Games Like Exipelago

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 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Building 10.5%, Economy 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%

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 32.7% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Voxel 12.5% ★, Building 11%, Survival 7%

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 19.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Building 10.3%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Crafting 9.1%

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: Mining 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Underground 15% ★, Building 7.9%

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 26.9% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Economy 11.4%, Building 11.4%, Management 8.4%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Voxel 23.4% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Simulation 6%

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 27.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Building 11.4%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 9.7%

Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Survival 7.9%, Resource Management 7.2%, Economy 7%

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 29.1% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 8.1%, Economy 8.1%

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 22.8% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Survival 8%

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 36.7% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Building 9.4%, Survival 5.9%, Management 5.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Building 12%, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.5%

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 24.3% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Building 11.6%, Economy 9.8%, Management 9.6%

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 25.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 7.5%

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 30.4% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Survival 8.8%

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 25.9% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.9%

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%, Building 11%, Economy 10.9%, Management 8.3%

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: Voxel 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%

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 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Building 9.3%, Economy 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%

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 29.9% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9%, Management 6.6%

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 27.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.5%, Economy 8.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 24%, Underground 13.8% ★, Mining 11.2% ★, Simulation 7.6%

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 21.8% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Underground 14.2% ★, Mining 13.6% ★, Economy 7.2%

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 21% ★, Mining 17.6% ★, Underground 15% ★, Building 9.1%, Management 8.2%

Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 9.4%, Economy 8.4%

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 28.1% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Top-Down 8.2%, Management 8%

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 26.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Building 11%, Economy 9.5%

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 18.5%, Mining 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Economy 8.4%, Building 7.8%

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 26% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 9.2%, Survival 8.2%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Economy 10.6%

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 37.6% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 6.8%, Survival 6.3%

Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

Why similar: Mining 18.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 16%, Voxel 13.9% ★, Building 9.7%

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 25.3% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Voxel 14.9% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Economy 10.5%

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 38% ★, City Builder 33.2%, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Economy 3.7%

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 23.3% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Mining 14.4% ★, Economy 9.2%, Building 9%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Voxel 16.5% ★, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.7%

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 28% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 9%, Crafting 7.8%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Building 11.3%, Economy 10.7%, Management 8.7%

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 30% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Survival 9.5%, Economy 8.7%, Building 8%

Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Building 10.8%, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.4%

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 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Management 10.6%, Survival 7.9%, Resource Management 7.3%

Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Economy 11.1%, Survival 8.9%

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 27% ★, Mining 18.1% ★, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 8.5%

Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Economy 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.1%

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 28.3% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7%

Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Economy 11.2%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.2%

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 24.6% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.1%, Economy 8.7%

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 40.3% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 7.9%

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: Voxel 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 21%, Level Editor 8.7%, Building 8.6%

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 29.4% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Management 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Top-Down 7.3%

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 29.5% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Economy 7.3%

Strategic excavation simulator. Dig deep into the mysterious Earth's bullseye, build underground bases and study anomalous finds. The deeper your miners advance, the more questions this geo-phenomenon raises. Will you be able to unearth the true nature of the Richat Structure?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Mining 18.1% ★, Underground 10.9% ★, Crafting 7.5%

Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 10.4%, Economy 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%

A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!

Why similar: Voxel 24.5% ★, Mining 23.1% ★, Underground 17% ★, Economy 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%

Play as a giant and build a micro medieval city in this unique city builder. Pick up villagers and command them to do your bidding, create production lines and manage resources while defending against hoards of pillaging gnomes. Get involved yourself and help gather resources, transport, and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Building 11.3%, Economy 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Economy 13.1%, Management 11.4%, Survival 9.9%

Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Economy 12.1%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.2%

Earth Elements. In three words: Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of Elements on map, mix in mixers to advance, build new features on map. RoundOnes will create Yours versions of great Monumental builds.

Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 8.1%

Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Mining 20.7% ★, Underground 14.2% ★, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%