
Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, City Builder, Strategy, Simulation.

Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?

Founders' Fortune
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.

Banished
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.
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 47.8% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 5.6%
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 45.9% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 2.9%
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 48.4% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.5%, Sci-fi 4.2%
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 40.7% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Base Building 5.4%
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 34.5% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%, RTS 9.3%
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 42.2% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Building 3.8%
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 33.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 6.9%
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 36.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 7.1%
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 42.7% ★, City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 4.2%
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: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 29%, Strategy 13.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 6.7%
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 46.6% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Building 4.7%
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: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 6.8%, Survival 3.5%
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 40.8% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 4.9%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57% ★, City Builder 22%, Strategy 12.8%, RTS 8.2%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 5.7%
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 36% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%
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 53.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Base Building 8.5%, RTS 3.8%
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 34.2% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Difficult 12.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10%, City Builder 7.9%, Strategy 5.4%
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 49.3% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 3.9%, Resource Management 3.2%
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.9%
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.6% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Difficult 6.3%, RTS 5.8%
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, PvE 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
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 33% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Difficult 9.2%, Base Building 7.1%
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 41% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 4.7%
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Sandbox 11.6%, PvE 9.3%, Cyberpunk 8.7%
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 38.8% ★, City Builder 24%, Strategy 14.1%, Cinematic 10.8%, Base Building 3.7%
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 53.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 4.3%
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 8.2%, Procedural Generation 6.2%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 5.2%
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 45.5% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Survival 3.9%, Resource Management 3.8%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 9.4%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 73.2% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 7%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 1.7%
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 37.8% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Base Building 7.5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.8% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 3.5%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.7% ★, City Builder 36.4%, Strategy 8.9%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, Sandbox 17%, Strategy 15.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 9.1%
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 33.5% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
A strategic city-building game set in a fantasy universe that allows you to create your own fantastical civilization. Define your architectural style using a building editor, customize your people, manage your city, and restore the past glory of your civilization!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 7%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 7.9%, Difficult 7.7%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.9% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 6%
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 43.1% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Base Building 5.7%, Building 4.6%
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 7.3%, Building 4%
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 38.7% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 8%, RTS 5.8%
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 7.6%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 7.3%
Cannon Island is a roguelike city builder, where you colonize procedurally generated islands and fight rivals. Wise building placement and resource management are the key to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 16%, Base Building 11%, RTS 6.5%
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 7%
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 34.9% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Strategy 5.9%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.1% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 3.8%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 4.4%
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 38.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 6.3%
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 33.5% ★, City Builder 19%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Procedural Generation 5.9%
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 36.1% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.1%
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms. Build a colony from nothing, find and unlock unique buildings and re-activate powerful relics to protect yourself. Will you survive and get off the planet?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 19%, Difficult 12.4%, PvE 11.1%, Strategy 7.7%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.4%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 5.9%