- #1 Frostpunk
97% matchVery Positive93% of 136,920 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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 18.5%, Steampunk 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #2 Frostpunk 2
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,879 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Steampunk 12.7% ★, Resource Management 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 11.7%
- #3 Oxygen: First Breath
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #4 Havenrail
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Punchers
Windows
“The Last Train of Humanity” is a survival strategy game. Manage your train, oversee resources, and make tough decisions that determine the fate of your passengers. Will they survive the perilous journey?
Why similar: Steampunk 16.5% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #5 Endzone - A World Apart
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,976 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #6 IXION
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,575 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 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 22.1%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.3%
- #7 Surviving the Aftermath
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,564 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 23.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #8 The Blighted Frontier
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 7.1%, Survival 7%
- #9 Rise Against the Invaders
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%
- #10 Endzone 2
91% matchMixed68% of 1,062 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 18.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 7.9%
- #11 Drownlight
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 16%, Resource Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #12 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9%
- #13 Isla Paradiso
89% 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: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Building 10%, Base Building 7.8%, Economy 7.4%
- #14 Arcane Rings
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Steampunk 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.7%
- #15 The Last Haven
87% matchMixed61% of 1,534 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #16 Cataclismo
86% matchVery Positive89% of 4,268 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 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: Steampunk 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14%, City Builder 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 7.9%
- #17 HolyZone
86% 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 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Colony Sim 11%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #18 DarkSwitch
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 735 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.9%
- #19 New Cycle
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,859 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: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #20 Make Your Kingdom
84% matchMixed58% of 197 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: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%
- #21 What's Left Behind
82% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Economy 7.2%
- #22 Settlement Survival
81% matchVery Positive85% of 8,039 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Management 7.2%
- #23 Crowded Blue Dot
82% 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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 7.8%
- #24 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 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 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, City Builder 9.4%
- #25 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
79% matchVery Positive86% of 205 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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.9%
- #26 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #27 Arcane Shores
78% 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: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 24.5%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.5%, Economy 7.3%
- #28 Lost Heaven Station
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Building 8.1%
- #29 Ratopia
76% matchVery Positive88% of 4,841 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #30 Lil Guys
76% 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 24.3%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #31 Patron
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Base Building 7.3%
- #32 Sheltered 2
77% matchMixed45% of 2,211 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.8%
- #33 Venusville
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.2%
- #34 Pixel Colony
75% matchPositive93% of 45 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: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.3%, Management 7.6%
- #35 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 314 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Steampunk 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Building 7.8%
- #36 Stranding Echoes
74% 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 26.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 9.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #37 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
73% matchVery Positive89% of 636 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #38 They Are Billions
74% matchVery Positive85% of 51,319 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 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 22.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Steampunk 11.9% ★, City Builder 10.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #39 Tokeis
73% 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: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 16%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #40 Gnome Glen
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
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 20.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 7.9%
- #41 Aquatico
72% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.2%
- #42 Exile
70% matchMixed60% 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: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.1%, Economy 6.7%
- #43 Planetbase
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,410 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 26.9%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #44 Aztecs: The Last Sun
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 Settlements Rising
69% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 8.4%
- #46 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #47 United Penguin Kingdom
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 24.6%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 11.7%, Economy 8.2%
- #48 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
71% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #49 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed69% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 28.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 11%
- #50 Space Haven
66% matchVery Positive86% of 11,064 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 19.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #51 Foundation
67% matchVery Positive87% of 24,095 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Resource Management 9%, Building 7.2%, Base Building 5.8%
- #52 Dark Moon
68% matchMixed47% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 8%
- #53 Kingdoms Reborn
68% matchVery Positive90% of 9,706 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 30.5%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 6.2%
- #54 Farmman
68% 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: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8.4%
- #55 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,466 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: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.7%
- #56 Buoyancy
70% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
- #57 Surviving the Abyss
67% matchMixed65% of 1,077 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.2%
- #58 ALL WILL FALL
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 8.3%