- #1 Republic of Pirates
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 545 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: Pirates 22.7% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Colony Sim 13%, Diplomacy 8.1% ★, Management 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact same pirate haven building and naval management gameplay loop found in Corsair Cove.
- #2 Manor Lords
96% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.9%, Colony Sim 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%, Diplomacy 8.5% ★, 4X 8% ★
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply immersive medieval building and supply chain simulation with a similar historical aesthetic.
- #3 Port Royale 4
96% matchMixed57% of 2,148 reviews2020
Dev: Gaming MindsPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.
Why similar: Pirates 26.3% ★, Economy 14.1%, City Builder 14%, Management 8.7%, Historical 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on Caribbean trade empires, maritime economy, and naval dominance during the Age of Sail.
- #4 Anno 1800
95% matchVery Positive81% of 32,498 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Economy 16.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers complex production chains and maritime logistics that mirror the deep economic management of Corsair Cove.
- #5 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
94% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Colony Sim 8%, Historical 7.3%, Diplomacy 7.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: Matches the intense, uncompromising focus on complex production chains and citizen management seen in Corsair Cove.
- #6 Anno 117: Pax Romana
94% matchMixed69% of 12,872 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Economy 13.3%, Historical 12.6%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features sprawling classical city-building and maritime trade mechanics akin to managing a bustling pirate cove.
- #7 Against the Storm
93% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11%, Colony Sim 9%, City Builder 8.9%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, 4X 7.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: Challenges your administrative skills with high-stakes colony building and resource balancing under pressure.
- #8 Norland
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,516 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.4%, City Builder 9%, Diplomacy 7.9% ★, 4X 7.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: Combines gritty historical simulation with internal societal management and political maneuvering.
- #9 Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
91% matchMixed57% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.
Why similar: Pirates 35.8% ★, Diplomacy 15% ★, Historical 11.5%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in the tactical naval combat and criminal underworld operations of the pirate era.
- #10 Patron
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 18.2%, City Builder 18.1%, Moddable 7.6%, Base Building 7.1%, Economy 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that emphasizes social stability and economic production chains just like Corsair Cove.
- #11 Flotsam
89% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features oceanic town-building where you salvage resources from the sea to grow your floating community.
- #12 Whiskerwood
89% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.6%, City Builder 9.1%, Diplomacy 7.7% ★, 4X 7.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes multi-layered industrial production chains and colony management within a specialized setting.
- #13 Aquatico
90% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.2%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Builds unique underwater settlements requiring specialized logistics similar to managing a coastal pirate haven.
- #14 Land of the Vikings
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,266 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Historical 8.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty historical leadership and survival aspects of managing a rugged seafaring community.
- #15 Going Medieval
84% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Moddable 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Historical 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers robust colony simulation and base building where managing your populace's needs is paramount.
- #16 Ocean Punk
86% matchVery Positive80% of 170 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Pirates 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Moddable 9.9%, Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends post-apocalyptic ocean survival with base building and maritime exploration elements.
- #17 Buoyancy
88% 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 32.2%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Pirates 11% ★, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Tasks you with constructing and expanding a floating city on the open water while managing dwindling resources.
- #18 Settlement Survival
86% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.1%, Survival 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing citizens, professions, and intricate supply lines to keep a fledgling settlement alive.
- #19 Ostriv
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers hyper-detailed historical town simulation and deep economic networking for resource distribution.
- #20 Cataclismo
84% matchVery Positive89% of 4,346 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.2%, Colony Sim 9%, City Builder 8.9%, Diplomacy 8.2% ★, 4X 7.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: Combines modular fortress building with strategic defense mechanics against relentless hordes.
- #21 Nova Roma
83% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.8%, City Builder 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.9%, Diplomacy 7.1% ★, Historical 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Channels classic historical city-building and infrastructure management along coastal and river trade routes.
- #22 Space Haven
82% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9%, Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Translates colony simulation and complex internal crew management into a confined, mobile environment.
- #23 Kingdoms and Castles
82% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 14.8%, 4X 10.3% ★, Base Building 8.1%, Economy 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A charming city builder that focuses on growing a fortified stronghold and defending it against threats.
