- #1 Build The Sun
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Nature 12.2%, Building 8.6%
- #2 Space One - Electron
96% matchMixed56% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Triangle4 Studios Inc.
Windows
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.4%
- #3 Order: The New Dawn
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.9%
- #4 Sheltered 2
95% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 20% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Survival 13.2%
- #5 Edge Of Survival
94% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Building 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Nature 13.2%, Crafting 11.6%
- #6 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #7 HORDE Survival
93% matchMostly Negative29% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: WDS Games
Windows
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Building 13.7%, Open World 13.7%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #8 The Last Haven
92% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Base Building 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Strategy 12%, Survival 10.6%, Building 8.8%
- #9 Rise And Grind!
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.1%
- #10 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 22.2% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 7%
- #11 Project Arsk
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZerrnArsk
Windows
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Nature 19%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 7.3%
- #12 Sheltered
89% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 20.8%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 8.3%
- #13 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
86% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 39.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #14 Retreat To Enen
88% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 13.7%, Nature 11.6%, Building 11%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.1%
- #15 SuperColony
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Nature 11.9%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #16 Underground Nomads
86% matchNo user reviews
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 24.9% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Building 15%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #17 Lil Guys
85% 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 22.7% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 12.4%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #18 Oxygen Not Included
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 27.9% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.6%
- #19 Survival Bunker
84% 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: Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Building 15.6%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 9.7%
- #20 Hello World
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Mac · 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 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 9.3%
- #21 Humanica
81% matchVery Positive95% of 121 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: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Nature 10.3%
- #22 Tides of Despair
82% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Survival Poly Games
Windows
After a shipwreck, you are one of the survivors. To Survive you will need to fight for your life.
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Building 16.4%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 12.7%
- #23 Wild Haven
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IOGenisys LLC
Windows · Mac
A short, relaxing nature builder about restoring a broken world. Start with a small shrine, clean up the pollution, and expand your powers as you build. Strategically place wildlife and plants to restore the ecosystem and watch your forest grow!
Why similar: 4X 35.8% ★, Nature 17.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #24 Port Town: Survival
81% matchMixed46% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Emre ŞahinPub: Survivillage
Windows
A deserted port town, missing people, and a dark secret waiting to be uncovered… Dive into Port Town’s open world, collect mysterious photos, and reveal the truth. But be careful… some secrets are meant to stay buried.
Why similar: Building 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #25 Frontier Roots
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Nature 11.9%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%
- #26 Tenants of the Shade
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: 4X 18.9% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Open World 11.8%
- #27 Colony Survival
80% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Building 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 9.2%
- #28 Settletopia
78% 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 21.1% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Building 12.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #29 Powerplay
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 33.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Resource Management 13%, Building 7.1%
- #30 Deep In Snow
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Survival in a post-apocalyptic ice age with settlement building. Dig through the snow, find resources, build shelters, and defend yourself from evolved beasts and feral locals. Explore ruins, trade, and rebuild civilization in the harsh world after the icy cataclysm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%
- #31 Broken World
76% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 14.7%, Building 14.6%, Survival 14.6%
- #32 TFM: The First Men
77% matchMixed62% of 406 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 21.1%, Building 11%, Open World 9%, Survival 8.3%
- #33 Never Secure
76% matchNo user reviews
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 23.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 15.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #34 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
75% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 39.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #35 Nuclear Crawler
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Open World 9.3%
- #36 Surviving Ceres
74% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Building 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 11.9%
- #37 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.4% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.3%
- #38 Reclaim Earth
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Building 14.7%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.7%
- #39 As One We Survive
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Revelation Games LLC
Windows
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 9.9%
- #40 Lost Zone: Survival
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ykn Studio
Windows
Lost Zone: Survival ,Survive in a vast open world by battling harsh conditions, hunger, and unknown threats. Explore with friends, gather resources, fish, farm, and craft tools to stay alive. Beware of other players who can steal your hard-earned loot. Only the strongest will survive!
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12.5%
- #41 Why It's Empty Here: The Game
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Damian BakkerPub: Empty Studio
Windows
Action-survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open-world teeming with various creatures. Explore the world devastated by a mysterious virus. Search for supplies, craft weapons, and battle creatures.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 12.7%, Open World 12.2%, Nature 12%
- #42 Forever Skies
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Open World 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Survival 11.1%
- #43 Flotsam
70% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Nature 11.2%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #44 Survindust
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Resource Management 16.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%
- #45 Industries of Titan
71% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 29.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #46 Scavenger T.O.M
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #47 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
72% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: 4X 31.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.1%
- #48 Fallout Shelter
71% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Survival 18.8%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 5.9%
- #49 DREADZONE
68% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 14%, Building 13.8%
- #50 Reshaping Mars
69% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 29.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #51 DISTANT VISITANT
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TriadPixel
Windows
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.7%
- #52 After Inc: Revival
67% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #53 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
70% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 28.2% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 14.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 12.2%
- #54 Songs of Syx
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #55 Squirreled Away
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,007 reviews2025
Dev: Far SeasPub: Amplifier Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Live your best squirrel life. Explore, gather, craft, and build incredible treehouses in acres of beautiful parkland. Scurry across lawns, up trees, and leap limb to limb solo, or up to four friends can play together in co-op. Endless summer days of adventure await.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Open World 13.4%, Nature 11.8%, Building 11.8%, Relaxing 10.5%
- #56 Don't get lost
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
Windows · Linux
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, Building 11.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.9%, Nature 10%
- #57 Polylithic
67% matchMixed69% of 163 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11%
- #58 Aquatico
67% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Futuristic 8.3%
- #59 Tree House Survivors
66% 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 22.1% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Building 14.1%, Resource Management 14%, Survival 12.3%