- #1 Dwarf Fortress
97% 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: Dwarf 37.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%
- #2 Dice builder
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laurino
Windows
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Why similar: Dice 43.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Management 9.2%, City Builder 8.6%, Base Building 7.6%
- #3 Frostpunk: 1886
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: Steampunk 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Resource Management 14.5%, City Builder 9.7%, Base Building 7.6%
- #4 Dreadhaven: Prototype
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Woum
Windows
A minimalist turn-based city-building where you must expand your colony in a hostile environment while surviving relentless waves of zombies. Each day, you have a limited number of actions to build, manage, fortify, and strategize to ensure your survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Turn-Based 19.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%
- #5 Gnomes
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,634 reviews2025
Dev: DYSTOPIAN
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
Why similar: Dwarf 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Turn-Based 16.5%, Roguelike 9%, Economy 8.7%
- #6 Amberspire
94% matchNo user 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: Dice 43.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Base Building 8.4%, City Builder 8.2%
- #7 Into The Deep
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tobias Müller
Windows
Into the Deep is a tactical adventure RPG where you lead a troop of dwarves through a lost city. Plan turn-based battles, recruit survivors, explore catacombs, solve puzzles, and defeat dark forces to save the city.
Why similar: Dwarf 35.5% ★, Turn-Based 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Steampunk 13% ★, Strategy RPG 9.4%
- #8 Frostpunk
92% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
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: Steampunk 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Resource Management 16.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Strategy 5.3%
- #9 Wild Space
91% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Boby Studios
Windows
Wild Space is a turn-based strategy game where dice rolls determine your luck, but it's up to you how you use it. Use your dices wisely and be the quickest ship in space. Choose your path carefully and upgrade your ship along the way. Outwit your opponents and master the dice to claim victory!
Why similar: Dice 60.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Roguelike 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.1%, Strategy 4.4%
- #10 No Mana, Just Dice
90% matchVery Positive89% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Dice CapitalPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Zero Mana. Massive Debt. No Mana, Just Dice is a tactical turn-based roguelike. Play as a dropout witch who needs dice just to take a single step! Use your limited dice to maneuver and attack, outsmart your bad luck, and seize the wish-granting scroll to rewrite your fate.
Why similar: Dice 27.1% ★, Turn-Based 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Roguelike 10%, Strategy 9.9%
- #11 Heroes of Might & Magic V: Hammers of Fate
91% matchVery Positive87% of 393 reviews2008
Dev: NivalPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Take part in a thrilling new adventure in the world of Ashan with the Hammers of Fate expansion. Discover uncharted territories and experience new ways of playing Heroes of Might & Magic V. Introducing a brand-new Dwarves faction, made up of heroic warriors and rune magic adepts who stalk the deepest mountains and most hostile regions of...
Why similar: Dwarf 67.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based 10.8%, Strategy 8.9%
- #12 Mars Era
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Osis Studio
Windows
Mars Era is a turn-based strategy game about Mars colonization. Build your base, welcome settlers, gather resources, research technologies, and overcome the harsh conditions of the Red Planet. Manage your settlers, develop infrastructure, and turn Mars into a new home for humanity! 🚀
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Turn-Based 17%, Resource Management 13%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 9.7%
- #13 Into The Depths
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SmelJey
Windows
A roguelite city builder, where you colonize the mysterious underworld. Build your settlement, explore the caves and colonize the deepest caverns. Overcome the dangers hidden in the dark and make the riches of the Depths yours!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Turn-Based 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, City Builder 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #14 Hell Dice Gambit
88% matchNo user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BheismarquePub: DEVDUP
Windows
'Hell Dice Gambit' is a strategic roguelike game using dice. Collect various relics, dice, and pills to grow stronger and struggle on. Can you escape from the abyss of hell?
Why similar: Dice 60% ★, Roguelike 11.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Strategy RPG 7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #15 Risky Mining
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayDotEgg
Windows
Risky Mining is a solo Roll & Move board game blending luck and strategy. Roll the dice to move and build up your stats. When you feel you're ready, start mining to challenge the target score! Your judgment determines your score.
Why similar: Dice 47.9% ★, Resource Management 16.2%, Roguelike 12.1%, Turn-Based 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%
- #16 Blueprint Tycoon
87% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42% ★, Management 18.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Economy 9.9%, City Builder 8.5%
- #17 Dice & War
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JohnHang
Windows
"Dice & War" is a Dices construct game which your character is a dwaft and drive a steam moving castle to conquer the world! You enemy will getting stronger and stronger. To defeat them, you need to upgrade and collect Dices which has different effect.
