- #1 Good Company
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Automation 11.2%, Economy 10.1%, Management 9.5%
- #2 Founders' Fortune
96% 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 32.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 7.3%, Management 6.1%
- #3 Kubifaktorium
96% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%
- #4 Settlement Survival
95% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Colony Sim 25.6%, Building 16.9%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #5 Eden Crafters
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,630 reviews2026
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Base Building 16.4%, Automation 14.4%, Crafting 14%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Building 11.9%
- #6 AColony
94% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
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 24%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 8.8%
- #7 Eco
93% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Base Building 23.9%, Crafting 20.9%, Economy 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #8 Havendock
91% 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: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 12%, Automation 11.4%
- #9 Stationeers
92% matchVery Positive88% of 9,229 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 85.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Automation 11.3%
- #10 Occupy Mars: The Game
91% matchMixed70% of 3,132 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 17%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #11 The Colonists
90% matchVery Positive86% of 1,240 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Building 12.6%, Automation 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.1%
- #12 Little Big Workshop
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 16.4%, Building 15.9%, Management 14.5%, Automation 11.9%, Economy 10.6%
- #13 Factory Town
89% 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: Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 12.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 9%
- #14 Microtopia
88% 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: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Automation 11.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #15 Synergy
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 20.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Economy 11.7%, Management 9.4%
- #16 Flotsam
85% matchVery Positive81% of 4,563 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Automation 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #17 Surviving Ceres
86% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 9.8%
- #18 Automation Empire
87% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Automation 16.4%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.4%
- #19 CLOUD DWELLERS
83% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 17.2%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 6.6%
- #20 Scrapnaut
84% matchMixed70% of 837 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Building 24%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 16.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 12.3%
- #21 Catizens
82% 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 23.9%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #22 Outbound
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Square Glade Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a colorful world and build your own cozy home on wheels. Craft workstations, and source energy from the sun, wind, or water. Upgrade and customize your vehicle, grow crops, and live sustainably off-grid with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Base Building 23.8%, Building 20.1%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 8.9%
- #23 Survival Vacancy
84% 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 20.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Automation 10.1%
- #24 Techtonica
81% matchMixed65% of 3,253 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Base Building 16.3%, Automation 15.3%, Building 14.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #25 Captain of Industry
79% 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: Base Building 20%, Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Economy 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #26 Gnomoria
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #27 Space Haven
76% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 13.8%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #28 Frozenheim
79% matchMixed69% of 3,911 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 22.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 15.8%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #29 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
80% matchMixed66% of 6,015 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 47.5%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 8.2%, Simulation 7.6%
- #30 Going Medieval
74% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 23.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13%, Economy 11.2%, Management 10.9%
- #31 Sapiens
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,162 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Management 9.2%
- #32 The Crust
77% 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: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 16.9%, Automation 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #33 Island Market Simulator
75% matchVery Positive85% of 168 reviews2026
Dev: Zentium Studio
Windows · Linux
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
Why similar: Building 20%, Crafting 17.3%, Management 16.9%, Economy 16.6%, Simulation 11.1%
- #34 Solarpunk™
73% matchVery Positive82% of 4,341 reviews2026
Dev: CyberwavePub: rokaplay
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technologically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 15.6%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #35 Block'hood
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,258 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Building 28%, Simulation 26.8%, Indie 7.1%, Management 5.3%
- #36 Colony Simulator
77% matchMixed66% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Simulation 19.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 14.8%, 3D 4.8%
- #37 Dawn of Man
75% matchVery Positive87% of 17,826 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 53.4%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Economy 7%
- #38 Fuel Harvest Together
73% matchMixed69% of 978 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Crafting 15.9%, Economy 13.8%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Automation 11.5%
- #39 Seeds of Resilience
76% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 13.9%, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #40 Ecopunk
71% matchVery Positive83% of 133 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.5%
- #41 JUNKPUNK
74% matchMixed62% of 687 reviews2021
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Why similar: Crafting 20%, Building 19.3%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 12.2%
- #42 Center Station Simulator
71% matchVery Positive88% of 575 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Phoenix
Windows
Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...
Why similar: Building 17.3%, Crafting 16.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Automation 15.3%, Management 12.6%
- #43 Power to the People
73% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Building 21.5%, Management 17.9%, Economy 17.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #44 Stonehearth
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 39.3%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #45 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 23.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 9.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #46 Voxel Eras
69% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Building 16%, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 15.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Sandbox 12.9%
- #47 Crafting Town
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Crafting 27.5%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #48 Space Architect
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 11%, Automation 10.8%, Management 9.4%
- #49 Better Mart Simulator
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,299 reviews2025
Dev: Exanticx Studio
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
EARLY ACCESS - Solo or with up to 6 players, build, manage, and grow your supermarket. Stock your shelves, manage inventory, deliveries, staff, and machines. Customize your store and grow it from a small grocery shop into a full-fledged superstore.
Why similar: Economy 20.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Management 18.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #50 Alchemy Factory
67% matchVery Positive90% of 2,515 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 20%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #51 Stranded: Alien Dawn
69% matchVery Positive84% of 11,322 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Simulation 8.5%
- #52 Lords and Villeins
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 977 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 28%, Building 14%, Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #53 Desynced
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Automation 15.2%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 10.7%
- #54 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Survival 9%, Building 8.5%, Management 6.3%
- #55 Medieval Dynasty
67% matchVery Positive90% of 52,032 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 22.5%, Crafting 21.7%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8.9%
- #56 Odd Realm
67% 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 20.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 9.2%
- #57 After the Collapse
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
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 27.7%, Base Building 18.8%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #58 Make Your Kingdom
70% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
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 20.9%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 10.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #59 The Planet Crafter
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Building 15.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Automation 12%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #60 Technicity
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 241 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: Building 16.2%, Crafting 15.8%, Automation 14.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Economy 11.6%