- #1 Rise to Ruins
97% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #2 Sylox
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 25%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #3 Aven Colony
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, City Builder 32.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.8%
- #4 Windowed Realms
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 6.5%
- #5 Settlements Rising
94% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Tower Defense 9.1%
- #6 Kingdom: Classic
94% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Tower Defense 12.5%
- #7 NOVA ATLANTIS
93% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 3.6%
- #8 Rise Against the Invaders
92% 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 32.4% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 5.8%
- #9 Border Base
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #10 Kingdom Islands
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 5.9%
- #11 Buoyancy
90% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 5.9%
- #12 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
89% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 4.9%
- #13 Kingdoms and Castles
89% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 35.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #14 City Build Island
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xreemu
Windows
Collect resources, build structures, and develop a small island in this island-building simulation. As the overseer, you’ll grow your village while defending against invading enemies. Enjoy a unique experience that blends city-building and tower defense gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #15 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
87% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, City Builder 36%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 4.5%, Simulation 3.6%
- #16 Founders' Fortune
86% 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 42.1% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 7.1%, Simulation 4.3%
- #17 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
84% 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 34% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #18 Planetbase
86% 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 4.7%
- #19 Age of Pyramids
85% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #20 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #21 Zomboard
82% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7%
- #22 The Population Must Grow
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #23 Crowded Blue Dot
83% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 5.6%
- #24 Peasants
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.2%
- #25 Fortifend
79% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Tower Defense 23.6%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #26 Our Freedom: Prologue
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #27 BEACONFALL
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game Dynasty
Windows
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.2%, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 7%
- #28 Aldo: Memory of the Kingdom
78% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Meleiko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #29 My Colony
80% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, City Builder 42.1%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Indie 1.4%
- #30 Outlands
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7%
- #31 Pinevale Settlements
77% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 21.8%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Resource Management 17.3%, Strategy 6%
- #32 Kingdom Square
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mete İlhan
Windows
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #33 Spirit & Stone
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.9%
- #34 NuTREEnts
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goose Machine
Windows
NuTREEnts is a casual tower defense game about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.8%, City Builder 26.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #35 Sky Base Venus
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 22%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 5.9%
- #36 Pixel Colony
75% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
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 33.4% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 4.4%
- #37 Treetopians
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 7.7%
- #38 Lands of Koastalia
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 5.4%
- #39 Quriocity
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Simulation 5%
- #40 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
72% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #41 Beware of Light
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1% ★, City Builder 34.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Strategy 12.1%
- #42 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
71% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 6.2%
- #43 Banished
74% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4% ★, City Builder 38.3%, Resource Management 5.8%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 5.3%
- #44 Oxygen: First Breath
71% 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 27.6% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 5.6%
- #45 Hold The Roost
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #46 The Wild Age
73% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 10.5%, Strategy 6.2%
- #47 SPQR:Shadows of The Legion
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1k1 studios
Windows
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Base Building 5.9%
- #48 Spruce
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vatt Labs
Windows · Linux
Create the perfect community for your town of wizards. Forge weapons and defensive towers in preparation for the onslaught of monsters - and pray you survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Simulation 5.9%
- #49 DarkSwitch
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #50 Compact Colonies
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 6%
- #51 Towerfolk
67% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Tower Defense 11.8%
- #52 Island Master
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
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 32.2% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #53 Lil Guys
68% 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 35.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #54 Age of Respair
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Tower Defense 8.9%
- #55 First Feudal
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.5% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Simulation 4.8%
- #56 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 29%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.5%
- #57 Colony Simulator
69% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, City Builder 35.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Indie 0.7%
- #58 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #59 Hexagge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
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 35.8% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #60 Venusville
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 5.4%