- #1 Diplomacy is Not an Option
97% matchVery Positive85% of 12,162 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.6%, Real-Time with Pause 16.8% ★, Action RTS 12% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #2 Cataclismo
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,178 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 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: Real-Time with Pause 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, RTS 11.4%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%
- #3 From Glory To Goo
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,682 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.5%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #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 22.4% ★, RTS 14.6%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Action RTS 9.7% ★
- #5 Infection Free Zone
94% matchVery Positive81% of 17,997 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.0 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%, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 18.4%, RTS 14.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #6 They Are Billions
94% matchVery Positive85% of 51,023 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 56.3 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 22.7%, Base Building 18.6%, RTS 14.4%, Tower Defense 10.4%, Real-Time with Pause 8.5% ★
- #7 Age of Darkness: Final Stand
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 10,542 reviews2025
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.1% ★, RTS 16.5%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 8.3%
- #8 Empires of the Undergrowth
92% matchVery Positive94% of 18,149 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 18.6 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 22.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #9 Becastled
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,563 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 21.5%, Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.4%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #10 Nordhold
91% matchVery Positive87% of 3,224 reviews2025
Dev: StunForgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.4%, RTS 10.9%, Management 8.6%
- #11 Kingdoms Reborn
90% matchVery Positive91% of 9,636 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 12.8%, RTS 8.2%, Economy 8.1%
- #12 Rise to Ruins
89% matchVery Positive88% of 7,750 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.2 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 28.7%, Tower Defense 18.8%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #13 New Cycle
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,831 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.5 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: Real-Time with Pause 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #14 Ascent of Ashes
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 302 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 28.5%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Survival 12.1%, Management 10%
- #15 Night is Coming
87% matchMixed65% of 450 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 21.5%, RTS 17.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Tower Defense 12%, City Builder 11.5%
- #16 Drill Core
86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,392 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.6 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 26.7%, Tower Defense 17.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #17 Settlement Survival
86% matchVery Positive86% of 7,950 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.9 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 23.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Management 8.2%
- #18 Repterra
85% matchVery Positive92% of 78 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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, RTS 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Tower Defense 9.9%
- #19 Alien Marauder
84% matchMixed63% 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 23.4%, RTS 17.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #20 Scarecropia
82% matchVery Positive90% of 61 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 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 17%, RTS 12%, Tower Defense 11.7%, City Builder 11%
- #21 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
84% matchVery Positive81% of 2,254 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 18.6% ★, Base Building 15%, Survival 11%, City Builder 6.8%
- #22 Surviving the Aftermath
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,539 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.2 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 26.2%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 13.3%, Strategy 9.2%
- #23 Kingdoms and Castles
81% matchVery Positive94% of 31,170 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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 19.7%, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 8.4%
- #24 Little Kingdom RTS
81% matchVery Positive87% of 68 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 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #25 Going Medieval
78% matchVery Positive89% of 21,027 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 25.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Economy 13.4%, Survival 10.7%
- #26 Settlements Rising
80% matchVery Positive81% of 428 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 22.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Tower Defense 6.9%
- #27 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 198 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 11.1%, Action RTS 9.9% ★, City Builder 9.7%
- #28 After Long Night
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 445 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 19.9%, RTS 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #29 DarkSwitch
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 587 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 12.1%, Base Building 10%, Tower Defense 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #30 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
82% matchVery Positive80% of 82 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 22.4%, RTS 14.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 10.8%
- #31 Farthest Frontier
76% matchVery Positive86% of 24,728 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 27.0 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 13.5%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 9.7%
- #32 Tower Factory
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,215 reviews2024
Dev: Gius Caminiti
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 17.8% ★, RTS 15.6%, Tower Defense 13.9%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.8%
- #33 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
76% matchVery Positive85% of 749 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 20.7%, RTS 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 12%, Survival 8.9%
- #34 Monsters are Coming!
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,612 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.0 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 20.5%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 12.8%
- #35 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,710 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.2%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #36 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive82% of 1,427 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #37 Kingdom's Deck
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 476 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 20%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #38 Against the Storm
72% matchVery Positive95% of 36,221 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.4 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 20.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #39 The Hive
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 426 reviews2016
Dev: Skydome Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 27% ★, RTS 25.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Top-Down 5.8%
- #40 Phoenix Hope
75% 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 21.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Tower Defense 13.5%, RTS 12.9%, Survival 10.2%
- #41 Calyx
71% matchVery Positive88% of 394 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 13.1%, Tower Defense 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%
- #42 The Crust
71% 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 24.3%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, RTS 10.1%
- #43 Colony Survival
73% matchVery Positive92% of 8,892 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.1 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 38.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 14.8%, City Builder 10.8%, Management 5.2%
- #44 Tower Dominion
69% matchVery Positive86% of 5,105 reviews2025
Dev: Parallel 45 Games
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 24.3%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Roguelike 7.8%
- #45 Edge Islands
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 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 32%, Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 12.4%, Management 9.6%, Survival 9.1%
- #46 Blacksmith Master
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,627 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 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 20.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #47 Buoyancy
74% matchMixed55% of 827 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 38.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13%, RTS 8.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #48 Frostpunk
70% matchVery Positive93% of 135,453 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.5%, City Builder 19%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 11.9%, Real-Time with Pause 7.9% ★
- #49 Warlords Under Siege
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 473 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #50 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
70% matchMixed59% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 18.5%, RTS 14%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.9%
- #51 Bellwright
68% matchVery Positive81% of 20,282 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.3 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 34.6%, Survival 29.4%, Medieval 17.5%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.7%
- #52 Civitatem
72% 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 20.8%, Real-Time with Pause 15% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%
- #53 Buggos
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,375 reviews2022
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 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 18.9%, Base Building 18.3%, RTS 18.1%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Management 10.7%
- #54 Norland
67% matchVery Positive82% of 10,043 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 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 21.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #55 Zombie Cure Lab
68% matchMixed69% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.2%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #56 Space Drilling Station
66% matchVery Positive92% of 77 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 24.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 9.2%, City Builder 9.2%
- #57 Whiskerwood
65% matchVery Positive93% of 3,112 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #58 EverSiege: Untold Ages
64% matchMixed70% of 1,887 reviews2026
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
Why similar: Action RTS 29% ★, RTS 17.1%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Survival 10.2%, Management 8.3%
- #59 AColony
67% matchVery Positive89% of 136 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 30.3%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Survival 12.3%, Management 8.8%
- #60 Darfall
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, Action RTS 16.3% ★, RTS 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.3%