- #1 Ancient Aliens: The Game
97% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows · Mac
What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.6%, Isometric 8.1%
- #2 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
96% 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 35.7% ★, City Builder 32.3%, Resource Management 11%, Building 6.5%, Survival 5.7%
- #3 Settler's Domain
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 7.7%, Management 6.4%
- #4 Orc Colony
95% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Management 7.9%
- #5 DarkSwitch
94% matchNo user 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 Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #6 Aquasplendere
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivan Armandy
Windows
Nothing is greater than Aquasplendere, and we hear his voices. His blood flows through our world. Embody the descendants of the Great Deaf bloodline and lead the epic journey of our civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Isometric 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Mystery 8.3%
- #7 Pixel Colony
93% matchPositive95% of 39 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: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Resource Management 12%, Management 10.7%, Survival 7.3%
- #8 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
92% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 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 34.9% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.8%, Building 8.2%
- #9 Orrstead
91% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Building 10%, Management 9.8%, Isometric 8.8%
- #10 Banished
91% 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 37.4% ★, City Builder 34.1%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 5.2%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #11 Windowed Realms
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 6.1%
- #12 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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 26.7%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 8.6%, Building 7.9%
- #13 Gnomoria
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Building 8.9%, Survival 6.8%, Isometric 6.7%
- #14 Paleon
88% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 6%
- #15 Isla Paradiso
87% 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: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.5%, Survival 6.2%
- #16 What's Left Behind
86% 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: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #17 Kingdoms and Castles
86% 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: City Builder 33.7%, Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 5.1%
- #18 Dubai Builder
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 12%, Management 11.2%
- #19 Beware of Light
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #20 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
82% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Building 11.4%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #21 Settlements Rising
82% 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Resource Management 12%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.2%
- #22 Crowded Blue Dot
84% 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: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 11.1%, Building 8.3%
- #23 Oxygen: First Breath
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.3%
- #24 One More Island
81% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 23%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.1%, Survival 7.7%
- #25 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Isometric 10%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.1%
- #26 Settlement Survival
79% 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: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Building 11%, Management 9.8%, Survival 7.9%
- #27 Lil Guys
78% 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 31.7% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #28 Avian Colony
77% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #29 Founders' Fortune
78% 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% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 6.4%
- #30 RPG Tycoon
79% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Management 15.5%, Isometric 11.6%, Building 9.8%
- #31 Hexagge
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Simulation 9%, Building 8%, Management 6.2%
- #32 Viceria
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayfulFoxStudio
Windows
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #33 Pico Islands
75% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BitSpree GmbH
Windows · Mac
Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 9.7%, Building 7.9%
- #34 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
75% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 27.4%, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 10.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #35 Spirit & Stone
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.8%, Building 7.5%
- #36 Above: Colonies of the Mist
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 27%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 7.8%, Simulation 5.7%
- #37 Outlands
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 27%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 6.3%
- #38 Patron
73% 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 31% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7.3%
- #39 Clan & Flood
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 16%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11.4%
- #40 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 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: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #41 Rise Against the Invaders
71% 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: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Building 10.9%, Survival 7.5%, Resource Management 7%
- #42 First Feudal
72% 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 28.1% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.5%
- #43 Mossfield Origins
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Any Percent
Windows · Linux
A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.4%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #44 Lords and Villeins
71% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Management 10.7%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #45 United Penguin Kingdom
70% 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: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 12.1%, Survival 9.6%
- #46 Blueprint Tycoon
72% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Management 17.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #47 Venusville
70% matchNo user reviews
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 29.6% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 7.8%, Management 7.7%
- #48 Arcane Shores
69% 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: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9%, Management 6.3%
- #49 Frostpunk: 1886
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Resource Management 13%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #50 Dawn of Man
69% 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: City Builder 39.7%, Colony Sim 37.7% ★, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 5.1%, Simulation 3.4%
- #51 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 29.4% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.5%, Survival 6.9%
- #52 Settletopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #53 Frostpunk
68% 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: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 6.8%
- #54 Island Master
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.9%, Building 6.9%
- #55 Fleeting World
69% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Building 14.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 8.1%
- #56 Generation Exile
65% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 25%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #57 Real Communism
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marlowe Development
Windows
Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.2%
- #58 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Resource Management 6%