- #1 Sheltered 2
97% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 13.4%
- #2 Oxygen
96% 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: Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #3 Oxygen: First Breath
96% 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: Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Building 11.2%
- #4 Endzone 2
95% 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: Colony Sim 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.6%
- #5 Oxygen Not Included
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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 33.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 14.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 11.1%
- #6 SeaColony
94% 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: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #7 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #8 Founders' Fortune
92% 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 36.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 12.2%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #9 Monastery: Ora et Labora
90% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Dragonkin Studios
Windows
Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Farming Sim 16.1%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #10 Hello World
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Linux
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Farming Sim 14.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Survival 10%
- #11 Vilset
91% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 16.4%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #12 Dwellers of Terra
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: McJz
Windows
A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #13 Flotsam
88% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Farming Sim 16.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.1%
- #14 Necromancer's Workshop
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Farming Sim 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.4%
- #15 Stranding Echoes
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 13.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #16 Cloudlings
86% 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: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 15%, Building 13.6%, Survival 11%, Economy 8.5%
- #17 Goblin Colony
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 10.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #18 Ostriv
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Colony Sim 20.9%, Farming Sim 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #19 Catizens
84% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Farming Sim 19%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.9%
- #20 All Roads Connected
83% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 11.3%
- #21 Underground Nomads
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 15.7%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #22 Ecopunk
82% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #23 Tree House Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 14.2%, Survival 13.3%
- #24 Breadoria
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 13.9%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #25 Lil Guys
80% 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 29.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #26 Never Secure
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 15%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #27 Lead the Living
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Karagoz Studios
Windows
You're not just surviving — you're leading. An isometric zombie survival and colony sim: scavenge a world where loot never respawns, build a base that holds, and keep a community of survivors alive. The dead are slow, drawn by sound, and they never stop.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 17%, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Resource Management 9%
- #28 Castaway Coalition
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MehowLipa
Windows · Mac · Linux
Castaway Coalition: Experience an evolving survival simulation on a remote island. You're not just a player, you're part of a living ecosystem. Craft, build, bond & survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Farming Sim 15.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #29 Red Dust Colony
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 13.5%, Building 10.6%
- #30 Seeds of Resilience
79% 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: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.4%, Survival 11.9%, Economy 9.8%
- #31 Dark Moon
76% matchMixed47% of 162 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 25.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
- #32 Noble Legacy
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 805 reviews2025
Dev: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 10.7%
- #33 My Drug Cartel
76% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Farming Sim 14%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.8%, Economy 10.5%
- #34 Of Life and Land
75% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Farming Sim 17%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #35 Make Your Kingdom
77% 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: Colony Sim 24.7%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.5%, Economy 9.5%
- #36 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Farming Sim 18%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 10.1%
- #37 Galaxy Scavengers
73% 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: Base Building 23.8%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Survival 15.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 11.4%
- #38 The Wandering Village
71% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 22.9%, Farming Sim 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%
- #39 Frostpunk: 1886
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 12.7%
- #40 First Feudal
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #41 Farmman
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 10.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #42 Stone to Stars
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OnlyLogic
Windows · Mac
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 12.4%, PvE 8.6%, Economy 8.5%
- #43 Common'hood
73% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 16.8%, Survival 9.3%, Economy 8.5%
- #44 The Blighted Frontier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 10%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #45 Timberborn
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Farming Sim 16.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11%, Survival 8.8%
- #46 Project Oasis
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 14%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 8.5%
- #47 Drownlight
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11%
- #48 Ratopia
68% 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: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 16.5%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #49 Survival Bunker
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Building 16.8%, Survival 16%, Base Building 8.9%
- #50 Medieval Frontiers
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Farming Sim 16.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 12.8%, Survival 11.1%
- #51 Sheltered
71% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Base Building 25.1%, Survival 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.1%
- #52 Blacksmith Master
67% 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: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 10.8%
- #53 Compact Colonies
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Resource Management 15.9%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8.6%
- #54 Gridmax
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 22.2%, Building 15.9%, Survival 15.5%, Management 9.5%
- #55 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape
67% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Farming Sim 20.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.2%, Survival 12.7%
- #56 TFM: The First Men
69% matchMixed59% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 23.1%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #57 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
69% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 35.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 16.4%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12.5%
- #58 Artificer's Tower
67% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Survival 10.7%
- #59 Road of a Survivor
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Konithir
Windows
Road of a Survivor is survival horror, just not for you. Scavenge by day, build ugly defenses, fuel the car and load whatever still fires. At night the dead follow noise and light to your base. Let them. They came looking for food and found a problem.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%