- #1 Northgard: Definitive Edition
97% matchVery Positive85% of 68,002 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: Vikings 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 12% ★, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 8.3%, War 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive Viking-themed RTS that mirrors Frozenheim's blend of clan management, exploration, and tactical combat.
- #2 Land of the Vikings
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Vikings 38.6% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Economy 12%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on surviving harsh winters and expanding a Viking settlement through resource management.
- #3 Manor Lords
96% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Economy 21.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed medieval city-building experience with deep logistics and tactical real-time battles.
- #4 Farthest Frontier
95% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Economy 21.1%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Medieval 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a complex, deep resource management system and a challenging survival loop that feels like a natural evolution of Frozenheim.
- #5 ASKA
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 11,320 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Vikings 37.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed colony sim that emphasizes survival, crafting, and building a settlement alongside other players.
- #6 Bellwright
94% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.6%, Medieval 23.3%, Co-op 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%, War 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines third-person survival and combat with the ability to build and manage your own medieval village.
- #7 Going Medieval
92% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Economy 24.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony simulator that offers vertical building and deep survival mechanics in a medieval setting.
- #8 Banished
93% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.5% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 9.4%, Medieval 9.4%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that established the mechanics of managing a population against unforgiving environmental conditions.
- #9 Medieval Dynasty
91% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Medieval 20.8%, Co-op 20.6%, Management 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the life-sim and building aspects of the medieval era, allowing you to grow a small home into a thriving village.
- #10 Pioneers of Pagonia
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and cooperative resource management, capturing the community-building spirit of Frozenheim.
- #11 Foundation
90% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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: Economy 19.2%, Medieval 16%, Resource Management 15.5%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features organic city-building mechanics that prioritize the flow of resources and the development of a medieval society.
- #12 Against the Storm
89% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Economy 21%, Resource Management 16.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to manage resources under constant environmental pressure, similar to Frozenheim's winter mechanics.
- #13 Sengoku Dynasty
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,351 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Medieval 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar blend of survival, building, and management, but set within a beautiful feudal Japanese landscape.
- #14 Settlement Survival
88% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Economy 14.2%, Medieval 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes managing limited resources through changing seasons and natural disasters.
- #15 Ostriv
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Economy 17.1%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic city-builder that focuses on historical accuracy and complex supply chains without the need for grid-based building.
- #16 Kingdoms Reborn
86% 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: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that allows you to compete or cooperate while managing your own unique settlement.
- #17 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
86% matchVery Positive86% of 9,888 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Economy 21.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Medieval 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic RTS that excels at castle building and defensive strategy, capturing the military side of Frozenheim.
- #18 Norland
85% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 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: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Economy 21.5%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: A complex medieval kingdom management sim that focuses on the social dynamics and survival of your ruling family.
- #19 Stranded: Alien Dawn
83% 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 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: While sci-fi, its core loop of managing a small group of survivors against harsh elements is mechanically very similar to Frozenheim.
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
84% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, Medieval 14.3%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible but challenging city-builder that requires you to defend your settlement against Viking raids and dragons.
- #21 Landnama
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: Vikings 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that focuses on the settlement of Iceland, emphasizing resource management and strategic expansion.
- #22 Timberborn
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Management 15.8%, Stylized 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features innovative water and resource management mechanics that force you to build your colony around surviving seasonal droughts.
- #23 Patron
82% 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 30.1% ★, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Medieval 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder that incorporates survival elements and a research tree to help your town grow and prosper.
- #24 Clanfolk
80% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 78.2% ★, Simulation 17%, Singleplayer 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A harsh survival colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on managing a family through the changing seasons.
- #25 Folklands
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Economy 23.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that focuses on exploration and resource management in a peaceful, yet challenging, medieval setting.
- #26 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
81% 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 48.9% ★, Resource Management 21%, Medieval 12.6%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that requires careful planning to ensure your villagers survive the harsh winter months.
- #27 Hammerting
81% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Economy 20.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An underground colony sim that focuses on mining, crafting, and managing a dwarven settlement with complex production lines.
- #28 Songs of Syx
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Economy 21.1%, Base Building 16%, Medieval 11.1%, Combat 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony sim that handles thousands of citizens and complex logistics in a fantasy medieval world.
- #29 Frostpunk
78% 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: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Resource Management 26.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.4%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of survival management, where you must make brutal choices to keep your city alive in an eternal winter.
- #30 Blacksmith Master
75% 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 24.5% ★, Economy 20.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 11.1%
- #31 Founders' Fortune
77% 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 40.6% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 7.3%
- #32 Settlements Rising
76% 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 27.4% ★, Resource Management 16.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11.3%, Medieval 10.6%
- #33 Republic of Pirates
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 476 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: Naval Combat 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Resource Management 14.7%, Economy 10.8%, Management 9.4%
- #34 First Feudal
77% 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 26.6% ★, Resource Management 17%, Base Building 16.4%, Medieval 11.6%, Management 9.2%
- #35 Captain of Industry
74% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.3%, Economy 20.7%, Base Building 20.5%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Management 9.5%
- #36 Of Life and Land
74% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Economy 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Medieval 10.4%
- #37 Lords and Villeins
75% 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 30.3% ★, Economy 18.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.7%, Medieval 12.6%
- #38 United Penguin Kingdom
73% 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: Economy 26.3%, Resource Management 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #39 Synergy
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Economy 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 9.2%
- #40 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.5% ★, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.7%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #41 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
72% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Medieval 10.9%
- #42 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,722 reviews2021
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: Economy 22.2%, Resource Management 16.6%, War 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Medieval 11.5%
- #43 War Selection
72% matchVery Positive85% of 23,033 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, War 15%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Strategy 10.7%
- #44 Havendock
70% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Resource Management 18.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Management 12.8%, Multiplayer 8%
- #45 Diplomacy is Not an Option
69% 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 29.6% ★, Resource Management 20.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Medieval 14.6%, War 10%
- #46 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Economy 18.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 10.8%
- #47 Surviving the Aftermath
71% 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: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 10.6%, War 7.9%
- #48 Grim Realms
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Economy 15.5%, Management 9.7%, Medieval 9%
- #49 Endzone 2
69% 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 30.4% ★, Economy 21.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 9.1%
- #50 The Colonists
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Economy 20.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #51 Good Company
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Economy 20.2%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Management 10.2%
- #52 Common'hood
71% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Economy 16.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #53 Let Them Trade
67% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: Economy 25.6%, Resource Management 19.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Medieval 12.2%, Management 11.4%
- #54 Territory: Farming and Warfare
65% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 16%, War 13.1%, Management 9.3%
- #55 Anvil Saga
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,787 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Economy 17.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.5%
- #56 Flotsam
64% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 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: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Economy 22.8%, Resource Management 20.7%, Base Building 20.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #57 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
65% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Medieval 10%
- #58 Stonehearth
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 69.8% ★, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Management 6.2%, Multiplayer 4.2%