- #1 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
97% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 13.8%, RTS 10.9%, God Game 8.9% ★, Base Building 7.3%
- #2 Pick Me Up
96% 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 17.9%, God Game 13.2% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.2%
- #3 Fata Deum - The God Sim
96% matchMixed60% of 450 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 15.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, City Builder 14%, RTS 10.6%, Base Building 7.6%
- #4 Make Your Kingdom
95% matchMixed58% of 195 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 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, RTS 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #5 VENOY
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, RTS 18%, City Builder 17.8%, Sandbox 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #6 Sapiens
94% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 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 18% ★, God Game 17.5% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.3%
- #7 Lil Guys
93% 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% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.8%
- #8 Angkor: The Holy City
92% 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 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, God Game 10.6% ★, RTS 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #9 Seven Wonders
91% 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 16.1%, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, God Game 14.3% ★, RTS 13.6%, Time Management 9.1%
- #10 Settletopia
91% 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 20.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8.1%
- #11 Oxygen: First Breath
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 19.8%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8%
- #12 Childwood
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oneiric Tales Studio
Windows
Childwood is a survival management horror game in which you help a group of children survive in a hostile environment. Keep the campfire burning to protect them from night creatures, but your kind won’t hesitate to demand immoral sacrifices in exchange for rewards.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, God Game 16.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, RTS 10%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #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 18.8%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, RTS 11.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #14 Quriocity
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 20%, RTS 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #15 Colonization Simulator
87% 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 15.6%, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #16 Oxygen
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #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 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 15.6%, Building 9.7%
- #18 Flooded
85% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 16.9%, RTS 15.5%, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, God Game 11.1% ★, Time Management 10.3%
- #19 The First Settlement VR
84% 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 18.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 12.4%, Time Management 11.5%, Building 8.7%
- #20 Farmman
84% 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: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #21 Earthlings
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Monoblok
Windows · Mac
Build settlements, lead your people, and design weird monuments for a space delivery guy who is pretending to be your God.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, God Game 16.5% ★, RTS 13.5%, Time Management 12%
- #22 Dungeon Overseer
82% matchMixed54% of 50 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 18.3%, God Game 12.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #23 Goblin Colony
81% 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: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, God Game 17.9% ★, City Builder 17.7%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #24 Founders' Fortune
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 29.8% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #25 Gnomoria
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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 25.8% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%
- #26 Chronocracy
79% matchNo user reviews
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 18.4%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Cozy 12.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #27 Kingdoms and Castles
80% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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 29%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 6.4%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #28 Black Forest
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, City Builder 13.7%, God Game 13.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%
- #29 Venusville
77% matchNo user reviews
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 19.9%, Base Building 11.4%, RTS 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #30 Stonedeep
78% matchMixed46% of 104 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 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, God Game 9.9% ★
- #31 First Feudal
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 20.5% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.4%
- #32 Havenstead
77% matchNo user reviews2026
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 25.5%, Cozy 23.4%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Management 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #33 Mars Attracts
75% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
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 15.6%, God Game 15% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Time Management 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #34 The Universim
76% 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 20.3% ★, God Game 20.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #35 Isla Paradiso
76% 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 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Building 10.6%, Management 8.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #36 Reus 2
74% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 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 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #37 Frontier Roots
75% 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 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Time Management 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 10%
- #38 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 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, God Game 14.9% ★, RTS 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%
- #39 Gateworlds
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 7.9%
- #40 Insect Empires
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 13%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #41 Cog Foo
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15.3%, RTS 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #42 WildRoot
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #43 Darfall
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 470 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 16.2%, RTS 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.4%
- #44 DawnWorld Founders
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 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 19.9%, God Game 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Time Management 8.2%
- #45 The Settlers: New Allies
71% 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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, God Game 19.5% ★, Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%
- #46 The Crust
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, RTS 8.9%
- #47 Egypt
70% 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 19.8%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #48 Cat Island
69% 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 18.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.7%
- #49 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 24.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 7.4%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #50 Everlords
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flox Studios
Windows
Everlords is a strategy game where you shape the battlefield itself. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore a fractured world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.
Why similar: God Game 20.4% ★, RTS 16.7%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Building 8.6%
- #51 Ratopia
67% 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 20.8% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #52 Liftlands
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doublecap
Windows
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: God Game 19.2% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.8%
- #53 Odd Realm
67% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, God Game 16.8% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 8.4%
- #54 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 22.7%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.4%
- #55 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
68% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 15.4%, God Game 14.1% ★, RTS 12%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #56 Settlement Survival
67% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 24%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Building 10.7%, Management 8.4%, Survival 7.4%
- #57 Stonehearth
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 7%
- #58 Kingdoms Rise and Fall
68% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Little Dreams GamingPub: Little Dreams Games
Windows
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, RTS 16.5%, Time Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #59 Mistpaw Ravine
65% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Cozy 21.2%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Building 9.8%, Management 8.3%