Why similar: Dice 40.6% ★, Dwarf 32.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Roguelike 6.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.2%
- #18 Island Dwellers
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based 14.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, City Builder 10%
- #19 UnDiced
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lbros
Windows
UnDiced is a turn-based roguelike RPG where you roll dice to advance through adventures and battles. Dungeon exploration and combat are all influenced by dice. Test your luck to find legendary artifacts.
Why similar: Dice 40.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 24.9%, Roguelike 13.9%, Strategy RPG 8.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #20 King of the Dwarves: Underground City Builder
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tag of JoyPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build an epic kingdom inside a mountain in this underground city builder. Mine and build in a vast procedurally generated 3D world. Gather resources, research technology, train warriors and engineers, forge weapons, fight monsters and manage hundreds of units. Become the King of the Dwarves!
Why similar: Dwarf 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy RPG 9.3%, City Builder 7.6%
- #21 Probability Dungeon
82% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: NiNauk
Windows
A turn-based roguelike where skills have a probability of execution. ¡You will have to keep improving your list of skills and decide in which order you want them to be executed! Set your strategy, create synergies and try to overcome the different threats.
Why similar: Dice 53.5% ★, Turn-Based 18.4%, Roguelike 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Dark Fantasy 6.4%
- #22 Might and Magic: Heroes VII – Trial by Fire
83% matchMixed66% of 1,687 reviews2016
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Five years after the epic events of Might & Magic Heroes VII, lead the new Fortress faction to define the destiny of the Dwarves and shed light on some of the darkest chapters of their history.
Why similar: Dwarf 56.8% ★, Turn-Based 20.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Strategy 11.3%
- #23 Compact Colonies
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, Resource Management 18.6%, Roguelike 11.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Economy 9.3%
- #24 Lord of Dwarves
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2020
Dev: Stellar Sage Games
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Why similar: Dwarf 71.7% ★, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Resource Management 5.4%, Strategy 4.3%, Base Building 4.1%
- #25 Arcane Rings
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Steampunk 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Management 9.3%, City Builder 9.2%
- #26 Offshore Prophets
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Resource Management 17.2%, Management 12%, City Builder 11.9%, Roguelike 8.1%
- #27 VED
79% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: KaraclanPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
Why similar: Dice 49.3% ★, Turn-Based 18.5%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy RPG 8.3%, Dark Fantasy 6.6%
- #28 Mountaincore
79% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Dwarf 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%, City Builder 7.1%
- #29 Tales of Mist
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Quasimodo
Windows
Tales of Mist is a survival game integrating strategy and adventure in a decaying world. Plagued by the presence of witches and the tyranny of creatures straight out of fairy tales, take command of a city to bring light to this fog-filled world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Steampunk 29.8% ★, Management 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Base Building 7.6%
- #30 Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: voxelay
Windows · Linux
Commander, we need you to prepare for a new conquest! Set up your base, gather resources and build a defensive perimeter with walls and towers to protect your outpost from incoming waves of enemies. Then gather your forces and send your units and mini-units to annihilate the enemy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Turn-Based 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 9.9%
- #31 Llanthmar
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jason Larrabee
Windows
Llanthmar is a turn-based, strategy game that tasks you with ensuring the survival of your lost colony on an unknown planet. Gather resources, manufacture supplies, and fight back against anything that threatens to take them away.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Strategy RPG 9.3%, Base Building 9.2%
- #32 Farlanders
77% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Turn-Based 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, City Builder 9.1%
- #33 Oxygen: First Breath
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 29% ★, Resource Management 16.6%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 11.9%, Economy 10.7%
- #34 Star Dice
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Just L Studio
Windows · Mac
Star Dice is a turn-based roguelike strategy game where a 3×3 dice grid powers your spaceship. Modify dice, craft your engine, and stack insane multipliers to generate absurd amounts of Stardust.
Why similar: Dice 55.2% ★, Turn-Based 14.4%, Roguelike 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Strategy 4.7%
- #35 Dwarven Rampart
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alaabale
Windows
Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Dwarf 23% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Roguelike 9.4%
- #36 Thalassic Dice
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TidalDog
Windows
Sail the seas in this tactical roguelike dice-rolling game. Assemble your crew, battle sea monsters, sail through hazardous waters and escape ship wrecking storms. Manage and upgrade your ship and recruit and train new crewmates at your own port. What secrets are hiding beneath the waves?
