- #1 Kingdom Workshop
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.7%, Automation 10.4%, Colony Sim 8.6%
- #2 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Automation 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #3 Factomancer
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Voltige Games
Windows · Mac
The Order sends you on a mission. Armed with technology powered by magic, build production chains, plan, transform, optimize, and prepare for the unexpected. In this automation roguelite, the Eye of the Order watches your moves: failure is only a step toward perfection.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.2% ★, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9%, City Builder 8.7%
- #4 Crowded Blue Dot
95% 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 22.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Real-Time with Pause 10% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.7%
- #5 Deep Space Directive
94% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Automation 12.2%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, City Builder 11%, Building 7.5%
- #7 Offshore Prophets
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Real-Time with Pause 9.6% ★, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 8.4%
- #8 Oxygen: First Breath
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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: City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #9 Automation Empire
91% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 10%, Building 9.6%, Real-Time with Pause 8.6% ★
- #10 Islandustry
91% 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: Automation 19.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.5%
- #11 Factory Town 2: Paradise
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.1%, Colony Sim 8.5%
- #12 Factory Town
89% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Colony Sim 10%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #13 Isla Paradiso
89% 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: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 8.7%
- #14 VoltHaven
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ARTilleryPub: ARTillery Studio
Windows
Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 18.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Automation 10.5%, Building 10.3%
- #15 Civitatem
87% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Real-Time with Pause 10.1% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Resource Management 8%
- #16 Lil Guys
86% 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: City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%
- #17 Another Brick in The Mall
86% matchVery Positive83% of 2,437 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%
- #18 The Blighted Frontier
85% 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: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 8.3%, Building 7.2%
- #19 Farmman
84% 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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Building 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 8.2%
- #20 Odd Realm
84% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 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: City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Automation 12.1%, Building 9%
- #21 Oxygen
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 15%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #22 Beyond These Stars
82% 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: City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 12.7%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Building 9.9%
- #23 Galaxy Scavengers
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Resource Management 10%, Automation 9.6%, City Builder 9.4%
- #24 Frontera
81% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Building 12.7%, Economy 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%
- #25 Kubifaktorium
81% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Automation 15.8%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.9%
- #26 The Colonists
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,231 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Automation 15.8%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.7%
- #27 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 635 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #28 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 5.5%
- #29 New Cycle
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Real-Time with Pause 17.2% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Building 10.7%
- #30 Builderment
78% matchMixed67% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #31 Settletopia
77% 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: City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 16%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Building 10.6%, Management 8.4%
- #32 Seeds of Resilience
78% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Building 11.7%, Management 8.1%
- #33 Copacetic
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Management 13%, Automation 11.6%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9%
- #34 Aquis
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 13.9%, Economy 9.7%, Management 9%
- #35 Our Freedom: Prologue
75% 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: City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 8.9%
- #36 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: weathering
Windows
从钻木取火,到飞向银河!《挂机工厂》是一款麻雀虽小,五脏俱全的流水线建设游戏。种田→畜牧→冶金→工业革命→开辟航线→电子芯片→改造星球→探索宇宙,用你的双手创造这一切!
Why similar: Automation 25.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 19.5%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.4%
- #37 Modulus: Factory Automation
72% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Automation 18.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.5%, Management 9%
- #38 The Crust
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,637 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 17.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 16%, Colony Sim 13%, Building 9.4%
- #39 Arcane Shores
73% 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: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Building 12%, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%
- #40 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
74% matchVery Positive81% of 2,258 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: Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Real-Time with Pause 13.8% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Building 6.5%
- #41 Flotsam
71% matchVery Positive81% of 4,469 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 17.2% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.6%
- #42 Substructure
72% 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: Automation 19.2%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #43 Landnama
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Hex Grid 10.6% ★, Roguelite 6.8%
- #44 Virum:Colony
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #45 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
73% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 15.8%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #46 United Penguin Kingdom
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 444 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 25.8%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Economy 9.5%
- #47 Little Big Workshop
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 15.5%, Building 13.7%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 11.2%
- #48 Avian Colony
68% 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: City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Automation 11.5%, Management 9.9%
- #49 Architect of Ruin
69% 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: City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Automation 11.9%, Building 9.9%
- #50 Dungeon Overseer
70% 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: City Builder 21%, Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Building 11.2%, Economy 9.2%
- #51 Make Your Kingdom
69% matchMixed58% of 196 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.9%, Management 9.6%
- #52 HolyZone
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Real-Time with Pause 16.1% ★, Economy 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Management 8.1%
- #53 Doodle Factory
67% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Automation 20%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #54 FACTORY I
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #55 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
66% matchVery Positive86% of 202 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: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 8.1%
- #56 Power to the People
67% matchVery Positive81% of 553 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Real-Time with Pause 19.3% ★, Building 12.1%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #57 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
67% matchMixed69% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%