- #24 Blacksmith Master
81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 13.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Moddable 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides granular workshop and production management that appeals to logistics-focused simulation fans.
- #25 Empires of the Undergrowth
80% matchVery Positive94% of 18,977 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.3%, Colony Sim 9.3%, City Builder 9%, Diplomacy 7.5% ★, 4X 7.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on strategic base building and resource management within a competitive natural ecosystem.
- #26 Surviving the Aftermath
81% matchMixed70% of 4,648 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your capability to govern a harsh outpost with specialized citizens and hazardous external pressures.
- #27 Songs of Syx
79% matchVery Positive94% of 9,302 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 42.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.1%, Colony Sim 12.9%, City Builder 12.7%, 4X 10.4% ★, Moddable 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive scale colony builder where managing vast populations and economic output is the core challenge.
- #28 Of Life and Land
78% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: City Builder 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Historical 8.4%, Moddable 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An organic settlement builder emphasizing harmony between resource exploitation and the local environment.
- #29 ALL WILL FALL
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7%
- #30 Ancient Cities
79% matchMixed63% of 2,171 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Historical 12.9%, Moddable 12.3%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Economy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a deeply realistic historical survival city builder centered on resource gathering and societal progression.
- #31 House of Legacy
77% matchVery Positive83% of 3,987 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Diplomacy 18.4% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Management 9.4%, Economy 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #32 Exogate Initiative
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 15.4%, 4X 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Involves managing specialized personnel and complex base operations under tight logistical constraints.
- #33 Heart of the Machine
76% matchVery Positive92% of 2,139 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.4%, Colony Sim 8.9%, City Builder 8.9%, Diplomacy 8.4% ★, 4X 7.5% ★
- #34 Ratopia
76% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.7%
- #35 SeaColony
75% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.9%
- #36 Foundation
73% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 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 31.2%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Economy 8.5%, Building 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #37 Kingdoms Reborn
75% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 27.7%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 8.5%, Management 8.1%
- #38 IXION
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #39 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
73% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.3%
- #40 Celestial Empire
72% matchVery Positive89% of 732 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Historical 13.5%, Economy 12%, Building 10%
- #41 Solargene
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 855 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.4%, 4X 9.3% ★, Economy 8.6%
- #42 Goblins of Elderstone
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 14.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Diplomacy 11.1% ★, 4X 10.5% ★
- #43 Wild West Pioneers
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.5%, 4X 12.1% ★, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #44 The Crust
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #45 Farthest Frontier
70% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 13.4%, 4X 12.2% ★, Building 10.7%, Historical 10%
- #46 Settlements Rising
72% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.2%, Management 7%
- #47 Captain of Industry
71% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #48 KAISERPUNK
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 935 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 20.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Historical 11.6%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9.1%
- #49 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Moddable 9.1%
- #50 MEMORIAPOLIS
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,806 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Historical 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.2%
- #51 Pioneers of Pagonia
67% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 12.3%, Building 10.3%
- #52 Lords and Villeins
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 22%, City Builder 19.5%, Management 9.8%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #53 Primitive Society Simulator
68% matchVery Positive84% of 760 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.3%, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, Base Building 11%, Historical 10.7%
- #54 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Diplomacy 13.8% ★, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%
- #55 Anno 1404 - History Edition
69% matchVery Positive82% of 3,619 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Building 13%, Grand Strategy 12.2%, Management 9.4%
- #56 Industries of Titan
68% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, 4X 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.8%
- #57 Frozenheim
68% matchMixed69% of 3,930 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Economy 21.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 11.6%
- #58 Airborne Empire
64% matchVery Positive87% of 948 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Open World 9%
- #59 Founders' Fortune
67% 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 27.3%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #60 Rise of Piracy
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 547 reviews2026
Dev: IrishJohnGamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
The perfect blend of Action, Adventure and RTS. Begin your journey as the lowly captain of a small vessel. End as the commander of a threatening fleet. Rise to glory how you see fit. Trade, fight, recruit, grow, pillage, ally, destroy & conquer.
Why similar: Pirates 39.6% ★, Diplomacy 23.9% ★, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 9.4%, Simulation 7.6%