- #1 They Are Billions
97% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.5% ★, Base Building 17.3%, RTS 13.1%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Zombies 9.7%
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.
- #2 Cataclismo
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Real-Time with Pause 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 12% ★, RTS 9.8%, Tower Defense 9.7%, City Builder 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical, brick-by-brick base construction and defensive strategy to hold off waves of monsters.
- #3 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,403 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26.7% ★, Tower Defense 18.9%, RTS 18.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
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.
- #4 The Riftbreaker
95% matchVery Positive90% of 23,181 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.3%, Tower Defense 21.3%, RTS 17.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.9%
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.
- #5 Creeper World 4
94% matchVery Positive95% of 4,620 reviews2020
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 34.9%, RTS 32.2%, War 20.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique fluid-like enemy mechanic that behaves similarly to the Goo, requiring strategic terrain manipulation to survive.
- #6 Diplomacy is Not an Option
94% matchVery Positive85% of 11,517 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 15.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Action RTS 10.6% ★, Zombies 10%
Why You'll Like It: Offers large-scale physics-based combat where you must defend your settlement against thousands of incoming enemies.
- #7 Alien Marauder
93% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“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 22.1% ★, RTS 19.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Resource Management 11%
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.
- #8 Rise to Ruins
92% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.8% ★, Tower Defense 20.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game elements with tower defense and colony management in a challenging, pixel-art survival environment.
- #9 Mindustry
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.7%, Base Building 25.2%, Resource Management 17.2%, RTS 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
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.
- #10 Here Comes The Swarm
90% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
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 19.9% ★, Action RTS 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, RTS 10.5%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the challenge of surviving against an encroaching, swarm-like threat that demands constant defensive expansion.
- #11 Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,761 reviews2014
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 44.4%, Real-Time with Pause 23.5% ★, RTS 13.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Base Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: The classic entry in the series that popularized the fluid-enemy survival mechanic and strategic terrain defense.
- #12 Infection Free Zone
89% 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: Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Zombies 12.5%, RTS 12.1%
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.
- #13 The Crust
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 21.7% ★, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 11.5%, RTS 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a sci-fi colony-building experience with a heavy focus on resource extraction and survival on the Moon.
- #14 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 13.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, RTS 11%, City Builder 10.5%, Tower Defense 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A focused survival strategy game centered on base defense and resource management in a hostile world.
- #15 Infested Planet
88% matchVery Positive94% of 3,014 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 39%, RTS 35.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Real-Time with Pause 11.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: A tactical squad-based RTS that emphasizes fighting against an overwhelming, evolving alien swarm.
- #16 Space Haven
86% 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 22.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed sci-fi colony management experience with survival, ship-building, and combat elements.
- #17 Starship Troopers: Terran Command
85% matchVery Positive87% of 11,704 reviews2022
Dev: The ArtistocratsPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 17.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Resource Management 13.4%, Tower Defense 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the intense feeling of defending a colony against endless alien swarms in a high-stakes RTS format.
- #18 Tower Factory
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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% ★, Tower Defense 15.7%, RTS 14.4%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends automation and tower defense in a way that rewards strategic base layout and efficient resource flow.
- #19 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
86% 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 22.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.2% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of occult survival and base-building to the standard colony-management formula.
- #20 Frostpunk
83% 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 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the same high-stakes survival and resource management pressure under constant, unforgiving environmental threats.
- #21 Surviving the Aftermath
84% 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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A solid post-apocalyptic colony builder with a focus on managing threats and maintaining infrastructure.
- #22 Drill Core
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 20.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Roguelite 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite colony-sim that emphasizes mining and defensive fortification against waves of enemies.
- #23 Deep Among the Swarm
82% matchVery Positive88% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
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 20.8% ★, RTS 13.4%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Base Building 11%, Action RTS 8.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite RTS that emphasizes the struggle against alien swarms through rapid base development.
- #24 New Cycle
81% 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: Real-Time with Pause 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on long-term survival and city-building in a post-apocalyptic setting with complex resource chains.
