- #1 IXION
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 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 24.1%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 8.9%
- #2 Kingdoms Reborn
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 8.4%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #3 Tokeis
95% 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 21%, Colony Sim 15%, RTS 13%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #4 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
94% matchVery Positive92% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 19.2%, RTS 15.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 7%
- #5 Egypt
94% 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 20.6%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.3%, RTS 11.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #6 Night is Coming
93% matchMixed63% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, RTS 17.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Demons 9.5%
- #7 Aztecs: The Last Sun
92% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.2%, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #8 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #9 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 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, RTS 11%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #10 Becastled
90% matchVery Positive82% of 5,625 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 20.3%, Colony Sim 15.7%, RTS 15.6%, Building 8%
- #11 DarkSwitch
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 783 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, RTS 10.6%
- #12 Architects of Shangri-La
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.3%, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.4%
- #13 Arcane Shores
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Economy 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.7%
- #14 VENOY
87% 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 21.6%, RTS 21.1%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 10.1%
- #15 Pirate Plight
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 16.8%, RTS 16.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 7.9%
- #16 Venusville
86% 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: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 14.4%, RTS 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #17 Isla Paradiso
85% 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 26.7%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.8%
- #18 Aquis
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Base Building 17.3%, RTS 14.7%, Economy 11%, Building 10.4%
- #19 Devouring City
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Building 7.5%
- #20 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
83% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #21 Frostpunk: 1886
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 17%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #22 Drownlight
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 8.2%
- #23 Kingdoms and Castles
82% 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 22.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 12.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #24 Rise Against the Invaders
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #25 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 217 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: City Builder 15.4%, Colony Sim 15.3%, RTS 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #26 Make Your Kingdom
79% 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 11.5%, Building 9.6%
- #27 Patron
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #28 Quriocity
78% 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 23.4%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #29 Virum:Colony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Economy 8.8%
- #30 Founders' Fortune
77% 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 31.2%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 8.1%, Survival 6.9%
- #31 Planetbase
78% 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: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #32 Frostpunk
77% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 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 27.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 6.9%
- #33 Goblin Colony
75% 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 27.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 13.2%, Survival 7.3%
- #34 Colony Break
75% 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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, RTS 16.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #35 Northgard: Definitive Edition
76% matchVery Positive85% of 68,782 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 24%, RTS 20.2%, Colony Sim 12%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #36 Forgotten Vale
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.9%, RTS 12.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #37 Dawn of Embers
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: DTX Studios
Windows
Dawn of Embers is a real-time strategy game in development by DTX Studios. Build a walled town, gather and trade, command armies of soldiers and siege engines, and master four schools of magic against AI commanders or other players.
Why similar: RTS 24.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 9.2%
- #38 The First Explorers®
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 20.1%, RTS 19%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #39 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
74% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #40 Celestial Empire: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive86% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 19.7%, RTS 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Building 8.4%
- #41 Recovery Syndicate
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, RTS 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10%
- #42 Foundation
70% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, RTS 7.9%, Economy 7.4%
- #43 The Omins
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build settlements, fight enemies, unite different races, and gain divine powers in this strategy game blending colony sim and RTS with a touch of classic god games. As their Umak, guide generations of Omins through a network of portals, from world to world, in search of the peaceful lands of Ominia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, RTS 23.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #44 They Are Billions
72% matchVery Positive85% of 51,491 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.8 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 23.1%, Base Building 21.5%, RTS 18%, City Builder 11.6%, Survival 8.9%
- #45 Buoyancy
73% matchMixed55% of 831 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 33.1%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 12.6%, RTS 8.6%, Strategy 7.6%
- #46 The Citadel Must Hold
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klenisho Games
Windows
Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 22%, RTS 16.1%, City Builder 12%, Survival 8.3%
- #47 Feudal Craft
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 17.3%, RTS 14.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.2%
- #48 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: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20%, RTS 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Economy 9.9%
- #49 Of Life and Land
69% matchVery Positive86% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 17.4%, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #50 Pioneers of Pagonia
68% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.3%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #51 Gnome Glen
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #52 Oxygen
70% 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #53 Age of Respair
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, RTS 13.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #54 Royal Lord - 王权领主
67% matchVery Positive88% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 16.2%, RTS 15.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #55 Last Fuse
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YYZ Studio
Windows
A tower defense with a twist - you’re defending a nuclear bomb. It powers your defenses, but the more you use it, the closer you get to meltdown. Manage chaotic engineers, scarce resources and risky upgrades - every decision counts.
Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, RTS 16.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #56 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue 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.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 17%, RTS 14.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #57 Settlement Survival
66% 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #58 Black Forest
67% 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 18.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #59 Lil Guys
66% 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 25.6%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 10.6%