- #1 Cruise Ship Manager
97% matchMixed42% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Take the challenge of managing a cruise ship! Maintain your vessel, plan your route, and sell tickets to the wealthiest passengers. Give tasks to your crew and keep their morale high. Choose the ship's layout and the offered amenities. Keep the prices right, passengers happy, and your wallet full!
Why similar: Naval 22.3% ★, Economy 7.3%, Capitalism 7%, 2.5D 6.8%, Management 6.3%
- #2 Marina Manager
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gyrfalcon Games
Windows
Build and run your own marina on a lively Mediterranean island. Serve boats, make strategic business decisions, hire workers, automate operations, expand your marina, and watch your success transform the island around you.
Why similar: Naval 41.3% ★, Economy 13.7%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 8.6%, Relaxing 8%
- #3 Ocean Cargo Manager
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Angry Seagull Games
Windows
A classic maritime business simulation about cargo ships, ports, commodity trading, and route planning. Build your shipping company, navigate markets inspired by real-world trade structures, and make long-term management decisions.
Why similar: Naval 38.9% ★, Economy 18.7%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #4 TransOcean: The Shipping Company
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,331 reviews2014
Dev: Deck13 HamburgPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.
Why similar: Naval 33.9% ★, Economy 23.7%, Management 20.5%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 8%
- #5 Stonedeep
94% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: 2.5D 14.9%, Survival 11.2%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #6 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
94% matchVery Positive89% of 639 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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: Survival 14.1%, Economy 12.9%, Management 12.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #7 Tokeis
93% 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: Economy 16.2%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 10.8%
- #8 United Penguin Kingdom
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Economy 16.2%, Management 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #9 Gnome Glen
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Economy 13.2%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #10 Super Company
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Dawn Studio
Windows
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: Economy 19.3%, Capitalism 16.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 12.4%
- #11 Hotel Magnate
90% matchMixed58% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: Economy 14.8%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 13%, Capitalism 12%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #12 Hansa Forever
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Oğuzcan Şirolu
Windows
Build a medieval trading empire across Northern Europe. Establish trade routes, influence politics, expand your cities, and compete with rival merchants for wealth and power in a dynamic economic strategy game.
Why similar: Naval 26.8% ★, Capitalism 15.5%, Economy 14.9%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #13 Property Pro
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: Economy 16.2%, Management 14.3%, Capitalism 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, City Builder 10.8%
- #14 Werner Waffenwerke: Arms Tycoon
88% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Stobi Games UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Build your own armaments empire. Develop customised weapons, build and expand factories, manage staff, production and finances, and sell your products on the global market. Transform a run-down family business into the world’s most valuable corporation.
Why similar: Capitalism 23.2%, Economy 18.6%, Management 15.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 9.4%
- #15 Justice Project
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hopeful Pixels
Windows · Mac
A management and tycoon game where you build and manage a courthouse. From small-town traffic courts to high-profile criminal cases you are the one in control. Build your courthouse, hire and manage staff, schedule cases and balance the pressures of efficiency and reputation.
Why similar: Capitalism 18.1%, Economy 17.3%, Management 16%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #16 Oxygen: First Breath
85% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Economy 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #17 Seeds of Resilience
86% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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: Economy 13.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Management 11.4%, Colony Sim 11.2%
- #18 Pixel Colony
84% matchPositive93% of 46 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: Management 13.9%, City Builder 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Survival 11.6%, Relaxing 10.8%
- #19 LUGANO BAY TYCOON
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zoran PavlovicPub: Zogo
Windows
Build and manage your lakeside business in Lugano Bay Tycoon. Rent out pedal boats and boats, serve customers, reinvest your profits, and expand your operation in a relaxing management game set on the shores of an Alpine lake.
Why similar: Naval 33.6% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Nature 12.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #20 Office Manager
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jan Štěpánek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own office empire. Design buildings, find tenants, negotiate contracts, and keep them happy. Research new technologies, expand your business, and handle unexpected events in a living office world.
Why similar: Economy 15.9%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, 2.5D 12.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #21 Galaxy Scavengers
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 11.2%
- #22 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: Economy 13.5%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Colony Sim 9.8%
- #23 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Survival 12.1%, Economy 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, City Builder 11%, Colony Sim 10.5%
- #24 Camping Keeper
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Studio Durand
Windows
Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.
Why similar: Management 14.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Capitalism 11.4%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #25 Humanica
79% matchVery Positive94% of 215 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Management 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, City Builder 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #26 Exoplanet Outpost
80% matchNo user reviews2030
Dev: Aartform LabsPub: Aartform Ltd
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Capitalism 13.2%, 2.5D 12.7%, Economy 11.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Colony Sim 9.7%
- #27 Exile
78% matchMixed60% 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: Economy 14.1%, Survival 12.5%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.9%
- #28 Datacenter Simulator
77% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Jelle
Windows
A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.
Why similar: Capitalism 20.6%, Economy 17.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, Management 16.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #29 Aircraft Carrier Survival
79% matchMixed60% of 1,239 reviews2022
Dev: Gambit Games StudioPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.
