60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Base Building, Strategy, Simulation.
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Zomboard
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
The Wild Age
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12%, Isometric 7.3%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
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 27.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 6.4%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.7%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Automation 8%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 7.8%, Minimalist 7.7%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 8%, Building 7%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Tower Defense 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 8.1%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.4%
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 26%, Time Management 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 14.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Crafting 10%, Automation 9.5%
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Strategy 8.5%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Tower Defense 17%, Crafting 12.9%, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 8%
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.9%
Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Time Management 18.5%, Survival 16.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 10.5%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.3%, Building 7.2%
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.1%, Isometric 10%
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 38.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 6%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 9.3%
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 11.2%
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 30.7%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 9.1%
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 34.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 7.7%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Isometric 9.5%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 8%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.5%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 9%, Crafting 9%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 6.9%
Survive in a cruel world, build and expand your village, and descend into the darkness below. Gather resources, make difficult choices, and uncover the unspeakable truth hidden deep within the cave in this dark incremental game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 16%, Isometric 9%, Survival 6.9%
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Automation 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 8.2%, Building 8.2%
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 10.5%, Automation 10%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Base Building 19%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.8%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 8.5%, Isometric 7.8%, Exploration 6.7%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Crafting 8.2%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 12.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Isometric 13%, Time Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.4%
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Isometric 8.4%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.4%, Building 8.1%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Time Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 9.6%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 6.2%
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 28.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 8%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Isometric 6.9%
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 26.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.7%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12%, Strategy 7.2%
Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Automation 9.6%
