- #1 Creo God Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 11.6%, Isometric 8.4%
- #2 RPG Tycoon
97% 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: Management 22.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Isometric 13.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #3 Goblins of Elderstone
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: God Game 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 11.1%
- #4 Noble Fates
95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #5 Fata Deum - The God Sim
94% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, City Builder 12.5%, RTS 10.2%, Management 10%
- #6 Stonehearth
94% 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 33.6% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 8.5%, God Game 5.4% ★
- #7 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
92% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.5%, RTS 18.8%, God Game 9.6% ★, Fantasy 6.2%
- #8 Dungeon Overseer
93% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 16.6%, God Game 15.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Management 9.8%
- #9 Edge Islands
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 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: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Management 13.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #10 Ratopia
89% 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 23.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 13.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #11 Dungeon Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,751 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: God Game 22.3% ★, Management 17.2%, City Builder 17%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #12 Goblin Camp
89% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 21.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #13 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
88% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, God Game 18.4% ★, City Builder 14.5%, RTS 12.2%, Management 11.5%
- #14 Cult of the Lamb
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 121,567 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 27.4%, Dark Humor 19.8%, Cute 8.7%, Fantasy 5.3%
- #15 Rise to Ruins
86% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 20.2%, God Game 18.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Survival 7.8%
- #16 Gnomoria
87% 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 28.9% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Isometric 7.6%, Survival 7.2%
- #17 Genesis of a Small God
85% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%
- #18 War for the Overworld
84% matchVery Positive86% of 8,005 reviews2015
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Why similar: God Game 16.2% ★, Management 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 12% ★, City Builder 10.7%
- #19 Clicker Heroes
83% matchVery Positive90% of 61,916 reviews2015
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 164.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Why similar: Management 52.7%, 2D 10.4%, Fantasy 9.5%, RPG 9.5%, Strategy 9.1%
- #20 Dungeon Village 2
82% matchVery Positive87% of 653 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, City Builder 24.2%, RPG 8.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #21 Odd Realm
81% matchVery Positive85% of 992 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: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, God Game 17% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Management 11%, City Builder 10.7%
- #22 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 763 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: God Game 26.6% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Management 9.9%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
- #23 Ascent of Ashes
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Management 11.9%, Dark Humor 9.6%
- #24 A Game of Humans
82% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, God Game 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Management 13.2%, Base Building 12%
- #25 Dwarf Fortress
78% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Management 14.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #26 Cavern Adventurers
79% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Survival 9%, Cute 6.2%
- #27 Gobs and Gods
79% matchVery Positive95% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: Alexandre GilottePub: None
Windows · Linux
Hire a band of almost-heroic goblins to fight and die for you in tactical turn-based battles, accomplish silly quests for the weird inhabitants of this fantastic world, and truly become a god - at least by goblin standards.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.4%, Procedural Generation 25.6%, RPG 15.7%, Strategy 14.4%, 2D 7.9%
- #28 Mountaincore
78% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, God Game 14.4% ★, Management 13.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%
- #29 Reus 2
77% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Management 12%, Base Building 11.5%
- #30 Hearthlands
77% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, RTS 11.4%, Management 11%, God Game 10.8% ★
- #31 PuPu's Adventure Park
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: 西梅树工作室
Windows
Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!
Why similar: Management 26.5%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 14%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #32 Ruinarch
76% matchMixed64% of 1,389 reviews2023
Dev: Maccima Games LLCPub: Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
Why similar: God Game 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.8%
- #33 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
76% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 43%, Management 22.9%, Fantasy 11%, Strategy 9.5%, Cute 8%
- #34 Hexagod
73% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: God Game 32.1% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #35 Majesty Gold HD
75% matchVery Positive92% of 586 reviews2009
Dev: CyberlorePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Why similar: Strategy 18.1%, Base Building 16.3%, RTS 16%, Simulation 15.1%, Isometric 8.5%
- #36 Dungeon Inn
71% matchVery Positive94% of 649 reviews2024
Dev: Cat SocietyPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
This is a cozy strategy management game where you manage an inn placed cleverly at the mouth of a dungeon. Juggle visits and business from 2 rivaling guilds, maximize profits, but keep your double-dealing a secret! Keep everyone happy and watch your inn thrive!
Why similar: Management 26.5%, Hand-drawn 22.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Cute 10.2%
- #37 Outland Kingdoms
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10.1%, Procedural Generation 7%
- #38 TFM: The First Men
74% 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 30.6% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 7.7%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #39 Cave Heroes
73% matchMixed56% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: VSTGames
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Lead a party of Cave Heroes to explore dungeons, battle monsters and defeat tough archdemons. Build your village, collect loot, rescue pets and much more in this idle RPG.
Why similar: Isometric 26.8%, Management 17.2%, RPG 14.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Cute 9.3%
- #40 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
70% 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 18% ★, City Builder 14.2%, God Game 12.7% ★, RTS 12.1%, Management 10.9%
- #41 Dungeons & Kingdoms
72% matchMixed42% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Management 23.2%, Base Building 22.4%, RPG 8.5%, Strategy 5.5%
- #42 Founders' Fortune
71% 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 34.2% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #43 Hell Architect
72% matchMixed69% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: God Game 19% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%
- #44 California Escapades
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 310 reviews2024
Dev: NUTS POWER ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Windows
In this simulation and adventure game, explore 19th-century Gold Rush California. Join Jim and Emma to build and manage your farm and city. Plant crops, raise animals, construct buildings, complete missions, uncover secrets, and collect treasures. Start your adventure now!
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Management 16%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 12.6%
- #45 Hell Architect: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive82% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 14%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #46 Mistward
69% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #47 Nova Roma
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Management 14.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #48 Rogue AI Simulator
69% matchVery Positive83% of 384 reviews2023
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Dark Humor 10%
- #49 Go-Go Town!
66% matchVery Positive94% of 2,120 reviews2024
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Management 25.1%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 7.3%
- #50 Republic of Pirates
68% 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: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, RTS 19.9%, Management 15.9%, Base Building 7%
- #51 Unholy Heights
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,637 reviews2013
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Management 14.4%, RTS 11.6%, Dark Humor 9.8%
- #52 Dungeon Village
68% matchVery Positive89% of 781 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Management 17.8%, Fantasy 7.6%, Cute 4.8%
- #53 Goblin Stone
69% matchMixed54% of 775 reviews2024
Dev: Orc Chop Games
Windows · Mac
Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Management 15.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
- #54 Charm Commerce
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: T.F.A.N.C.S.
Windows
Run a business with adorable monster girls using power of desire! Employ girls, build your workplace and grow your business in the magical world. Unleash the charm of your team and watch your business thrive!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Management 17.3%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #55 Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive96% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: God Game 27.1% ★, Management 22.6%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 13%, Fantasy 7.6%
- #56 Settlement Survival
65% 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 24.9% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Management 14.8%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #57 Legends of Heropolis DX
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Isometric 11.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 6.9%