- #1 IXION
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,436 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 30.8 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 20.9%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #2 Cataclismo
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,197 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Tower Defense 10.2%, Base Building 9.9%, RTS 8.6%
- #3 Frostpunk
96% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 11.4%, Building 6%
- #4 Surviving the Aftermath
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,548 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.3 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 26.2%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 7.7%
- #5 New Cycle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #6 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive82% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.5%
- #7 The Wandering Village
93% matchVery Positive92% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 9%
- #8 Drill Core
92% matchVery Positive85% of 2,404 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.1%, City Builder 18.7%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 6.5%
- #9 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,564 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 15%, RTS 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Building 10.7%
- #10 Endzone 2
91% matchMixed68% of 1,037 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 8%
- #11 Against the Storm
89% matchVery Positive95% of 36,338 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #12 Black Forest
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 410 reviews2023
Dev: Lemuria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 15.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10%, RTS 10%
- #13 Farthest Frontier
88% matchVery Positive86% of 24,898 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #14 Frostpunk 2
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,488 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Resource Management 16%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 8.5%, Colony Sim 8%
- #15 Endzone - A World Apart
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 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 30.9%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 6.5%
- #16 Worshippers of Cthulhu
86% matchVery Positive81% of 1,522 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Management 8.6%
- #17 Surviving the Abyss
86% matchMixed65% of 1,066 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.7%, RTS 7.6%
- #18 Aztecs: The Last Sun
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #19 Nordhold
83% matchVery Positive87% of 3,259 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 9.7%
- #20 They Are Billions
84% matchVery Positive85% of 51,117 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.3 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 24.9%, Base Building 17.9%, RTS 10.3%, Tower Defense 10.3%, City Builder 10.1%
- #21 Kingdom's Deck
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 504 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Tower Defense 11%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #22 Here Comes The Swarm
82% matchVery Positive86% of 301 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10%, Tower Defense 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #23 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 20.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #24 Dark Moon
81% matchMixed48% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 10%, Management 9.8%
- #25 Becastled
79% matchVery Positive82% of 5,571 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 19.7%, Colony Sim 19.4%, RTS 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #26 Cliff Empire
81% matchVery Positive87% of 4,363 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 9.3%, Tower Defense 8.5%, Economy 8.3%
- #27 Whiskerwood
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,148 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.6%
- #28 Aquatico
80% matchMixed67% of 867 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.7%, Economy 8.1%
- #29 Patron
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,181 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 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 25.1%, City Builder 22.1%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #30 The Tribe Must Survive
78% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Building 9%
- #31 Gord
78% matchMixed54% of 1,002 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, RTS 11%, Survival 10.4%
- #32 Dawn of Man
77% matchVery Positive87% of 17,766 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 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 34.7%, Colony Sim 32.9%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 5.5%, Economy 3.6%
- #33 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
74% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.7%, RTS 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #34 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 621 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Survival 13.1%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 9.3%
- #35 ALL WILL FALL
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,246 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.8%
- #36 Sphere - Flying Cities
76% matchMixed50% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.8%
- #37 Ark of Charon
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 406 reviews2024
Dev: Angoo Inc.Pub: SUNSOFT
Windows
Build a mobile fortress on the back of a giant and mysterious walking Tree and embark on a journey in this merge of tower defense and colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 8%
- #38 Homeseek
75% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Difficult 9.6%
- #39 NecroCity
75% matchMixed51% of 79 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 23.9%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Survival 7%
- #40 The King is Watching
70% matchVery Positive89% of 10,061 reviews2025
Dev: HypnoheadPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 14%, RTS 13.8%
- #41 Darfall
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 493 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 13.4%, RTS 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
- #42 Industries of Titan
74% matchMixed62% of 1,613 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 23.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.1%
- #43 Night is Coming
73% matchMixed64% of 457 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.2%, RTS 11.2%, Tower Defense 10.9%
- #44 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #45 Guardians of the Sanctree
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 370 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 18.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #46 Settlement Survival
70% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 22.7%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 10%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.1%
- #47 Synergy
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,057 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10%
- #48 The Last Haven
71% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #49 The HELL
68% matchVery Positive90% of 92 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 20.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 8.9%, Building 7.6%
- #50 Ascent of Ashes
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 302 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.9%
- #51 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive88% of 891 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 21.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 9.2%, RTS 8.7%
- #52 STARIO: Haven Tower
67% matchVery Positive95% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 23.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 10.7%, Economy 9.7%
- #53 Ratopia
66% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 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 20.9%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #54 Zombie Cure Lab
67% matchMixed68% of 462 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 19.5%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #55 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive81% of 430 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 21.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Building 7.3%
- #56 Buoyancy
71% matchMixed55% of 828 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 38%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 7.8%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #57 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
64% matchVery Positive82% of 12,507 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Management 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Building 12.9%
- #58 After Long Night
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 449 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 19.4%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.8%, RTS 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #59 Floodland
69% matchMixed56% of 1,075 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #60 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.7%