- #1 Paragon Pioneers
97% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #2 Frontera
96% 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 25.6% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.2%
- #3 Skyline Settlers
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Economy 11.8%, Building 8.2%, Medieval 7.5%
- #4 Hexagge
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8%
- #5 Paragon Pioneers 2
94% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Building 8.4%, Stylized 6.4%, Economy 6.3%
- #6 Kingdom Workshop
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 11.5%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%
- #7 Arcane Shores
93% 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 29.3% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 6%
- #8 Peasants
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.6%, Stylized 8%
- #9 Lands of Koastalia
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Building 11.4%, Medieval 7%, Relaxing 6.7%
- #10 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 37.2% ★, City Builder 20%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Economy 5.6%
- #11 Isla Paradiso
90% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 13.3%, Building 11.8%, Management 7.3%
- #12 Trading Towns
89% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Eternal Games
Windows
Trading Towns is a simple and relaxing economic game in which your goal is to find ways for your town to become wealthy and prosperous.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 13.9%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.2%
- #13 Farmman
89% 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 26.8% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 11%
- #14 The Settlers: New Allies
88% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #15 Kingdoms and Castles
87% 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 32.6% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Building 10.3%, Medieval 7.9%, Base Building 4.1%
- #16 LowPolis
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Building 13.5%, Medieval 8.1%, Economy 7.5%
- #17 Lil Guys
86% 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 30.5% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 8.1%
- #18 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Building 10.7%, Economy 8.8%, Medieval 7.1%
- #19 Blockville
84% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: SCT
Windows
Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Stylized 7.8%, Economy 7.6%, Building 7.6%
- #20 Plebs and Pillagers
83% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Kloppfer
Windows
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 6.6%
- #21 What's Left Behind
84% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Economy 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.6%
- #22 Settlement Survival
82% 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 26% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Building 12.3%, Medieval 8.7%, Economy 7.9%
- #23 Settlements Rising
81% 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 28% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 9.8%, Medieval 7.1%, Economy 6.8%
- #24 Kolo
82% 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 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 13.3%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.2%
- #25 Poly Skies
81% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend from sky-high threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 11.5%, Building 10.5%, Management 7.2%
- #26 HistoriCity: Florence
79% 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 24.2% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Economy 11.1%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.5%
- #27 First Feudal
80% 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 27.4% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Medieval 7.8%
- #28 Lords and Villeins
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 28.3% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.5%
- #29 Randoville
78% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 12.6%, Building 10.8%, Medieval 8%
- #30 Pixel Colony
77% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Management 9.2%, Relaxing 8.9%, Economy 7.1%
- #31 Diluvian Winds
77% 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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Management 6.6%
- #32 Make Your Kingdom
78% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Building 12.4%, Economy 11.7%, Management 8.6%
- #33 Foundation
75% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Colony Sim 13% ★, Economy 10%, Medieval 9.3%, Building 8.7%
- #34 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Management 8.8%
- #35 Above: Colonies of the Mist
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #36 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
74% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Economy 11.1%, Stylized 7%, Building 6.4%
- #37 Dungeon Overseer
76% 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 28.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 14.2%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 7.7%
- #38 Oxygen: First Breath
74% 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 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 8.4%
- #39 United Penguin Kingdom
73% 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 26.4%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Economy 15%, Management 9.9%, Building 8.7%
- #40 Factory Town 2: Paradise
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Economy 12.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 11%
- #41 Orrstead
72% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 24%, Building 12.3%, Management 8.6%, Medieval 7.8%
- #42 Dwarrows
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 134 reviews2020
Dev: Lithic Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
A peaceful 3rd person adventure and town-building game. Gather, build, puzzle, explore, and quest in a beautifully handcrafted world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 8.7%, Management 5.9%, Third Person 5.7%
- #43 Folklands
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Economy 14.1%, Building 12.2%, Management 7.7%
- #44 Gnome Glen
71% 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 27% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 7.1%
- #45 Synergy
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 21% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 12.7%, Building 9.5%, Stylized 7.6%
- #46 Humanica
68% 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: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Building 9.5%, Management 8.6%, Stylized 8%
- #47 Forgotten Vale
70% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 12.7%, Building 11%, Management 7%
- #48 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Economy 10%, Management 7.7%, Base Building 7.1%
- #49 Banished
71% 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 40.2% ★, City Builder 35.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Medieval 4.9%, Economy 4.4%
- #50 Poly Towns
73% matchMixed43% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Casual town builder that takes place on floating islands in a fantasy world. Grow your town and manage your resources in this challenging builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Building 12.1%, Relaxing 7.4%, Base Building 7%
- #51 Abyssals
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.2%
- #52 Frontier Governor
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Economy 13.7%, Building 12.2%, Management 8.5%
- #53 The Fire Must Grow
68% 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 30% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Economy 13.6%, Building 12.9%, Management 7%
- #54 The First Settlement VR
67% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 7.7%
- #55 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% 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 40.4% ★, City Builder 35%, Building 8.4%, Medieval 6.8%, Simulation 4.5%
- #56 Ulia Chronicles
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: NioStudio
Windows
Ulia Chronicles is a city-building game set in a fantasy universe. Build your city, gather resources, and make your citizens thrive. Play alone or with your friends in this game inspired by the classics of the genre.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Economy 13.8%, Building 11.7%, Management 7.4%
- #57 Patron
68% 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 32.3% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.7%, Medieval 6.6%
- #58 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
66% 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 34.6% ★, City Builder 31.4%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
- #59 Space Station Tycoon
67% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #60 Hexity
66% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Simulation 12%, Building 8.6%, Third Person 7.2%