Why similar: Naval 31.8% ★, Economy 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #30 Wall Street Broker
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GamesCorpPub: Zero Sun Games
Windows
A real-time portfolio management sim where you build a career as a stock broker. Balance clients' trust, market timing, and your own reputation on a procedurally-generated Wall Street that never stops moving.
Why similar: Capitalism 23.6%, Economy 19.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #31 Project manager SIM
76% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Escapismogames
Windows
Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon! Plan projects, hire a dream team, assign tasks to specialists, and monitor the budget while upgrading your office. Balance between team burnout, complex contracts, and the wrath of upper management.
Why similar: Capitalism 21.4%, Economy 20.4%, Management 19.2%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #32 CENTAVO
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: Economy 17.8%, Capitalism 16%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.5%
- #33 Ranchbound
75% matchMixed49% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Raise cattle, develop your ranch, hire cowboys, buy land, and invest in local businesses in a real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: Economy 14%, Management 12.1%, Capitalism 10.7%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #34 Law Firm Simulator
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dizzy
Windows
Law Firm Simulator is a business management sandbox where you build and run your own legal empire. Hire lawyers, take on clients, manage complex cases, expand your offices, and grow a small practice into the city’s most prestigious law firm.
Why similar: Capitalism 22.1%, Economy 18.5%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 12.5%, 2.5D 10.9%
- #35 Pocket City 2
75% matchVery Positive94% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.
Why similar: Economy 17.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Capitalism 13.5%, Relaxing 9.2%
- #36 FD's Industry Tycoon
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
Why similar: Economy 17.6%, Capitalism 15.3%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, City Builder 9.9%
- #37 Office Management 101
74% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: Capitalism 17%, Economy 15%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, City Builder 9.1%
- #38 Radia Island
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Economy 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Colony Sim 11.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 11.1%
- #39 Mall Craze
73% matchMixed54% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Milan Timčenko
Windows
Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!
Why similar: Capitalism 19.9%, Economy 16.4%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, City Builder 9.6%
- #40 Pawnholm
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Sandbox 13.9%, Management 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, City Builder 10.8%, Colony Sim 10.5%
- #41 Settlements Rising
71% 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 13%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #42 Hero Investor: Business Tycoon
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SmartAtum
Windows
Build an investment firm, trade fictional markets, acquire income-producing property, and create your own ETFs as you grow from a small office into a financial empire in this player-paced management simulation.
Why similar: Capitalism 21.5%, Economy 21.4%, Management 18.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #43 Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
72% matchMixed60% of 245 reviews2022
Dev: Lapovich TeamPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Why similar: Capitalism 18.5%, Economy 17.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Survival 11.7%
- #44 Oblivions Garden
71% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: RetroHubAI, Inc.Pub: https://oblivions.garden/
Windows · Mac · Linux
Claim a hex anywhere on a 1:1 reconstruction of real Earth and build a city that never stops growing. Real satellite terrain, real building outlines, a hierarchical economy from one parcel to a continent — and an AI that grows the world while you sleep.
Why similar: Capitalism 16.6%, Economy 14.4%, City Builder 11.2%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Management 10.9%
- #45 Diluvian Winds
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 391 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: Economy 12.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.4%, Colony Sim 10.2%
- #46 KingForge
70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Survival 14.3%, Open World 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #47 Foundation
68% 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 19.3%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #48 Amusement Tycoon
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BronStudio
Windows
Manage your park in Amusement Tycoon! Build thrilling attractions, manage staff, and delight visitors to create the park of your dreams and achieve success!
Why similar: Capitalism 18.1%, Management 17.4%, Economy 16%, Sandbox 13.9%, City Builder 13.3%
- #49 Kingdoms and Castles
70% 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 11.9%, Economy 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #50 Ratopia
67% 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: Survival 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Management 12.2%, City Builder 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #51 SuperColony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.5%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 11%, Base Building 10.9%
- #52 SimCasino
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 758 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
Why similar: Capitalism 17.2%, Economy 14.8%, Sandbox 13%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.3%
- #53 Frontier Roots
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Economy 15.5%, Survival 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 11.2%
- #54 Cloudlings
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
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: 2.5D 14.2%, Economy 13.3%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Survival 11.7%, Management 11.7%
- #55 SeaColony
65% 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: Survival 14.2%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Economy 13.5%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #56 Wildlife Park 2
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 561 reviews2014
Dev: b-alive gmbh
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.
Why similar: Naval 27.4% ★, Economy 16.2%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 7%
- #57 Forgotten Vale
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Economy 14.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, City Builder 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Management 10.9%
- #58 Endzone 2
66% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Economy 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Colony Sim 12.1%, City Builder 11.2%
- #59 Dungeon Contractor
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Perseverance Games
Windows
Run a fantasy dungeon maintenance company. Repair damage, hire monsters, build deadly traps, and prepare dungeons for the next wave of greedy heroes. Every contract is a new challenge where smart planning leads to bigger profits.
Why similar: Management 23.7%, Economy 20.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%