- #1 Frostpunk
97% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same grueling survival city-builder DNA where difficult moral and societal choices are mandatory to keep your remnant of humanity alive.
- #2 Frostpunk 2
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 27,213 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 18.8 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 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 13.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the societal struggle of the original with complex political factions and large-scale survival planning reminiscent of uniting clans in Floodland.
- #3 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Survival 12%, Strategy 10%
Why You'll Like It: Places you in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where you must build a colony, explore the surrounding world, and manage diverse survivor groups.
- #4 Endzone - A World Apart
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding society after a nuclear disaster, requiring careful resource management against radioactive threats and harsh weather.
- #5 New Cycle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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%, City Builder 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that challenges you to develop a fledgling settlement through generational crises and resource scarcity.
- #6 Endzone 2
94% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the post-apocalyptic colony-building theme with expanded exploration and hazardous environment survival mechanics.
- #7 Flotsam
93% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival town-builder set on an ocean world where you scavenge debris and build a floating community, echoing Floodland's aquatic theme.
- #8 The Wandering Village
91% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines settlement building with a symbiotic relationship to a giant creature moving through a toxic post-apocalyptic world.
- #9 Homeseek
92% matchMixed66% of 237 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.9%, City Builder 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dystopian water-scarce post-apocalyptic setting where resource management and survival drive every expansion decision.
- #10 Oxygen
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 21.6%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you must sustain a fragile human colony against extreme post-apocalyptic environmental hazards.
- #11 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 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: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends intense survival management with difficult leadership decisions regarding crew trust and technological progression.
- #12 Settlement Survival
88% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 31.5%, Survival 14%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers grounded colony management where navigating disasters, population growth, and resource limits define your success.
- #13 Aquatico
89% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Brings deep-sea colony building and resource management to an underwater setting comparable to Floodland's drowned world.
- #14 Surviving the Abyss
86% matchMixed65% of 1,085 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 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 29.4%, City Builder 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 10.9%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep-sea sci-fi survival city-builder where managing worker morale and dangerous deep-sea exploration are key.
- #15 Planetbase
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, City Builder 28.6%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to guide a group of colonists to survive in a hostile new environment through careful infrastructure planning.
- #16 Cliff Empire
85% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 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 30.1%, City Builder 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Tasks you with rebuilding civilization on isolated mountain peaks after an ecological disaster on the surface.
- #17 Sheltered 2
86% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 33.2%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Resource Management 16%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty post-apocalyptic survival game emphasizing resource management, faction relations, and keeping your people alive.
- #18 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
84% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 14.2%, City Builder 10.3%, Resource Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and survival against demon invasions in a desolate post-apocalyptic world.
- #19 Timberborn
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 25%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder centered around water management and survival in a world transformed by ecological collapse.
- #20 Patron
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 28.4%, Survival 14.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival town builder featuring deep social dynamics, citizen happiness, and political class management.
- #21 Sphere - Flying Cities
84% matchMixed50% of 243 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 28%, City Builder 21.3%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival city-builder where protecting your citizens from a destroyed world below requires delicate life-support management.
- #22 Dawn of Man
81% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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 38.4%, City Builder 35.5%, Survival 12.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Choices Matter 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Takes humanity from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, focusing heavily on survival, gathering, and societal progression.
- #23 The Last Haven
82% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Survival 12.1%, Colony Sim 10%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic post-apocalyptic base builder where maintaining infrastructure and supplies is vital after a nuclear war.
- #24 Buoyancy
82% matchMixed55% of 831 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 42.2%, City Builder 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Strategy 8.9%, Survival 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A town-builder on the water where you manage floating structures and rescue drifting survivors in a flooded world.
- #25 Aven Colony
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 46.4%, City Builder 33.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Survival 4.9%, Resource Management 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony builder centered on dealing with harsh alien environments and maintaining high citizen approval ratings.
- #26 ALL WILL FALL
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #27 Farthest Frontier
75% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 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 30.3%, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 8.6%
- #28 MEMORIAPOLIS
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,806 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Political Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Immersive Sim 5.9%
- #29 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
79% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 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 39.1%, City Builder 31.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic village simulator where harsh seasonal survival and micro-management dictate the survival of your villagers.
- #30 Imagine Earth
78% matchVery Positive82% of 970 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.5%, Political Sim 22% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Grand Strategy 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A planetary colonization game focusing on balancing economic survival with ecological health and global climate impact.
- #31 Infection Free Zone
76% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 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 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #32 Banished
78% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 40.9%, City Builder 33.1%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Resource Management 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder where isolated settlers must weather harsh winters and resource shortages to endure.
- #33 Ragnorium
79% 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 23.7%, City Builder 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A colony survival simulation set in a desolate future where managing clone workers through harsh conditions is paramount.
- #34 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 23.3%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 8.4%
- #35 Pompeii: The Legacy
74% matchVery Positive81% of 294 reviews2026
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 28.3%, Political Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Strategy 7%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #36 Aztecs: The Last Sun
75% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Immersive Sim 7.6%
- #37 Space Haven
73% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #38 After Inc: Revival
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,512 reviews2026
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #39 The Crust
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #40 Oxygen: First Breath
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 23%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #41 Against the Storm
70% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 28.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Grand Strategy 15.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.8%
- #42 Of Life and Land
71% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 29.8%, City Builder 23.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Farming Sim 8.4%
- #43 Stranded: Alien Dawn
71% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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 33.1%, Survival 23.1%, Crafting 14.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #44 Founders' Fortune
72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 6.9%
- #45 Land of the Vikings
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,266 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 38.3%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 9.2%
- #46 Ostriv
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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%, City Builder 28.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 9.9%
- #47 After the Collapse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8%
- #48 Mistward
69% matchMixed62% of 91 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 35.3%, City Builder 26.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Exploration 6.9%
- #49 Epoch Cycle
69% matchMostly Positive69% of 83 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 40.6% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 6%
- #50 Settlements Rising
68% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 34.2%, City Builder 27.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #51 Farlanders
69% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 35.9%, City Builder 26.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 9%
- #52 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 26.9%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Stylized 7.2%
- #53 Pioneers of Pagonia
66% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 40.8%, City Builder 29.8%, Resource Management 17.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 1.1%
- #54 Humanica
66% matchVery Positive94% of 215 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #55 United Penguin Kingdom
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Survival 15.7%, Resource Management 15%, Strategy 11.6%
- #56 Kingdoms and Castles
68% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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 29.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 9.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #57 Corsair Cove
64% matchVery Positive85% of 3,566 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 24.6%, Grand Strategy 16.5%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #58 Flooded
67% matchVery Positive81% of 139 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Resource Management 17%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Strategy 7.5%