- #1 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
78% 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 25.9%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Strategy 15.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #2 Bunny Bunker
76% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Polyspice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #3 Rise Under the Warstorm
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Tower Defense 19%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8%
- #4 Zomboard
76% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #5 Illuminaria
72% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.6%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 12%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #6 Cosmic Castaway
71% 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 25.3% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #7 Captain of Industry
70% matchVery Positive91% of 10,318 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 79.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Strategy 7.7%
- #8 Planet Barren Objective
71% 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 23.2% ★, Tower Defense 19.9%, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #9 Sylox
70% 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 35.3% ★, Tower Defense 25%, Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 5.3%
- #10 Fio and the Doomed City
70% 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 30.9% ★, Tower Defense 24.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #11 Crucible TD
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ladányi Bence Vajk
Windows · Linux
Defend the Crucible from waves of enemies. Grow your economy to new heights, research and be always one step ahead. The Crucible must be completed!
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.8%, Strategy 18.6%, Tactical 10.8%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★, Management 10.3%
- #12 Mindustry
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,533 reviews2019
Dev: AnukenDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28%, Base Building 19.8%, Automation 18.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 9.2%
- #13 Villagedom
68% 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 31.1% ★, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 7%
- #14 Underground Nomads
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Automation 10.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 8%
- #15 One More Turret
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNES Studio
Windows
One More Turret is an automation and tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Gather resources and enemy loot to construct intricate factory while defending against relentless monster waves. Can you strike the perfect balance between production and defense?
Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, Automation 17.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #16 Artificer's Tower
68% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Tower Defense 22.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 5.8%
- #17 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
66% matchVery Positive93% of 572 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 26.1% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 5.9%
- #18 Recursion
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cidots
Windows
Flowchart is your weapon. Recursion is a strategy game merging logic circuit design with tower defense. architect their paths, and defend the system by engineering the perfect logic loop with maximum efficiency.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Automation 19.1%, Strategy 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 7.7%
- #19 Deep Space Directive
66% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 8%
- #20 Zombie Warz
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GobiGD
Windows · Mac
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25.8%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 9%
- #21 Kingdom: Classic
68% matchVery Positive91% of 22,522 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 19% ★, Tower Defense 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #22 Nuclear Crawler
66% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 21.5%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.8%
- #23 Mob Factory
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 7.3%
- #24 Guardians of the Sanctree
65% 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 21.2% ★, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 11.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #25 Creeping Dusk
66% matchMixed67% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: PolyShroom
Windows · Linux
Creeping Dusk is a tower defense game. Build a town around an abandoned gold mine and defend against monsters that swarm the area. Fortify your defenses, and prepare for the increasingly challenging nights. Will you be able to protect your town from the encroaching darkness?
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Tactical 10.1%
- #26 Hold the Line
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adrien De Nève
Windows
A strategic tower defense set in World War I. Defend Belgian trenches, manage your soldiers, their supplies and fatigue. Every choice matters. This is not about conquering — it’s about holding the line.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.9%, Strategy 19.8%, Tactical 12.9%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #27 Horizon 1990
66% 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 25.2%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 15.7%, Management 7.1%
- #28 Border Base
66% 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 27.9% ★, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 9.4%
- #29 Terra-7
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 9.5%
- #30 Age of Respair
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
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% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Tower Defense 10.9%, Automation 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #31 SkillGrid
64% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Strategy 18.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 13.5%, Simulation 11.2%
- #32 Sigma Draconis
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Strategy 17%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%
- #33 Settlements Rising
63% matchVery Positive81% of 410 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 30.4% ★, Tower Defense 12.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 9.4%
- #34 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
63% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.6%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Tactical 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #35 NecroCity: Prologue
64% 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 26.1%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Tactical 8.6%
- #36 The Wild Age
65% 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 31.9% ★, Tower Defense 24.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 6.2%
- #37 Phoenix Hope
65% 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 27.2% ★, Tower Defense 23.1%, Base Building 16%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 7.5%
- #38 Our Freedom: Prologue
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #39 Kingdom Workshop
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Automation 12.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 10.5%
- #40 Femdom Tower Defence
63% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Fdtd
Windows
Trample, stomp, wrestle, crush, chastise, tease or do whatever it takes to protect your statue from the males!
Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Strategy 23.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Tactical 12.3%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #41 King's Keeper
62% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Tower Defense 25.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.8%
- #42 Avian Colony
61% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Automation 11%, Management 9%
- #43 CLOUD DWELLERS
62% 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 35.6% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 9.4%
- #44 Red Dust Colony
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Automation 8.2%
- #45 Oxygen Not Included
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,747 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 42.1% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 6.7%, Management 5.7%
- #46 Stormbridge
60% matchPositive100% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Can you build the longest bridge before the storm catches up? Stormbridge is a roguelite city builder about growth, survival, and watching everything fall apart. Stay ahead of the danger, unlock upgrades between runs, and uncover the storm’s origin.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.7%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Tactical 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #47 Space Architect
60% matchMostly Positive76% of 282 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Base Building 15%, Automation 14.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.1%
- #48 Zombie Cure Lab
60% matchMixed70% of 447 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 24.7% ★, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 6.9%
- #49 Fortress of the Fallen
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iron Crown Studio
Windows
Build by day. Survive by night. A focused medieval tower defense where every decision is permanent.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Tactical 8%
- #50 Hostile Mars
61% 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 23.4%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Automation 13%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10%
- #51 Eye of the Void: Unleashed - Tower Defense
63% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: PerpetualOOMM
Windows · Mac
The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.2%, Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 9.6%
- #52 Clipper
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 10.1%
- #53 Dinky Guardians
61% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 7.8%
- #54 DarkSwitch
61% 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 27.5% ★, Tower Defense 23.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #55 Dubai Builder
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Strategy 17.9%, Tower Defense 15%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 9.5%
- #56 The Crust
59% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,376 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.2 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 28% ★, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #57 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
57% matchVery Positive83% of 1,291 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Automation 13%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 9.5%
- #58 Zombies Per Minute
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Enzed Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombies Per Minute is a factory-building roguelite where everything you build is measured by one thing: how many zombies you can kill per minute. Yes, really. Use your imagination to grow your factory, make decisive choices each wave and progress from one outpost to the other. Until Earth is saved.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.5%
- #59 They Are Billions
60% matchVery Positive85% of 50,587 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 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 32.5% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #60 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
60% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Strategy 19.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 5.5%