60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, City Builder, Strategy, Simulation.
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Rise to Ruins
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.
Sylox
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.
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 29.9%, City Builder 23.6%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 4.6%
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 34.4%, City Builder 25.1%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%
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 32.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 4.8%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 24.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 6.5%
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 34.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 6.9%
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%
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 29.2%, City Builder 26.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Tower Defense 9.1%
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 36.3%, City Builder 32.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 3.6%
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 30.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 5.8%
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%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%
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 20.7%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
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 30.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 5.9%
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 43.6%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 7.3%, Strategy 5.8%
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 37.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 4.9%
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 32%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Colony Sim 22%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.5%
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%, City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 7%, Simulation 4.3%
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 40.3%, City Builder 36.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 4.5%, Simulation 3.6%
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 32%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%
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 36%, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 4.6%
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 35%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.5%
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 34%, City Builder 30.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8.7%
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.1%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Base Building 20.4%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 5.1%
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 34.5%, City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 7.3%, Strategy 6.1%
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 36.2%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 7%
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 29.2%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 15.6%, Simulation 5.6%
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 30.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
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 27.7%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 7.5%
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 28%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
A game that combines elements of strategy, colony simulation, base defense, exploration, and hidden object exploration. All in a roguelike style with meta-progression. Procedurally generated maps and endless replayability.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Tower Defense 12.2%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, City Builder 42.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%, Indie 1.4%
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 6.9%
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 31.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 5.7%
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 26.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.5%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 28.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Base Building 7%
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 28.7%, Base Building 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 17%, Strategy 6%
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 26.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%
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 29%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.9%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.1%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 4.7%
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 26.9%, City Builder 26.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Strategy 8.3%
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 28.2%, City Builder 24.5%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 6.1%
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 30.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Base Building 7.9%, Strategy 4.4%
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
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 38.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 5.9%
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 30.9%, City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 7.7%
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 31.2%, City Builder 29%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 5.4%
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 28.5%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9%
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 Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 23.5%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.8%
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 34.7%, Resource Management 15%, Strategy 12.1%
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 30.7%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 5%
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 21.7%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 7.9%
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 38.5%, Resource Management 5.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 5.2%
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 31.1%, Tower Defense 24.9%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 7.8%
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 27.7%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 5.6%
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 23.6%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Simulation 6.8%, Base Building 5.9%
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%
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 24.8%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Simulation 5.9%
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 36.5%, City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 15.8%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 6%
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: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12%, Tower Defense 11.8%
