- #1 The Crust
97% 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 20.2% ★, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #2 Make Your Kingdom
96% matchMixed58% of 195 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 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #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 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #4 Motile Works
95% 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 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #5 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
94% 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 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.9%, City Builder 8.5%
- #6 Oxygen
94% 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 21% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.7%
- #7 Beyond These Stars
92% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 16%, Automation 13%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10%
- #8 Vilset
93% 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 26.3% ★, Automation 16.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.3%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #10 Microtopia
91% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 19.6% ★, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #11 Microtopia: Prologue
90% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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% ★, Automation 15.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #12 Endzone - A World Apart
89% 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 27.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%
- #13 Architect of Ruin
89% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #14 After the Collapse
88% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #15 Reclaim Earth
87% 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 24% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
- #16 Endzone 2
85% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 23.3% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%
- #17 Surviving the Aftermath
86% 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 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%
- #18 Mars Colony Builder
84% 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 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, City Builder 11%, Survival 10.2%
- #19 Founders' Fortune
84% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%
- #20 The Wandering Village
81% 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 21.3% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #21 Farmman
82% 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 25.5% ★, City Builder 20%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.4%
- #22 Space Haven
83% 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Sandbox 10%
- #23 Settletopia
82% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #24 Timberborn
78% 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 19.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #25 Lost Heaven Station
80% 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 24.2% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #26 Rise Against the Invaders
79% 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 28.9% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 9.6%
- #27 Colony Survival
81% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.8%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #28 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
78% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 30.2% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11%, Building 10.5%
- #29 The Colonists
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 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 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #30 Lil Guys
76% 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 29.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12.2%, Building 7.6%
- #31 Avian Colony
76% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 12%, Survival 11.5%
- #32 Planet Barren Objective
77% 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 22.4% ★, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #33 Aground Zero
75% matchVery Positive82% of 122 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 22.9% ★, Automation 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%
- #34 Catizens
74% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 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 24.9% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
- #35 Gnomoria
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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 32.6% ★, City Builder 23%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #36 Scavenger T.O.M
74% 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 22.6% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 9.7%
- #37 Modulus: Factory Automation
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.6%
- #38 Planetbase
75% 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 32.3% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.7%, Building 4.7%
- #39 The Travelling Land
72% 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 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11%, Automation 10.9%
- #40 Stonedeep
73% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Automation 9.8%
- #41 Sandustry
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Automation 16.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #42 Aquatico
72% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.9%
- #43 Settlement Survival
71% 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 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #44 Stonehearth
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 35.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #45 Colonization Simulator
70% 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 28% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 7.6%
- #46 Factory Town
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Automation 19.4%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #47 New Cycle
69% 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #48 Survival Vacancy
71% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #49 Cat Island
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple X Studios
Windows
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #50 World Turned Stone
68% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Tbjbu2 (GAME ON HOLD)
Windows
Civilization has turned STONE. Revive the people, terraform the world, defend against the apocalypse, and rebuild civilization from the stone age to advanced technology! Prologue link below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Automation 18.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.8%
- #51 Cliff Empire
70% 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 20.8% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #52 PoliPlanet
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, City Builder 9.9%
- #53 Goblin Keep
68% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Black Lake Entertainment
Windows
Voxel World Town Building and Survival game with building tools, combat, destruction, and multiplayer
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Building 7.4%
- #54 Flotsam
65% 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 20% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%
- #55 Underground Nomads
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Automation 13%, Survival 12.5%, Building 10.7%
- #56 Ragnorium
69% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%
- #57 Survivors of the Wildstone
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Automation 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Building 10.1%
- #58 Edge Islands
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 17%, City Builder 13.7%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.2%
- #59 Belts of Iron
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Sandbox 10.6%