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  1. #1 Here Comes The Swarm
    97% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
    Dev: CableHook Games
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 23.1%, RTS 15.2%, Tower Defense 14.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.3%

  2. #2 AColony
    96% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 6.3%, Exploration 6.1%

  3. #3 Protolife
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
    Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 28.2%, RTS 25.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%

  4. #4 Space Station Tycoon
    95% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
    Dev: Lunheim Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 18%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.4%

  5. #5 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
    94% matchVery Positive89% of 482 reviews2024
    Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 41.5%, Aliens 10.2%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 7.9%

  6. #6 Drill Core
    94% 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 26%, Tower Defense 18.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 10%, Exploration 6.2%

  7. #7 Alien Marauder
    93% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
    Dev: Vexan Studio
    Windows

    “Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, RTS 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Top-Down 6.9%

  8. #8 From Glory To Goo
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,455 reviews2024
    Dev: Stratagem Blue
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 19%, Tower Defense 18.9%, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 13.1%

  9. #9 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
    91% matchVery Positive88% of 428 reviews2023
    Dev: Refinery Games
    Windows

    Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 40.7%, Top-Down 13.5%, Aliens 11.6%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Strategy 10.3%

  10. #10 Siege of Centauri
    92% matchMixed66% of 448 reviews2019
    Dev: Stardock Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.

    Why similar: Real-Time 42.7%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 5.6%, Sci-fi 5.2%

  11. #11 Mineral Defense
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 236 reviews2024
    Dev: Corestone Games
    Windows · Linux

    Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, Base Building 20%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 9%, 3D 6.2%

  12. #12 Exodus Borealis
    89% matchVery Positive86% of 302 reviews2021
    Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
    Windows

    In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Tower Defense 23.6%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.6%

  13. #13 Ratopia
    87% 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 27.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.5%, Management 7.3%

  14. #14 Mistward
    88% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac

    Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Exploration 7.5%, Strategy 6.9%

  15. #15 Becastled
    86% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
    Dev: Mana Potion Studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

    Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 18.6%, RTS 15.7%, Strategy 6.9%

  16. #16 The Spatials: Galactology
    89% matchMixed69% of 258 reviews2018
    Dev: Weird and Wry
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 8.4%, Building 6.6%

  17. #17 Tempest Tower
    85% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2025
    Dev: Half Past Yellow
    Windows

    Tempest Tower is an action packed tower defense platformer where you must brawl with incoming hordes of Creepers while herding the local critters to safety. Build, fight, upgrade, overcome.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Base Building 24%, Top-Down 13.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Cute 8.8%

  18. #18 The Settlers: New Allies
    86% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
    Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 8%, Management 7%, Building 6.5%

  19. #19 Block Tower TD
    84% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
    Dev: MyDreamForever
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

    Why similar: City Builder 31%, Tower Defense 27.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 7.7%

  20. #20 Broken Universe - Tower Defense
    83% matchVery Positive91% of 311 reviews2023
    Dev: Jinthree Studio
    Windows

    Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack. A variety of stages that change each time depending on how you play them.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 33.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 11%, Strategy 9%, Cute 7.9%

  21. #21 Exogate Initiative
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
    Dev: Xeno Bits
    Windows

    Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 6.9%

  22. #22 PolyCore Defense
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
    Dev: TorksGame
    Windows

    PolyCore Defense is a tower defense game where you have to raise your defenses in order to defend your core. Build unique turrets, upgrade them with special effects and use abilities to survive waves of enemies that are trying to destroy your core!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 44.3%, Top-Down 12.6%, Strategy 10.7%, 3D 7%, Management 7%

  23. #23 Mars or Die!
    84% matchMixed53% of 74 reviews2018
    Dev: 34BigThings srl
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 31.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%

  24. #24 Surviving Ceres
    80% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

    Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 9.5%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.6%

  25. #25 Radiant Defense
    82% matchVery Positive83% of 146 reviews2014
    Dev: Hexage
    Windows

    MILLIONS OF ALIENS WILL DIE!Radiant Defense is a tower defense game set in a vibrant universe invaded by countless alien hordes.Build your space fortress any way you wish, set up wide variety of weapons and traps and let the invasions begin!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 55.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Colorful 10.7%, Aliens 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%

  26. #26 Unholy Heights
    81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,637 reviews2013
    Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Real-Time 21%, City Builder 16.5%, Tower Defense 10.7%, RTS 9.8%

  27. #27 Hexguardian
    79% matchMostly Positive80% of 685 reviews2024
    Dev: Split Second GamesPub: Yogscast Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, RTS 23.7%, City Builder 20.4%, Cute 7.2%, Strategy 6.9%

  28. #28 TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
    78% matchVery Positive81% of 354 reviews2025
    Dev: Blockage
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    TOWER ▪ DEFENSE ▪ STRATEGY. Control Vessels. Utilize their uniquely deep set of towers. Create an everchanging defense. Play with friends. Protect your Basin at all costs. An absolute Tower Defense, Real-Time Strategy Hybrid

    Why similar: Tower Defense 29.9%, RTS 27.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.9%, Exploration 6%

  29. #29 Colony Siege
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 257 reviews2020
    Dev: Finifugal Games
    Windows

    Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 27.6%, Real-Time 19.1%, Strategy 18.9%, RTS 18.4%, Base Building 7.5%

  30. #30 Colony Survival
    78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 13.5%, Building 7.1%, Open World 6.6%

  31. #31 Catizens
    77% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
    Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.2%, Management 6.8%

