- #1 SkillGrid
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 26%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Minimalist 6.2%
- #2 L'Avancée du désert
96% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Ian Corbeil
Windows
L'Avancée du désert est un jeu de gestion où vous devez développer votre colonie spatiale pour récolter de la nourriture et trouver de nouvelles technologies tout en combattant la désertification.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 33.2%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Strategy 16%, Relaxing 4.4%
- #3 Project Hortus
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PerfectioNH
Windows
Project Hortus is a city-building strategy game set in a distant future, after Earth has been destroyed. On the planet Hortus Prime, it's up to you to establish a new civilization. Manage your city, explore uncharted territories, and face unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 22.8%, Aliens 17.6%, Minimalist 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%
- #4 Nettle
95% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: 2xN StudiosPub: theepiccoder
Windows
A single-player survival RTS game about exploring the vast cosmos, the many planets inhabiting it and their countless secrets. You'll need to explore, gather resources and research new technologies in order to survive, thrive, and eventually build a colony on a bizarre, foreign world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 20.5%, Aliens 16.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
- #5 Nigredo
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 25.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Linear 7.9%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #6 Kingdom of Bees
94% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: HronPub: Lezy Bee
Windows
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 35.8%, Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Strategy 11.4%, Minimalist 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
- #7 Kingdom Lands
93% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: TolaTolaGames
Windows
Kingdom Lands - A game in the strategy genre, where the player build various constructions to extract resources to build houses and develop his kingdom.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 51.9%, Minimalist 13.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Casual 5.2%
- #8 Oasis RTS
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spackogames
Windows
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 27.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Base Building 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #9 RECONNECT - The Heart of Darkness
91% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: RobotHeart Lab
Windows
Prove yourself against a real machine learning AI that learns as you play! Build your base grid-free and defend it against a swarm of AI-controlled drones that get smarter with each attack. Reconnect the enemy base to get your own drones, train and command them in the final battle AI vs AI.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 23.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Artificial Intelligence 19.2%, Minimalist 12.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #10 Clicky Islands
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Karrot Games
Windows · Linux
Clicky Islands is a unique blend of incremental gameplay, clicker mechanics, city-builder elements, and resource management. You play as a governor appointed by the king to discover and develop a new island for his future kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Minimalist 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #11 Whiteverse: No Country for Old Men
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Whiteverse Studio
Windows
This is a game combines SIM and SRPG. Please lead your family, your friends and strangers who come to you to survive in this broken, unknown and fascinating universe, Captain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 21.5%, Aliens 11.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Base Building 9%
- #12 Plasmatic
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: EpicVR
Windows
Plasmatic is a puzzle-solving game where every level is a race against the clock. Follow the clues provided by an AI named SPIRIT, who will guide you through a series of increasingly difficult puzzles. Discover new levels, unfold the story, and decide its ending for yourself.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 32.6%, Artificial Intelligence 16.6%, Linear 12.4%, Minimalist 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #13 Astro Wars
89% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: 26horses
Windows
Astro Wars is a Free Multiplayer Space Strategy Game. You start at the edge of the galaxy where you can build up, colonize and take over planets in competition with players from all over the world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Aliens 23.7%, Strategy 17.5%, Base Building 16.8%, 2D 2.2%
- #14 ShardSpace
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SmartMita
Windows
Shard Space is a minimalist strategy game. In the distant future, you awaken from a long slumber. Guided by a loyal lieutenant, you must rebuild your drone fleet and embark on a journey to uncover the ultimate truth of the universe.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 29.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Minimalist 10.9%
- #15 Space Tales
86% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Saigon Dragon Studios
Windows · Mac
A sci-fi real-time strategy game where you build fortified bases, manage resources, and command retro-futuristic armies against multiple asymmetric alien factions. Capture powerful enemy bosses and turn them into allies. Master unit control, base-building economics, and counter-strategy to survive.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 24.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Aliens 16%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Sci-fi 10%
- #16 Sigma Draconis
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 21%, Strategy 15.7%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Relaxing 5.6%
- #17 Loot Express Delivery Service
86% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: 2Bit Couch Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on an adventure with Loot Express Delivery Service, a 2D pixel art game. As the commander, your goal is to retrieve valuable items from a distant planet. Utilize your skills and strategy to complete missions and guide your company to prosperity.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 26.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Sci-fi 11%, Strategy 10.5%
- #18 Orbiteers
84% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Northborne Studios
Windows
Design efficient space stations across the solar system in this minimalist puzzle-builder. Solve unique challenges with help from your assistant L.U.N.A., optimize your builds, maximize your score, and lead humanity’s journey beyond Earth!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Linear 11.7%, Minimalist 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%
- #19 IdleZomb
84% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: STLgame
Windows
IdleZomb: Manage a ruined hospital, create zombies, evolve them, or sacrifice them for DNA. Every decision counts in this post-apocalyptic management game. Early Access focuses on the basics, with content available up to level 20.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 31.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Casual 6.7%
- #20 Maia
85% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 5.8%
- #21 Starmancer
82% matchMixed64% of 1,024 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Sci-fi 11%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
- #22 Swarming Planet
83% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: RedZyrro
Windows
Build towers and learn abilities to defend against swarms of hundreds of on-screen hostile alien creatures. Choose between sets of randomized upgrades that both upgrade you and the alien swarm. From enormous explosions to far-reaching flamethrowers, no two games are the same.
