- #1 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Fuel Games
Windows
Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 20% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, City Builder 16%, Resource Management 8.3%, Economy 7.3%
- #2 Jurassic World Evolution 3
96% matchVery Positive93% of 9,574 reviews2025
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 37.8% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Economy 8.1%
- #3 Chronocracy
96% 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 19%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Dinosaurs 15.4% ★, Time Travel 11.6% ★, Resource Management 10.9%
- #4 Jurassic World Evolution 2
95% matchVery Positive90% of 45,488 reviews2021
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 40.8% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Economy 7.3%
- #5 Dubai Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Creativity ARPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
In Dubai Simulator, you'll have the chance to design and build your dream city, complete with towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, luxurious resorts, and awe-inspiring landmarks.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Simulation 12.1%, Sandbox 11.3%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #6 Oxygen
94% 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 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Resource Management 12%, Economy 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #7 Voxelony
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ShinyScale Games
Windows
Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 28.5% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #8 Jurassic World Evolution
92% matchVery Positive87% of 54,890 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 44.7% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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 22.6%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 10.1%, Building 7%
- #10 Egypt
91% 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 21%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #11 Age of Pyramids
90% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Strategy 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #12 Parkasaurus
89% matchVery Positive93% of 3,092 reviews2020
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Why similar: Dinosaurs 35% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.4%
- #13 Kingdoms and Castles
89% 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 32.4%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.5%
- #14 Cliff Empire
88% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 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 21.3%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11%, Futuristic 7.9%
- #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 23.6% ★, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 6.5%
- #16 The First Explorers®
86% 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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 7.6%
- #17 Compact Colonies
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 15%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 7.2%
- #18 Diluvian Winds
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #19 Resort Galactica
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
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 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9%
- #20 Angkor: The Holy City
84% 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 22.8%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Resource Management 12%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #21 Possible One: Lunar Industries
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 8%, Realistic 7.2%
- #22 Kolo
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Economy 12.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #23 Foundation
80% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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 36.9%, Colony Sim 10.5% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 9.1%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #24 Quriocity
81% 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: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #25 Isla Paradiso
81% 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 27.7%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Economy 13.2%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 7%
- #26 Endzone 2
79% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #27 Settlements Rising
78% 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 25%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Resource Management 13%, Building 7.1%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #28 Blacksmith Master
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Resource Management 12%, Economy 10.7%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #29 Civica: Italian Renaissance
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 9.2%, RTS 7.4%
- #30 Geopogo Cities: Windsor–Detroit
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geopogo
Windows
A real-world city-building simulation where you shape the future of downtown Windsor–Detroit. Zone, redevelop, and experiment with growth using real map data in a living urban sandbox.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Strategy 12%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 7.7%
- #31 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #32 Our Freedom: Prologue
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
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: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #33 Tokeis
75% 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 22.8%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #34 Dungeon Overseer
76% 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 23.3% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Economy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 7.8%
- #35 Above: Colonies of the Mist
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Strategy 12%, Economy 7.8%, Simulation 7.2%
- #36 Powerplay
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 7.4%, RTS 7.2%
- #37 Hexagge
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 9.4%, Building 6.6%
- #38 Spirit & Stone
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 25% ★, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #39 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
73% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 30.4%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Building 9.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #40 Founders' Fortune
71% 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 34% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 7.3%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #41 Terra-7
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
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 23.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 10.7%
- #42 Ostriv
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 9.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #43 Seeds of Resilience
72% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.5%
- #44 Banished
72% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Strategy 7.1%, Sandbox 6%, Simulation 5.9%
- #45 Settler's Domain
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Economy 8.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #46 All Roads Connected
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #47 Arcane Shores
69% matchNo user reviews
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 29.1%, Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Economy 12.8%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 7%
- #48 Aquacity
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evor Games
Windows
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: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 9.9%, Building 7.7%
- #49 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Resource Management 13.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 5.9%
- #50 Abyssals
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 8.8%, Building 6.4%
- #51 Skyline Settlers
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Economy 13%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #52 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 19.8%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #53 What's Left Behind
69% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Economy 12.9%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #54 VENOY
67% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #55 Gnome Glen
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #56 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 7.4%
- #57 Settlement Survival
66% 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 27.5%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #58 Chinese Empire: Prologue
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 11%, Building 10.3%