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  1. #1 Colony Survival
    97% 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 34.9%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

  2. #2 Astro Colony
    96% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

  3. #3 Colony Simulator
    96% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
    Dev: Indie Marc
    Windows

    Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%

  4. #4 AColony
    95% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%

  5. #5 TFM: The First Men
    94% 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 33.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 7.5%

  6. #6 Stonehearth
    94% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 5.8%

  7. #7 Wild Omission
    92% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
    Dev: Telephone Studios
    Windows

    Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.

    Why similar: Crafting 13.6%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Building 12.4%

  8. #8 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    93% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 38.6%, City Builder 29.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.1%, Open World 5%

  9. #9 Settlements Rising
    91% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 25.3%, City Builder 19%, Building 7.9%, Tower Defense 7.7%, Base Building 7.7%

  10. #10 Island Paradise
    91% matchMostly Positive76% of 107 reviews2025
    Dev: GSG
    Windows

    Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

    Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 13%, Sandbox 11.4%

  11. #11 Havendock
    90% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
    Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 15.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%

  12. #12 Going Medieval
    89% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 16.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

  13. #13 Surviving Ceres
    89% 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 33.5%, Crafting 14.4%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 12.7%

  14. #14 Occupy Mars: The Game
    88% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

  15. #15 Necesse
    86% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
    Dev: Fair Games ApS
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

    Why similar: Sandbox 20.4%, Open World 18.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Building 14.5%

  16. #16 Outpost
    87% matchVery Positive87% of 780 reviews2020
    Dev: Open Mid Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 12.1%, Building 12%

  17. #17 Icaria
    86% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: Blindsight Games LLC
    Windows

    Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sandbox 11%, Building 9.8%

  18. #18 Start Over
    84% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
    Dev: EY-Studio
    Windows

    Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Building 12.1%

  19. #19 Pioneers of Pagonia
    81% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
    Dev: Envision Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 16.6%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.6%

  20. #20 Pathless Woods
    82% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
    Dev: AniYa Games Studio
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

    Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%

  21. #21 Farworld Pioneers
    84% matchMostly Negative38% of 691 reviews2023
    Dev: IgloosoftPub: tinyBuild
    Windows

    Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 10%

  22. #22 Aven Colony
    83% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 46.6%, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Simulation 5%, Resource Management 2.9%

  23. #23 Dwarf Fortress
    80% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.7%

  24. #24 My Colony
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
    Dev: Ape Apps
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 51.7%, City Builder 41.5%, Simulation 6.8%

  25. #25 Microtopia
    79% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 15.3%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 9.9%

  26. #26 Tribe: Primitive Builder
    79% matchVery Positive81% of 760 reviews2023
    Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%

  27. #27 Planetbase
    81% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 36.7%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 5.7%, Resource Management 5.4%

  28. #28 Sapiens
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%

  29. #29 Satisfactory
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
    Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%

  30. #30 Settlement Survival
    77% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 26%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 7.9%

  31. #31 After the Collapse
    77% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

  32. #32 Common'hood
    78% matchMixed51% of 338 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 25.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Sandbox 11%

  33. #33 Kingdoms Reborn
    76% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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

    Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Procedural Generation 6.4%

  34. #34 Founders' Fortune
    76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    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 38.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%

  35. #35 Guardians of the Sanctree
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2024
    Dev: HuCang Studio
    Windows

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Tower Defense 16.7%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

  36. #36 Scorchlands
    74% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
    Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Linux

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%

  37. #37 Flotsam
    72% 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 22.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

  38. #38 Survival: Lost Way
    75% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 reviews2023
    Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

    Why similar: Crafting 25.5%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 9.7%

  39. #39 ASTRONEER
    71% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
    Dev: System Era Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

    Why similar: Open World 20.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Building 12.8%

  40. #40 Mini Settlers
    70% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.1%

  41. #41 Odd Realm
    70% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.1%

  42. #42 Embark
    73% matchMixed61% of 386 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 45.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%

  43. #43 Castle Story
    73% matchMixed65% of 10,510 reviews2017
    Dev: Sauropod Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%

  44. #44 Primitive Society Simulator
    70% matchVery Positive83% of 687 reviews2024
    Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.2%

  45. #45 Aground Zero
    69% matchVery Positive82% of 122 reviews2025
    Dev: Fancy Fish Games
    Windows · Linux

    The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.4%

  46. #46 Everwind
    67% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
    Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

    Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Open World 15.2%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.5%

  47. #47 Craft The World
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 16,818 reviews2014
    Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Building 12.6%, City Builder 8.9%

  48. #48 Gone: Survival
    73% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
    Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

    Why similar: Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Open World 13.7%

  49. #49 Mistward
    69% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac

    Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 24.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Simulation 6.1%

  50. #50 Longvinter
    68% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
    Dev: Uuvana Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

    Why similar: Crafting 17.4%, Open World 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Sandbox 15%, Building 11.7%

  51. #51 Vilset
    72% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
    Dev: Another Reality
    Windows

    Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.2%, Sandbox 10.7%

  52. #52 CryoFall
    69% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,397 reviews2021
    Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.1%

  53. #53 Space Haven
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.2%

  54. #54 The Colonists
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.6%

  55. #55 Planetaries
    67% matchMixed59% of 222 reviews2024
    Dev: EY-Studio
    Windows

    Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%

  56. #56 Oxygen
    67% 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 23.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.5%

  57. #57 RimWorld
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
    Dev: Ludeon Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 12.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.1%

  58. #58 Microtopia: Prologue
    64% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%

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