- #1 Angkor: The Holy City
97% 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: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, God Game 12.1% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, RTS 8%
- #2 Genesis of a Small God
96% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: Real-Time 17.9% ★, God Game 16.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.6% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Base Building 7.8%
- #3 Fata Deum - The God Sim
96% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 12.6%, RTS 9.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #4 Halloween Store Simulator
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 7.7%, Economy 7.5%
- #5 Dungeon Overseer
94% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, God Game 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 9.8%
- #6 Goblin Colony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 15.3%, RTS 11.9%, Underground 10.5% ★
- #7 Dwarf Fortress
93% 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: Dwarf 27.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #8 Egypt
92% 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: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.8%, RTS 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #9 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 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: Real-Time 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, City Builder 12%, Base Building 10.2%, RTS 10.1%
- #10 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
90% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Why similar: Real-Time 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, RTS 9.8%, Base Building 8%
- #11 VENOY
89% 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 23.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #12 The Stronghold Collection
89% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 reviews2009
Dev: FireFly Studios
Windows
Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.
Why similar: Real-Time 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 14.2%, RTS 9.8%, Base Building 8%
- #13 Endzone 2
87% 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 21.4% ★, Real-Time 16.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.2%
- #14 Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition
88% matchVery Positive88% of 2,632 reviews2016
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.
Why similar: Real-Time 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 14.3%, RTS 8.9%, Economy 7.8%
- #15 Mountaincore
86% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Dwarf 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, God Game 11.6% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #16 STARIO: Haven Tower
85% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 15.9%, God Game 14.3% ★, Automation 11%, Resource Management 10%
- #17 Stronghold: Warlords
86% matchMixed65% of 5,227 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: Real-Time 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.7%, RTS 9.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #18 Seabed Settlers
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, God Game 17.4% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 10%
- #19 Tokeis
84% 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 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Economy 11%, RTS 10.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #20 The First Explorers®
83% 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: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.4%, RTS 14.5%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #21 Age of Respair
82% 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: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 11.5%, RTS 10.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #22 Reus 2
81% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #23 Captain of Industry
82% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Resource Management 14.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★, Economy 9.5%
- #24 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Automation 13.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #25 Icetwine
80% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 16%, God Game 15.9% ★, RTS 13%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #26 Wizdom Academy
79% matchMixed61% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Kipwak Studio
Windows
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Real-Time 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 7.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #27 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
78% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, RTS 15.1%, Strategy RPG 13.5%, Economy 8.4%
- #28 A Game of Humans
79% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, God Game 19.7% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 7.3%
- #29 Pick Me Up
77% 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 24.9% ★, City Builder 18.2%, God Game 17.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 6.5%
- #30 Hell Architect
78% matchMixed69% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, God Game 19% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #31 Deep Space Directive
76% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Automation 16%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #32 Fantastic Haven
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Restore the equilibrium of magic by saving endangered fantasy creatures. Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.
Why similar: Real-Time 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #33 The Dead of Winter
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Logic Studios
Windows
Build, gather and defend against relentless hordes of undead as you lead your villagers to safety and battle for survival in a world plunged into a seemingly endless winter
Why similar: Real-Time 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 13.8%, God Game 12.3% ★, RTS 11.7%
- #34 Goblin Camp
75% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #35 Truck City
74% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Colony Sim 13% ★, Automation 12.2%, Mining 10.1% ★, Base Building 10%
- #36 Mars Attracts
73% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 18.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #37 Dice Legacy
75% matchMixed68% of 1,050 reviews2021
Dev: DESTINYbit
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Why similar: Real-Time 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 12%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #38 The Settlers: New Allies
73% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 8.4%, Building 6.5%
- #39 Airborne Empire
71% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, RTS 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #40 Hearthlands
74% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21%, RTS 12%, God Game 11.9% ★, Resource Management 8.3%
- #41 Flooded
73% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15% ★, RTS 14.6%, God Game 14.2% ★, Resource Management 9.9%
- #42 Kingdoms and Castles
72% 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 29.4% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Building 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #43 Landslide
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 7.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #44 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
71% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado 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. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, God Game 16.9% ★, City Builder 14%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 8.7%
- #45 Drownlight
70% 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: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Real-Time 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #46 Alpha Lyrae Discovery
72% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: xe2050Pub: WELOVEBOT CO., LTD.
Windows
Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, God Game 16.3% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, RTS 8.9%
- #47 Empires and Tribes
70% matchMixed67% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.
Why similar: Real-Time 28% ★, City Builder 19.7%, RTS 12.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.8%
- #48 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 18%, RTS 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #49 Sin & Siege
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nova xPressPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Sin & Siege is a rogue-lite strategy where you must restore the shattered circles of Hell. Harvest and process sinful souls, amass Sins, forge new demons, populate the abyss, and defend it from holy monstrosities.
Why similar: God Game 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Underground 12.4% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #50 Oxygen: First Breath
69% 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 21.8% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 9%
- #51 Stonedeep
70% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, God Game 12.4% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, City Builder 10.6%
- #52 Architects of Shangri-La
68% 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: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 18.6%, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 7.6%
- #53 Kolo
67% 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: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #54 Factory Town
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Automation 14.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #55 First Feudal
68% 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 24% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 7.8%
- #56 Black Forest
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: God Game 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, RTS 15%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11.5%
- #57 Founders' Fortune
67% 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 35.2% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 7.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #58 Underground Nomads
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Dwarf 11.4% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Automation 9.6%
- #59 Kingdom Workshop
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Automation 10.3%, Economy 10.2%