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  1. #1 Isla Paradiso
    97% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.3%

  2. #2 Arcane Shores
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Absent Slumber
    Windows

    Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Survival 10.5%, Economy 10.4%, Building 8.7%

  3. #3 Farmman
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 22%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.4%, Building 9.2%

  4. #4 Oxygen: First Breath
    95% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 9.1%

  5. #5 Buoyancy
    94% matchMixed56% of 820 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 34.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Pirates 13.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.8%

  6. #6 One More Island
    94% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.7%

  7. #7 Founders' Fortune
    93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.7%

  8. #8 Make Your Kingdom
    92% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
    Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
    Windows

    Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

    Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Management 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 10%

  9. #9 Path to Prosperity
    91% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2020
    Dev: Essence Games
    Windows · Mac

    Path to Prosperity is a first-person RTS game, allowing you to control your base and people from the ground. Design and build your base, let your workers collect resources and produce goods, and raise armies to fight your competitors. Re-invest your coin wisely and send enough back home to win.

    Why similar: Pirates 25.5%, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8.7%

  10. #10 Patron
    91% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 25.2%, Survival 11.6%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%

  11. #11 Sylox
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonz
    Windows

    Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 25%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 7.7%

  12. #12 Exile
    89% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
    Dev: JD7 Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 23.1%, Management 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Economy 10%

  13. #13 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    87% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

    Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.8%

  14. #14 Seeds of Resilience
    88% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 10.1%, Management 10.1%

  15. #15 Lil Guys
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 12%, Management 11.3%

  16. #16 Crowded Blue Dot
    86% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
    Windows · Linux

    Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 12.4%, Building 7.9%

  17. #17 Settlement Survival
    85% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Management 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.3%

  18. #18 Pixel Colony
    84% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
    Windows · Linux

    Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

    Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 26.7%, Management 12.5%, Survival 10%, Economy 6%

  19. #19 Planetbase
    84% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 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 30%, City Builder 27.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 6.5%

  20. #20 Kingdoms and Castles
    83% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Colony Sim 30%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%

  21. #21 Kingdoms Reborn
    82% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

    Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.2%, Economy 8.1%

  22. #22 SugarWinds: Prologue
    82% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2022
    Dev: Aatlantis Code
    Windows

    SugarWinds: sail, establish a colony, make it thrive, and defend it from attacks. Trade worldwide. Enjoy and chill!

    Why similar: Pirates 25.5%, Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 10.7%, Building 9%

  23. #23 Pirates Journey
    81% matchMixed60% of 103 reviews2024
    Dev: 2MEDYA
    Windows

    You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.

    Why similar: Pirates 33.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%

  24. #24 Rise Against the Invaders
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

    Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%

  25. #25 Ratopia
    79% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 23.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.6%

  26. #26 Tokeis
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Toe Key
    Windows

    Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!

    Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.8%, Survival 10.6%

  27. #27 United Penguin Kingdom
    79% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Management 13.3%, Economy 12.5%, Survival 12.5%

  28. #28 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
    78% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 13.1%, Management 12.2%, Economy 10.1%

  29. #29 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Nestwork Games
    Windows

    Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 24.6%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.9%

  30. #30 First Feudal
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.5%

  31. #31 Resort Galactica
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Stupid Name Studios
    Windows

    Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11%, Building 10.8%

  32. #32 Oxygen
    76% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.7%, Economy 8.8%

  33. #33 What's Left Behind
    76% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
    Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
    Windows

    A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Management 12.4%, Economy 11.9%, Building 11.3%

  34. #34 Endzone - A World Apart
    75% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 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 35.4%, Survival 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.6%

  35. #35 LowPolis
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BroWar Collective
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

    Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Management 7.4%

  36. #36 Prison Architect
    75% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
    Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.8%

  37. #37 Edge Islands
    73% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 11.2%

  38. #38 IXION
    74% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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 27.8%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 8%

  39. #39 Settlements Rising
    72% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.5%

  40. #40 Clan & Flood
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: XF STUDIO
    Windows · Mac

    Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Survival 15.3%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 10.7%

  41. #41 Paleon
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
    Dev: Paleodev
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 14.7%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.3%

  42. #42 The Fire Must Grow
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Elliott Ayling
    Windows

    In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.4%

  43. #43 Banished
    73% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
    Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Economy 3.7%

  44. #44 Guild of Dragons
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Artcue
    Windows · Mac

    Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.

    Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9%

  45. #45 Pair at Sea
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MAD CAN Studio
    Windows

    A casual management game where you manage your own pirate crew. Drag your crewmates from one room to another and keep them happy as you sail across the sea. Includes navigation, combat and a wide cast of piratey characters!

    Why similar: Pirates 43.8%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Management 9.8%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%

  46. #46 Country Architect
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
    Windows · Linux

    Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.

    Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Building 9%, Strategy 8.3%, Economy 8.2%

  47. #47 OBRII
    69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: Exponenta Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 28.8%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.3%

  48. #48 Blacksmith Master
    68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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 21.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.7%, Economy 10.3%

  49. #49 Skyline Settlers
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Riza Ozhan
    Windows

    Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 28.6%, Economy 12.1%, Strategy 11%, Management 8.4%

  50. #50 Phantom of the Grove
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Survansix
    Windows · Mac

    A fungal fairycore colony sim where you are the vengeful spirit of an ancient forest. Possess and gaslight invaders into fighting each other, reclaim their bodies as fuel for the Grove, and guide your Seely mushroom children to build and expand. The Grove is done being nice.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 23.6%, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%

  51. #51 Drownlight
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
    Windows

    Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Management 8.9%

  52. #52 Ostriv
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
    Dev: yevhen8
    Windows
    Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 24.6%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%, Economy 8.8%

  53. #53 Avian Colony
    67% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    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 27.4%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 12.8%, Survival 12%

  54. #54 Our Freedom: Prologue
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
    Windows

    The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Management 9.8%

  55. #55 Surviving the Aftermath
    68% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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 30.4%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 10.4%

  56. #56 Celestial Empire: Prologue
    66% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
    Dev: President Studio
    Windows

    Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.9%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.2%

  57. #57 Settletopia
    67% 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 26.3%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.1%

  58. #58 Republic of Pirates
    66% matchMostly Positive72% of 476 reviews2024
    Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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 34.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 5.8%

  59. #59 Dawn of Man
    67% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 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: City Builder 39.7%, Colony Sim 33.8%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Economy 4.6%

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