60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, City Builder, Strategy, Base Building.
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
The Crust
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Stelvyr: Colony Defense
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 15%, City Builder 13.4%, Space 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 16.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
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 28.3%, City Builder 20.1%, Space 11.3%, RTS 9.5%, Survival 8.4%
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 40%, City Builder 28.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Space 6.1%
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 13%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, RTS 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
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 34.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Space 12.5%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 6.2%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, City Builder 33.4%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 6.6%, Sandbox 6%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 7.9%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 31.4%, Survival 9%, Strategy 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 15.6%, RTS 13.8%, Survival 12.5%
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 22.7%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 7.2%
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Automation 14.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, City Builder 24.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7.5%
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 25.8%, Real Time Tactics 15%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 6.2%
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 22.8%, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 11.9%, Automation 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 20.3%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Space 5.3%
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 21.1%, RTS 18.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, City Builder 23.6%, RTS 15.7%, Strategy 12.2%
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 37.8%, City Builder 19%, Space 15%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 7.3%
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 26.9%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Post-apocalyptic 5.7%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, Survival 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 9%
You are given a chance to influence the development of your characters and settlement, forcing you to think strategically and make decisions that will affect the events in the game. Enjoy this immersive game experience where your every move will have meaning and consequences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 15.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 7.5%
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 20.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, RTS 11.6%, Automation 10.9%
Crash-land on a dying alien world and bring it back to life. Build automated factories, master real chemistry and nuclear physics, and terraform the atmosphere one gas at a time — while sandworms hunt the power signature of everything you build.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, RTS 16.5%, Strategy 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Automation 7.2%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 7.2%
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 13.7%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
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: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 26.1%, Space 16.2%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 7.4%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, RTS 17.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, City Builder 8%, Strategy 6.5%
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 45.2%, City Builder 23%, Strategy 8.5%, Survival 7.5%, RTS 7.4%
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 19.1%, RTS 15.3%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Real Time Tactics 19.8%, RTS 17.4%, Strategy 10.1%, PvE 9.6%
Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 22.4%, RTS 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 10.6%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 28.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 6.3%
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 27%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 10.4%, Sci-fi 9.8%
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 23.5%, RTS 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Strategy 8.6%
BROBLAST is a top down builder game where you defend your base from enemies
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 20.2%, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Space 9.7%
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 27%, City Builder 16.9%, Space 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9.1%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 11.6%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%
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 27.8%, City Builder 19.9%, Automation 13.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 9.1%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 10.5%, RTS 10.3%, Survival 10.1%
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 26.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Automation 11.6%, RTS 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 20.9%, RTS 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%
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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%
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 36.1%, City Builder 29.7%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Sci-fi 4.9%
Build a 3D multi-layer starship and lead your colonists. Mine resources and salvage wreckage in space, or land to gather supplies on planets. Fight enemies, protect your crew, and build robots for the ultimate mobile base.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 16.5%, Space 12.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Sci-fi 9%
SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 19.9%, Automation 16.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, RTS 12.5%
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 25.6%, City Builder 16.2%, RTS 15.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.1%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 17.4%, Survival 12.4%
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 18.9%, RTS 16.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 7.8%
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, City Builder 25.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 4.9%
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 24%, RTS 16.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 28.8%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 7.9%, RTS 6.2%
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 17.7%, Automation 15%, Sandbox 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 19.2%, Sandbox 15%, Space 8.9%, Survival 7.7%
