- #1 Frostpunk 2
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 13.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Strategy 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands significantly on the political and factional management systems that are central to the experience of Floodland.
- #2 Frostpunk
96% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive survival city-builder that mirrors Floodland's focus on moral choices and societal management under extreme environmental pressure.
- #3 Endzone - A World Apart
96% 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 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar post-apocalyptic setting where players must manage resources and protect their colony from environmental hazards.
- #4 Against the Storm
94% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Grand Strategy 15% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features high-stakes resource management and constant environmental threats that demand strategic adaptation.
- #5 Surviving the Aftermath
95% 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: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 25%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic colony simulator that focuses on exploration and managing a diverse group of survivors.
- #6 The Wandering Village
93% 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 26.8% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique survival mechanic where you build a city on the back of a giant creature, emphasizing the need to balance growth with environmental harmony.
- #7 New Cycle
94% 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 26.5% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that shares the theme of rebuilding society after a global catastrophe with a focus on resource scarcity.
- #8 Farthest Frontier
91% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the brutal reality of survival, requiring careful resource planning and defense against environmental and external threats.
- #9 Banished
92% 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 41.5% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: As a foundational survival city-builder, it captures the core struggle of managing limited resources to keep a population alive through harsh seasons.
- #10 IXION
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 25%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game forces players to manage social unrest and resource scarcity while navigating a desperate, high-stakes environment.
- #11 RimWorld
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.4% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Survival 17.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Atmospheric 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its deep social simulation and focus on individual colonist needs provide a complex layer of management similar to the clan dynamics in Floodland.
- #12 Endzone 2
89% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This refined sequel improves upon the original's survival mechanics, offering a more polished experience in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #13 Flotsam
88% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This water-based survival city builder captures the theme of rebuilding on the remnants of a flooded world.
- #14 Settlement Survival
89% 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 34.1% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that challenges players to manage trade, population, and disaster recovery.
- #15 Going Medieval
85% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with survival elements, requiring players to build and defend their society against harsh conditions.
- #16 Oxygen
86% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It requires players to manage essential life-support resources in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing the fragility of your colony.
- #17 Timberborn
82% 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 10.3%, Farming Sim 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The central focus on water management and drought survival makes it a thematic cousin to Floodland's environmental challenges.
- #18 Homeseek
86% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: The Iterative Collective
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A resource-scarce survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where water management is critical to your people's survival.
- #19 Clanfolk
84% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6% ★, Crafting 22.6%, Farming Sim 21%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on clan survival and managing the social dynamics of a group in a harsh environment aligns perfectly with the themes of Floodland.
- #20 Aquatico
84% 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 33% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that forces players to adapt to a unique, resource-constrained environment.
- #21 Dawn of Man
83% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, City Builder 35.4%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Choices Matter 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game tracks the survival of a small group through the ages, focusing on resource management and environmental adaptation.
- #22 Planetbase
81% 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 40.1% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that requires players to maintain life support and resource production in an unforgiving environment.
- #23 Sheltered 2
82% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Resource Management 17.3%, Survival 15.4%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on faction management and the harsh realities of survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #24 Sphere - Flying Cities
81% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder features a unique moving base mechanic that adds a layer of strategic movement to the standard survival loop.
- #25 Aven Colony
80% 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 47.2% ★, City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Survival 4.8%, Resource Management 4%
Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi colony builder emphasizes environmental hazards and the need to manage a growing population's happiness and resources.
- #26 Patron
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 28%, Survival 14.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features social management and city-building mechanics that require balancing the needs of different social classes.
- #27 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
79% 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 35.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Survival 13.9%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends colony building with survival against supernatural threats, requiring careful management of your survivors' needs.
- #28 Cliff Empire
78% 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 30.3% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Strategy 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A futuristic survival city-builder that requires managing limited space and resources on isolated cliff tops.
- #29 Surviving the Abyss
77% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 10.9%, Choices Matter 7%
- #30 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
78% 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 39.3% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused village management game that forces players to deal with seasonal changes and resource scarcity.
- #31 The Last Haven
77% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, City Builder 16%, Strategy 15.7%, Survival 12.1%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★
- #32 MEMORIAPOLIS
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Political Sim 24% ★, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 5.9%
- #33 Infection Free Zone
74% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 8.9%
- #34 Ragnorium
76% 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 23.8% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #35 Stranded: Alien Dawn
73% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 14.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 11%
- #36 Imagine Earth
75% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Political Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Grand Strategy 11.4% ★
- #37 Ostriv
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 10.1%
- #38 Ancient Cities
74% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Survival 15.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.2%
- #39 Of Life and Land
72% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #40 Buoyancy
76% 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 42.8% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #41 Land of the Vikings
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 9.3%
- #42 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, City Builder 23%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 8.6%
- #43 Settlements Rising
71% 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 34.5% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Survival 9%, Strategy 8.8%
- #44 Pompeii: The Legacy
71% matchVery Positive86% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Political Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Narration 8.9%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #45 Space Haven
72% 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #46 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #47 Epoch Cycle
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: Political Sim 41.4% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #48 Colony Simulator
71% 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 38.6% ★, City Builder 32.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #49 Pioneers of Pagonia
66% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41% ★, City Builder 29%, Resource Management 19%, Strategy 10.9%
- #50 Gord
70% matchMixed54% of 976 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 8.4%
- #51 After the Collapse
70% 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 30.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8%
- #52 Mistward
68% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Survival 9%, Exploration 6.9%
- #53 Founders' Fortune
69% 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 47.3% ★, City Builder 23%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #54 Farlanders
68% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 8.6%
- #55 Goblins of Elderstone
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Grand Strategy 12.6% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 10.9%
- #56 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Stylized 7.5%
- #57 Oxygen: First Breath
67% 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% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #58 Norland
66% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Grand Strategy 14.9% ★, Resource Management 13%, Survival 11.2%