Why similar: Dice 43.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.5%, Lovecraftian 13.1%, Roguelike 11%, Management 7%
- #37 Wanderers' Outpost
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Steampunk 17% ★, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%
- #38 Tome of Talis: A Dice Conquest Game
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technopath Games
Windows · Linux
Command your dice to glorious victory in this strategic rogue-lite dicebuilder. Cast devastating spells, recruit powerful dice, and prove yourself worthy to challenge the great Commander Talis.
Why similar: Dice 56% ★, Roguelike 17.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Dark Fantasy 7.1%
- #39 Isla Paradiso
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 13.6%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #40 Kolo
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Resource Management 17.1%, Economy 12.8%, City Builder 11%, Management 9.8%
- #41 DwarfCorp
74% matchMixed53% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Completely Fair Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
Why similar: Dwarf 78.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Strategy 3.5%, Base Building 2.4%
- #42 You Die Today
71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Tabletale Games
Windows
Combine deck-building and dice-rolling in this tabletop-inspired roguelike dungeon crawler! Roll D4s, D6s, D20s, and more to activate powerful card abilities and conquer dynamic encounters.
Why similar: Dice 45.9% ★, Turn-Based 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Strategy RPG 7.7%, Dark Fantasy 7%
- #43 Infested Fortress
72% matchPositive83% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: Bitmen Studios
Windows · Mac
Dig into the mountain, collect resources to build your fortress, grow your population and keep them alive (and happy), learn new deadly skills, gather and refine materials to craft powerful items so you can fend off the many dangerous monsters threatening your colony in turn-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Strategy RPG 11.8%, Roguelike 10.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #44 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Steampunk 21.9% ★, Economy 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.3%
- #45 Dwarf Block
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Perfoon
Windows
First-person dwarf colony simulator! Gather resources, upgrade the fortress, hire dwarves and defend the colony!
Why similar: Dwarf 58.2% ★, Colony Sim 41.8% ★
- #46 Dice With The Universe
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bianca Kates
Windows
Play dice with the Universe! Wield the fundamental forces of physics against other universal entities in a dice-battling roguelike. Balance skill and luck with each roll, picking between certainty and larger rewards. Emerge victorious to reshape the very fabric of reality between runs.
Why similar: Dice 76.6% ★, Roguelike 13.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #47 Drownlight
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Resource Management 16%, City Builder 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Lovecraftian 9.7%
- #48 WARMACHINE: Tactics
72% matchMixed44% of 1,160 reviews2014
Dev: WhiteMoon DreamsPub: Privateer Press Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Turn-based tactical combat set in the award-winning world of the Iron Kingdoms. Command your custom squad of steam-powered robots and elite warriors in raging battles dominated by magic and mechanika. Battle in online multiplayer and play the epic 21-mission single player campaign!
Why similar: Steampunk 38.4% ★, Turn-Based 28.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.1%, Strategy 12%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #49 Dungeon Overseer
70% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Resource Management 15.3%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.1%
- #50 Sect Leader's Decree
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #51 Founders' Fortune
69% 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 48.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.6%
- #52 Pixel Colony
68% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Resource Management 17.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 13.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #53 Underground Nomads
68% 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 41.7% ★, Dwarf 16.7% ★, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 5.2%
- #54 Sheltered 2
70% 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 35.4% ★, Resource Management 22%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #55 Faryloopa
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jawameer Games
Windows
Build the board. Play the cards. Roll the dice. Faryloopa is a roguelike deckbuilder meets boardbuilder where every run is a new layout, new synergies, and bigger scores to chase.
Why similar: Dice 55.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, City Builder 10%, Roguelike 7.5%, Turn-Based 6.1%
- #56 Windowed Realms
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Resource Management 18.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #57 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
66% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Resource Management 19.9%, City Builder 14%, Management 13.2%, Economy 11.5%
- #58 The Tribe Must Survive
67% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Lovecraftian 13.8%, Roguelike 10.3%, Management 9.9%
- #59 Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
65% matchVery Positive92% of 4,424 reviews2023
Dev: Little Leo GamesPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Why similar: Dice 49.8% ★, Turn-Based 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Roguelike 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 6.3%