Games Like Insect Empires

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: Colony Sim 15.6%, RTS 12.5%, Tower Defense 10.9%, City Builder 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%

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: Economy 13.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%, City Builder 11.3%, RTS 10.6%, Management 10.3%

Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

Why similar: RTS 13.7%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Action RTS 11% ★

Build your medieval kingdom. Raise an army. Defend against towering Giants and monstrous creatures as they lay siege to everything you've built

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 12.7%, RTS 12.3%, Action RTS 11% ★, Tower Defense 10.2%

Ulia Chronicles is a city-building game set in a fantasy universe. Build your city, gather resources, and make your citizens thrive. Play alone or with your friends in this game inspired by the classics of the genre.

Why similar: Action RTS 15% ★, Colony Sim 13.4%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 10.5%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Colony Sim 13.9%, RTS 12.1%, Action RTS 11.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Tower Defense 9.4%, RTS 8.9%

Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.

Why similar: Base Building 12.7%, RTS 12.6%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Economy 12.1%, Colony Sim 11.8%

In this Procedural City-Building and Survival game, you must manage your resources, expand your village, assemble an army and destroy the source of evil, which changed the entire eco system of a land that was once prosperous and peaceful.

Why similar: RTS 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Tower Defense 12%, Action RTS 10.8% ★, City Builder 10.2%

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: Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?

Why similar: RTS 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.2%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 10.2%, Management 8.7%

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: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 12.3%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Management 10.9%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, RTS 14%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 8.5%, Resource Management 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 14.1%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 10.4%, Economy 10.3%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Action RTS 8.8% ★, Management 8.7%

Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 11%, City Builder 9%

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: Colony Sim 13.4%, Base Building 12%, RTS 11.1%, Tower Defense 9.1%, Economy 8.6%

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, RTS 12.7%, Economy 12%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%

A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Economy 14.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.9%

Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.6%, City Builder 9.8%

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: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.9%

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 14.6%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.4%

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 19.5%, Economy 13.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 15.1%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, RTS 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 10.3%

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: Colony Sim 15%, Economy 12.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 9.1%, Tower Defense 9%

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: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Economy 13.9%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 7.4%

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: Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 11.9%, RTS 11.4%, Building 8.2%

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: RTS 13.6%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11%, Economy 9.5%

Dive into the sunken world. Face the dangers of the deepness. Build a colony and make it thrive. Conquer or explore the unknown, you decide which way you choose.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14%, RTS 11.5%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 9.3%

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: Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 12.5%, City Builder 12.3%, RTS 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%

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: Colony Sim 15.2%, RTS 12%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Management 9.2%

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: Colony Sim 14.7%, Economy 12.4%, RTS 12.1%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9%

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: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.1%, RTS 9.9%

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 28%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 8.6%, Management 6.9%

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 17.1%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 19.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.5%, RTS 11%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 20.2%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 12.8%, RTS 10.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

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: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 12.8%, RTS 11.1%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%

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: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Management 12%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 7.9%

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: RTS 14.9%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Management 9.5%

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 17%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 15.9%, RTS 13.1%, Building 11.4%

You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%, RTS 10.5%, City Builder 9.7%

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 19.3%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.3%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Economy 12.7%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 10.2%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 20.4%, RTS 19.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 16.4%, Economy 15.4%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 9.1%

Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.

Why similar: RTS 16.6%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 10.3%

Astra Sentinel is a wave-based survival RTS where endless alien hordes relentlessly assault your planets. Build defenses, colonize planets and manage resources under constant pressure. Will you be able to recover the control of the galaxy?

Why similar: RTS 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Action RTS 12.1% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, City Builder 8.4%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%

Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Satire 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.8%

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: Colony Sim 15.8%, RTS 15.2%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.2%, Economy 9.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 10.8%, Management 10.1%

Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.6%, Management 9.8%

Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Tower Defense 10.1%, City Builder 8%

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: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 12%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.5%

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: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 12.7%, City Builder 12%, Resource Management 9.6%