- #1 Farmman
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 12%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 7.8%
- #2 Wildwood: A Town Building Game
96% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Thermal Expansion Games
Windows
Welcome to Wildwood, the ultimate town building game. Start from nothing. Provide food, shelter and protection for your settlers. Forage for resources, research new technologies, Craft new items, construct new buildings and grow from a surviving colony into a thriving one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Time Management 11.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 8.9%
- #3 Oxygen: First Breath
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 10.5%
- #4 Phantom of the Grove
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Survansix
Windows · Mac
A fungal fairycore colony sim where you are the vengeful spirit of an ancient forest. Possess and gaslight invaders into fighting each other, reclaim their bodies as fuel for the Grove, and guide your Seely mushroom children to build and expand. The Grove is done being nice.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Nature 8.3%
- #5 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
94% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Economy 10.8%
- #6 Compact Colonies
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 9.5%
- #7 Oxygen
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.6%
- #8 First Feudal
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
- #9 One More Island
91% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #10 Settler's Domain
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 8.3%
- #11 Lil Guys
89% 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 28.6% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #12 Windowed Realms
89% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 7.3%
- #13 Exile
88% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Economy 11.7%, Survival 10.1%, Management 8.2%
- #14 Founders' Fortune
87% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 7.7%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #15 Kolo
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #16 Pixel Colony
86% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 22%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9.5%
- #17 Guild of Dragons
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Survival 10.5%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #18 Isla Paradiso
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 14.1%, Management 8.3%, Survival 8%
- #19 United Penguin Kingdom
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 20.9%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 11.9%
- #20 Patron
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 21%, Survival 11.6%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #21 Tokeis
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 18%, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #22 T-Minus 30
82% 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 25.2% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Time Management 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 8.6%
- #23 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Fuel Games
Windows
Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Economy 9.7%, Survival 9.4%
- #24 Seeds of Resilience
81% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 12%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #25 Settletopia
79% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 8.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #26 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
81% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 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 34% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%
- #27 Life Below
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MegapopPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Time Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%
- #28 Avian Colony
78% 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 28.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 11.2%
- #29 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 7.8%, Survival 7.4%
- #30 Ratopia
76% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #31 Frontera
75% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Economy 14.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 5.4%
- #32 Crowded Blue Dot
78% 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: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 9.9%
- #33 Make Your Kingdom
77% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Economy 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Management 9.3%
- #34 Gnome Glen
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%
- #35 MicroTown
76% matchVery Positive95% of 472 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 10.3%
- #36 IXION
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 8.9%
- #37 Arcane Shores
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Economy 13.9%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 5.9%
- #38 The First Settlement VR
73% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Time Management 16.3%, Economy 12%, Base Building 8.5%
- #39 Blacksmith Master
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%
- #40 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
74% 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 31.2% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%
- #41 Space Hotel Ltd
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gregry Boyd
Windows
Space Hotel offers a bold new twist on the classic city builder and tycoon genres. Take your management skills beyond the surface and into orbit. Experience the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a luxury space hotel where the stakes are high and the rewards are out of this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Time Management 14.2%, Economy 10.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #42 Lords and Villeins
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 10.8%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #43 AquaCo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dewil Games
Windows
Take charge as a fishing company manager in a realistic simulator. Plan your catches, trade on a dynamic market, and face ecological challenges. Brave storms, track fish migration and regulations while building your fishing empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 13.9%, Time Management 10.1%, Management 9.1%
- #44 Planetbase
73% 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 33.5% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #45 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 13.2%, Nature 10.5%, Management 9.7%
- #46 Feluna Base
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LiberaByte
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tiny base builder roguelite where the only enemy is time. Provide food and shelter for your growing outpost. Produce advanced resources for your home station. Discover the mysteries of Feluna with every new run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Time Management 17.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 6.3%
- #47 All Roads Connected
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%
- #48 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #49 Zombie Cure Lab
68% 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 22% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Time Management 10.7%, Economy 10.4%
- #50 Cosmic Castaway
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Time Management 13.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #51 After the Collapse
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #52 Above: Colonies of the Mist
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 22%, Crafting 8.9%, Economy 8.7%, Strategy 7%
- #53 Endzone 2
67% 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 26% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Economy 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #54 Nigredo
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Time Management 18.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #55 Skyline Settlers
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 14.4%, Resource Management 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%
- #56 Numbers & Nodes
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Resource Management 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Management 8%
- #57 Icetwine
66% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Time Management 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10%
- #58 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
69% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 3.6%
- #59 HolyZone
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Economy 13.9%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 10.8%