- #1 Arc of Icarus
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
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 36.5%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #2 Terra-7
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 12%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.5%
- #3 Founders' Fortune
96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 45.6%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 6.4%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #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 37.5%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.3%
- #5 The Blighted Frontier
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 39.3%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Management 10%, Simulation 7%
- #6 Settletopia
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #7 TFM: The First Men
93% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Base Building 21.6%, Management 8%, Sandbox 5.4%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #8 Beneath a Dead City
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 13.1%, City Builder 8.3%, Exploration 5.7%
- #9 Nuclear Crawler
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Base Building 23.2%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 7.3%, Strategy 5.9%
- #10 Orrstead
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #11 Starship Colony
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Management 10.1%, City Builder 7.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #12 Pawnholm
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 11.2%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #13 Our Freedom: Prologue
89% 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 31%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 12%, Strategy 9.5%, Management 8.9%
- #14 Idle Terra
87% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 9.8%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #15 T-Minus 30
88% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 15%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #16 Colonization Simulator
86% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 7.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #17 Lil Guys
86% 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 37.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Management 11%, City Builder 10.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #18 Settlements Rising
85% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #19 CLOUD DWELLERS
83% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 5%
- #20 After the Collapse
84% 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 33.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 10.6%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #21 Blueprint Tycoon
84% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Management 18.2%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%
- #22 Oxygen Not Included
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Base Building 23.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 7.5%, Sandbox 4.5%
- #23 Resort Galactica
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 10.5%, City Builder 10.2%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #24 Lands of Koastalia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
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 34.2%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #25 Ratopia
78% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 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 32.6%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #26 Type2
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Isometric 8.9%, City Builder 7.9%, Simulation 6.8%
- #27 Aven Colony
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 49.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #28 Prison Architect
80% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 11.3%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #29 Kingdom Islands
78% 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 38.1%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Management 6.3%
- #30 Crowded Blue Dot
79% 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: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 18.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #31 Island Master
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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 35.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #32 Quriocity
77% 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 34.1%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #33 Oxygen: First Breath
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 30.8%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #34 Galaxy Scavengers
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 24.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #35 Fio and the Doomed City
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
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!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Base Building 20.4%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 5.1%
- #36 Cat Island
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple X Studios
Windows
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #37 Orc Colony
76% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Simulation 9.4%, Management 9.4%, Strategy 9.4%, City Builder 8.2%
- #38 First Feudal
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 33.9%, Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 9.3%
- #39 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
73% 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 35.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%
- #40 Hexagge
73% 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 40%, City Builder 15.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Exploration 7%
- #41 SuperColony
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 20.1%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #42 Planetbase
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 42.5%, Base Building 20.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Management 5.6%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #43 Avian Colony
71% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #44 Our Dear Kingdom
71% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 69.4%, City Builder 6.8%, Management 5.6%, Simulation 5%, Strategy 4.7%
- #45 Dig In
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vitar Games
Windows
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #46 Sigma Draconis
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #47 SeaColony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7%
- #48 MicroTown
71% matchVery Positive95% of 475 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #49 Harrowlands
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Management 10%, Exploration 5.7%
- #50 Odd Realm
68% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 10.7%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #51 Edge Islands
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Management 11.1%, City Builder 8.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #52 Lost Heaven Station
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #53 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
69% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 45.9%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Resource Management 9%, Isometric 5.9%
- #54 Embark
70% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Management 6.6%, Sandbox 6.4%, Strategy 5.6%
- #55 Dwarf Things
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Base Building 20.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Isometric 6.5%
- #56 Gateworlds
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 7.4%, Exploration 6.6%
- #57 Beyond These Stars
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #58 Dungeon Overseer
67% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Management 8.5%
- #59 Treetopians
66% 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 36.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%