  32. #32 Rift Riff
    76% matchVery Positive96% of 365 reviews2025
    Dev: Adriaan de Jongh
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 34.2%, RTS 25.1%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 8%, Survival 5.3%

  33. #33 Legends of Heropolis DX
    77% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2025
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 30%, Base Building 5.7%, Cute 5.5%, Aliens 5.1%

  34. #34 Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2023
    Dev: Terryble Interactive
    Windows

    The best elements of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Tower Defense genres combined into a new Base Defense game. Defend against countless waves of enemies while you expand your base, gather resources, and research technologies to defeat the ever strengthening enemy units.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Tower Defense 21.9%, RTS 19.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Exploration 7.9%

  35. #35 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
    74% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 reviews2025
    Dev: Exabyte Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

    Why similar: Real-Time 26.2%, Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 13.1%, Tower Defense 10.6%, RTS 10.5%

  36. #36 Aven Colony
    75% 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 41.3%, City Builder 32.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%

  37. #37 Reignfall
    74% matchVery Positive89% of 424 reviews2018
    Dev: Checkmaty
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%

    Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 52.3%, City Builder 25.3%, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 6%, Action 3%

  38. #38 Stellarcraft
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 99 reviews2026
    Dev: DreamStudios
    Windows

    Stellarcraft is a sci-fi tower defense adventure: explore alien planets, gather resources, build defenses, and fend off waves of enemies, solo or in 4-player co-op. 🚀

    Why similar: RTS 28.2%, Base Building 26.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Exploration 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.2%

  39. #39 M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 207 reviews2017
    Dev: Interplay Entertainment Corp.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Colonize newly-discovered planets, control the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions in real-time or turn-based action.

    Why similar: Strategy 35%, RTS 28%, Top-Down 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Action 9.5%

  40. #40 Kingdom Eighties
    73% 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 26%, City Builder 21.1%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Exploration 6.4%

  41. #41 Cast Out Colony
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 78 reviews2025
    Dev: Wooshido
    Windows

    Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.

    Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Top-Down 11.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Cute 8.4%

  42. #42 The Universim
    71% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
    Dev: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 27.2%, Building 7.4%, Management 7.2%, Survival 4.6%

  43. #43 Cluckmech Oasis
    70% matchVery Positive88% of 3,463 reviews2024
    Dev: BlackLightPub: Mammorize
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 39.5%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Top-Down 10.5%, Cute 10.2%

  44. #44 Role of Hex
    73% matchMostly Positive72% of 95 reviews2023
    Dev: Verde
    Windows

    Role of Hex is a real-time strategy game where you defend your hexagonal base from the dangers of the universe. Gather upgrades and unlock special buildings to survive this hostile land as endless waves of enemies approach. But be quick, time is ticking and the waves are getting bigger.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, RTS 20.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%

  45. #45 Tower Factory
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,139 reviews2024
    Dev: Gius Caminiti
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

    Why similar: Tower Defense 23.4%, City Builder 21.4%, RTS 20%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 7.7%

  46. #46 Guardians of the Sanctree
    71% 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 23.7%, City Builder 19%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 6.6%

  47. #47 Starport Delta
    73% matchMostly Positive72% of 75 reviews2020
    Dev: Cloudfire Studios
    Windows

    Build amongst the stars in Starport Delta, a light sci-fi strategy game that focuses on survival. Station Commanders across the universe will turn to you for guidance to expand, defend, and survive. Help them build a thriving station, but watch out, there are many dangers hiding in space...

    Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Real-Time 20.2%, RTS 16%, Strategy 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%

  48. #48 Ascent of Ashes
    70% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 8.5%, Building 7.1%

  49. #49 Rise to Ruins
    69% 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 32.7%, City Builder 25.1%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 4.9%

  50. #50 Buoyancy
    72% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 11%, RTS 8.1%, Strategy 6.4%

  51. #51 Project Astra Dominium
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2024
    Dev: Snob Entertainment UG
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Project Astra Dominium is a Tower Defense game with Basebuilding and Automation elements. Build up your base to become a supply hub for Earth's desperately needed materials, gather resources while defending against an unknown alien threat and improve your tower's and AI capabilities.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 39.2%, Base Building 24.8%, Aliens 13.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.3%

  52. #52 Final Frontier Story
    67% matchVery Positive82% of 55 reviews2026
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Dodge lasers and explore! Planetary Development Simulation

    Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, City Builder 31.1%, Cute 5.3%, Aliens 5%, Sci-fi 4.1%

  53. #53 Epic Astro Story
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Battle baddies and foster interplanetary diplomacy in an epic space colony sim!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 31.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Cute 6.2%, Sci-fi 4.7%

  54. #54 Goblins of Elderstone
    69% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
    Dev: Outerdawn
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 20.2%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 7.2%

  55. #55 Border Pioneer
    66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,768 reviews2025
    Dev: Yahzj GamesPub: Yogscast Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!

    Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Tower Defense 24.7%, RTS 18.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 6.1%

  56. #56 Desperate Place
    67% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2025
    Dev: BruceGalaxy
    Windows

    Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Top-Down 9.2%, Building 7.7%

  57. #57 Calyx
    65% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio 568
    Windows

    A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Tower Defense 17.7%, RTS 17.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 7.7%

  58. #58 Illuminaria
    68% 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: Colony Sim 26.8%, Tower Defense 24.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.9%

  59. #59 Airborne Empire
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
    Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Tower Defense 12.3%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%

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