Games Like Exipelago

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Mining 14.8% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.3%

Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Voxel 18.3% ★, Building 10.1%, City Builder 8.5%, Survival 8.3%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 20.6%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Economy 9.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 25%, Voxel 12.3% ★, Building 10.8%, Survival 7%

Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 23.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10%, Survival 6.8%

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 26.3%, City Builder 24.4%, Building 11.3%, Economy 10.4%, Management 7.8%

Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.

Why similar: Mining 19% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Building 10.4%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%

Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 18.1%, Voxel 14.8% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Economy 8.9%

Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, Mining 17.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Underground 14.8% ★, Building 7.9%

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 22.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Building 9.1%, Economy 8.4%, Survival 8%

Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 15.1%, Mining 14.4% ★, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%

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 35.7%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 9.3%, Survival 6%, Management 5.2%

Revive civilization and save it from mysterious darkness. Story-oriented colony simulator with elvish flavor and indirect control. Demo available!

Why similar: Voxel 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Crafting 7%, Simulation 5.9%

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 27%, City Builder 23.8%, Building 11.5%, Economy 10.5%, Simulation 9.5%

Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 19.4%, Voxel 17.1% ★, Crafting 7.2%, Survival 7%

Capital City combines city, resource, and transport management within an infinite steampunk fantasy world. Mine resources, build factories and logistics networks. Transport raw and processed materials and goods to your city to ensure it keeps growing and expanding.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%

Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 6.7%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 26.9%, Building 12%, Economy 10.1%, Management 9%

Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 19.9%, Voxel 13.6% ★, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.6%

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Mining 17.1% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.9%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 25.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 8.3%, Economy 7.6%

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: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 26.5%, Building 12.7%, Management 9.2%, Survival 8.6%

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 22.2%, Underground 17.8% ★, Management 9.3%, Survival 7.9%

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 29.5%, City Builder 26.2%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.3%, Survival 8.7%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 27.8%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 6%

Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Building 12.1%, Mining 10.5% ★, Underground 9.9% ★, Simulation 8.3%

A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 24.1%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11%, Management 7.9%

Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!

Why similar: Mining 19% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Underground 16% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Building 7.8%

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 23.9%, City Builder 21.8%, Building 11.5%, Management 9%, Economy 9%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 10.1%, Economy 9.3%, Management 8.4%

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 25.4%, City Builder 17.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%, Management 7.1%

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 22.6%, City Builder 20.6%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Survival 8%

Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 30.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Procedural Generation 5.8%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%

Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 24.1%, Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 5.1%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Building 9.6%, Management 9%, Economy 8.1%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 24.3%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Top-Down 7.9%, Management 7.5%

Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Underground 14.1% ★, Mining 13.1% ★, Building 7.1%

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: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Voxel 19.8% ★, Level Editor 8.2%, Building 8.1%

A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 24.2%, Voxel 11.9% ★, Economy 11.9%, Management 8.5%

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 25.9%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.1%, Survival 8%

Classic city building meets a crisp, modern 3D world with a retro-inspired 16-bit palette. Shape vast maps, build living cities in a sandbox, and use SCC Studio to create or customize everything from terrain to buildings, vehicles and citizens. Share your creations through the Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Voxel 24.3% ★, City Builder 24%, Building 12.7%, Management 8.8%, Economy 7.6%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 26.8%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Simulation 6.3%

Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 24.4%, Underground 13.7% ★, Mining 10.7% ★, Simulation 7.5%

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 36.4%, City Builder 32.4%, Building 7.6%, Survival 6.3%, Resource Management 6.1%

Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 25%, Management 9.4%, Underground 9.3% ★, Building 7.7%

Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 19.7%, Management 9.5%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 7.3%

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 36.6%, City Builder 32.8%, Survival 8%, Simulation 5.6%, Economy 3.3%

Tinytown is a cozy zen-like building strategy and puzzle game where you create a small city by placing new buildings. Manage resources, upgrade buildings and use all the small space to build your dream city!

Why similar: Voxel 26.8% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 14%, Building 11%, Economy 8.6%

Grab your shovel and dig into a world of hidden riches. Destroy the terrain, uncover gold, upgrade your gear, blast through the earth with dynamite, and see how deep you can go.

Why similar: Voxel 27.5% ★, Mining 27% ★, Underground 13.6% ★, Economy 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%

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 27.1%, City Builder 20.4%, Building 10%, Management 8.4%, Crafting 7.6%

Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Mining 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.7%, Building 7.9%, Economy 7.7%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 29.6%, Economy 11.3%, Building 7.4%, Resource Management 7.2%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 7.4%

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Mining 16.8% ★, Underground 14.8% ★, Building 9.1%, Management 7.8%

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 29.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Survival 9.5%, Economy 7.9%, Building 7.8%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.5%, Grid-Based Movement 7.9%

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 27.5%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.4%, Resource Management 6.3%