- #1 Powerplay
97% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: RTS 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.6%, 4X 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%
- #2 Pirate Plight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 13.6%, 4X 12.2% ★, Base Building 10.5%
- #3 The First Explorers®
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 16.4%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #4 Kingdoms and Castles
95% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 17.7%, 4X 13% ★, RTS 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #5 Colonization Simulator
94% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13%, RTS 12.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #6 Folklands
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.3%
- #7 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 13.4%, 4X 12.5% ★, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%
- #8 Flooded
92% matchVery Positive80% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: RTS 16.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Isometric 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #9 Radia Island
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.2%, 4X 13.5% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #10 Exogate Initiative
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 13.8%, 4X 13.4% ★, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%
- #11 Cloudlings
90% 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 21%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Isometric 10.4%, Economy 9%
- #12 VENOY
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, RTS 19.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #13 Exoplanet Outpost
89% matchNo user reviews2030
Dev: Aartform LabsPub: Aartform Ltd
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 14%, Base Building 10.7%, Isometric 10.1%
- #14 Northgard: Definitive Edition
88% matchVery Positive85% of 68,658 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, RTS 18.5%, Colony Sim 12.7%, 4X 10.9% ★, Base Building 8.5%
- #15 Buggos
87% matchVery Positive88% of 1,432 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, RTS 14%, Base Building 13.2%, Wargame 13%, Colony Sim 8.2%
- #16 Aztecs: The Last Sun
86% matchMixed69% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 15.6%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 9.9%
- #17 Arc of Icarus
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 16.5%, 4X 15% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Isometric 9.2%
- #18 Recovery Syndicate
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, RTS 16.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #19 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
84% matchMixed62% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 14%, Wargame 12.4%, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #20 Goblin Colony
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 15.1%, Wargame 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%
- #21 Architects of Shangri-La
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.5%, RTS 15.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 8.2%
- #22 Venusville
82% matchNo user reviews2026
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 24.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.3%, RTS 11.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #23 The Omins
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, RTS 21.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Wargame 5.7%
- #24 Kingdoms Reborn
81% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 26.7%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 12.9%, RTS 8.7%, Economy 8.2%
- #25 Tokeis
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.4%, RTS 13%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #26 The First Settlement VR
80% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 13.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 10%
- #27 Egypt
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 13.7%, RTS 11.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #28 Isla Paradiso
79% 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 25.9%, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.8%
- #29 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 25.3%, City Builder 21.6%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.5%
- #30 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
76% matchVery Positive92% of 802 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 7.1%
- #31 Insect Empires
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.6%, City Builder 9.8%
- #32 Angkor: The Holy City
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #33 Make Your Kingdom
78% matchMixed58% of 197 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 22.2%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 11.9%, RTS 11.1%, Economy 10.1%
- #34 Star Trek: Outposts Unknown
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magic Fuel GamesPub: Playstack
Windows · Mac
Lead your crew across strange new worlds in this narrative driven outpost builder! Research, explore, and build as you face a mysterious cosmic force that threatens a new ally. Your adventure awaits, Captain!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 9.4%, RTS 9.3%
- #35 Reshaping Mars
75% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, RTS 16.6%, 4X 15% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 7.2%
- #36 Aquis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 17.4%, RTS 14.5%, Economy 13.3%, Building 9.5%
- #37 Pan's Permia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Byte-Era
Windows
Pan's Permia is a planetary city builder survival game, with intricate building mechanics, villager survival, in depth army combat, and tower defense mechanics!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, RTS 18.4%, 4X 17.6% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Wargame 6.4%
- #38 Pioneers of Pagonia
72% matchVery Positive81% of 5,473 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 18.7%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.9%
- #39 Within a Dead City
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.
Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, RTS 17.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Isometric 10.2%
- #40 Dungeon Overseer
74% 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 24.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #41 LouLan Kingdom
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MockingCrown Games
Windows
Loulan Kingdom is a city-building survival and real-time strategy game. As the ruler of Loulan, you must build your city amid a perilous desert oasis, grow your power through the Silk Road, and fight to protect your kingdom—until the very end.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Wargame 17.1%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 11.5%
- #42 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 9.5%
- #43 One More Island
73% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 12%, Economy 11.4%, Building 8.2%
- #44 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Economy 8.1%
- #45 Bergfried
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quid Pro Games
Windows
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 15.7%, Wargame 13.8%, Isometric 9.9%
- #46 DarkSwitch
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 739 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #47 Oxygen: First Breath
71% 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 22.1%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10.2%
- #48 Beyond Astra
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 18.6% ★, RTS 17.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #49 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 12.7%
- #50 Arcane Shores
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 24.2%, Economy 12%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.9%
- #51 Spaceport Kingdom
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spaceport Kingdom
Windows
Spaceport Kingdom is a sci-fi strategy and siege builder. Construct ship docks to establish new transport routes in a sector caught in an endless war zone. Pirates, meteors, and cosmic anomalies strike without pause. The galaxy doesn’t grant peace; only those who build through the fire survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Wargame 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #52 Bunny Bunker
68% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Polyspice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, RTS 15.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #53 Pico Islands
69% 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 22.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Isometric 8.4%
- #54 Stronghold 4
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 16.2%, Wargame 14.1%, Isometric 9.9%
- #55 Wild West Pioneers
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 17.6%, 4X 16.4% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9.4%
- #56 Frontera
67% 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 26.9%, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 12.7%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 7.3%
- #57 Pixel Colony
67% matchPositive93% of 45 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 27.3%, City Builder 24%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 6.7%
- #58 Tiny Factions
66% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Uğur CANPub: Stechkom Software
Windows
Produce, build your city, manage your people, and conquer the islands! Become a legend under your own banner with Tiny Factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Wargame 15.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.9%
- #59 Fosoria
67% 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 32.7%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 12%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #60 Colony Break
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artical Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 16.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%