- #1 Endzone - A World Apart
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor to the seed game, it offers the most familiar experience in post-apocalyptic colony management and environmental survival.
- #2 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the post-apocalyptic setting and survival-focused city-building mechanics found in the seed game.
- #3 Frostpunk 2
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Colony Sim 7.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands on the original's survival city-builder mechanics with deeper societal management and complex resource chains.
- #4 Frostpunk
95% 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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense, high-stakes survival atmosphere where every decision is critical to the survival of your colony against a hostile environment.
- #5 New Cycle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to rebuild society while managing limited resources and environmental challenges.
- #6 The Wandering Village
93% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique post-apocalyptic twist where you build your settlement on the back of a giant creature while managing environmental hazards.
- #7 IXION
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that demands strict resource management and moral decision-making to keep your population alive.
- #8 Against the Storm
92% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder forces players to adapt to harsh, ever-changing environmental conditions while managing a growing settlement.
- #9 Farthest Frontier
91% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This challenging city-builder requires careful management of food, water, and protection against harsh weather and disease.
- #10 RimWorld
91% 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 30.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 12%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in managing individual colonist needs and base-building in a hostile world.
- #11 Timberborn
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim features unique water management mechanics and survival challenges that require clever engineering to overcome.
- #12 Stranded: Alien Dawn
89% 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: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 18.9%, Management 7.5%, Resource Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that focuses heavily on survival, base-building, and defending your group against alien threats.
- #13 Infection Free Zone
88% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base-builder that uses real-world map data to create unique survival scenarios against zombie threats.
- #14 Dawn of Man
89% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 34%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 5.6%, Economy 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a prehistoric settlement, emphasizing resource gathering and adaptation to changing climates.
- #15 Going Medieval
85% 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony-sim mechanics with 3D base-building and survival against raids and environmental threats.
- #16 Oxygen
87% 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 18.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where managing air quality and essential resources is the key to keeping your colony alive.
- #17 Banished
86% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 6%, Simulation 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that popularized the focus on resource management and population sustainability in harsh conditions.
- #18 Sheltered 2
86% 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 27.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty post-apocalyptic survival management game that focuses on the daily struggles of a small group of survivors.
- #19 Space Haven
84% 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 21.6% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a spaceship colony where oxygen, temperature, and resource scarcity are constant survival threats.
- #20 Settlement Survival
84% 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 23.1% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a modular approach to city-building with a strong emphasis on survival, trade, and managing population needs.
- #21 The Crust
82% 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 23.4% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy colony-sim set on the moon that requires balancing resource extraction with survival infrastructure.
- #22 Flotsam
79% 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 19.2% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique post-apocalyptic survival game set on a flooded world where you build a floating town from scavenged debris.
- #23 Cliff Empire
81% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Base Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a futuristic setting where limited space and harsh environmental conditions force players to build vertically to survive.
- #24 Planetbase
82% 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 31.3% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that tasks players with building a self-sufficient base on alien worlds while managing life-support systems.
- #25 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
78% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep economic and logistics simulation that appeals to players who enjoy the complex management aspects of city-builders.
- #26 Aquatico
81% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that introduces unique survival challenges related to pressure, oxygen, and marine resource management.
- #27 Homeseek
80% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: The Iterative Collective
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Real-Time 14% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder where water scarcity and difficult choices define the gameplay experience.
- #28 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
76% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.1%, Building 8%
- #29 Clanfolk
78% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 19.8%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the survival of a family unit through the seasons, emphasizing resource management and long-term planning.
- #30 Foundation
75% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Economy 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7%
- #31 Aven Colony
79% 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 40.2% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that challenges players to manage a settlement on an alien world while dealing with environmental hazards and resource shortages.
- #32 Surviving the Abyss
77% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #33 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10%, City Builder 8.1%
- #34 Patron
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 8.3%, Base Building 7%
- #35 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Real-Time 16% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.2%
- #36 Land of the Vikings
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 8.6%, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #37 Zombie Cure Lab
73% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Base Building 9%, Economy 8.3%
- #38 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
76% 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 36.3% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 7.3%, Building 6.7%
- #39 The Last Haven
74% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Survival 9.9%, Colony Sim 8.7% ★
- #40 Synergy
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.9%
- #41 Pioneers of Pagonia
71% 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 23.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.3%
- #42 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #43 Settlements Rising
71% 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 24.3% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 7.5%
- #44 Whiskerwood
69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #45 Ancient Cities
72% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Survival 11.1%, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #46 Ecopunk
69% matchVery Positive84% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 8.8%, Management 8.1%
- #47 Aztecs: The Last Sun
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #48 Cataclismo
67% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #49 Oxygen: First Breath
69% 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 18.5% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8%, Survival 7.8%
- #50 Cities: Skylines II
68% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Building 13%, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 8.2%
- #51 Floodland
70% matchMixed56% of 1,062 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #52 Project AURA
71% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.5%
- #53 Norland
67% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #54 Ostriv
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #55 Nova Roma
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 STARIO: Haven Tower
66% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Economy 10.1%, Building 8.5%
- #57 After Long Night
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #58 After the Collapse
68% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 9%