- #1 Malignus
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8%
- #2 Hammerting
96% matchMixed57% of 2,601 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #3 Cloudlings
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, 2.5D 8.2%
- #4 Breadoria
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #5 SeaColony
94% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.8%
- #6 City idle
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, 2.5D 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Strategy 8%
- #7 Nuclear Crawler
93% 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 31.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Building 14.1%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #8 CLOUD DWELLERS
91% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #9 Illuminaria
92% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, Mining 15.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #10 Tree House Colony
91% 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 28.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #11 Odd Realm
89% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 24.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Mining 13.6% ★, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9%
- #12 Sigma Draconis
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 8.2%
- #13 TFM: The First Men
89% matchMixed60% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.1%, Crafting 6%
- #14 Underground Nomads
88% 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 33.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 7.9%, Simulation 7.1%
- #15 Founders' Fortune
87% 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 40.2%, Base Building 17%, Building 11.1%, Management 6%, Simulation 5.5%
- #16 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Mining 21.4% ★, Base Building 16%, Management 8.4%, Underground 6.5% ★
- #17 Stranding Echoes
85% 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 34.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #18 Embark
86% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Strategy 7%
- #19 Lil Guys
84% 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 31.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%
- #20 Arcbound
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 12%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.8%
- #21 The Blighted Frontier
83% 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 34.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 8%
- #22 Oxygen: First Breath
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 18%, Building 11%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.8%
- #23 Kingdom Workshop
81% 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 20.9%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Management 8.1%
- #24 Earth Elements
82% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Jack G
Windows
Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Mining 19% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #25 Ratopia
78% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 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 27.8%, Base Building 16%, Building 14%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #26 Settletopia
79% 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 29.1%, Base Building 17%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #27 Dungeon D14
81% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Mining 20.7% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #28 Fosoria
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Management 11%, Resource Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #29 First Feudal
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 644 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 28.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #30 Oxygen Not Included
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 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 40.1%, Base Building 22.7%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 6.7%
- #31 Children of Mare
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starfall Games
Windows
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 13.2%, Mining 8.2% ★, Strategy 7.3%
- #32 Space Architect
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Mining 11.3% ★, Building 10.5%, Management 9.2%
- #33 Dystopians
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.3%, 2.5D 9%
- #34 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
74% matchVery Positive89% of 1,348 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.5%
- #35 Survival Vacancy
77% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 13%, Mining 11.4% ★, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #36 Artificer's Tower
75% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #37 Farmman
73% 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 30.1%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 9.1%
- #38 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
73% 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 27.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 9.8%
- #39 Common'hood
74% matchMixed51% of 341 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Management 9.8%
- #40 Grim Realms
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 429 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 11.1%, Management 8.3%
- #41 Dwarf Things
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Strategy 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 9.6%
- #42 Frontera
71% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #43 WildRoot
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.8%
- #44 Wall World Strategy
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Mining 13.5% ★, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #45 Copacetic
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Management 14.8%, Mining 12.4% ★, Building 10%, Simulation 9.6%
- #46 Pico Islands
70% 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 27.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.7%, Economy 8.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #47 Reclaim Earth
69% 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 29.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Management 6.7%
- #48 Surviving Ceres
68% matchVery Positive87% of 139 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 29%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Management 9.4%
- #49 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed69% of 368 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 38.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #50 Mercury Fallen
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 318 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Mining 14.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.8%, Management 8.9%
- #51 Rustbound
67% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Wylde Wisp Games
Windows
Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Crafting 16.9%, Management 12%, Base Building 11.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #52 Stonedeep
70% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 12.1%, 2.5D 11%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #53 Oxygen
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #54 Amazing Space
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.4%, 2.5D 8.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #55 Zomboard
68% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%
- #56 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 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 10.2%
- #57 Red Dust Colony
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 9%
- #58 Wanderers' Outpost
65% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A colony sim where dungeons sprout from the ground like mushrooms, but you're not the hero. You sell shovels to adventurers, send them to almost certain death, tax whatever loot they bring back, patch them up, then happily charge them for everything they need to do it all over again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.5%
- #59 Factor Y
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.8%