- #25 Endzone 2
81% 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 23.2% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A refined survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and environmental hazards in a harsh world.
- #26 Odd Realm
80% matchVery Positive85% of 992 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 27.2% ★, Base Building 18.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that allows for creative base building and defensive planning in a procedurally generated world.
- #27 Zombie Cure Lab
79% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 18% ★, Tower Defense 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 9.3%
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.
- #28 After the Collapse
79% 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 23.6% ★, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 15%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes base defense, scavenging, and tactical combat.
- #29 After Long Night
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
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 15.7% ★, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.5%, Zombies 9.6%
- #30 Planetbase
78% 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 29.8% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 8.1%, Resource Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony-sim that requires careful resource management to survive harsh alien environments.
- #31 Colony Survival
77% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.9% ★, Base Building 19.9%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #32 Calyx
74% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
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 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, RTS 16.4%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Base Building 13.8%
- #33 Grey Goo
78% matchMixed68% of 4,315 reviews2015
Dev: PetroglyphPub: Six Foot
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 61.4%, Base Building 23%, Strategy 15.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi RTS that shares the thematic focus on evolving, fluid-like alien threats and strategic base placement.
- #34 Last Outpost
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Troyd Games
Windows
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: Tower Defense 18.2%, Action RTS 16.5% ★, RTS 16.4%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.5%
- #35 Rogue Command
74% matchVery Positive92% of 546 reviews2024
Dev: feneq
Windows
Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelite. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.
Why similar: Action RTS 31.7% ★, RTS 22.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, Roguelite 8%
- #36 Tower Dominion
72% matchVery Positive86% of 4,827 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.3%, RTS 19.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #37 Freaking Meatbags
76% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 24.1%, Real-Time with Pause 19.1% ★, RTS 14.4%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Strategy 8%
- #38 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 19.7% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 11%
- #39 Stardeus
73% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.5% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 9.8%
- #40 Phoenix Hope
75% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
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 22.3% ★, Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 16.6%, RTS 15.1%, Survival 8.8%
- #41 Industries of Titan
73% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #42 Scarecropia
71% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: JYP Studio
Windows
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 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 15% ★, Tower Defense 13.3%, City Builder 11.9%, RTS 11.9%
- #43 Night is Coming
72% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
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 20.8% ★, RTS 18.6%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%
- #44 Acid Planet
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Adam Travers
Windows
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 23.7% ★, Tower Defense 19%, RTS 16.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #45 Endzone - A World Apart
71% 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 27.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Survival 10.5%
- #46 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
73% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2017
Dev: ActaLogic
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 23.6% ★, City Builder 19%, Tower Defense 18.9%, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 13.1%
- #47 Cliff Empire
70% 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 20.4% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Tower Defense 13.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11%
- #48 Stranded: Alien Dawn
68% 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: Base Building 32.9%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Survival 16.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #49 Empires of the Undergrowth
66% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #50 Void War
66% matchVery Positive94% of 3,537 reviews2025
Dev: Tundra
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 48.9% ★, Resource Management 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Roguelite 11%, Strategy 6.7%
- #51 Ascent of Ashes
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
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 28.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #52 Buggos
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,349 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.8%, Base Building 20.8%, RTS 20%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Resource Management 10.3%
- #53 Protolife
70% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Tower Defense 31.2%, RTS 30.2%, Base Building 25%, Strategy 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #54 Grim Nights
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,530 reviews2018
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Base Building 21.3%, RTS 19.5%, Zombies 13.6%, Survival 10.6%
- #55 Aven Colony
70% 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 37.8% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #56 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
68% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
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 30.3% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #57 Darfall
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 470 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
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 13.3% ★, RTS 13%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, City Builder 12%, Base Building 11.6%
- #58 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Real-Time with Pause 18.1% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.7%, Zombies 9.9%
- #59 IXION
67% 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: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 9.5%
- #60 Rift Riff
65% matchVery Positive96% of 365 reviews2025
Dev: Adriaan de Jongh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23% ★, Tower Defense 17.8%, Action RTS 14.4% ★, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 13%