- #1 NecroCity
97% matchMixed52% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.2%, Isometric 7.1%
- #2 NecroCity: Prologue
96% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.2%
- #3 Border Base
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
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 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #4 Settlements Rising
95% 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: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 21%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.5%
- #5 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
94% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 31.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #6 The Wild Age
94% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 26.7% ★, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.4%
- #7 Above: Colonies of the Mist
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 7.6%, Cinematic 7.3%
- #8 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
92% 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: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #9 Arcane Rings
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Tower Defense 15%, Base Building 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
- #10 Fio and the Doomed City
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
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 27.7% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #11 Lil Guys
90% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #12 Sylox
89% 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 32.2% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 7%
- #13 Rise Against the Invaders
89% 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: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.5%
- #14 GlagStone
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valerii KrasnoselskiiPub: VTRON LTD
Windows · Mac · Linux
GlagStone is a story-driven city-builder set on a mysterious island between warring nations, brought to life in a stark black-and-white style. Rebuild a fading settlement, guide its people through hardship, and uncover secrets hidden in diaries, ruins, and the depths of the lake.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #15 Founders' Fortune
87% 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 36.1% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.3%, Survival 7.1%
- #16 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
85% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.3%
- #17 Kingdom: Classic
86% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.9% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Building 10.3%
- #18 Planet Barren Objective
86% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
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 21.6% ★, Tower Defense 14.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.5%
- #19 Oxygen: First Breath
84% 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: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.7%
- #20 Isla Paradiso
83% 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: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #21 IXION
82% 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 23.9%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.5%
- #22 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
82% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #23 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 31% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 6%
- #24 Insect Empires
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #25 Rise to Ruins
81% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #26 Offshore Prophets
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 8.1%
- #27 Venusville
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #28 Black Forest
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.3%
- #29 Patron
79% 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #30 Ratopia
76% 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 24.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #31 Settletopia
77% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7.7%
- #32 Clan & Flood
77% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Building 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #33 Kingdoms and Castles
78% 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: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Building 10%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #34 Cosmic Castaway
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #35 Settlement Survival
75% 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: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8%
- #36 The HELL Prologue
74% 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: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.4%
- #37 Hive and Seek
74% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Tower Defense 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #38 Siege of Irdor
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 13.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.1%
- #39 Pixel Colony
73% 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: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.7%
- #40 Nuclear Crawler
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
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 30.8% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.8%
- #41 Guardians of the Sanctree
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #42 Oxygen Not Included
71% 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 36.7% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.4%
- #43 Windowed Realms
71% 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 31.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 7.2%
- #44 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
73% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 7.5%, Building 7.5%
- #45 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
Windows
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.9%
- #46 Crowded Blue Dot
72% 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 25.1%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13%, Building 9.1%
- #47 Spruce
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vatt Labs
Windows · Linux
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Isometric 8.6%, Dark Fantasy 8%
- #48 Oxygen
70% 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: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #49 Kingsguard
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Partum Games
Windows
Lead your kingdom to victory! By day, you build and prepare your kingdom for impending threats. But every night, you must defend your kingdom against hordes of monsters, by commanding soldiers, building turrets, and fighting on the battleground yourself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Isometric 8.2%
- #50 Zombie Cure Lab
67% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Tower Defense 12.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #51 Drill Core
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Tower Defense 18.4%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #52 Tides of Tethys
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Rust LLC
Windows
Explore the uncharted depths of Tethys, and scavenge resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. Lead expeditions of Knights through the dark and the unknown, and help them rebuild their long lost Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.4%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Survival 9.7%
- #53 Beacon of Havoc
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Tower Defense 22.3%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.1%
- #54 They Are Billions
69% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Tower Defense 13.8%, City Builder 10.8%, Survival 9.7%
- #55 Orrstead
68% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.3%, Isometric 8.3%
- #56 After Long Night
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #57 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 21%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 5.5%
- #58 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Isometric 9.2%
- #59 One More Island
68% 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 26.1% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.7%