- #1 Underground Nomads
97% 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 31.8% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Simulation 7.3%
- #2 Subzero Tides
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Dystopian 12.5%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #3 Embark
96% 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 41.7% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Building 8.2%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #4 Stonedeep
95% matchMixed46% of 104 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 24.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, 2.5D 12.2%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%
- #5 Reclaim Earth
94% 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 26.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Management 7.3%
- #6 Red Dust Colony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 9.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 8.7%
- #7 Oxygen Not Included
92% 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 38.1% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9%, Management 7.7%
- #8 Maia
93% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #9 Dinky Guardians
91% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Automation 12.7%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.3%
- #10 Arcbound
90% 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 19%, Management 12%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.3%
- #11 Vilset
91% 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 30% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 12.6%, Automation 11.2%, Survival 10%
- #12 Lil Guys
89% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Management 11.5%, Survival 10.5%, Building 8.7%
- #13 Sigma Draconis
89% 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 31.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Management 9.4%
- #14 Survival Vacancy
88% 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 25.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Automation 9.7%, Management 9.3%, Building 9.2%
- #15 Common'hood
87% 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 8.8%
- #16 CLOUD DWELLERS
86% matchNo user 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 33.7% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Management 13.7%, Building 13.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #17 Nuclear Crawler
86% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 23.6%, Management 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #18 Surviving Ceres
84% 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 27.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.9%, Survival 11%, Management 10.9%
- #19 Founders' Fortune
85% 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 41.4% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #20 Tree House Survivors
84% 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 29% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 10.4%, Survival 9.9%
- #21 Avian Colony
83% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Management 12.7%, Survival 10.3%, Automation 7.7%
- #22 Sect Leader's Decree
82% 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 30.5% ★, Management 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #23 Dig a Little Deeper
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.6%, 2.5D 8.9%
- #24 Edge Islands
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Building 12.8%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 8.8%
- #25 TFM: The First Men
81% 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 37.5% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.6%, Survival 7%
- #26 Oxygen: First Breath
80% 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 10%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.7%
- #27 Stranded: Alien Dawn
79% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Survival 13.6%, Management 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%
- #28 Never Secure
79% 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 32.4% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #29 Clipper
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, Management 14.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.6%
- #30 Terra-7
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13%
- #31 Settletopia
77% 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 30.1% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Management 11.5%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #32 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
76% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.8%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 9.3%
- #33 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
77% 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #34 Beyond These Stars
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Management 11%, Building 9.7%, Automation 9.2%
- #35 Mars Colony Builder
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Management 11.2%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10%
- #36 Hexoplanet
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirnic Interactive
Windows · Mac
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Building 13.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Automation 12.4%, Base Building 9.7%
- #37 Architect of Ruin
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Management 10.5%, Automation 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #38 SuperColony
73% 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 34.5% ★, Base Building 20%, Survival 10.9%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%
- #39 Beneath a Dead City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Management 15.2%, Survival 11.7%, Simulation 7.6%
- #40 Horizon 1990
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Management 11.2%
- #41 Orc Colony
74% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 10.3%, Building 8.8%
- #42 Venusville
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 9.5%, Management 9.2%, Building 7.7%
- #43 Survivors of the Wildstone
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, 2.5D 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12%, Survival 10.6%
- #44 Colony Survival
72% 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 38.9% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 12.3%, Building 11.7%, Management 6.4%
- #45 Cosmic Castaway
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%
- #46 Kingdom: Classic
71% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 11%
- #47 Oxygen
70% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.3%
- #48 Isla Paradiso
70% 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 33.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Building 13%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 8.4%
- #49 Sheltered 2
71% 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 32.1% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 13%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #50 Artificer's Tower
69% 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 30.4% ★, Base Building 16.2%, 2.5D 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.4%
- #51 Space Architect
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 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 27.1% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Management 11.9%, Automation 11%, Building 9.6%
- #52 Wanderers' Outpost
68% 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 19%, Management 13.2%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #53 First Feudal
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.3% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.4%, Survival 7%
- #54 Adaptory
66% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Automation 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.1%
- #55 Starship Colony
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Management 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.7%
- #56 Starmancer
69% matchMixed64% of 1,024 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, 2.5D 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 13%, Building 10.4%
- #57 The Crust
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Automation 12.8%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.3%
- #58 Biofactory
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Automation 14.7%, Cyberpunk 11.4%, Management 11.4%, Building 8.3%
- #59 Make Your Kingdom
67% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.7%, Survival 10.4%
- #60 Zomboard
66% 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 38.1% ★, Base Building 21%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 8.1%