- #1 Beyond These Stars
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 8.5%
- #2 Settletopia
96% 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: Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.8%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #3 Oxygen Not Included
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,274 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.9 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 23.6%, Base Building 23%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #4 Architect of Ruin
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.4%
- #5 Oxygen: First Breath
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,653 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.4 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: Base Building 18.9%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, City Builder 8.2%
- #6 Ratopia
93% matchVery Positive88% of 4,693 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 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: Base Building 16.7%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #7 Stonedeep
94% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 16%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #8 Starship Colony
92% 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 18.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #9 Lil Guys
91% 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 19.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 7.9%
- #10 Edge Islands
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #11 Oxygen
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 877 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.7 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: Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #12 The Crust
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,509 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Automation 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #13 Odd Realm
88% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
- #14 Planet Barren Objective
89% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #15 TFM: The First Men
87% matchMixed62% of 406 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 23.1%, Base Building 22.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 7.5%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #16 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Management 9.6%
- #17 PoliPlanet
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Automation 11%, Sandbox 9.6%, Colony Sim 8.4%
- #18 Founders' Fortune
85% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 26.1%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 8.3%, City Builder 8%, Survival 7.9%
- #19 Our Freedom: Prologue
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 17%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 8.6%, City Builder 8.2%
- #20 Space Haven
82% matchVery Positive86% of 10,173 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #21 Embark
84% matchMixed61% of 387 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 28.3%, Base Building 21%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #22 Vilset
83% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 11.5%, Automation 9.9%, Building 9.5%
- #23 First Feudal
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 18%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #24 SuperColony
81% 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 21.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 9.1%
- #25 Lost Heaven Station
81% 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: Base Building 19%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.3%, City Builder 8.2%
- #26 Survival Vacancy
80% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Survival 8.8%
- #27 Mars Colony Builder
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 10.9%, Management 7.6%
- #28 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
79% matchVery Positive81% of 2,250 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.6 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 21.3%, Base Building 20.1%, Survival 13%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 7%
- #29 Islandustry
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Automation 12.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%
- #30 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive81% of 425 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 19.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, City Builder 9.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #31 Substructure
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #32 Crowded Blue Dot
79% 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: Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 9.3%
- #33 The Blighted Frontier
76% 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 23.2%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #34 Underground Nomads
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8.6%
- #35 Automation Station
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 13%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 8.9%
- #36 Modulus: Factory Automation
71% matchVery Positive92% of 674 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Automation 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.6%
- #37 Colony Survival
74% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 21%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.3%
- #38 Planetbase
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,313 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 23.2%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 11%, City Builder 10.3%, Strategy 7%
- #39 Pawnholm
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Colony Sim 16%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #40 Kingdom: Classic
73% matchVery Positive91% of 22,590 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Survival 10.3%
- #41 Quriocity
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #42 KingForge
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.4%
- #43 Blacksmith Master
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,574 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 9.2%
- #44 Insect Empires
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #45 Space Architect
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Automation 9.1%
- #46 Life in Bunker
73% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 25.6%, Survival 18.7%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 8.8%
- #47 SeaColony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and create production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #48 Maia
73% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 9.1%
- #49 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
71% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 24.8%, Base Building 18%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Strategy 7.4%
- #50 Factorio
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,218 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 190.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Automation 15.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 7.2%
- #51 RimWorld
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 239,279 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.9 hrsMean: 262.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 7.2%
- #52 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: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, City Builder 9.3%
- #53 Gnome Glen
68% 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 18%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.6%
- #54 Arc of Icarus
68% 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: Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #55 Tokeis
67% 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 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 11.1%
- #56 Resort Galactica
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #57 Guardians of the Sanctree
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
- #58 Venusville
67% 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 20%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, City Builder 8.8%
- #59 Red Dust Colony
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 22.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 12.1%, Simulation 7.2%