Medieval 4.4%

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 48.2%, Colony Sim 16.3%, RTS 11%, Medieval 10.3%, Strategy 8%

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 29.7%, City Builder 24.5%, RTS 22.9%, Top-Down 7.2%, Strategy 6.5%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, City Builder 33.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Realistic 6.6%, Base Building 5.5%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 28.8%, Agriculture 9.9% ★, Strategy 8.2%, Medieval 5.7%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, City Builder 33.9%, Medieval 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 5.2%

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 28.5%, RTS 26.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Base Building 2.8%

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 28.9%, City Builder 24.3%, Agriculture 15.5% ★, Life Sim 15.5%, Strategy 6.7%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, City Builder 44.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 0.8%

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: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 29.1%, Realistic 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Top-Down 6.3%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 23.9%, RTS 20.4%, Strategy 6.1%, Medieval 5.9%

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 43.6%, Colony Sim 41.6%, Strategy 7.3%, RTS 6.8%, Simulation 0.5%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 37.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 7.9%, Building 3.1%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 29%, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Base Building 6.9%, Strategy 5.7%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 26.8%, RTS 24.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Base Building 6.7%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 30.4%, Realistic 10%, Base Building 7.4%, Exploration 6.9%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 31.7%, Medieval 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Top-Down 6.1%

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: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 30.6%, RTS 18.9%, Medieval 6.4%, Strategy 6%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 34.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Medieval 7.1%, Top-Down 5.1%

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 43%, City Builder 35.1%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%, RTS 4.5%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 29.3%, Life Sim 14.3%, Base Building 6.5%, Strategy 5.3%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Realistic 24.4%, Base Building 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Exploration 19.6%, Building 7.4%

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 32.1%, City Builder 28.9%, RTS 19.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Exploration 6.4%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Realistic 11.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 4.8%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, Medieval 14.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, 3D 6%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 25.3%, RTS 20.2%, Exploration 6%, Strategy 5.6%

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: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 38.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 3%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, RTS 24.2%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Strategy 7.2%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, City Builder 39.6%, Strategy 7.8%, Medieval 4.7%, RTS 3%

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 27%, City Builder 22.2%, RTS 20.7%, Medieval 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 31.6%, Medieval 10.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7.6%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, City Builder 37.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 3.1%

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 34.7%, City Builder 32.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Realistic 8.8%, Base Building 7.8%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Life Sim 23.4%, Agriculture 21.5% ★, Medieval 11.8%, Building 2.9%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 48.8%, Medieval 14.1%, Top-Down 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 26.8%, RTS 19.1%, Medieval 7.5%, Base Building 5.4%

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 40.7%, Colony Sim 35.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 6%, Exploration 2.9%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 29.2%, Medieval 9.8%, Realistic 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%

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 30.4%, City Builder 28.3%, RTS 18%, Life Sim 12.4%, Exploration 5.5%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, City Builder 36.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 3%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 33.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 7.8%, Exploration 6.9%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Colony Sim 29.5%, RTS 12.3%, Base Building 5.9%, Medieval 5.7%

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 35.8%, City Builder 29.1%, Life Sim 12.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Base Building 5%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 30.5%, Base Building 8.1%, Exploration 7.2%, Strategy 6.6%

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: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Agriculture 7.1% ★

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 23.3%, Agriculture 10.2% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Medieval 7.3%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, City Builder 39.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Building 2.8%, Simulation 0.5%

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: Colony Sim 41.4%, City Builder 39.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 6.5%, Building 2.6%

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: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 24.8%, RTS 20.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Base Building 6.3%

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, City Builder 29.6%, Agriculture 13.6% ★, Medieval 8.9%, Strategy 7.2%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: RTS 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Agriculture 12.5% ★, Top-Down 6.9%

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 35.5%, City Builder 24.4%, RTS 15.8%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 6.8%

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 39.7%, Colony Sim 33.5%, Strategy 14%, Realistic 7.3%, Base Building 4.4%

Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.

Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, RTS 27%, Medieval 9.5%, Strategy 8%, Realistic 7.9%