- #1 A Game of Humans
97% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: God Game 20% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Sandbox 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #2 Wilderness Survey
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无限工作室
Windows
《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员,建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁,并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务,在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。
Why similar: God Game 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #3 Hamlet
96% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Trading 9.1%, Medieval 9%
- #4 Dungeon Overseer
95% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 19.7%, God Game 16.3% ★, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 9.7%
- #5 Sapiens
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,162 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 25% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%
- #6 Divine Ascendancy
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Why similar: God Game 25.7% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Trading 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #7 Croswa
93% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Ausuc Games
Windows · Linux
A world where mechanical and magical civilizations intersect. A strategy and simulation game in which you become a god and build multiple civilizations.
Why similar: God Game 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 8.5%
- #8 Angkor: The Holy City
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, God Game 15.2% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Economy 8.6%
- #9 Pick Me Up
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 21.1%, God Game 19.5% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #10 Arcane Shores
91% 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 26.9%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Survival 12%, Economy 11%, Strategy 9%
- #11 Settlement Survival
90% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 27.6%, Colony Sim 21%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 5.7%
- #12 The Settlers: New Allies
89% matchMixed49% of 1,203 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 8.8%
- #13 The Universim
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 27.1% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #14 Patron
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 8.1%
- #15 Banished
87% matchVery Positive90% of 43,296 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 33%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #16 Fata Deum - The God Sim
86% matchMixed60% of 460 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 23.7% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7.9%
- #17 Halloween Store Simulator
86% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Economy 9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #18 Mars Attracts
85% matchVery Positive91% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Time Management 8.8%
- #19 Founders' Fortune
84% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 29.7%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #20 Rise to Ruins
84% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.2 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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 23.7%, God Game 20% ★, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #21 Settlements Rising
82% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Medieval 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #22 SugarWinds: Prologue
83% 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: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 18.2%, God Game 15.3% ★, Economy 10.5%, Trading 9.8%
- #23 Make Your Kingdom
82% matchMixed58% of 197 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 23%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Survival 11.4%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #24 Alien Land
81% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: God Game 29.6% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Strategy 10%, Survival 4%
- #25 Gnome Glen
80% 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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.4%
- #26 Planeta
81% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: God Game 27.6% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 9.3%
- #27 Iskarn
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iskarn
Windows
Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 12.5%, Medieval 12.2%, Strategy 10%
- #28 Oxygen: First Breath
79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Survival 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #29 Icetwine
78% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, God Game 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #30 One More Island
78% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Trading 13.4%, Survival 11.3%, Economy 11%
- #31 Foundation
75% matchVery Positive87% of 24,128 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.2 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 37.4%, Medieval 11.8%, Colony Sim 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 8.8%
- #32 Stonehearth
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #33 Farmman
76% 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: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 11.3%, Survival 9.7%
- #34 To Save Humanity From Virus
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
To Save humanity From Virus is a building game where you are on a different planet trying to get resources to create a vaccine. The virus hit the earth and the only way to save humanity is to gather resources from the different planet.
Why similar: God Game 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.1%
- #35 FireMatch Empire
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: God Game 28.2% ★, City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 7.4%
- #36 Tokeis
74% 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Economy 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #37 Blacksmith Master
72% matchVery Positive83% of 2,724 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 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: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.8%
- #38 Colonize Prologue
73% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Trading 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 10.3%
- #39 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,826 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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 38%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #40 Isla Paradiso
73% 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 28.6%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #41 Thveit
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: God Game 22.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Economy 9.3%
- #42 Landslide
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 31.4% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Base Building 6.1%
- #43 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Strategy 18.6%, Medieval 8.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #44 Reus 2
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,295 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 30.3% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #45 LowPolis
71% 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 31.9%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Medieval 11.2%, Economy 6.9%
- #46 Goblin Camp
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows · Linux
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Economy 10%
- #47 Kingdom Islands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Medieval 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Time Management 7.1%
- #48 STARIO: Haven Tower
68% matchVery Positive95% of 356 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: City Builder 21.2%, God Game 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #49 Forgotten Vale
69% 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: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 20%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 10.7%, Survival 8.9%
- #50 Seeds of Resilience
70% 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: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Economy 10.7%
- #51 Oxygen
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 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: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%
- #52 SpellSlinger Towns
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17%, Trading 12.4%, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #53 Seven Wonders
68% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: God Game 22.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Time Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #54 Earthlings
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Monoblok
Windows · Mac
Earthlings is a side-scrolling settlement builder. Manage your colonies and survive disasters while you make weird monuments for a space delivery guy pretending to be your God.
Why similar: God Game 28.5% ★, Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 14.5%, Time Management 11%, Strategy 7.4%
- #55 Terra-7
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 9%
- #56 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
68% matchMixed66% of 6,015 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 30.3%, Survival 9.1%, Medieval 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%
- #57 StarShip-DF
64% matchPositive100% of 34 reviews2026
Dev: 四哥
Windows
Build a 3D multi-layer starship and lead your colonists. Mine resources and salvage wreckage in space, or land to gather supplies on planets. Fight enemies, protect your crew, and build robots for the ultimate mobile base.
Why similar: God Game 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 9.6%
- #58 Ostriv
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,621 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 17.8%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%