- #1 Drill Core
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 17.7% ★, Tower Defense 15.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%
- #2 Planet Barren Objective
96% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Tower Defense 14%, Side Scroller 11%, Base Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.1%
- #3 Planetbase
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Space 10%, Survival 8.9%
- #4 Villagedom
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dazar
Windows
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.8%, Side Scroller 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.3%
- #5 Venusville
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #6 IXION
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Space 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.1%
- #7 DarkSwitch
93% matchNo user 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 Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Tower Defense 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #8 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 16%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #9 Kingdom: Classic
91% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Tower Defense 11.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 9.9%
- #10 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
Windows
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Tower Defense 14%, Base Building 11.5%, Side Scroller 8.9%
- #11 Ratopia
89% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 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 19.6% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11%, Survival 9.1%
- #12 Song of Slavs
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Tower Defense 15.8%, City Builder 13.4%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Base Building 11%
- #13 Horizon 1990
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.3%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #14 Starship Colony
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 10%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9%
- #15 Settlements Rising
87% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Tower Defense 8.8%
- #16 Until We Die
86% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.4%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Survival 12.1%
- #17 Border Base
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9.2%
- #18 Castle Formers
86% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.2%, Building 9.5%
- #19 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Space 12.6%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #20 Space Haven
84% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.8%
- #21 Oxygen Not Included
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 29.3% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 12.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.8%
- #22 Sylox
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 8.7%
- #23 Liftlands
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doublecap
Windows
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #24 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
81% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%
- #25 Kingdom Eighties
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,163 reviews2023
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Tower Defense 15.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Side Scroller 11.6%
- #26 Lil Guys
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 11.1%, Management 9.9%
- #27 The Crust
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 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 19.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13%, Space 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #28 NecroCity: Prologue
79% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.3%
- #29 Sky Base Venus
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #30 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Tower Defense 17.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11%, Management 6.8%
- #31 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
76% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12%, Survival 10.3%
- #32 Insect Empires
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Tower Defense 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #33 Cliff Empire
77% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #34 Guardians of the Sanctree
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Tower Defense 15.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.1%
- #35 Generation Ship
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scifan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #36 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
73% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.6%
- #37 Fio and the Doomed City
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12%
- #38 Hostile Mars
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Big Rook Games
Windows
Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!
Why similar: Tower Defense 17%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.2%
- #39 Generation Exile
71% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.1%
- #40 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 31.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7.6%
- #41 Oxygen: First Breath
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #42 The Wild Age
73% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12.2%, Building 9%
- #43 CLOUD DWELLERS
70% matchNo user 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 26.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #44 Kingdom Two Crowns
71% matchVery Positive90% of 37,612 reviews2018
Dev: Stumpy🐙SquidPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Minimalist 9.9%
- #45 Beyond These Stars
70% 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 19.9% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.4%
- #46 Aven Colony
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 32.4% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #47 Colonials Programme
71% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: CookieLegends
Windows
Rebuild humanity with two robots while travelling across the galaxy in this colony-management game! Build machines, harvest resources, shelter colonists and launch rockets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Robots 14.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #48 Rise to Ruins
70% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 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 25.7% ★, Tower Defense 22.9%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #49 Isla Paradiso
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10%
- #50 Settletopia
69% 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 23% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.8%
- #51 ROWBOTS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DevTX
Windows
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Tower Defense 14.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Robots 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%
- #52 Cosmic Castaway
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #53 Nuclear Crawler
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #54 Crowded Blue Dot
69% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 11.6%
- #55 Project Tomorrow
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Advance Nine
Windows
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 12.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Strategy 6.9%
- #56 Rise Against the Invaders
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 16%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.5%
- #57 Kingdom: New Lands
68% matchVery Positive86% of 12,165 reviews2016
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Building 9.8%
- #58 Subzero Tides
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Space 8.4%