- #1 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
97% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.8%, Time Management 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Base Building 6%
- #2 Infection Free Zone
96% matchVery Positive81% of 18,465 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #3 Zombie Cure Lab
96% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 12.2%, Time Management 10.7%, Base Building 7.9%
- #4 Dead Night Highway
95% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Mr. Pink
Windows
Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Base Building 7.5%
- #5 Warranted Humanity
94% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Character Customization 5.3%
- #6 Treetopians
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 23.1%, Outbreak Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 8.4%, Time Management 7.4%
- #7 Last Rail
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Benar'd Games
Windows · Linux
Lead a train carrying the last survivors of humanity across a frozen world. Manage resources, explore abandoned locations, and make difficult decisions that will determine the future of Convoy 07.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 55.1% ★, Colony Sim 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Survival 2%
- #8 Post-Apo Builder
92% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.7% ★, Time Management 12.9%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #9 Zombie Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33.5% ★, Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 19%, Strategy 7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%
- #10 Garden Apocalypse
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OMEGABYTE
Windows
Once a thriving alien world, now a vast desert—devoured by the relentless Swarm. These towering insect invaders have left only scattered oases and buried ruins. Grow food, craft powerful resources, and uncover lost secrets to push back against the tide and restore balance to a dying world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.4% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6%
- #11 CyberTown: Prologue
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyber Games
Windows
CyberTown - Is a game about interplanetary colonization where you create new cybernetic cities. Build, develop and strengthen your cities. Natural disasters, diseases, the needs of the population and much more will not let you get bored in this new cybernetic world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Base Building 5.7%
- #12 Eco Park
90% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: LunaBrod
Windows
Eco Park is a game about ecology and lo-fi hip-hop. Manage a dynamic ecosystem with creatures eating, breeding, and dying in real time. You’ll need to introduce species to increase biodiversity. Keep population sizes under control, or one species might extinguish another.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Strategy 5.9%
- #13 Project Apocalypse
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
- #14 Settletopia
88% 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 28%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 6%
- #15 After Inc: Revival
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,407 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #16 Founders' Fortune
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 40%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Character Customization 4.8%
- #17 Echo Maiden
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 62% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Third Person 3.4%, RPG 3.2%
- #18 The Outbreak Guardian
85% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Vanilla Cookys
Windows
The Outbreak Guardian is a third person open-world game where you are in charge of ensuring the welfare of the citizens of Patriam by managing the city's resources, which involves delivering equipment and some skilled driving.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 53.4% ★, Time Management 19.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Open World 5.3%, Survival 5.2%
- #19 Lord Of Anatolia
83% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Outbreak Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Time Management 17.7%, Base Building 9.3%
- #20 Rising Dead
84% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Frozen Dungeon
Windows
Survive a zombie-infested mall for 3 days. Fight, scavenge, rescue, and customize your character in this dynamic game.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.9% ★, Time Management 19.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Character Customization 6.5%, Action 2.7%
- #21 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
84% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #22 Manifest369 power defence
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ManifestStudiosPub: Manifest
Windows
Restore power to fragmented islands in a post-apocalyptic base-building sandbox. Start from a hidden cave with 1,200+ items, rebuild infrastructure, earn settlement trust, and trade, loot or negotiate—while defending power stations with turrets from enemy waves every 7 days. ⚡🛡️
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.8% ★, Gun Customization 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Crafting 7.5%, Character Customization 7.3%
- #23 After the Collapse
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%
- #24 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,046 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 15%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #25 Zombie Survival
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Dragon Games Inc.
Windows
The theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 7.9%, Survival 4%
- #26 Mad Tower Tycoon
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 443 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 6.5%
- #27 Undead Defense TD
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 5.7%
- #28 T-Minus 30
78% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Time Management 17.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #29 Buoyancy
79% matchMixed55% of 831 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 43.9%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%
- #30 Never Secure
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Outbreak Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #31 Stonehearth
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,067 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 28%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 5.4%, Strategy 5.3%
- #32 StoneEra
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #33 Moonlit Nights
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Umut Bora
Windows · Mac · Linux
Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world. Form raiding parties and send them out to gather supplies, deal with mysterious visitors, and make difficult choices. How many days can you survive, or can you be freed and return to your normal life? Make your choice wisely.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.1% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.4%, Survival 3.4%
- #34 Prisoners Hunt
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Leclerc Alexandre
Windows
Fulgeonix criminals, made of pure energy, escape and sow chaos. Hunted by the Chaenombrus, guardians who can make themselves invisible, they must use their transformative powers to survive. In “Prisoners Hunt”, every escape is a fight for freedom.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 55.3% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, PvP 7%, Action 6%
- #35 Evil Labs
77% matchMixed70% of 82 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 82.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #36 Gnomoria
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 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 37.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Crafting 6.1%
- #37 Surviving the Aftermath
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,564 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.7%
- #38 Resilient
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Outbreak Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #39 Noble Fates
73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,482 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Character Customization 9%
- #40 Colonies of The Remnant
72% matchVery Negative7% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Cat Soul Studios
Windows
In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.2% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Open World 6.6%
- #41 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 26.1%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.5%
- #42 Pawns Survival
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pawn Bros Games
Windows
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%
- #43 Total City Defence
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Imprint Gaming
Windows
Total City Defense is a zombie themed survival game where you must complete each level to progress. Using the mouse and keyboard you control various units, including Troops, Turrets and Drones to make your way through each level rescuing civilians, VIPS and destroying enemy strong holds.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 53.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8%, Strategy 7.1%, Action 2.9%
- #44 Cloud Exiles
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #45 Endzone - A World Apart
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,976 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Survival 7.8%
- #46 Colony Survival
71% matchVery Positive92% of 8,965 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 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 38.7%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #47 Rochford Reanimated
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: aweasd
Windows
Rochford Reanimated is a card-based survival strategy game set in a zombie apocalypse. Lead survivors on missions, manage resources, and make tough choices to rebuild your community or fall to the undead. Every decision could be your last.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 5.3%, Crafting 4.6%
- #48 Girl Survivors
70% matchMostly Negative20% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: That Girl
Windows
Girl Survivor is a survival, construction, and role-playing game with a zombie themed background.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.4% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Third Person 5.4%
- #49 TFM: The First Men
70% matchMixed60% of 413 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 39.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, City Builder 8.7%, Procedural Generation 6%
- #50 Oxygen: First Breath
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 27.4%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Strategy 6.9%
- #51 Entropy Department
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollow Art Studios
Windows
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.3% ★, Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 5.4%
- #52 Frontier Roots
68% 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 29.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Time Management 19.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 7.9%
- #53 Planetbase
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,410 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 37.5%, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 6%, Survival 5.9%
- #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 29.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
- #55 Genesis of a Small God
66% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.4% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #56 The Blighted Frontier
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 38%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%
- #57 Banished
68% matchVery Positive90% of 43,280 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 42.2%, City Builder 34%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 5.7%
- #58 Dawn of Man
67% matchVery Positive87% of 17,818 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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 40.1%, City Builder 37.2%, Sandbox 6.8%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%
- #59 Noble Legacy
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 786 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 11%, Character Customization 7.7%