- #1 Common'hood
97% matchMixed52% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Automation 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.7%
- #2 Skyberry Garden
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Automation 19.8%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.1%
- #3 Clipper
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Automation 23%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.7%, Building 7.9%
- #4 Dinky Guardians
95% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 19.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8%, Management 7.5%
- #5 Gridmax
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Automation 18.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%
- #6 Vilset
94% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Automation 17.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #7 Factory Town
93% matchVery Positive91% of 4,445 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 22.9%, Automation 19.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 7.7%
- #8 Embark
92% matchMixed61% of 388 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 48.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%
- #9 On & Under
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 7.8%, Management 6.5%
- #10 Survival Vacancy
91% 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 28.7%, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.8%
- #11 Kingdom Workshop
89% 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: Colony Sim 23.7%, Automation 14.1%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%
- #12 Founders' Fortune
90% matchVery Positive80% of 2,183 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 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: Colony Sim 46.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #13 Factory Town 2: Paradise
89% 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: Colony Sim 21%, Automation 19.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%
- #14 Galaxy Scavengers
88% 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: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Automation 11.1%, Management 8.1%
- #15 Odd Realm
87% matchVery Positive85% of 1,005 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: Colony Sim 29.1%, Automation 14.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Management 8.4%
- #16 GUILDMAKER
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LEONAN
Windows
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 9.8%, Automation 8.3%
- #17 Settletopia
85% 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: Colony Sim 33.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.5%
- #18 Astro Colony
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,634 reviews2026
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28.8%, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.7%
- #19 Terra-7
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #20 The Colonists
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,228 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Colony Sim 28.7%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #21 Sweets Inc.
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Road Turtle Games
Windows
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Colony Sim 14%, Management 12.2%, Building 11.9%
- #22 Red Dust Colony
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Automation 9.6%, Management 7.1%
- #23 The Glorious Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeLIAS Studio
Windows
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Automation 28.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 8.1%
- #24 TFM: The First Men
82% matchMixed61% of 410 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.4%, Management 7.1%
- #25 Macaronpolis
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lemiraum
Windows
Design your own 'all-in-one' macaron factory and become the CEO of your dream bakery. Decorate recipes at your own pace, or dive deep into optimizing production and adapting to ever-changing customer demand. Start from a small shop and conquer the world as a legendary CEO!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Automation 19.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.7%
- #26 Space Architect
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.8%
- #27 SeaColony
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%
- #28 Hexoplanet
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sirnic Interactive
Windows · Mac
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Automation 20.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 6.2%
- #29 Farmman
78% 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: Colony Sim 34.4%, Sandbox 14%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #30 Factory Trashcension
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Factory Trashcension is a first-person open-world factory creation and optimization game with unlimited possibilities. Play with your friends and design efficient factories to TRASHCEND without worries and explore a v a p o r w a v e inspired universe!
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 9.8%
- #31 Chattini Jetpack Project: A Hololive Fan Game
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: chokomancarrPub: holo Indie
Windows
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, Automation 22.9%, Simulation 17.3%, Stylized 5.3%, Resource Management 4.4%
- #32 Beyond These Stars
76% 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: Colony Sim 30.2%, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 8.5%
- #33 Polylithic
77% matchMixed68% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Automation 17.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.3%
- #34 Cog Foo
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 17.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 7%
- #35 Grim Realms
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 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 36.1%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 8.4%
- #36 plexum
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Jephinca
Windows
A third-person automation game driven by narrative progression. Build elaborate machines that feed an interplanetary network as you move from planet to planet.
Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 8%
- #37 The Crust
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,605 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Colony Sim 30.7%, Automation 20.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 7.7%
- #38 My Drug Cartel
74% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 17.7%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.6%, Economy 7.4%
- #39 Automation Station
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 24.2%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%
- #40 Captain of Industry
73% matchVery Positive90% of 11,061 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 29.5%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #41 Amicraft Factory™
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamepoc
Windows
Tiny creatures. Massive factories. Zero stress. Amicraft Factory™ is a cozy co-op automation adventure where your adorable Ami friends help you build the most beautiful production empire in the world. Build solo. Or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 8.9%
- #42 Wreckborn
71% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Krystian Dobaczewski
Windows
Cleanse the system of pirates, destroy their bases and free the captives. On the asteroids, build a base, mining colonies, explore asteroids and extract resources needed for survival. Develop buildings, build defenses and turn the asteroid into a fortress.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 8.1%
- #43 Kubifaktorium
73% matchVery Positive81% of 795 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: Colony Sim 28%, Automation 19.1%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Management 7.7%
- #44 Reclaim Earth
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Automation 7.5%
- #45 Underground Nomads
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #46 Dawn Apart
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 250 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 39.9%, Automation 24.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Simulation 4.9%
- #47 Good Company
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,779 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.1%, Building 9.1%
- #48 CLOUD DWELLERS
69% matchVery Positive91% of 77 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 41.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 6.8%
- #49 Corbel
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Not A Robot Games
Windows · Linux
Play as a giant and build a micro medieval city in this unique city builder. Pick up villagers and command them to do your bidding, create production lines and manage resources while defending against hoards of pillaging gnomes. Get involved yourself and help gather resources, transport, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Building 9.8%, Third Person 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%, Simulation 8.2%
- #50 Terra Taker
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Automation 18.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%
- #51 Justice Project
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hopeful Pixels
Windows · Mac
A courthouse management tycoon. Show your architectural talent, with every detail in your control. Let your management prowess show, schedule cases and trials alongside the ever present pressures of profit and reputation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 12.5%, Building 9%
- #52 Oxygen Not Included
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 141,608 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 6.6%
- #53 The Gears: Factory
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Automation 19.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
- #54 Another Brick in The Mall
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,431 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 23.8%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Management 12.6%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.2%
- #55 Ore Factory Squad ⛏️
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%
- #56 Tidal Expanse
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 9.7%, Building 7%
- #57 Factoriant
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marudice
Windows
Factoriant is a factory builder where you construct an underground ant factory. As a queen ant, dig tunnels, carry food, and hatch worker ants to automate your production. Defend your nest from threats like birds and humans, and build a subterranean ant colony.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 7.7%
- #58 Oxygen
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 890 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 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: Colony Sim 30.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.5%
- #59 Idlings
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Automation 19.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.4%
- #60 Occupy Mars: The Game
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,088 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.4%