- #1 Edge Islands
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #2 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
96% 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: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Dinosaurs 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #3 TFM: The First Men
96% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Tactical RPG 11.1%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #4 Gnomoria
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 6.6%
- #5 Settletopia
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.9%
- #6 Founders' Fortune
94% 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 33.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #7 Farmman
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.5%
- #8 RimWorld
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Tactical RPG 11.4%, City Builder 11%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #9 Lil Guys
91% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #10 Stonehearth
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #11 Oxygen: First Breath
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #12 Make Your Kingdom
89% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #13 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.6%, 4X 15.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 7.8%, Building 6.9%
- #14 Colony Survival
88% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #15 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
87% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 32.9% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.1%
- #16 Catizens
85% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 8%
- #17 Seeds of Resilience
86% 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: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #18 Kingdoms and Castles
86% 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: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.6%, Base Building 6.8%
- #19 Oxygen
84% 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: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.3%
- #20 Chronocracy
84% 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: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Dinosaurs 14.8% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.3%
- #21 Orrstead
83% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 9.8%
- #22 Jurassic World Evolution 2
82% 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 39.1% ★, Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 11%
- #23 First Feudal
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 11%, Crafting 8.4%
- #24 Sect Leader's Decree
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Management 10.5%, City Builder 10%, Building 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #25 Llanthmar
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jason Larrabee
Windows
Llanthmar is a turn-based, strategy game that tasks you with ensuring the survival of your lost colony on an unknown planet. Gather resources, manufacture supplies, and fight back against anything that threatens to take them away.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Tactical RPG 17.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #26 Wild West Pioneers
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 18.5%, 4X 16% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 8.9%
- #27 Jurassic World Evolution 3
78% 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 38.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 8.3%, Base Building 5.9%
- #28 Outland Kingdoms
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Tactical RPG 17.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #29 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
79% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, 4X 16.6% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.8%
- #30 Voxelony
77% 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 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.9%
- #31 Mars Colony Builder
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.1%
- #32 Planetbase
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 8.3%, Building 5.7%
- #33 Arcane Shores
76% 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: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Building 11.3%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 6.5%
- #34 Paleon
76% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #35 Fatebound
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Diego Schram
Windows
Fatebound is a turn-based kingdom builder where your choices shape the realm’s destiny. Manage resources, build your kingdom, and adapt to dynamic events and seasons that alter the game's flow. Will your empire rise to greatness, or fall to the whims of fate?
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Building 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%
- #36 After the Collapse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 9.4%
- #37 Dwarf Fortress
74% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #38 Settlements Rising
73% 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: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 8%
- #39 Jurassic World Evolution
74% 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 42% ★, Building 16.5%, Management 11.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 10%
- #40 Lost Heaven Station
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.6%
- #41 Settlement Survival
73% 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: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Building 12.3%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #42 Island Dwellers
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Avokodo Studios
Windows
Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 19.4%, 4X 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Management 7.9%
- #43 Beneath a Dead City
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 12%, Survival 9.8%
- #44 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% 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: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 28%, Building 13%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 Containcorp
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plasmarc Studios
Windows
An absurd Corporate Horror & Logistical Management Sim where you contain & milk anomalies for tremendous profit. Construct your facility across multiple floors, design containment areas, employ brilliant minds to study anomalies. Contain, Research, and build a machine of Profit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Tactical RPG 16.9%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.4%
- #46 Isla Paradiso
70% 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: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Building 12.7%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #47 Embark
72% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7%
- #48 Beyond These Stars
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.9%
- #49 Ratopia
68% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.2%
- #50 Parkasaurus
70% 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #51 Blocktopia
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.7%
- #52 Ascent of Ashes
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.2%
- #53 Pick Me Up
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #54 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
67% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Tactical RPG 12.3%, Building 8.5%
- #55 Starship Colony
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 9.4%
- #56 Banished
69% 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: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7%, Strategy 4.5%
- #57 Humanica
65% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Management 10%, Building 9.1%
- #58 Sapiens
67% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.8%
- #59 Cat Island
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple X Studios
Windows
Cat Island is a colony survival game with voxel building and multiplayer! You start off with nothing and must grow your island with the help of a couple cat friends. Gather resources, complete building contracts, and expand your colony to do the labor for you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.4%