Nodal

Games Like Here Comes The Swarm

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Strategy, Survival, Colony Sim.

Here Comes The Swarm header art

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

Reviews: Very Positive — 85% — of 330 reviews
Released: 2026-03-05
Developer: CableHook Games
Publisher: IZilla Games
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

Similar Games

View all 60 recommendations
  1. #1 Diplomacy is Not an Option
    97% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
    Dev: Door 407
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Real-Time with Pause 16.9%, Action RTS 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

  2. #2 They Are Billions
    96% matchVery Positive85% of 51,351 reviews2019
    Dev: Numantian Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 18.7%, RTS 14.5%, Tower Defense 10.6%, Real-Time with Pause 8.5%

  3. #3 From Glory To Goo
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,792 reviews2024
    Dev: Stratagem Blue
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

    Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.9%, Action RTS 14.3%, Colony Sim 12.7%, RTS 10.6%, Tower Defense 9.1%

  4. #4 Deep Among the Swarm
    95% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2024
    Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
    Windows

    Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

    Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.5%, RTS 14.8%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Action RTS 9.6%

  5. #5 Infection Free Zone
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 18,524 reviews2024
    Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

    Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.3%, RTS 14.9%, Survival 8.9%

  6. #6 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
    94% matchMostly Positive74% of 10,619 reviews2025
    Dev: PlaySide
    Windows
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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

    Why similar: Action RTS 23.9%, RTS 16.7%, Tower Defense 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 8.3%

  7. #7 Going Medieval
    93% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 21.5%, RTS 15.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 10.8%

  8. #8 Empires of the Undergrowth
    92% matchVery Positive94% of 18,736 reviews2024
    Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 9.9%

  9. #9 Becastled
    91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,597 reviews2025
    Dev: Mana Potion Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

    Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.5%, RTS 15.5%, Strategy 7.3%

  10. #10 Cataclismo
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 4,300 reviews2025
    Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, RTS 13.1%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 10.3%

  11. #11 Nordhold
    90% matchVery Positive87% of 3,330 reviews2025
    Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.4%, RTS 11%, Management 8.4%

  12. #12 New Cycle
    89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Real-Time with Pause 22.9%, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.4%

  13. #13 Ascent of Ashes
    89% matchMixed70% of 303 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Survival 12.2%, Management 9.7%

  14. #14 Rise to Ruins
    88% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
    Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Tower Defense 19.1%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.1%

  15. #15 Night is Coming
    87% matchMixed63% of 464 reviews2025
    Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, RTS 17.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Tower Defense 12.2%, City Builder 11.6%

  16. #16 Drill Core
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,444 reviews2025
    Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Tower Defense 17.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 6.7%

  17. #17 Settlement Survival
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 25.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 10.9%, Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%

  18. #18 Kingdoms Reborn
    85% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
    Dev: Earthshine
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

    Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 12.8%, RTS 8.2%, Economy 7.9%

  19. #19 Against the Storm
    83% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
    Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.6%

  20. #20 Kingdoms and Castles
    84% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 15.2%, RTS 11.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 8.1%

  21. #21 Scarecropia
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2025
    Dev: JYP Studio
    Windows

    Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!

    Why similar: Action RTS 19.6%, Colony Sim 16.9%, RTS 12.1%, Tower Defense 11.9%, City Builder 11.1%

  22. #22 Alien Marauder
    84% matchMixed62% of 341 reviews2021
    Dev: Vexan Studio
    Windows

    “Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, RTS 18.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Survival 10.2%

  23. #23 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
    81% matchMostly Positive77% of 205 reviews2025
    Dev: Exabyte Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, RTS 11.3%, City Builder 9.9%, Action RTS 9.8%

  24. #24 DarkSwitch
    79% matchMostly Positive77% of 739 reviews2026
    Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
    Windows

    DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Tower Defense 9.5%, RTS 8.8%

  25. #25 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    82% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 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: Colony Sim 26.2%, Real-Time with Pause 18.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 6.9%

  26. #26 Repterra
    78% matchVery Positive93% of 115 reviews2026
    Dev: Chute AppsPub: MicroProse Software
    Windows · Mac

    Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.

    Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.5%, Colony Sim 13%, RTS 11.2%, Tower Defense 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%

  27. #27 Little Kingdom RTS
    79% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2025
    Dev: MyDreamForeverPub: Andgo Games
    Windows

    Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

    Why similar: Action RTS 18.7%, RTS 16.8%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.2%

  28. #28 Surviving the Aftermath
    80% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 13.4%, Strategy 9.1%

  29. #29 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
    81% matchMostly Positive80% of 83 reviews2017
    Dev: ActaLogic
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, RTS 15.1%, City Builder 14.8%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 10.8%

  30. #30 Settlements Rising
    77% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 22.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Tower Defense 7.1%

  31. #31 After Long Night
    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 459 reviews2025
    Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, RTS 15.9%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 9%

  32. #32 Tower Factory
    76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,247 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

    Why similar: Action RTS 17.7%, RTS 15.8%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.9%

  33. #33 Monsters are Coming!
    75% matchVery Positive80% of 2,808 reviews2025
    Dev: LudogramPub: Raw Fury
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 12.9%

  34. #34 Ratopia
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

  35. #35 Kingdom's Deck
    76% matchMostly Positive74% of 517 reviews2025
    Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Survival 8.2%

  36. #36 Farthest Frontier
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 25,375 reviews2025
    Dev: Crate Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 13.9%, RTS 13%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 9.3%

  37. #37 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 764 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, RTS 14.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9%

  38. #38 The Hive
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 436 reviews2016
    Dev: Skydome Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

    Why similar: Action RTS 26.9%, RTS 25.9%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 5.8%

  39. #39 Tower Dominion
    72% matchVery Positive86% of 5,489 reviews2025
    Dev: Parallel 45 Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Roguelike 7.6%

  40. #40 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    72% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 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 25.7%, Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.3%

  41. #41 Calyx
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 461 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio 568
    Windows

    A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

    Why similar: Action RTS 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.4%, RTS 13.3%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%

  42. #42 Bee Island
    71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,692 reviews2023
    Dev: Lemma Arts
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

    Why similar: Action RTS 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Tower Defense 12%, RTS 12%, City Builder 11.6%

  43. #43 Phoenix Hope
    74% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
    Dev: Honorable Pixel
    Windows

    Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Tower Defense 13.8%, RTS 13.1%, Survival 10.3%

  44. #44 Frostpunk
    71% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 19.4%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Real-Time with Pause 8%

  45. #45 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
    71% matchMixed59% of 453 reviews2025
    Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, RTS 14.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9%

  46. #46 Bellwright
    69% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
    Dev: Donkey Crew
    Windows
    Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Survival 29.5%, Medieval 17.4%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.4%

  47. #47 Civitatem
    73% 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 21.2%, Real-Time with Pause 15.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%

  48. #48 The Wandering Village
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,415 reviews2025
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 16.2%, RTS 12.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%

  49. #49 Pax Autocratica
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,850 reviews2026
    Dev: Multiverse
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Build a grand totalitarian colony and personally storm roguelite battlefields with your soldiers. Shape citizens fears, loyalties, bonds, and feuds. Capture enemies, convert them into true believers. Sacrifice the weak. Feed the strong. Wield absolute power and make every life bend to your will.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Base Building 24.8%, Survival 17%, Management 14.1%, Strategy 4.4%

  50. #50 Buggos
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 1,432 reviews2022
    Dev: Intrepid Marmot
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

    Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Management 10.4%

  51. #51 Buoyancy
    73% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 13%, RTS 8.2%, Survival 8%

  52. #52 Warlords Under Siege
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 478 reviews2025
    Dev: RedKar Devs
    Windows

    Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.

    Why similar: Action RTS 26.2%, City Builder 15%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9%

  53. #53 The Crust
    68% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 11.1%, RTS 10.3%

  54. #54 Edge Islands
    69% matchMostly Positive75% of 100 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Management 9.4%, Survival 9.2%

  55. #55 Space Drilling Station
    66% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
    Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
    Windows

    In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

    Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.8%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 9.4%, Economy 8.9%

  56. #56 Norland
    66% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
    Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

  57. #57 AColony
    68% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Survival 12.4%, Management 8.6%

  58. #58 Colony Survival
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 14.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Strategy 5.2%

  59. #59 Axom: Conquest
    65% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2026
    Dev: Hairy Penguin
    Windows

    Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.

    Why similar: RTS 26.6%, Tower Defense 25.6%, Base Building 22.3%, Roguelike 9%, Top-Down 8.3%

  60. #60 Noble Fates
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,483 reviews2021
    Dev: Xobermon, LLC
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 8.2%, Survival 7.6%

Modeli
Based on tag similarity + player behavior
Loading graph...