- #1 Until We Die
97% matchMixed63% of 4,627 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%
- #2 Beacon of Neyda
96% matchVery Positive91% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Creative Studio
Windows · Linux
In a world where a robot revolution failed, the last humans search for a way to survive and escape. Beacon of Neyda is a side-scrolling action-strategy game where you must survive waves of enemies while creating and upgrading your base as you explore a world in ruins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Robots 13.4%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Survival 7.3%
- #3 Castle Formers
96% matchPositive96% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #4 Horizon 1990
95% 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 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #5 Phoenix Hope
94% 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 23.3%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 12%, Side Scroller 8%
- #6 Planet Barren Objective
94% 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 21.9%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Side Scroller 10.1%
- #7 Reclaim Earth
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Robots 12.6%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%
- #8 Binary Barrier
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Upgraded Studio
Windows
Defend your AI capital against endless alien invasions in this space shmup-inspired tower defense with roguelite randomness. Dissect bodies and ships to unlock weirdly powerful tech. Upgrade your base with turrets, turning your screen into a symphony of perfect destruction!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Aliens 14.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #9 Never Secure
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Crafting 7.9%
- #10 Freaking Meatbags
91% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.5%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Robots 11.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #11 Zomboard
90% 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 32.8%, Tower Defense 20.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #12 Diseased
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yavuz Kala
Windows
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 17%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Survival 10.4%
- #13 Outpost: Infinity Siege
89% matchMixed65% of 13,623 reviews2024
Dev: Team RangerPub: Lightning Games
Windows
Median: 16.2 hrsMean: 41.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Why similar: Robots 18.7%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Automation 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%
- #14 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #15 Captain Edgar Giza
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Steel Studio
Windows
It's a story of an impossible fight for survival on a wild planet known as Giza. Gather unique Weapon Units. Enhance the firepower and production capacity of the Outpost fighting alongside you. This is an FTD game - featuring FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building, and much more all at once.
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.3%, Robots 15%, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 13.3%, Dystopian 10.4%
- #16 One Turret
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Kaplin86
Windows · Linux
"One Turret" is a factory-building solo-tower-defense with a large emphasis on large crafting trees.
Why similar: Automation 27.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Robots 13.9%, PvE 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #17 Dig Too Deep
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Punch Up Games
Windows · Linux
Throw goblins at all your problems in this Action Tower Defense Roguelite. Craft upgrades. Choose Perks. Build defenses. Defend your Base! Angry baddies want to turn you to pulp! Stop them the only way you know how: throwing goblins! Don't miss.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.2%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Side Scroller 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%
- #18 Illuminaria
85% 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 18.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Tower Defense 17.9%, Automation 15.7%, Robots 12.4%
- #19 Hive and Seek
84% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Robots 13.7%, Survival 10.5%
- #20 Villagedom
83% 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 30.5%, Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #21 The Wild Age
84% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 30.1%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 14.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #22 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
82% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 10.8%
- #23 Xenobiome Command
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gergo Nagy
Windows · Mac
A colony survival strategy game on a fungal exoplanet, crossing colony sim, base building and territory control. Survey the fog, claim the ground under it, raise an outpost, and hold the line as the bloom and its ferals close in.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Aliens 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #24 Cosmic Castaway
81% 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 26%, Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #25 Gridmax
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Automation 20%, Base Building 16.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Aliens 6.8%
- #26 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 7.3%
- #27 Rise Under the Warstorm
79% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Automation 23.4%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 12%
- #28 The Last Factory
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jitkem TienngamPub: Hello World Labs
Windows · Mac
Build, automate, and defend humanity's last factory on a dying industrial planet. Chain production lines, survive AUTON raids and dust storms, research lost technology, and uncover what silenced every factory before yours.
