- #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 15.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.9%, Automation 10%, Colony Sim 8.7%
- #2 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 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 16.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Automation 10%, Colony Sim 9.5%
- #3 Factomancer
96% matchNo user reviews2027
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 17.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.4%
- #4 Crowded Blue Dot
95% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Real-Time with Pause 10.2% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #5 Deep Space Directive
94% matchPositive88% of 16 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 16.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #6 Fill the Sky
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 14.5%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #7 Captain of Industry
93% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 21.5%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 11%, Building 8.1%
- #8 Offshore Prophets
92% matchNo user reviews
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 21.4%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Real-Time with Pause 9.7% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Colony Sim 11.7%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #10 Factory Town 2: Paradise
89% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.3%, Colony Sim 8.7%
- #11 Islandustry
90% 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 18.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 11.2%, Management 7.4%
- #12 Automation Empire
91% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.8%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Real-Time with Pause 8.8% ★
- #13 That's My Village!
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Binięda
Windows · Linux
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Real-Time with Pause 15.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Management 6.8%
- #14 Goblin Colony
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.7%
- #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: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 8.4%
- #16 Factory Town
86% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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: City Builder 16.7%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 10%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #17 VoltHaven
86% 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 18.5% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Automation 10.1%
- #18 Lil Guys
84% 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 18.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.4%
- #19 Civitatem
85% 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 29.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Real-Time with Pause 10.2% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Building 7.7%
- #20 Project Oasis
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Automation 13.8%, Building 10.8%
- #21 Another Brick in The Mall
84% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 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 18.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%
- #22 The Blighted Frontier
82% 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 23.4%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 8.1%, Building 7.3%
- #23 Farmman
82% 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 22.7%, Colony Sim 14%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 8%
- #24 Hamlet
81% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.2% ★, Strategy 7.5%
- #25 Radia Island
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Automation 10.7%, Building 9.2%
- #26 Odd Realm
80% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Automation 11.6%, Building 9.1%
- #27 Stranding Echoes
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Real-Time with Pause 11.8% ★, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #28 Beyond These Stars
78% 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 19.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Automation 12.2%, Building 10%
- #29 Oxygen
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #30 Frontera
78% 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 25.3%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Economy 8.6%
- #31 Galaxy Scavengers
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 20.8%, Colony Sim 10.7%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Automation 9.2%
- #32 Kubifaktorium
77% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 18.3%, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.1%
- #33 New Cycle
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 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 20%, Real-Time with Pause 17.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Building 10.7%
- #34 The Colonists
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20%, Automation 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.9%
- #35 First Feudal
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #36 Founders' Fortune
75% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.6%, Management 5.5%
- #37 Settletopia
74% 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 20.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.3%
- #38 CENTAVO
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Real-Time with Pause 11.9% ★, Base Building 10%, Economy 9.3%
- #39 Aquis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo 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 29.5%, Base Building 18.7%, Building 14.1%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.9%
- #40 Seeds of Resilience
75% 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 21.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Management 8%
- #41 Builderment
73% matchMixed68% of 128 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: City Builder 20.8%, Automation 20.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #42 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
72% 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 22.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Building 9%
- #43 Copacetic
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
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 20.7%, Management 12.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Automation 11.2%, Building 9.1%
- #44 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Building 14.3%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%
- #45 Industry Unbound:无界工业
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TU HENGYU
Windows
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 17.1%, Colony Sim 7.8%
- #46 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 16.3%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Building 9.6%
- #47 Arcane Shores
70% matchNo user reviews2027
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 28%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 8.4%
- #48 挂机工厂 AFK Industarry
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 34 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 24.9%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 19.8%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 8.5%
- #49 Landnama
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 475 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 20.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Hex Grid 10.7% ★, Roguelite 6.7%
- #50 Capital City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tjenstech
Windows
Capital City combines city, resource, and transport management within an infinite steampunk fantasy world. Mine resources, build factories and logistics networks. Transport raw and processed materials and goods to your city to ensure it keeps growing and expanding.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Building 12.6%, Economy 9.4%, Automation 9.1%, Colony Sim 8.9%
- #51 Flotsam
66% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 17.5% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Automation 12.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 10.7%
- #52 Shanhe Builders
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9%
- #53 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Real-Time with Pause 14.1% ★, City Builder 10.4%, Survival 6.5%
- #54 Modulus: Factory Automation
66% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 18%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 12.8%, Management 8.9%
- #55 Agromatic
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Automation 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 7.9%
- #56 Virum:Colony
67% 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 23.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #57 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 9.5%, Building 8.4%
- #58 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
69% 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 29.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 15.9%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #59 United Penguin Kingdom
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 26.3%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 10%, Colony Sim 9.7%, Economy 9.2%