- #1 The Wandering Village
96% 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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 20.8%, RTS 12.4%, Management 10%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique survival city-builder experience riding atop a giant creature dealing with environmental threats.
- #2 Landnama
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 475 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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Survival 11.4%, Roguelite 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a harsh survival city-building loop with roguelite elements where every resource counts.
- #3 Against the Storm
96% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 17.5%, RTS 13.2%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines roguelite structure with intense survival city-building and unpredictable elements.
- #4 Kingdom's Deck
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.5%, Roguelike 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Blends traditional city-building with deckbuilding and card mechanics to drive your settlement.
- #5 Stacklands
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,373 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Survival 18.3%, Management 17.6%, Roguelite 13.5%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a minimalist card-based mechanic similar to rolling dice to manage your village and gather resources.
- #6 IXION
94% 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 27.5%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a tense, story-driven space survival city-builder where managing resources under pressure is vital.
- #7 New Cycle
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to rebuild society in a post-apocalyptic setting emphasizing strict survival and management.
- #8 Settlement Survival
92% 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 28.4%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Survival 11%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on micro-management and survival mechanics as you guide a small group of settlers.
- #9 Endzone - A World Apart
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Survival 13.8%, Colony Sim 12%, Real-Time 9.5% ★, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city builder where you must protect your citizens from harsh elements.
- #10 Kingdoms Reborn
90% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 31.1%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 8.5%, RTS 7.9%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-friendly city builder featuring open-world progression and card-driven mechanics.
- #11 As Far As The Eye
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,127 reviews2020
Dev: UnexpectedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Survival 10.2%, Board Game 8.9%, Roguelike 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike resource management game where a mobile village travels together.
- #12 Foundation
88% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 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%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Medieval 8.5%, RTS 6.9%, Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A gridless, organic city builder that emphasizes natural expansion and resource management.
- #13 Surviving the Aftermath
89% 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 33.1%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony survival with tech trees and unpredictable disaster management.
- #14 Oxygen
89% 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 23.6%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival city builder where you must keep your people alive around a post-apocalyptic oxygen generator.
- #15 Patron
87% 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: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 6.3%, Resource Management 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city builder featuring a complex social structure and dynamic event systems.
- #16 Seeds of Resilience
86% 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 21.9%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic turn-based survival and crafting game set on a remote island.
- #17 Planetbase
86% 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: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to establish a self-sufficient base on hostile alien planets under strict life-support constraints.
- #18 Odd Realm
84% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.5%, Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed colony sim with roguelike survival challenges in a fantasy sandbox world.
- #19 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
85% 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 28.4%, City Builder 19%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game where you build a settlement and defend it from nightly monsters.
- #20 Farthest Frontier
81% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 16.5%, RTS 13.3%, Building 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep survival town builder with detailed farming, raiding, and economic systems.
- #21 Gord
84% matchMixed54% of 1,013 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Real-Time 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 13.4%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy strategy game blending village-building with perilous survival mechanics.
- #22 Kingdoms and Castles
83% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 18.7%, RTS 11.6%, Survival 7.1%, Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming city builder focused on growing a medieval kingdom while defending against threats.
- #23 Frostpunk
82% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 6%
Why You'll Like It: A premier society survival game where freezing temperatures and harsh choices dictate your success.
- #24 Airborne Kingdom
82% matchVery Positive87% of 2,406 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city builder where your settlement takes flight and explores aerial regions.
- #25 Timberborn
78% 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: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city builder starring beavers with unique water physics and vertical construction.
- #26 Thronefall
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,759 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Medieval 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist action strategy game that strips building down to pure tactical choices.
- #27 Dorfromantik
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,653 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Board Game 26.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Strategy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful tile-placement game offering a board-game aesthetic and strategic placement loops.
- #28 Before We Leave
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,731 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy non-violent city builder set on multiple planetary tiles.
- #29 Dawn of Man
79% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 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 41%, Colony Sim 31.5%, Survival 12.8%, Strategy 6%, RTS 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric survival city builder tracking humanity from the Stone Age onwards.
- #30 Drill Core
77% matchVery Positive85% of 2,478 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 21.4%, Roguelike 10.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #31 Northgard: Definitive Edition
78% matchVery Positive85% of 68,782 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, RTS 22.5%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A Norse-inspired strategy game combining resource management, territory control, and survival.
- #32 pyramida
77% matchVery Positive84% of 762 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 23.7%, RTS 15%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 12.8%
- #33 Settlements Rising
75% 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: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Resource Management 7.7%, Survival 7.1%, Management 6.9%
- #34 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
73% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 17.8%, RTS 13.2%, Survival 9%, Base Building 7.6%
- #35 Randoville
76% matchMixed65% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 12.3%, Roguelite 8.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #36 Generation Exile
74% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #37 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
74% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #38 Founders' Fortune
75% 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 30.9%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 7.9%, Building 6.2%
- #39 Settler's Domain
73% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 7.5%, Management 7.4%
- #40 Civitatem
76% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Strategy 10%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #41 dotAGE
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,684 reviews2023
Dev: Michele Pirovano
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Board Game 15.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
- #42 Endzone 2
73% 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: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Real-Time 19% ★, Survival 9.5%, Base Building 6.8%
- #43 Humanica
71% matchVery Positive94% of 215 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 17%, Survival 10.3%, Management 8.5%, Base Building 8%
- #44 Flotsam
70% 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: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 22%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #45 Noble Legacy
72% 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: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 8.3%
- #46 Dice Kingdoms
71% matchVery Positive84% of 699 reviews2024
Dev: Fivemid Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Compete against friends in games filled with unpredictable twists and turns. Roll the dice to gather resources and test your adaptability. Lead your kingdom to success through military power, religious knowledge, or architectural ingenuity.
Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Medieval 14.7%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Colorful 6.4%
- #47 Amberspire
70% matchVery Positive89% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: Lunar DivisionPub: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Board Game 16.8%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #48 Pioneers of Pagonia
68% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.3%, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 8.3%, Management 7.8%
- #49 Banished
71% 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: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 31%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Medieval 4.4%
- #50 Cardboard Town
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,329 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Roguelite 13.2%, Management 12.4%
- #51 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Survival 14%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 9.1%
- #52 Going Medieval
64% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.8%, RTS 15%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #53 The Universim
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 10,670 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.3 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: City Builder 27.5%, Colony Sim 26%, Survival 10.7%, Management 8.1%, Building 8%
- #54 Here Comes The Swarm
65% matchVery Positive86% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16%, RTS 15.3%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9%
- #55 Edge Islands
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #56 TerraScape
65% matchVery Positive89% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Board Game 24.8%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Medieval 11.6%
- #57 The Last Haven
68% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.4%, RTS 11.6%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%
- #58 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: ActaLogic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Real-Time 27.1% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.4%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 5.9%
- #59 These Doomed Isles
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 234 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Roguelike 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%