- #1 Prison Architect
97% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%
- #2 Worshippers of Cthulhu
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,460 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Lovecraftian 17.8%, City Builder 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.3%
- #3 The Fire Must Grow
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Lovecraftian 11.7%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9%
- #4 Farmman
95% 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 21.6% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.1%
- #5 Ratopia
94% 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 20.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.3%
- #6 Edge Islands
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 23.6% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.7%, City Builder 9.5%
- #7 Academia : School Simulator
93% matchVery Positive86% of 3,008 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Capitalism 12.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.4%
- #8 Resort Galactica
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 12%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.8%
- #9 Founders' Fortune
91% 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #10 TFM: The First Men
91% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 28.9% ★, Base Building 18%, Tactical RPG 9.8%, Management 8%, Building 7%
- #11 Arcane Shores
90% 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 25.8% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 7.5%
- #12 Oxygen: First Breath
89% 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 20.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 9.7%, Management 8.5%
- #13 Make Your Kingdom
89% 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 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 11.1%, Economy 9.9%
- #14 Isla Paradiso
88% 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 24.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.2%, Building 10.1%
- #15 RimWorld
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.6% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Tactical RPG 9.8%, Management 9%, City Builder 8.6%
- #16 Drownlight
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Lovecraftian 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 8.1%
- #17 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
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 22.7% ★, Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Simulation 9.6%
- #18 Forgotten Vale
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
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 20.9% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 8.8%
- #19 First Feudal
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.8%
- #20 Lost Heaven Station
83% 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 21.8% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.8%
- #21 Blacksmith Master
82% 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 19.2% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 10.1%, Management 9.9%
- #22 Tokeis
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 12.9%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.6%
- #23 Seeds of Resilience
82% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 10.6%, Management 9.9%
- #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 20.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #25 Our Freedom: Prologue
80% 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 21.9% ★, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Management 9%
- #26 Settletopia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 23.8% ★, Base Building 15%, City Builder 14.4%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #27 Country Architect
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.7%, Economy 8.4%
- #28 Endzone 2
78% 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 22.3% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11%, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #29 Containment Director
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glamorous Games
Windows · Mac
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 19%, City Builder 12.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Building 11.2%
- #30 Crowded Blue Dot
78% 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 18.7%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Management 12.4%, Building 8%
- #31 One More Island
77% 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 23.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 11.6%, Management 10.1%
- #32 Gnome Glen
76% 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 22.3% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 10.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #33 Settlements Rising
75% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #34 Settlement Survival
76% 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 22.9% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Management 11%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 8.6%
- #35 Outland Kingdoms
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Tactical RPG 14.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.1%
- #36 Starship Colony
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 25.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Management 10.8%, City Builder 9.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #37 Exile
73% 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 23.8% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.2%
- #38 Patron
74% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #39 Wanderers' Outpost
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Capitalism 12.9%, Management 11.9%, Building 9.7%
- #40 Dwarf Fortress
72% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.6%
- #41 Lil Guys
73% 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 14%, Management 11.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #42 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,274 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Capitalism 16.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 12.3%, Economy 11.2%
- #43 Paleon
71% 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 35.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #44 Ranchbound
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Grow your ranch, raise cattle, lead cowboys, and trade with settlers in a new real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 13.5%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 11.1%, Management 10.9%
- #45 Dungeon Overseer
72% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 13.1%, Building 9.2%
- #46 Another Brick in The Mall
71% matchVery Positive83% of 2,425 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Management 14.9%, City Builder 11.6%, Capitalism 11.5%, Building 10.5%
- #47 Egypt
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 11.6%, Economy 9.8%
- #48 Uber Urban
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: J.F
Windows · Mac
Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Capitalism 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.1%
- #49 Beyond These Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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 22% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #50 Kingdoms and Castles
70% 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 30.3% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #51 H3X@G0N@L
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #52 Frontera
68% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 13.4%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%
- #53 Ostriv
68% 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 20.1% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 10.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #54 Mars Attracts
66% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Capitalism 11.7%, Management 10%
- #55 Pixel Colony
67% 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 27.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Management 13.1%, Survival 7.1%, Base Building 7.1%
- #56 Oxygen Not Included
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.8%, Management 8%
- #57 Exoplanet Outpost
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Capitalism 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 9.5%
- #58 Settler's Domain
66% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 17%, Economy 8.3%, Management 8%, Survival 7.7%
- #59 Colony Survival
67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.2% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.3%, Survival 9.1%