Games Like From Glory To Goo

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 16.8%, RTS 13.2%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Zombies 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival RTS that challenges players to build a colony capable of withstanding massive, relentless waves of enemies.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Action RTS 27.7% ★, RTS 18.9%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy RTS that focuses on defending a settlement against thousands of enemies using a sophisticated lighting and survival system.

The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Tower Defense 21.4%, RTS 17.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG combat, base-building, and resource management on a hostile alien planet, mirroring the sci-fi survival feel of the seed game.

The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, RTS 32.9%, War 20.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique fluid-like enemy mechanic that behaves similarly to the Goo, requiring strategic terrain manipulation to survive.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, Action RTS 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Zombies 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers large-scale physics-based combat where you must defend your settlement against thousands of incoming enemies.

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 25.2%, Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game elements with tower defense and colony management in a challenging, pixel-art survival environment.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 15.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical, brick-by-brick base construction and defensive strategy to hold off waves of monsters.

“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, RTS 19.5%, Base Building 15%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the sci-fi colony defense RTS gameplay with a focus on resource extraction and survival against alien swarms.

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.1%, Real-Time with Pause 24.5% ★, RTS 14.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Base Building 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The classic entry in the series that popularized the fluid-enemy survival mechanic and strategic terrain defense.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 23.4%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends tower defense with complex resource management and supply chain automation, perfect for players who enjoy the logistical side of base-building.

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.9% ★, Action RTS 14.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, RTS 10.6%, Tower Defense 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the challenge of surviving against an encroaching, swarm-like threat that demands constant defensive expansion.

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: Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Zombies 13.2%, RTS 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Uses real-world map data for a unique take on base-building and zombie defense in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, RTS 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sci-fi colony-building experience with a heavy focus on resource extraction and survival on the Moon.

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.4%, RTS 35.6%, Strategy 14.6%, Real-Time with Pause 12.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A tactical squad-based RTS that emphasizes fighting against an overwhelming, evolving alien swarm.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 11.5%, RTS 11.1%, City Builder 10.7%, Action RTS 9.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A focused survival strategy game centered on base defense and resource management in a hostile world.

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 22.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed sci-fi colony management experience with survival, ship-building, and combat elements.

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: RTS 46%, War 17.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Tower Defense 9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the intense feeling of defending a colony against endless alien swarms in a high-stakes RTS format.

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 22.5%, Real-Time with Pause 18.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of occult survival and base-building to the standard colony-management formula.

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.4% ★, RTS 13.6%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Action RTS 9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite RTS that emphasizes the struggle against alien swarms through rapid base development.

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the same high-stakes survival and resource management pressure under constant, unforgiving environmental threats.

Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

Why similar: Action RTS 17.4% ★, RTS 15.2%, Tower Defense 14.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends automation and tower defense in a way that rewards strategic base layout and efficient resource flow.

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 24.1%, Colony Sim 22%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A solid post-apocalyptic colony builder with a focus on managing threats and maintaining infrastructure.

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Tower Defense 19.8%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 14.1%, Roguelite 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite colony-sim that emphasizes mining and defensive fortification against waves of enemies.

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: Real-Time with Pause 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on long-term survival and city-building in a post-apocalyptic setting with complex resource chains.

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 23.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A refined survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and environmental hazards in a harsh world.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that allows for creative base building and defensive planning in a procedurally generated world.

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 23.9%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes base defense, scavenging, and tactical combat.

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8%, RTS 14%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 10.8%, Zombies 10%

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 30.2%, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 8.2%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony-sim that requires careful resource management to survive harsh alien environments.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 12.9%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Zombies 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a unique twist to colony management by focusing on curing rather than just killing threats to expand your workforce.

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, RTS 11.6%, Tower Defense 10.8%, City Builder 10.6%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Why similar: RTS 62.1%, Base Building 22.4%, Strategy 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi RTS that shares the thematic focus on evolving, fluid-like alien threats and strategic base placement.

A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

Why similar: Action RTS 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, RTS 16.7%, Tower Defense 15%, Base Building 13.4%

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10%

Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.

Why similar: Tower Defense 23.8%, Real-Time with Pause 19.5% ★, RTS 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Strategy 7.9%

Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?

Why similar: Action RTS 18.4% ★, Tower Defense 17.1%, RTS 16.1%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 12.3%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 9.6%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 15.3%, Survival 9%

Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!

Why similar: Action RTS 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, Tower Defense 12.6%, City Builder 12.1%, RTS 11.9%

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 19.9%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 10.5%

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 20.6%, RTS 16.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 8.5%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.9%

Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, RTS 20.4%, Base Building 20%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Resource Management 9.8%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 14.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.7%

Build a grand totalitarian colony and personally storm roguelite battlefields with your soldiers. Shape citizens fears, loyalties, bonds, and feuds. Capture enemies, convert them into true believers. Sacrifice the weak. Feed the strong. Wield absolute power and make every life bend to your will.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, Base Building 28.2%, Survival 14.7%, Roguelite 11.5%, Strategy 4.1%

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Action RTS 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 18.3%, RTS 16.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%

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 28.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Colony Sim 13%, Survival 10.6%

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 49.9% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Roguelite 10.8%, Strategy 6.6%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.3%

A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 19.5%, Tower Defense 18.3%, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 12.7%

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 30.6%, City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 16%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%

Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

Why similar: Action RTS 13.5% ★, RTS 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.4%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11%

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 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 9.6%

True RTS gameplay reinforced with roguelite build crafting. Control units with bullet-time precision. Call down bases and raise armies. Drafted from a different arsenal every run. Weave builds that break the game. Or the game breaks you.

Why similar: Action RTS 32.7% ★, RTS 23.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 13%, Roguelite 7.9%

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: RTS 31%, Tower Defense 30.3%, Base Building 24.5%, Strategy 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%

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 20.8%, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.

Why similar: Action RTS 18% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.8%

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: Base Building 32.4%, Colony Sim 28%, Survival 17%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%