- #1 IXION
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Space 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep resource management with a narrative-driven space survival experience that mirrors the high-stakes atmosphere of Titan.
- #2 Frostpunk
96% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Real-Time with Pause 7.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly intense survival city-builder experience where every decision carries heavy consequences for your colony.
- #3 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.9%, Base Building 21.6%, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep industrial automation and logistics system that appeals to fans of the complex manufacturing chains in Titan.
- #4 Space Haven
95% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Space Sim 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features intimate colony management and ship-to-ship combat that captures the tactical feel of Titan's ship battles.
- #5 Dyson Sphere Program
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Space 14.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale industrial expansion and resource management across space, matching the grand scope of corporate growth.
- #6 Factorio
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Resource Management 29.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive industrial automation game, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing complex production lines and defending their base.
- #7 Offworld Trading Company
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,684 reviews2016
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on corporate competition and economic warfare, directly echoing the rival corporation mechanics in Titan.
- #8 Anno 2205™
92% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,296 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 54.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, 4X 24.2% ★, Resource Management 7.7%, Futuristic 7.4%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features futuristic city building with multi-region logistics that captures the sci-fi industrial aesthetic of Titan.
- #9 New Cycle
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,809 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder that emphasizes survival and resource management in a crumbling world.
- #10 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
89% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 20.5%, 4X 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the most complex industrial and logistics simulation available, perfect for those who want deep control over their city's economy.
- #11 Surviving the Aftermath
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on post-apocalyptic colony management and survival, sharing the gritty tone of Titan's world.
- #12 Manor Lords
88% matchVery Positive84% of 87,232 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 18%, 4X 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 11.4%, Resource Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends intricate city building with tactical combat, offering a similar hybrid gameplay loop to Titan's city management and warfare.
- #13 Planetbase
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 26.8%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 13.4%, Space 10%, Resource Management 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony simulation that emphasizes survival and infrastructure management in a harsh environment.
- #14 Timberborn
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Voxel 18.1% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique vertical building mechanics and water-based resource management that adds a fresh layer to the city-builder genre.
- #15 The Crust
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 21%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Space 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy moon colony simulation that focuses on resource extraction and base expansion.
- #16 Against the Storm
85% matchVery Positive95% of 35,994 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, roguelite city builder that forces players to adapt to harsh environments and manage resources under pressure.
- #17 Aven Colony
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 33.8%, City Builder 28.7%, Base Building 10%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Strategy 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city builder that focuses on the challenges of establishing a colony on a distant, dangerous world.
- #18 Cliff Empire
84% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features futuristic city building on cliff tops, requiring careful resource management due to extreme scarcity.
- #19 InfraSpace
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,907 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 16%, Space 13%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines city building with a heavy focus on transportation networks and logistics in a sci-fi setting.
- #20 Reshaping Mars
83% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 21.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the long-term project of colonizing and terraforming Mars with a strong emphasis on strategy.
- #21 Satisfactory
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 36.5%, Resource Management 23.7%, Building 20.1%, Exploration 5.6%, Sci-fi 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person perspective on industrial automation and base building, allowing for massive, sprawling factory designs.
- #22 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city builder where managing air and resources is the key to keeping your colony alive.
- #23 Frostpunk 2
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,920 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Resource Management 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Strategy 9%, Colony Sim 8%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's survival mechanics with more complex political and societal management systems.
- #24 Cataclismo
79% matchVery Positive89% of 4,143 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on defensive base building and tactical combat, sharing the strategic defense elements found in Titan.
- #25 Aquatico
82% matchMixed67% of 863 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An underwater city builder that forces players to manage resources in a unique, pressurized environment.
- #26 Sphere - Flying Cities
81% matchMixed50% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Cyberpunk 13%, Resource Management 10.2%, Space 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city builder where your city is mobile, requiring constant management of resources and movement.
- #27 Endzone - A World Apart
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony survival game that emphasizes environmental hazards and resource scarcity.
- #28 Solargene
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 836 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 14.2%, 4X 14.2% ★, Space Sim 13.7%, Base Building 9.5%
- #29 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 25.2%, Real-Time with Pause 17.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with survival against demonic threats in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #30 Exogate Initiative
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 707 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: 4X 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9%
- #31 Space Drilling Station
76% matchVery Positive92% of 77 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #32 Whiskerwood
74% matchVery Positive93% of 3,024 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #33 Airborne Empire
73% matchVery Positive88% of 851 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Real-Time with Pause 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 7.8%
- #34 ALL WILL FALL
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,116 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #35 Trappist
75% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Space Sim 12.6%, Base Building 7.7%
- #36 Space Station Tycoon
76% matchMixed61% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 19.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Space Sim 14.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Cyberpunk 9.7%
- #37 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
78% matchMixed50% of 381 reviews2017
Dev: Jim Offerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Design, build and control your own space station. Mission command and control is in your hands and only careful planning and vigilant supervision will keep your crew and space station safe.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.8% ★, Space Sim 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.5%, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed focus on space station construction and management, appealing to the space-sim aspects of Titan.
- #38 The Last Haven
75% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, City Builder 17%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #39 Microtopia
72% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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 23.5%, City Builder 19%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 12%, Futuristic 8.2%
- #40 The Universim
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,560 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.1 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 25.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Real-Time with Pause 15% ★, Building 10.3%, Space 7.4%
- #41 Per Aspera
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,702 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10%
- #42 Outworld Station
70% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Space 20.1%, Resource Management 16.2%, Futuristic 11.1%, Simulation 9.1%
- #43 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #44 Farlanders
70% matchVery Positive91% of 576 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 12%, Space 9.6%
- #45 Meeple Station
73% matchMixed57% of 947 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 14%, Space Sim 13.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10%
- #46 Astro Colony
70% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Space Sim 13.5%, Space 11.3%
- #47 Power to the People
71% matchVery Positive82% of 547 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 14%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%
- #48 Ragnorium
71% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 17.3%, 4X 15.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #49 Heart of the Machine
66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,968 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #50 Drill Core
67% matchVery Positive85% of 2,374 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.8 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 29.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 7.3%, Space 6.3%
- #51 Kubifaktorium
69% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Voxel 16.6% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.9%
- #52 Buoyancy
71% matchMixed56% of 825 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 38.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #53 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 823 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 12%, Space Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #54 Before We Leave
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,706 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Building 9.4%
- #55 Automation Empire
69% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Base Building 19%, Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 12.5%
- #56 Nova Roma
63% matchVery Positive95% of 1,833 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #57 Urbek City Builder
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Voxel 26.1% ★, Resource Management 15%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 6.4%
- #58 Starport Delta
68% 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: Space Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%
- #59 Facteroids
66% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 11%, Voxel 11% ★