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  1. #1 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
    97% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11%, Economy 8.2%

  2. #2 Patron
    96% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 30.7%, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 7.1%

  3. #3 Dawn of Man
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 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 37.1%, City Builder 29.3%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 6%, Historical 5.6%

  4. #4 Windowed Realms
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
    Windows

    Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 6.7%

  5. #5 Banished
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
    Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 39.5%, City Builder 26.9%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 5.1%

  6. #6 Oxygen: First Breath
    94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    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 25.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%

  7. #7 Founders' Fortune
    93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    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 41.3%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 7%, Resource Management 6.5%

  8. #8 Ostriv
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
    Dev: yevhen8
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Historical 8.5%, Survival 7.3%

  9. #9 Beware of Light
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bajka Games
    Windows

    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 36%, City Builder 24.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11.3%

  10. #10 Pixel Colony
    90% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
    Windows · Linux

    Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 22.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 9%, Strategy 5.2%

  11. #11 Settler's Domain
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: rick
    Windows

    Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 9.7%, Economy 6.4%

  12. #12 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    89% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 40.5%, City Builder 27.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 5.7%

  13. #13 Arcane Shores
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Absent Slumber
    Windows

    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 33.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Survival 10.4%, Economy 10%, Strategy 6.5%

  14. #14 Age of Pyramids
    88% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
    Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
    Windows

    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 29.8%, City Builder 26.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Historical 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%

  15. #15 Paleon
    86% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
    Dev: Paleodev
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 42.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Survival 12.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.3%

  16. #16 Isla Paradiso
    85% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 22.6%, Economy 10.7%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%

  17. #17 Seeds of Resilience
    86% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 27.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Survival 9.1%, Economy 9.1%, Nature 7.6%

  18. #18 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    84% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    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 34.7%, City Builder 24.5%, Survival 10%, Strategy 7.9%, Base Building 7.5%

  19. #19 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    84% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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 38.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 7.7%

  20. #20 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
    83% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: TreeByte Software
    Windows

    A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 21%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.1%, Historical 7.8%

  21. #21 Frontier Roots
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MoroiGames
    Windows

    Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 9.5%

  22. #22 Kingdoms and Castles
    82% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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 36.8%, City Builder 27.7%, Resource Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Base Building 4.7%

  23. #23 Exile
    80% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
    Dev: JD7 Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 9.9%, Economy 9.2%, Nature 7.4%

  24. #24 Oxygen
    81% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 26.3%, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.2%

  25. #25 Settlements Rising
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    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 31%, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 6.9%, Strategy 6.2%

  26. #26 Rise Against the Invaders
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    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 34.2%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 9%, Survival 9%, Strategy 7.6%

  27. #27 Orc Colony
    81% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
    Dev: Luzon Games
    Windows

    Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%

  28. #28 IXION
    78% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 6.7%

  29. #29 Endzone 2
    76% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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 28.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 8.5%

  30. #30 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
    78% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
    Dev: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 6.1%

  31. #31 Ragnorium
    77% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
    Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows

    Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Historical 9.9%

  32. #32 Ratopia
    74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 29.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%

  33. #33 Aven Colony
    77% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 44.5%, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Base Building 6.7%, Simulation 5.3%

  34. #34 Humanica
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
    Windows

    Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 9.8%, Historical 8.2%

  35. #35 Farmman
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    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 31.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 10.3%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 6.3%

  36. #36 United Penguin Kingdom
    74% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Survival 11.6%, Economy 11.3%

  37. #37 Planetbase
    76% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 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 37.7%, City Builder 23%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 7.6%

  38. #38 Crowded Blue Dot
    75% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
    Windows · Linux

    Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Base Building 9%, Survival 6.6%

  39. #39 HistoriCity: Florence
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Stratagem Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Historical 9.5%, Survival 9%

  40. #40 Of Life and Land
    71% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
    Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    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 24.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Historical 7.4%, Survival 7.2%

  41. #41 Lil Guys
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.6%

  42. #42 Offshore Prophets
    72% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dofu Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 6.7%

  43. #43 Diluvian Winds
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
    Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Economy 8.5%, Nature 7.6%

  44. #44 Buoyancy
    73% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    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 46.6%, City Builder 20.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Survival 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%

  45. #45 Blacksmith Master
    69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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 26.3%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 9.2%, Survival 8.6%

  46. #46 Kolo
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MTandi
    Windows

    Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Economy 10.7%, Strategy 7%

  47. #47 Our Freedom: Prologue
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
    Windows

    The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%

  48. #48 Aztecs: The Last Sun
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
    Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows

    Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 16.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Economy 9.3%, Survival 8.9%

  49. #49 Gnome Glen
    69% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 7.9%

  50. #50 Quriocity
    69% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
    Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
    Windows · Mac

    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 31.6%, City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 7.7%

  51. #51 Celestial Empire: Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
    Dev: President Studio
    Windows

    Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Historical 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.9%

  52. #52 All Roads Connected
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
    Windows

    Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Economy 8.6%, Base Building 7.9%

  53. #53 Gnomoria
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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 39.5%, City Builder 23%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 5.9%

  54. #54 Lost Heaven Station
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Varnonsoft
    Windows

    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 30.1%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%

  55. #55 Settlement Survival
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 30.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 6.5%

  56. #56 Outlands
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: HugMeGames
    Windows

    Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 5.1%

  57. #57 One More Island
    67% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 10.3%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 7.9%

  58. #58 Clan & Flood
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: XF STUDIO
    Windows · Mac

    Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Survival 14.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, City Builder 13.5%, Strategy 10.1%

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