- #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 15.4%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #2 Goblin Colony
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8%, Management 7.7%
- #3 Settletopia
95% 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 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.9%, City Builder 7.3%
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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: Base Building 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #5 Architect of Ruin
94% 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 15.6%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #6 Worlds Explorers
93% 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 17.9%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8.1%
- #7 Oxygen: First Breath
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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: Base Building 19.4%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, City Builder 8.4%
- #8 Starship Colony
91% 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: Base Building 18.2%, Colony Sim 18%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #9 Stonedeep
92% matchMixed46% of 105 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 18.2%, Colony Sim 16%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #10 Ratopia
91% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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: Base Building 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Survival 10%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #11 Edge Islands
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 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 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #12 Lil Guys
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #13 The Crust
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Automation 9.2%
- #14 Oxygen
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.7%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #15 Planet Barren Objective
87% 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 15.1%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #16 Odd Realm
86% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Base Building 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #17 SeaColony
85% matchMixed65% of 82 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 19.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #18 TFM: The First Men
86% matchMixed59% 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: Base Building 23.3%, Colony Sim 23%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 7.6%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #19 Fill the Sky
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #20 Underground Nomads
84% matchNo user reviews2026
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 20.7%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.8%
- #21 PoliPlanet
82% 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 18.7%, Resource Management 11%, Automation 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Colony Sim 8.4%
- #22 Founders' Fortune
83% 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 25.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 8.2%, City Builder 8.1%
- #23 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
81% 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 20.5%, Colony Sim 17%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 8.5%, City Builder 8.4%
- #24 Gridmax
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9.1%
- #25 Space Haven
78% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 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: Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #26 Embark
82% 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 28%, Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 7.3%
- #27 SuperColony
79% 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%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 9%
- #28 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Base Building 18.3%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%
- #29 Vilset
80% 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 19.4%, Survival 11.8%, Building 9.6%, Automation 9.3%
- #30 Radia Island
78% matchNo user reviews2026
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 16.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #31 Lost Heaven Station
77% 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 19.4%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, City Builder 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%
- #32 Mars Colony Builder
76% 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 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 11%, Management 7.3%
- #33 Islandustry
75% 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 20.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Automation 11.8%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #34 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 21.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #35 Survival Vacancy
76% 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 17.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #36 Settlements Rising
73% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 13.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #37 The Blighted Frontier
73% 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 23.1%, Base Building 20.1%, City Builder 9.5%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #38 Crowded Blue Dot
75% 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: Base Building 20.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.5%, City Builder 10.3%, Management 9%
- #39 Substructure
73% 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 18.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Automation 10.7%, Survival 9.4%
- #40 Colony Survival
74% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.3%
- #41 Automation Station
72% 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 18.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Automation 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.1%
- #42 KingForge
70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 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 18.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 8.5%
- #43 Settlement Survival
70% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 19.6%, Survival 12.2%, City Builder 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.9%
- #44 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Automation 10.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.8%
- #45 Planetbase
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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%, Base Building 21.7%, Survival 11.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Strategy 6.9%
- #46 Pawnholm
70% 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 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 9.7%, City Builder 8.1%
- #47 Rafting Factory
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kim Star Game
Windows
Gather resources, research technologies, expand platforms, and build conveyor belt networks to survive and thrive in a perilous maritime world. Utilize automated production lines to free up manual labor, keep the factory running continuously, and ultimately build a starship to travel to Mars.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Automation 14.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 12.4%
- #48 Kingdom: Classic
71% matchVery Positive91% of 22,754 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 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 19.4%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10.5%
- #49 Blacksmith Master
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 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 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.4%
- #50 Maia
71% matchMixed44% of 1,065 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%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #51 Malignus
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9.4%
- #52 RimWorld
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 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: Base Building 21.8%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 7%
- #53 Quriocity
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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 17.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #54 Farmman
67% 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 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.5%, City Builder 9.4%
- #55 Space Architect
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 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 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Automation 8.6%
- #56 Life in Bunker
71% matchMixed59% 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 26.1%, Survival 19.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 8.7%
- #57 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
69% matchMixed69% of 371 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 24.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 14.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, City Builder 7.4%
- #58 Gnome Glen
66% 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 17.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #59 Factorio
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 25.7%, Automation 15.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 7.4%