- #1 The Crust
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 14.4%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #2 Make Your Kingdom
96% 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 21%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #3 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%
- #4 ALL WILL FALL
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Automation 11%
- #5 Project Oasis
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #6 Oxygen
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.9%
- #7 Motile Works
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Automation 10.3%
- #8 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.1%, City Builder 8.5%
- #9 Fill the Sky
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #10 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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 21.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #11 Green Again
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Automation 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%
- #12 Gridmax
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Automation 13.8%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #13 Beyond These Stars
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 12%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #14 Endzone - A World Apart
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 13.6%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 11.4%
- #15 Space Haven
85% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 21.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #16 Microtopia
86% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 14%, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #17 After the Collapse
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 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 24.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #18 Vilset
87% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.6%
- #19 Microtopia: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Automation 14.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #20 Endzone 2
82% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.9%
- #21 Surviving the Aftermath
83% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 24.1%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%
- #22 Reclaim Earth
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%
- #23 Settlement Survival
81% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 25.6%, City Builder 24.5%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #24 Farmman
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
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 25.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.4%
- #25 Mars Colony Builder
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Survival 10.4%
- #26 Galaxy Scavengers
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Automation 9.3%
- #27 Founders' Fortune
80% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 18.7%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #28 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
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 33.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
- #29 The Blighted Frontier
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 30.9%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
- #30 Settletopia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #31 The Wandering Village
75% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 21.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Automation 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%
- #32 Lost Heaven Station
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #33 Rise Against the Invaders
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 9.7%
- #34 Mountania
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
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 29.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 7.9%
- #35 Odd Realm
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 22.9%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #36 Timberborn
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Automation 12.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #37 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
73% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.5%
- #38 XIRI: Oasis Cities
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bulat Gaineev
Windows · Linux
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. Defend your city from disasters, cyberattacks, espionage, diseases, and growing unrest. Expand through powerful corporations that fuel growth, influence neighboring settlements, and reshape the balance of power.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #39 Colony Survival
75% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 13%, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #40 Lil Guys
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12.4%, Building 7.7%
- #41 The Colonists
74% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.1%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #42 Architect of Ruin
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #43 Pawns Survival
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Pawn Bros Games
Windows · Linux
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #44 Scavenger T.O.M
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #45 Goblin Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
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 32.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.8%
- #46 Catizens
70% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%
- #47 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.9%
- #48 Gnomoria
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 23.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.4%
- #49 Avian Colony
69% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 11.9%, Automation 11.1%
- #50 Hive Xenotype
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SvanteSvanteGame
Windows
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Automation 14.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #51 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 32%, City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 10.9%, Building 4.8%
- #52 Planet Barren Objective
69% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #53 Aground Zero
67% matchVery Positive82% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Automation 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%
- #54 Terra Crafter
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greenway Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #55 Aquatico
68% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8%
- #56 The Travelling Land
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brain Up
Windows
Build, sail, and thrive in a strategic floating city! Manage biomes, rescue species, and harness the power of wind to navigate a world shaped by extreme climates. Balance ecology, exploration, and survival in this unique city-builder.
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #57 Stonehearth
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 34.8%, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 10.3%, Building 10.2%
- #58 Radia Island
66% matchNo user reviews2026
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 24.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 10.3%
- #59 Colonization Simulator
66% 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 27.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 7.6%