60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Colony Sim, Strategy, Resource Management.
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
Quriocity
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.
Venusville
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.
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 22.6%, City Builder 19.5%, RTS 9.7%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
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 24.4%, City Builder 19.6%, RTS 9.6%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%
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: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 26%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 7.9%, Building 6.2%
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 25.6%, City Builder 16.4%, RTS 11.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%
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 30.2%, City Builder 24.3%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 5.3%
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 19.7%, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
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 34.4%, City Builder 31%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 4.8%
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 36.3%, City Builder 28.9%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Base Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.6%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 24.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 5.7%
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 34.4%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 12%, Strategy 5.2%, RTS 4.5%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 6.2%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, RTS 8.6%
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 36.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 6%
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 25.2%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 7.5%
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 35.6%, City Builder 31.8%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 4.9%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 30.8%, Survival 12.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.7%, RTS 11%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 23.3%, City Builder 22.4%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 26.9%, Survival 12%, RTS 6%, Building 6%
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.8%
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Survival 10.5%, RTS 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, City Builder 22.6%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%, RTS 7.5%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Difficult 8.3%
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 27.7%, Colony Sim 27.2%, Survival 11.9%, Building 7.1%, Sandbox 6.5%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 22.3%, Survival 11%, RTS 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.3%, RTS 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 32.6%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%, Simulation 6.8%
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 10.8%, RTS 9.3%, Base Building 7.7%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 29.9%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 13%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 23.2%, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 27.1%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 6.2%, Strategy 5.8%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Survival 15%, RTS 15%, Strategy 12.6%
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 18.7%, RTS 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 15.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Base Building 7.9%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 19.3%, Survival 8.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Base Building 7.6%
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 29.3%, City Builder 25.4%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 7.1%, Base Building 6%
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 23.9%, City Builder 19.4%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 24.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7%
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, RTS 15.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 24.4%, RTS 17.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, City Builder 20.7%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 7.2%, Simulation 6.4%
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 22.8%, City Builder 22.4%, RTS 11.7%, Resource Management 7.9%, Survival 7.7%
Development on this project has been canceled! As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, RTS 16.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Cinematic 8.9%, Simulation 5.9%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 20%, City Builder 19.9%, RTS 15.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10%
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 27.8%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.1%
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 27.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 5.6%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 6.5%
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 18%, RTS 17.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10%
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.6%, RTS 14.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 5.4%
