- #1 WildRoot
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 11.9%, Cozy 11.7%, God Game 11.4% ★, Base Building 9.5%
- #2 Earthlings
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Monoblok
Windows · Mac
Earthlings is a side-scrolling settlement builder. Manage your colonies and survive disasters while you make weird monuments for a space delivery guy pretending to be your God.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, God Game 17.9% ★, RTS 14.5%, City Builder 11.2%, Time Management 9.4%
- #3 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
96% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 14.1%, RTS 11.2%, God Game 9.1% ★, Base Building 7.3%
- #4 Make Your Kingdom
95% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
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 19%, Colony Sim 17.6%, RTS 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #5 Fata Deum - The God Sim
94% matchMixed60% of 463 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 16.2% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Colony Sim 14.1%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 7.6%
- #6 Pick Me Up
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.4%, God Game 13.6% ★, Base Building 10%, Building 7.4%
- #7 Sapiens
93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,200 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, God Game 17.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 7.3%
- #8 VENOY
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, RTS 18.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #9 Lil Guys
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #10 Angkor: The Holy City
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, God Game 10.9% ★, RTS 9.8%, Building 8.4%
- #11 Seven Wonders
90% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 14.7%, God Game 14.6% ★, RTS 13.9%, Time Management 8.9%
- #12 Goblin Colony
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.1%
- #13 Tokeis
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
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 19.3%, Colony Sim 14.6%, RTS 12%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #14 Oxygen: First Breath
88% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 20.3%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8.1%
- #15 Settletopia
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.2%
- #16 Quriocity
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 20.1%, RTS 11.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #17 Planeta
86% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: God Game 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Colony Sim 16.1%, RTS 15.8%, Building 9.7%
- #18 Colonization Simulator
85% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 12.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #19 Wilderness Survey
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无限工作室
Windows
《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员,建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁,并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务,在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, God Game 19.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Time Management 8%
- #20 Settlement Survival
84% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 25.3%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Building 11.1%, Management 8.3%, Survival 7.7%
- #21 Mountania
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 13%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #22 Flooded
82% matchVery Positive81% of 139 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, RTS 16%, Colony Sim 12.8%, God Game 11.5% ★, Time Management 10.1%
- #23 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #24 Farmman
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #25 The First Settlement VR
80% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns. All in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 12.8%, Time Management 11.3%, Building 8.8%
- #26 Goblin Colony
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 9.4%
- #27 Dungeon Overseer
81% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 18.8%, God Game 12.5% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.7%
- #28 Founders' Fortune
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #29 Black Forest
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 410 reviews2023
Dev: Lemuria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: RTS 16.3%, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 14%, God Game 13.5% ★, Base Building 10.2%
- #30 Gnomoria
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%
- #31 Kingdoms and Castles
78% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 17.5%, RTS 11.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.6%
- #32 Venusville
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 11.4%, RTS 10.9%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #33 The Universim
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 10,670 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.3 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: God Game 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.9%, Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #34 The Blighted Frontier
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #35 First Feudal
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%
- #36 Stonedeep
77% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11.5%, God Game 10.2% ★, Resource Management 9.4%
- #37 Frontier Roots
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
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: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Time Management 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 10%
- #38 Mars Attracts
71% matchVery Positive89% of 301 reviews2026
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, God Game 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, Time Management 9.1%, Building 9%
- #39 Chronocracy
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RegolitePub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Build a unique civilization in a flat world! Explore, extract resources, expand, and battle enemies. Use your time management skills to fend off attacks and face a mysterious threat. Are you ready to create a world that can survive?
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Cozy 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #40 The Crust
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, RTS 9.2%
- #41 Seabed Settlers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, City Builder 16.5%, God Game 15.2% ★, RTS 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%
- #42 Reus 2
72% matchVery Positive94% of 2,321 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #43 Isla Paradiso
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
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 25.3%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Management 7.8%
- #44 DawnWorld Founders
71% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Mindful Games
Windows
Shipwrecked and abandoned in an unknown land. Build, expand, and even influence a medieval world where every decision shapes your rise. Establish yourself, repel threats, and guide your people's progress and destiny from above and on the ground in this relaxing single-player city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, God Game 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #45 The Settlers: New Allies
72% matchMixed49% of 1,221 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, God Game 19.6% ★, Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.5%
- #46 Galaxy Scavengers
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #47 Havenstead
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Cozy 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Management 8.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #48 Darfall
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 505 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, RTS 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.5%
- #49 Folklands
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 19.1%, RTS 13.2%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #50 Colony Break
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artical Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 19.9%, RTS 15.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #51 Stone to Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OnlyLogic
Windows · Mac
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 18.7%, RTS 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #52 Cat Island
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple X Studios
Windows
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.9%
- #53 Egypt
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 16.5%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.3%
- #54 Everlords
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flox Studios
Windows
Everlords is a world-building RTS. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore the dying world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.
Why similar: God Game 20.8% ★, RTS 17%, City Builder 11.5%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Building 8.7%
- #55 Property Pro
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.4%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.6%
- #56 Planetbase
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 25%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 7.5%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #57 Ratopia
65% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 21.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #58 Stonehearth
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 26.8%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 7.1%
- #59 Settlements Rising
66% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%