- #1 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
97% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.9%, Survival 6.5%
- #2 Rise Against the Invaders
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #3 Goblin Colony
96% 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 30.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 6.3%
- #4 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
95% 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 32.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #5 The Blighted Frontier
94% 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 30.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%
- #6 Founders' Fortune
94% 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%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 7.5%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #7 Stranding Echoes
93% 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 31.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Minimalist 8.9%, Building 8.2%
- #8 Planetbase
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 6.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 7.5%
- #10 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
91% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 34.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 5.8%, Survival 5.2%
- #11 Settlement Survival
89% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 30.2%, Colony Sim 26.8%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #12 Aven Colony
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 33%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.4%
- #13 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 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 27.9%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 7.7%
- #14 Isla Paradiso
88% 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 29%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #15 Lil Guys
87% 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 29.3%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8%
- #16 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
86% 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: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.5%
- #17 Virum:Colony
86% 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 25.7%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 6.4%
- #18 Settlements Rising
84% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 26.8%, City Builder 26.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 7.5%
- #19 Restikon Foundry
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WithFinity
Windows
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Colony Sim 33%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%
- #20 Crowded Blue Dot
85% matchMixed59% of 53 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 28.6%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 7.3%
- #21 Spirit & Stone
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 27.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #22 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 29.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #23 Beware of Light
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 32.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #24 Pinevale Settlements
81% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 9.1%
- #25 Outlands
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Base Building 5.8%
- #26 The Population Must Grow
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 29.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #27 Venusville
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 6.8%
- #28 Ratopia
77% 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 25.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #29 Fio and the Doomed City
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 5.2%
- #30 Buoyancy
79% matchMixed55% of 831 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 39.7%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #31 Compact Colonies
77% 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 31.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 7.7%
- #32 Banished
78% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 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: Colony Sim 36.9%, City Builder 36.7%, Survival 7%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #33 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
76% 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 25.1%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #34 Settletopia
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 8%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #35 Sky Base Venus
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 6.3%
- #36 Pixel Colony
74% matchPositive93% of 46 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: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 29.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 7%, Base Building 6.6%
- #37 The Undercity: Last Light
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 7.2%
- #38 Lost Heaven Station
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%
- #39 Arcane Shores
73% matchNo user reviews2027
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 31.6%, City Builder 31.1%, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #40 Patron
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 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: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #41 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
70% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.8%
- #42 Surviving the Aftermath
72% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 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 31.7%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #43 First Feudal
72% 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 27%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 9.1%
- #44 Oxygen
71% 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: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 7.8%
- #45 Peasants
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.5%
- #46 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
70% 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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #47 Orc Colony
71% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #48 Mountania
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 28.4%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 4.6%
- #49 Galaxy Scavengers
68% 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: Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #50 Lands of Koastalia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #51 One More Island
69% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #52 Treetopians
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #53 Shanhe Builders
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Survival 6.9%
- #54 Beyond These Stars
67% 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 24.9%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8%
- #55 Underground Nomads
66% 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 34.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #56 Quriocity
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 26.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 7.2%
- #57 Oxygen Not Included
66% 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 38.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8%