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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!

Reviews: Mixed — 51% — of 338 reviews
Released: 2022-11-09
Developer: Plethora Project
Genres: Indie, Simulation
Platforms: Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Management 12.6%, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.6%

  55. #55 Technicity
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 230 reviews2022
    Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    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 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Automation 15.2%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%

  56. #56 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
    64% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
    Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 21.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Economy 11.4%, Management 10.7%

  57. #57 The Crust
    66% 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 22.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 14.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.1%

  58. #58 Make Your Kingdom
    70% matchMixed58% of 195 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 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10.6%, Economy 9.4%

  59. #59 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 7.6%

  60. #60 The Planet Crafter
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
    Dev: Miju Games
    Windows
    Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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 19.5%, Building 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Automation 12.9%, Sandbox 9.2%

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