
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
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It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?

New Cycle
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.

Oxygen: First Breath
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!
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: City Builder 17.8%, Real-Time with Pause 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival 8.6%
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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Economy 10.4%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%
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 20.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Colony Sim 11%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
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: City Builder 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
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 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 7.8%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 12.7%, Colony Sim 7.8%, Base Building 7%
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 24.6%, Real-Time with Pause 12.1% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 9.7%, Colony Sim 9.6%
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 16.3%, Real-Time with Pause 14.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 9.5%
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 17.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Management 7.3%
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 24.9%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 7.4%
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: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Economy 13.8%, Management 8.6%, Survival 7.9%
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Real-Time with Pause 13.6% ★, Economy 10.3%, Strategy 7.3%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Economy 10.6%, Survival 9.5%
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 9.2%, Economy 9.1%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Survival 9.8%, Economy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 17.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Economy 10.9%, Survival 8.3%
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Real-Time with Pause 11.8% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.6%
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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Economy 11.5%, Survival 10.2%, Management 9.6%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Real-Time with Pause 16.4% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.3%, Management 8%
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. Defend your city from disasters, cyberattacks, espionage, diseases, and growing unrest. Expand through powerful corporations that fuel growth, influence neighboring settlements, and reshape the balance of power.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Survival 9.8%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Economy 8.8%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, Real-Time with Pause 13.4% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 7.7%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 8.4%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Economy 11.1%, War 9.6%, Survival 9.4%
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 17%, Economy 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Management 9.9%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Economy 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 10.4%
TerraStorm is a survival city builder set 70 years after the apocalyptic ending of the Second World War. You will be an Architect, responsible for finding a suitable place to start new settlements, self-sufficient Towers, that will become humankind's new bastions.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Economy 12.1%, Survival 11%, Base Building 7.8%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Survival 12.7%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
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 30.3%, Real-Time with Pause 12% ★, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
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 20.2% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Economy 10.9%, Management 8.1%
Chaos Cities is a city builder where your citizens directly react to everything you do. Build a futuristic city or plunge it into chaos, the choice is yours!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Real-Time with Pause 21.4% ★, Economy 15.6%, Management 10.7%, Colony Sim 9.2%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.5% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 14.3%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Economy 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%
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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 16%, Survival 11.4%, Management 10.2%, Building 7.8%
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Economy 15.5%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Real-Time with Pause 13.5% ★, Management 9.2%
Lead the last fleet of mankind across an abandoned star system. Ration life-support, weigh research against survival, and shape society through Fleet Council decisions you cannot undo. Every choice tightens the path to the next jump.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Economy 9.6%
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: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Survival 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Survival 10.5%, Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
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 22.1%, Economy 13.1%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.2% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Economy 10.1%, Survival 9.3%
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 13.9%, War 13.2%, Economy 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.8% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Economy 9.2%
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 13.1%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.9%
Would You Settle?! is a short settlement-building strategy game that tasks you with growing a tribal settlement on an abandoned fantasy island. Expand your settlement, uncover the island's secrets and trade with locals fast enough to satisfy the Forest King.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 8.5%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Survival 12.2%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 7%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Economy 10.2%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Colony Sim 7.5%
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: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Economy 14.1%, Survival 11.7%, Building 6.7%
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 8.3%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Management 10.9%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Economy 15%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 9%
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Economy 12.7%, Survival 11%, Management 9.4%
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Survival 12%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.5%
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Management 12.4%, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Real-Time with Pause 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 7.8%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Economy 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Management 7.7%
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 15.5%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Management 10.3%