- #1 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
97% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 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 27.1%, Real-Time with Pause 22% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #2 Arc of Icarus
96% 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: 4X 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 8.3%
- #3 Mega Prison
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chute Apps
Windows · Mac
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 45.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 6%, Survival 5.8%
- #4 Stranding Echoes
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Real-Time with Pause 20.8% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 6.3%
- #5 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
94% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.8%
- #6 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,047 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 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: 4X 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Real-Time with Pause 20% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #7 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
92% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 35% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 6%, Simulation 5.3%
- #8 SimPocalypse
93% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #9 Order: The New Dawn
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, 4X 22.8% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #10 Kepler Protocol
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Boe
Windows
Kepler-186e, Humanity's first colony — on a world that is not theirs. Lead the Kaiserreich in turn-based hex strategy against the Ordo Arachnis, a swarm intelligence with no commander. Research, build, supply, fight. Survive.
Why similar: 4X 32.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Military 8.9%, Resource Management 7%
- #11 Earth of Oryn
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: Earth of Oryn
Windows · Mac
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.5% ★, 4X 21.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 7.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #12 Powerplay
89% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #13 Industries of Titan
89% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 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 29.1% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #14 Airborne Empire
87% matchVery Positive87% of 924 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #15 Radia Island
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, 4X 23.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #16 Eternity
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ground Control Studios
Windows
Lead the last fleet of mankind across an abandoned star system. Ration life-support, weigh research against survival, and shape society through Fleet Council decisions you cannot undo. Every choice tightens the path to the next jump.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.7%, Survival 7.1%
- #17 SuperColony
86% 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 31.2%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8.3%
- #18 Oxygen Not Included
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 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 37.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #19 Global Supremacy
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glory MediaPub: SJ co.
Windows
A vast, real-time geopolitical simulation where 196 nations live and breathe at once. Economy, finance, monetary policy, trade, energy, military, diplomacy, nuclear strategy, politics, society — every lever that moves a nation is in your hands. The clock never stops — until you stop it.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Real-Time with Pause 12.6% ★, Military 12%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 7.6%
- #20 Flotsam
81% matchVery Positive81% of 4,563 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #21 Crowded Blue Dot
84% matchMixed59% of 53 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: Real-Time with Pause 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 11.3%
- #22 Fosoria
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 19.1%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #23 TFM: The First Men
82% matchMixed60% of 413 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 35.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #24 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
83% matchMixed50% of 381 reviews2017
Dev: Jim Offerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #25 Space Drilling Station
79% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
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 33.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #26 Galaxy Scavengers
81% 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: Base Building 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 9.8%
- #27 Exogate Initiative
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9%
- #28 That's My Village!
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Binięda
Windows
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31% ★, Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #29 Diplomacy is Not an Option
77% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Military 9.5%
- #30 Xenobiome Command
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gergo Nagy
Windows · Mac
A colony survival strategy game on a fungal exoplanet, crossing colony sim, base building and territory control. Survey the fog, claim the ground under it, raise an outpost, and hold the line as the bloom and its ferals close in.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Real-Time with Pause 26.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 7.6%, Survival 6.6%
- #31 Void Ascendancy
77% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: lijohnttle Studio
Windows
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 41.2% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 4.3%
- #32 Kingdoms and Castles
78% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #33 Beyond Astra
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nebule Games
Windows
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
Why similar: 4X 31.7% ★, Real-Time with Pause 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 6.4%
- #34 Worlds Explorers
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #35 Magnery Reign
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Military 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 8.2%
- #36 NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
76% matchMixed69% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Yiming
Windows
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.3% ★, 4X 22.8% ★, Military 12.8%, Sandbox 9%, Tactical 7.3%
- #37 Settletopia
74% 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 29.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #38 Wild West Pioneers
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 6.7%
- #39 Fragile Existence
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fragile ContinuumPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Save humanity from the brink of extinction in this sci-fi strategy game of survival. Travel among the stars to seek out resources, establish and develop colonies to sustain civilization, and grow your military might to push back against an overwhelming threat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.4% ★, 4X 26.2% ★, Military 12.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.6%
- #40 Imperial Kingdoms
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BaroxxTech
Windows · Linux
Lead a medieval realm in this 4X grand strategy game with pausable real-time. Establish vital infrastructure to supply your capital and sustain your armies. Design custom military templates, manage production estates, and conquer rival kingdoms via strategic sieges and raids.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.9% ★, 4X 29.7% ★, Military 11.5%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #41 New Cycle
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 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 34% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 7.8%
- #42 Rise And Grind!
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 6.8%
- #43 From Glory To Goo
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,792 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #44 Here Comes The Swarm
70% matchVery Positive85% of 330 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 36.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 7.3%
- #45 Falling Frontier
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stutter Fox StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.7% ★, 4X 28.3% ★, Military 11.4%, Sandbox 9%, Management 7.3%
- #46 Norland
71% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8.2%
- #47 Hamlet
70% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Real-Time with Pause 24.9% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #48 Starship Colony
70% 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 30.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #49 Pick Me Up
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Real-Time with Pause 16.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 8.8%
- #50 Embark
71% matchMixed60% of 389 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 45.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 6.9%, Management 6.1%
- #51 HullRats
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 11.1%, Survival 9%, Isometric 8.5%
- #52 Whiskerwood
66% matchVery Positive92% of 3,269 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 8.3%
- #53 Offshore Prophets
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Real-Time with Pause 21.2% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #54 CastleOn
66% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle! Grow economy, recruit troops from Europe and the Holy Land, man the walls and towers! Place traps and defeat attackers with arrows, wood and stone, fire, disease and cold steel! Survive the Third Crusade and conquer enemy lands in Castleon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Military 18.2%, 4X 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #55 Advisors at the End of the Universe
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Flux-Soul
Windows · Linux
AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.2% ★, 4X 24.3% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7%
- #56 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 36.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8%, Isometric 7.9%
- #57 Stellar Dynasty
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joshua R.D. Wilson
Windows
A sci-fi, 4X, real-time strategy game. Build, fight, and explore to survive against an unstoppable alien threat. Carry the fight from one galaxy to the next as you battle back from the brink of extinction, and unlock the secrets of the past to restore your people to the path of galactic super power.
Why similar: 4X 36.5% ★, Real-Time with Pause 32.9% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 5.8%, Procedural Generation 3%
- #58 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixel CellsPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 8.8%
- #59 SeaColony
65% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%