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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Resource Management, Base Building, Economy, City Builder.

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Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!

Reviews: Positive — 87% — of 15 reviews
Released: 2025-03-03
Developer: One Wheel Studio
Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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  1. #1 Captain of Industry
    97% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 16.6%, Economy 12.6%, Colony Sim 9.2%

  2. #2 Scorchlands
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 131 reviews2024
    Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Linux

    Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

    Why similar: Hex Grid 18.3%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Automation 10.9%

  3. #3 Greedy Little Kingdoms
    96% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: zlorky
    Windows · Mac

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 12.7%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

  4. #4 Kingdom Workshop
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
    Windows

    Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 11.2%

  5. #5 MicroTown
    94% matchVery Positive95% of 475 reviews2019
    Dev: Snowy Ash Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 12.5%

  6. #6 Isla Paradiso
    94% 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 23%, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 15.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.6%

  7. #7 Oxygen: First Breath
    93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 19.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 12.2%

  8. #8 Prophet Margin
    92% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Stellar Cartography Interactive UG
    Windows · Mac

    Build thriving settlements. Weave intricate trade routes. Optimize complex supply chains to earn divine boons. Master a meditative City Builder where board-game logic meets deep Resource Management. A relaxing, 'real-time with pause' strategy puzzle where every decision is yours to undo.

    Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%

  9. #9 Factory Town
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

    Why similar: Automation 16.3%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Resource Management 12.8%

  10. #10 Dungeon Overseer
    91% 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: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 11.9%

  11. #11 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 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 17.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Automation 11.7%

  12. #12 The Colonists
    90% matchVery Positive86% of 1,222 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 16.1%, Automation 14.8%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 11.2%

  13. #13 Crowded Blue Dot
    89% 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 21.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Management 11.3%

  14. #14 The Fire Must Grow
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Elliott Ayling
    Windows

    In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 20.4%, Economy 14.2%, Hex Grid 12.8%, Base Building 10.1%

  15. #15 Virum:Colony
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NeuroOre
    Windows

    A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 12%

  16. #16 Halloween Store Simulator
    86% match1 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: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Automation 10.3%

  17. #17 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    86% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac

    Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!

    Why similar: Automation 16.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 13.3%

  18. #18 Astral Enterprises
    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
    Windows · Mac

    As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.

    Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Economy 17.8%, Resource Management 16.8%, Automation 16.3%, Management 14%

  19. #19 Founders' Fortune
    84% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 32.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Economy 6.8%

  20. #20 Kingdoms Reborn
    83% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 15%, Economy 10.9%, Management 9.6%

  21. #21 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 631 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%

    This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Resource Management 16%, Economy 13.4%, Management 11.4%

  22. #22 Our Freedom: Prologue
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
    Windows

    The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%

  23. #23 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Silence Studios
    Windows

    Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 10.5%

  24. #24 The Crust
    80% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 13.5%

  25. #25 Beyond These Stars
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 13%, Automation 12.7%

  26. #26 Resort Galactica
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Stupid Name Studios
    Windows

    Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10.8%

  27. #27 Kubifaktorium
    78% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Automation 15.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Economy 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%

  28. #28 Blueprint Tycoon
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
    Dev: Endless Loop Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Management 18%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Economy 12.9%

  29. #29 Egypt
    77% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Ancient Cat
    Windows

    Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!

    Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 12.4%, Economy 12.2%

  30. #30 Truck City
    75% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
    Dev: Mikel Fernandez
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.

    Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 12.5%

  31. #31 Age of Respair
    76% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Respair Games
    Windows

    Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Automation 10.4%

  32. #32 Kingdoms and Castles
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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 24.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Resource Management 14%, Management 10.6%, Economy 8.4%

  33. #33 Oxygen
    76% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 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 20.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 11.8%

  34. #34 Oriontis
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Beacon 55
    Windows

    A large-scale narrative city-builder set across floating lands. Build 100+ structures, master production and sky trade, and transform a fragile colony into a thriving civilization.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Economy 18.9%, Resource Management 15.8%, Automation 14.2%, Management 10.3%

  35. #35 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 18.9%, Economy 17.1%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 11.4%

  36. #36 Settlements Rising
    73% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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%, City Builder 21%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 9%

  37. #37 Pixel Colony
    73% matchPositive93% of 40 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 25.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 12.1%, Economy 8.3%

  38. #38 Idle Empires
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vethon
    Windows

    Idle Empires is an incremental strategy game where you build and expand a thriving empire, one hex at a time. Place buildings, gather resources, and upgrade your empire automatically over time. Whether you’re actively playing or letting progress tick while idle, your empire is always growing.

    Why similar: Hex Grid 16.9%, Automation 15.7%, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Resource Management 13%

  39. #39 Before We Leave
    74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,706 reviews2021
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

    Why similar: Hex Grid 19.4%, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 15%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Resource Management 12.5%

  40. #40 Diluvian Winds
    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 385 reviews2024
    Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

    Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 12.6%

  41. #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 23.9%, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10%

  42. #42 Avian Colony
    71% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 13%, Management 11.8%

  43. #43 Landnama
    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 470 reviews2023
    Dev: Sonderland
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Hex Grid 18.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 7.9%

  44. #44 Gnome Glen
    70% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 13.5%

  45. #45 Skyline Settlers
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Riza Ozhan
    Windows

    Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 16.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 7.7%

  46. #46 Angkor: The Holy City
    69% 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: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 19.5%, Resource Management 13%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%

  47. #47 The Blighted Frontier
    69% 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 29.3%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 18%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.9%

  48. #48 Patron
    70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 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 25.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

  49. #49 Seeds of Resilience
    71% 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 22%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 14.3%, Management 10%

  50. #50 United Penguin Kingdom
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 439 reviews2024
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Economy 17.3%, Resource Management 16%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Management 12.9%

  51. #51 Pico Islands
    68% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
    Dev: BitSpree GmbH
    Windows · Mac

    Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 10.5%

  52. #52 Prison Architect
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
    Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Management 11.2%, Economy 10.3%

  53. #53 Blacksmith Master
    66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 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 19.2%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 12.5%

  54. #54 Galaxy Scavengers
    67% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

    Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 16%, Automation 9.9%, Management 9.8%

  55. #55 STARIO: Haven Tower
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 343 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 18.6%, City Builder 17.4%, Automation 14.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 13.4%

  56. #56 Arcane Shores
    67% 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: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 24.1%, Economy 16.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.8%

  57. #57 One More Island
    68% matchMixed68% of 254 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    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 23.3%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 15.3%, Base Building 14%, Management 10%

  58. #58 All Roads Connected
    66% matchNo user 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 20.6%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Economy 12.9%

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