Why similar: Aliens 27.1%, Real Time Tactics 25.8%, Base Building 21.4%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 10.4%
- #23 The Land of Babel
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kingrokaPub: Me
Windows · Linux
Build and nurture the universe of your dreams with Land of Babel; an expansive simulation city builder. Construct and manage powerful empires, establish intricate and detailed economies, explore unknown lands, embark on captivating quests, and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Real Time Tactics 24.2%, Artificial Intelligence 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #24 No King No Kingdom VR
82% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Fullmetal Developer
Windows
No King No Kingdom VR – First-Person Strategy Game. Ride Dragons! Command peasants! Build towns! Raise Armies! Tame Epic Creatures! Take your own sword and fight side by side with your troops against powerful giant bosses!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 31.4%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 22.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Indie 3.9%
- #25 Outlands
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 24.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #26 Binary Barrier
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Upgraded Studio
Windows
Defend your AI capital against endless alien invasions in this space shmup-inspired tower defense with roguelite randomness. Dissect bodies and ships to unlock weirdly powerful tech. Upgrade your base with turrets, turning your screen into a symphony of perfect destruction!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Aliens 23.6%, Base Building 22.8%, Sci-fi 12%, Strategy 8%
- #27 DexSweeper
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Fishagon LLC
Windows
In DexSweeper, the cursor never stops moving. Use the joystick or mouse to guide your movement, then time your tile reveals carefully--one wrong move could be your last!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 34.6%, Strategy 16.1%, Minimalist 12.5%, Old School 8.6%, Retro 7.3%
- #28 Astro Mining
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Snarkle Studios
Windows
Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 29.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%
- #29 Flappy Alien
77% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Maros
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prepare for an intergalactic adventure in Flappy Alien! Navigate your UFO through space, dodge obstacles, and aim for the highest score.
Why similar: Aliens 25%, Minimalist 16%, Linear 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Casual 10.2%
- #30 Castle Formers
78% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
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 34% ★, Base Building 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Minimalist 5.1%
- #31 Trailblazers: Into the March
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrangersPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Strategy 9.5%
- #32 rymdkapsel
78% matchVery Positive83% of 277 reviews2014
Dev: grapefrukt games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a space station. Command the tiny crew. Explore the galaxy. A meditative space strategy game.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 34.8%, Base Building 22.5%, Minimalist 11.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Relaxing 6.5%
- #33 TFM: The First Men
76% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, Base Building 30.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Management 4.3%
- #34 Kennedy Approach
75% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: One Armed Bandit
Windows
Remake of the classic Air Traffic Control simulation game Kennedy Approach.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 39.3%, Old School 21.8%, Strategy 14%, Casual 11.3%, Retro 6.1%
- #35 Embark
76% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 52.1% ★, Base Building 27.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Sci-fi 3.7%, Management 3.2%
- #36 D.A.D.S.
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Character Design
Windows · Mac · Linux
Use your special ops units to construct base facilities and towers to protect them from the ever-increasing threat of alien invaders in this Tower Defense game with a city-building element! Research their weaknesses and develop defenses before mankind runs out of time.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 30.3%, Base Building 24.6%, Aliens 14.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Minimalist 9.9%
- #37 Feluna Base
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LiberaByte
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tiny base builder roguelite where the only enemy is time. Provide food and shelter for your growing outpost. Produce advanced resources for your home station. Discover the mysteries of Feluna with every new run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Base Building 27.2%, Minimalist 10%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Strategy 9.4%
- #38 Windowed Realms
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, Base Building 19%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 4.6%
- #39 Pelikeeper
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Merge Conflict Studio
Windows
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 25.1%, Base Building 23.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Relaxing 5.5%
- #40 Colonization Simulator
73% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 23.7%, Sci-fi 13%, Aliens 12.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #41 NanoWar: Cells VS Virus
72% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Benoît FreslonPub: OKASHI GAMES
Windows · Mac
Fight against the viruses and cure the entire body! A fast-paced real-time strategy game of cell conquest. Lot of players already got the bug... ready to defend your cells?
