Games Like Compact Colonies

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 23.1%, City Builder 21%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11.4%, Economy 7.7%

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 31%, City Builder 20.8%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 8%, Economy 6.6%

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%, City Builder 29.6%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Historical 5.7%

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 39.4%, City Builder 27.5%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 4.8%

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 41.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 8.3%, Survival 7.3%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 25.9%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%

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 23.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Historical 8.7%, Survival 7.5%

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 31.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 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 36.1%, City Builder 25.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 11.7%

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 36.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 7.8%

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 36.6%, City Builder 27%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 8.8%

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 42.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Survival 12.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 6.1%

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 32.2%, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 5.2%

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 23.4%, Survival 10.6%, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 6.4%

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 40.5%, City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 5.6%

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 32.1%, City Builder 23.3%, Economy 10%, Survival 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%

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 27%, Strategy 11.2%, Historical 8.4%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 39.6%, City Builder 23.5%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%

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 27.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Survival 9.4%, Economy 8.4%, Nature 7.8%

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 34.6%, City Builder 25.1%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Base Building 7.5%

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 38.7%, City Builder 16%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 7.8%

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 31.1%, City Builder 21.6%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9%, Historical 8%

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 29.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Economy 9%

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 31.3%, City Builder 24.8%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 7.4%, Base Building 4.6%

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 37.4%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Survival 7.8%

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 29.6%, City Builder 20.2%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 8.6%, Nature 7.6%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 26.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Economy 10.1%, Simulation 6.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 34.1%, City Builder 24.9%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.5%

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 31.1%, City Builder 21.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 7.1%, Strategy 6.2%

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 26.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 10%, Base Building 8.3%

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 28.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Survival 9.9%, Economy 7.4%, Resource Management 7.3%

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 44.2%, City Builder 27.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 6.6%, Simulation 5.3%

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 23.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 10%, Historical 8.3%

Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 9.3%, Economy 7.1%

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 41.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 9%, Resource Management 5.7%

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 26.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 6.8%

Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 26%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%, Base Building 6.4%

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 28.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8%

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 31.5%, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 9.6%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 6.4%

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 37.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7%

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 24.1%, City Builder 15.7%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Historical 10.1%

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 30%, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%

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 30.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 8.7%

Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 7%

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 23%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 12.1%, Economy 10.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.8%

Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 7.2%

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 25.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 6.7%

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 24.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 10%, Historical 7.5%, Survival 7.4%

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 24.9%, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Economy 8.7%

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 25.8%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 8%, Nature 7.7%

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 20.8%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 7.2%

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 21.5%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.1%

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 29.8%, City Builder 20.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 8%