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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: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 25%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 6.9%

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 26%, Survival 14.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 6.7%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Action RTS 29.5% ★, RTS 21.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Isometric 10.6%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Moddable 21.3% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 11.2%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 22.6%, Mythology 15.8%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 8.4%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Survival 27.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 11%, Choices Matter 7%

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 33.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Moddable 13.9% ★, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 7.9%

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, RTS 19.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 19%, Real-Time 18.5% ★, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 8.3%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, RTS 17%, Strategy 16.1%, Survival 15.8%, Colony Sim 13.8%

Command the Trolls and lead them on an epic journey across the wild continent of Urgath. As Chieftain of the Moonkin, a tribe driven from its home by tusk hunters and disease, their survival is in your hands.

Why similar: RTS 38.1%, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 16.2%, Magic 10.8%, Atmospheric 5.2%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 13%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Survival 17.4%, Real-Time 9.8% ★, Strategy 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 25.4%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 7.9%

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 24.2%, Mythology 16.4%, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 14.5%, Survival 9.2%

From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.

Why similar: RTS 38.1%, City Builder 30%, Strategy 20.1%, Survival 6%, Magic 4.1%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 19.9%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 8.4%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Isometric 19.4%, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 16.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, City Builder 32.1%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 6.1%, RTS 5.4%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, RTS 20.4%, Mythology 16.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Survival 11.5%

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 39.1%, City Builder 23%, Survival 15.3%, Isometric 14.7%, Strategy 7.9%

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 Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 10.1%

A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.

Why similar: Real-Time 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 17.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Moddable 22% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Survival 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 18.5%, RTS 14.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

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 40.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Isometric 9.2%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, RTS 17.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Isometric 11.6%, Survival 10.6%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 30.6%, Survival 16.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Isometric 3.7%

Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night

Why similar: Action RTS 31.6% ★, City Builder 21.8%, RTS 14.9%, Survival 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11%

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 43.4%, City Builder 30.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Why similar: Real-Time 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 15.7%, RTS 13.3%, Survival 9%

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 24.5%, Mythology 20.5%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 8.6%

Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, RTS 16.7%, Action RTS 16.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Survival 9.7%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Action RTS 17.8% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, RTS 13.3%, Isometric 9.7%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 24.7%, RTS 15.7%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 13.8%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 20.2%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Survival 19.5%, Resource Management 16.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Colony Sim 10.3%

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 46.4%, Survival 18.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Procedural Generation 7.5%

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: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 21.9%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11.9%

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 25.8%, Isometric 14.5%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 8.5%

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.

Why similar: Dark Fantasy 35.4%, Isometric 32.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Adventure 5.4%

In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, RTS 18.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Isometric 13.1%, Survival 10.6%

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 35.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Procedural Generation 12%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 21.7%, RTS 18.1%, Survival 11.5%, Choices Matter 6.4%

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 29.9%, City Builder 23.7%, RTS 16%, Isometric 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 43.7%, City Builder 29%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 5.9%

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1%, Lore-Rich 17.3%, Resource Management 15.8%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Strategy 7.9%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 68.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, RTS 21.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.9%

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: Real-Time 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%, Resource Management 10.4%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, RTS 19.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Aid the Deities of Dread in their quest for vengeance and pave the way for their ascension. Gather grim materials, construct defences and expand the underworld to appease the rage of the gods in The Deadly Path, a unique building management and roguelike strategy game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, RTS 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%

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 31.6%, City Builder 21%, RTS 19.3%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 7.8%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Action RTS 19.9% ★, RTS 15.7%, City Builder 12.4%, Survival 9.8%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Moddable 44% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Moddable 21.2% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 10.9%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: Moddable 20.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Survival 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, RTS 21.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11%