- #1 Odd Realm
97% 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: Colony Sim 18.9%, Mining 14.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Automation 10.8%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar settlement simulation experience where you manage a group of fantasy settlers building underground and gathering resources.
- #2 Craft The World
96% matchVery Positive88% of 17,114 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 19.2%, Resource Management 5.3%, Strategy 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features direct control over a tribe of dwarves as you mine, craft items, and defend your subterranean base from monsters.
- #3 Factory Town
95% 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: Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 18.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines settlement management with complex logistics and automation chains reminiscent of Hammerting's production mechanics.
- #4 Kubifaktorium
94% 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: Colony Sim 20.7%, Automation 16.5%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management, resource gathering, and automation through logistic systems in a voxel world.
- #5 Stranded: Alien Dawn
94% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Inventory Management 9.8%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers rich survival colony simulation gameplay where you manage survivors, automate tasks, and build a secure base.
- #6 Going Medieval
92% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 13.8%, Crafting 11%, Management 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep base-building and colony management mechanics with multi-level terrain similar to carving out caverns.
- #7 Founders' Fortune
93% 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: Colony Sim 39%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 6.6%, Economy 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A charming colony simulation centered around building a thriving town, managing worker needs, and crafting gear.
- #8 Microtopia
91% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that emphasizes automation and resource management on a miniature scale.
- #9 The Crust
90% 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: Colony Sim 25.1%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Brings underground and surface base-building together with a heavy emphasis on resource chains and automation.
- #10 First Feudal
91% 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: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Lets you build a settlement, manage workers, and establish supply lines in a medieval setting.
- #11 Astro Colony
89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines automation, resource management, and base building with expansive logistics networks.
- #12 Mercury Fallen
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Mining 18.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim where you manage colonists, explore underground ruins, and build up automation systems.
- #13 Mind Over Magic
87% matchVery Positive87% of 4,492 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features intricate underground and multi-level base building combined with management and simulation elements.
- #14 Orebound
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 993 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Resource Management 17%, Colony Sim 15%, Mining 12.7% ★, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration and resource management game centered around dwarven mining and building in open environments.
- #15 Mountaincore
86% matchMixed65% of 268 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 29.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation strategy game focused on leading a dwarven clan to build a formidable mountain fortress.
- #16 Anvil Saga
85% matchMixed70% of 1,838 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you run a medieval blacksmith business, crafting weapons and fulfilling orders just like in the Overworld.
- #17 Embark
86% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony simulation with deep survival, crafting, and multi-level building mechanics.
- #18 Aven Colony
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Resource Management 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony builder that tests your management and survival skills on a distant alien world.
- #19 Autonauts
83% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 25.9%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Centers heavily on programming and automation to build a self-sustaining colony from scratch.
- #20 Automation Empire
84% 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 20.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Mining 11.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on building complex resource networks and automation pipelines to fuel industry.
- #21 Swarmdustry
81% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Mining 13.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Inventory Management 8.8%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: An early access game focusing on automation, logistics, and survival mechanics.
- #22 GeoDepths
82% matchVery Positive87% of 308 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Mining 28.2% ★, Automation 17.1%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration and mining game focused on extracting resources and building up deep subterranean operations.
- #23 Illuminaria
82% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Automation 12.4%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building, resource management, and tower defense elements with automated squad control.
- #24 MegaFactory Titan
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Mining 16.8% ★, Mod 14.6% ★, Automation 14.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes massive industrial building, resource management, and automation pipelines.
- #25 KeeperRL
79% matchVery Positive83% of 1,814 reviews2024
Dev: Electric Succubi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Building 14.2%, Management 12.9%, Procedural Generation 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dungeon management game where you build an underground lair, recruit minions, and craft equipment to defend against heroes.
- #26 Survival Vacancy
81% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 12.7%, Mining 11.5% ★, Inventory Management 10%, Base Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation focusing on survival, base construction, and managing worker schedules.
- #27 Dungeons 3
78% matchVery Positive94% of 18,731 reviews2017
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Why similar: Base Building 32.2%, Economy 24.4%, Management 20.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines underground dungeon building and management with real-time strategy battles on the surface.
- #28 Clanfolk
78% matchVery Positive92% of 4,069 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Crafting 20.4%, Building 19.4%, Simulation 8.4%, RPG 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A Scottish highlands colony sim focused on survival, base building, and managing family generations through harsh winters.
- #29 Moose Miners
77% matchMixed69% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 144.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.7%, Automation 12.8%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%
- #30 Captain of Industry
74% 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 21.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Economy 10.2%
- #31 AutoForge
75% matchVery Positive87% of 467 reviews2024
Dev: Siege Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #32 Incremental Town RPG
76% matchMixed60% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Mining 15.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Automation 11.9%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #33 HammerHelm
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 398 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: Building 24.1%, Crafting 22.2%, Base Building 21.3%, Fantasy 10.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #34 Dwarf Fortress
73% matchVery Positive95% of 31,541 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 39.6 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 31%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 14.3%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 5.9%
- #35 Stonedeep
77% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Automation 9.6%
- #36 Stonehearth
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 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 52.4%, Building 18.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 4.6%
- #37 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
72% 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: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.2%
- #38 Spellcaster University
73% matchVery Positive83% of 4,334 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 19%, Economy 15.9%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #39 Little Big Workshop
74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
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 16.8%, Management 14.2%, Building 12.9%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #40 Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
73% matchVery Positive89% of 656 reviews2020
Dev: Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbHPub: SNEG
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
It`s impossible to refuse to help Odin when he asks to find his pet, Fenris, the hound of Hell. A mix of cinematic adventure and a colony building strategy that will take you deep down to the underground world of dwarfs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Mining 25.8% ★, Economy 9.9%, Management 8.6%, 2.5D 8%
- #41 Dawn Apart
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Automation 23.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 4.8%
- #42 Blacksmith Master
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Economy 13.9%, Building 12%, Management 11%
- #43 Dungeon Overseer
72% matchMixed55% of 51 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 27.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Economy 14.4%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #44 Builderment
71% 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: Automation 25.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 11.7%
- #45 Facteroids
70% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Mining 18.9% ★, Automation 18.8%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.2%
- #46 Cavern Adventurers
70% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Mining 17.5% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Exploration 6.6%
- #47 Grim Realms
69% matchVery Positive80% of 429 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
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 29.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10%, Economy 9.3%
- #48 Lord of Dwarves
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Stellar Sage Games
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%
- #49 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 10%, Building 9.6%
- #50 Mob Factory
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.7%
- #51 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.4%
- #52 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Automation 14.6%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.5%
- #53 Lords and Villeins
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Management 12.7%, Economy 12.4%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.9%
- #54 Fantasy Blacksmith
70% matchMixed48% of 1,817 reviews2019
Dev: Heaven BrotherhoodPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You are a blacksmith in the world of the sword, magic and war, in which any blacksmith who knows how to make even the simplest swords is in demand. You start off as a poor unskilled blacksmith, but in time you will gain experience and improve to achieve wealth, fame and power, and change this world!
Why similar: Crafting 23.6%, Simulation 23.3%, Resource Management 16.7%, Inventory Management 16.7%, Management 14%
- #55 CLOUD DWELLERS
66% matchVery Positive86% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.5%, Inventory Management 12.4%, Management 11%
- #56 MineMogul
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 22.7% ★, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 11%, Crafting 9.6%
- #57 Good Company
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 14.5%, Building 11.8%, Management 11.1%
- #58 Settlement Survival
65% 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: Colony Sim 33%, Building 16.2%, Management 13.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #59 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
68% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 37.8%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 10.4%