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Dystopian 12.2%
- #29 Hold The Roost
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody Hiatt
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Tower Defense 26.2%, Base Building 17.6%, Automation 14.9%, Strategy 8.8%
- #30 Vilset
79% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 11.2%
- #31 Final Frost
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
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 24.5%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 12.2%
- #32 Inner Rain
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: John RaisPub: Rais Software
Windows
Survive in a ruined Biosphere on a hostile alien world. Endure, then harness the extreme weather, battle powerful bosses for upgrades, and uncover the mystery behind the planet’s lost atmosphere.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 15.8%, Aliens 13.7%, Crafting 13%
- #33 Skyberry Garden
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Automation 23.4%, Base Building 18.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Strategy 4.9%
- #34 No Creeps Were Harmed TD
75% matchVery Positive89% of 494 reviews2024
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 23.8%, Automation 16.5%, Dystopian 12.9%, Aliens 12%, Survival 9.2%
- #35 Green Again
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
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 22.2%, Automation 15.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Robots 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%
- #36 Tin Lord
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: IcosaCore
Windows
Tin Lord is a hybrid of strategy and tower defense in a post-apocalyptic world where you control robots that rebuild technology and fight monsters in a destroyed world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Robots 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Dystopian 11%
- #37 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
75% matchVery Positive87% of 443 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 22.8%, Aliens 13.3%, Dystopian 12.7%, Survival 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #38 RIFT DIGGER
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Osama Ahmed
Windows
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Automation 25%, Base Building 24.5%, Robots 11.1%, Aliens 9.9%, Colony Sim 8.9%
- #39 Bug Bait
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.6%, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Strategy 8.4%
- #40 Resilient
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
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: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Dystopian 11.8%
- #41 Drill Core
72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,437 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 27.9%, Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Side Scroller 11.2%, Aliens 6.7%
- #42 Dawn Apart
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Automation 24.3%, Base Building 21.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Strategy 5.5%
- #43 Hello World
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Linux
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Robots 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #44 King's Keeper
71% 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 29.1%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #45 Microtopia: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 18.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Robots 11.6%, Crafting 9.8%
- #46 Rise to Ruins
71% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.1 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 33.2%, Tower Defense 25.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #47 Breadoria
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Base Building 21.9%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 12.6%, PvE 6.6%
- #48 Sheltered
71% matchVery Positive82% of 6,275 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Base Building 26.4%, Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Crafting 6.2%
- #49 They Are Billions
70% matchVery Positive85% of 51,319 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 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 30.7%, Base Building 27%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%
- #50 Taur
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,105 reviews2020
Dev: Echo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.9%, Base Building 19%, Robots 11.1%, Automation 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #51 Cosmic Robots
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aniode Pub: Aniode
Windows · Mac
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.6%, Robots 17.9%, Aliens 13.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #52 Dystopians
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 19.8%, Dystopian 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 11.3%
- #53 Faith & Shield:4044 Tower Defense
70% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Midnight Games
Windows
Faith & Shield: 4044 Tower Defense game, where you protect the human settlement from the incoming invaders, robots and other creatures, never seen before on our planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Aliens 19.7%, Robots 19%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #54 CircuitVeil
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Automation 23.6%, Base Building 19.2%, Crafting 10%, Strategy 6.9%
- #55 Underground Nomads
67% 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 35.3%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 13.9%, Automation 13.6%, Strategy 5.1%
- #56 Oxytopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: iida-lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
A co-op colony sandbox where temperature and fluids run on a living cellular-automaton simulation. Terraform a dead world with friends, build a base that runs itself… then watch one leak bring it all down.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Survival 12.8%
- #57 The Last Defender
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Basement Games
Windows
Set in the merciless blizzards of a far off planet, The Last Defender is a cooperative third-person survival shooter with strategic defence and crafting elements. Nurture your colonists, build your defences and prepare for an enemy that adapts and learns your weaknesses. No wave is ever the same.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Dystopian 12.1%, Survival 12.1%
- #58 Spaceport Kingdom
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spaceport Kingdom
Windows
Spaceport Kingdom is a sci-fi strategy and siege builder. Construct ship docks to establish new transport routes in a sector caught in an endless war zone. Pirates, meteors, and cosmic anomalies strike without pause. The galaxy doesn’t grant peace; only those who build through the fire survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Automation 17%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Strategy 5.4%
- #59 Space Base
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: FishBaitPub: PondDev
Windows
Space Base is an action-packed tower defence game, where you aim to protect your planets from the incoming forces of enemy ships and aliens by any means necessary. Build up your defences as stronger and stronger waves of enemies arrive to reach the highest score possible.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.3%, Base Building 21.1%, PvE 13.7%, Aliens 10.8%, Strategy 9.3%
- #60 Planet Gemini
63% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: decidonePub: Planet Gemini
Windows
Planet Gemini is a factory-building and tower defense game. After crash-landing on two planets during an interdimensional journey, fend off waves of enemies and research a portal to survive.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%