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 44.7%, Linear 12.8%, Artificial Intelligence 12%, Strategy 10.6%, Cute 5.1%
- #42 Infectra
73% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Boar-in-gamesPub: Ordinary Pine Studio
Windows
Ifectra is a strategy game set in 2124 on the distant planet Emevera III, ruled by the Maxploit Corporation, where an epidemic of a yet unknown virus broke out. Your goal as the corporation security commander is to evacuate as many healthy people as possible and to eliminate infected individuals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 27.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Minimalist 10.4%, Strategy 10%
- #43 Chillout
72% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Cacti8
Windows
Chillout – Master the Slippery RoadA fast-paced arcade game where you steer a car across slippery, ice-like tracks, dodging obstacles with precision and quick reflexes. Acceleration and control are key as each level gets more challenging
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 40.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Linear 12.2%, Casual 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%
- #44 Crashbound
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Foolhardy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand and survive in a magical hand-painted world filled with friends and foes. Grow and manage your settlement in the day, defend it through the night, and rebuild your broken airship to claim your escape!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 28.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Casual 1.9%
- #45 Bitosphere
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Abdullah Al BajjaliPub: SmallRiverStudio
Windows
Embark on a Galactic Adventure in Bitosphere a Captivating 1-bit Clicker Game
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 26.5%, Aliens 17.1%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #46 Oxygen Not Included
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48% ★, Base Building 33.5%, Strategy 5%, Sci-fi 4.4%, Management 4%
- #47 Subciety
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rhydermike
Windows · Linux
Build and defend an underwater colony on Europa. Master the physics of towing massive structures through the deep. Hack hostile tech and mine rare resources to out-compete rival factions in this atmospheric underwater survival-builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 27.5%, Aliens 15.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 8.4%
- #48 Garden of Ants
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tomáš VětrovskýPub: Wietrack Softwork
Windows
Become the architect of a thriving ant colony in this real-time simulation. Establish and evolve your ant colony, grow specialized worker castes, cultivate fungus, and explore a living world above and below ground where day and night bring shifting challenges and resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 22.5%, Minimalist 13.2%, Strategy 11.9%, 2D 1.4%
- #49 Alien Marauder
70% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Real Time Tactics 18.8%, Aliens 15.5%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #50 Nederfall
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1Time Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A post-apocalyptic survival management game where you lead a camp of survivors, send them on expeditions to scavenge weapons and resources, and rebuild society by constructing and upgrading your camp in a fallen Netherlands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 20.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Artificial Intelligence 19.7%, Management 5.8%
- #51 Space Base Defense
68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Morgenmiddag
Windows · Mac
A strategic and action-packed base survival game where you mine crystals, build units, and defend your base against waves of UFOs. Defeat enemies, gather resources, and unlock new planets to expand your defenses. Are you ready to conquer the galaxy?
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 29.8%, Aliens 20.3%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #52 _space_train
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Josh McNamee
Windows
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Aliens 24.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #53 Pod Jam
67% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Error 300
Windows
Assist alien pods to land safely, solve retro puzzles that come with unique mechanics in this ambient sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Aliens 39.1%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Casual 9.9%, Indie 3.9%
- #54 RedShip
69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Dry Duck LLC
Windows
Match colors to build your own spaceship! Explore space and fight alien spacecrafts while acquiring weapons and upgrading your red ship. Become the space pilot you’ve always wanted to be.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 33.7%, Aliens 24.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #55 Don't take me away
67% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: zzzgame
Windows
This is a tower defense building game. The game controls the movement of the protagonist through the arrow keys on the keyboard or the left mouse button, and interacts with characters and objects in the scene through the space bar.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 42.6%, Base Building 27.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Retro 8.9%, Casual 6.6%
- #56 Aven Colony
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.5% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Indie 1.8%
- #57 They Came From the Sky
68% matchVery Positive94% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: FobTi interactive
Windows
They Came From the Sky is tiny, retro styled, highly-addictive and fast paced arcade game wherein you take the role of one of the Flying Saucers in the 1950s with one and only one Mission: Make a delicious juicy Human Smoothie!
Why similar: Aliens 25.6%, Old School 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Casual 11.4%
- #58 The HELL Prologue
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 33.6%, Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Base Building 20%, Strategy 8%, Management 5.7%
- #59 Radical Tower Defense
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NewNull
Windows
In Radical Tower Defense, harness shifting core chips to forge a unique steel defense. Each choice reshapes your combat style. Unlock architectures, explore chip synergies, ignite tactical reactions. Don’t just defend—become a blade to break formations, strike the heartland, crush the enemy lair!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 38.8%, Base Building 28.1%, Strategy 19%, Minimalist 9.8%, Indie 2.4%
- #60 B-Type: Space Builder
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Darenn Keller
Windows · Mac · Linux
A base builder shoot'em up in Deep Space. Explore the galaxy aboard your B-Type Star Ship. Shoot down your foes to expand your territory. Build planetary facilities, collect resources and raise an Intergalactic Defense Force. Can you save the world from a robotic alien invasion across dimensions?
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 27.6%, Base Building 23.6%, Aliens 16.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%