- #1 Against the Storm
97% matchVery Positive95% of 35,994 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features high-stakes production chains and constant environmental challenges that mirror the tension of managing mountain hazards.
- #2 Timberborn
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 18%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on verticality and water management, requiring clever engineering to thrive in a challenging environment.
- #3 Frostpunk
96% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Real-Time with Pause 7.5% ★, Survival 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar sense of urgency and survival management against extreme weather conditions.
- #4 Foundation
95% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Colony Sim 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 7.6%, Economy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an organic approach to city-building with a focus on production chains and social needs.
- #5 New Cycle
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,809 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes resource management and societal needs during environmental collapse.
- #6 Cliff Empire
94% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 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 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on vertical city-building on isolated cliffs, directly echoing the spatial constraints of mountain settlements.
- #7 Settlement Survival
93% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Building 11%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with environmental hazards and production planning in a way that feels very familiar.
- #8 Anno 1800
92% matchVery Positive81% of 31,402 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 44.2%, Economy 15.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the gold standard for complex, multi-tiered production chains and population management.
- #9 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
91% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 11%, Economy 9.5%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features incredibly deep and realistic production chains that appeal to players who enjoy the management aspect of Laysara.
- #10 Going Medieval
90% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 10.6%, Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for complex vertical construction and colony management within a challenging historical setting.
- #11 Airborne Kingdom
91% matchVery Positive87% of 2,369 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Real-Time with Pause 20.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Explores the concept of verticality and movement, requiring careful balance and resource management in the sky.
- #12 Banished
89% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 32.2%, City Builder 31.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Survival 5.8%, Resource Management 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential survival city-builder that established the foundation for managing resources in harsh climates.
- #13 Synergy
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,039 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city-builder that requires careful resource management to maintain a thriving society.
- #14 The Wandering Village
87% matchVery Positive92% of 8,187 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 10.9%, Automation 10.5%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique, mobile environment that requires careful management of resources and survival strategies.
- #15 Surviving the Aftermath
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic world with environmental disasters.
- #16 Ostriv
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,467 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 20.8%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, historically grounded simulation with complex production and trade mechanics.
- #17 Kingdoms and Castles
86% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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 23.9%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.3%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Balances city-building with defense against environmental and external threats in a charming, accessible way.
- #18 Endzone 2
85% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 19.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8%, Economy 8%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes survival and colony expansion while dealing with harsh, changing environmental conditions.
- #19 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 20.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 14%, Colony Sim 10%, City Builder 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex logistics and industrial production chains for those who enjoy the management depth of Laysara.
- #20 Oxygen
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 18.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build a sustainable city in a hostile environment with limited resources.
- #21 Kingdoms Reborn
83% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.1%, Economy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features multiplayer city-building with complex production chains and resource management.
- #22 Land of the Vikings
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,222 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with historical flavor and survival mechanics against the elements.
- #23 Patron
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7.7%, Economy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on social management and production chains within a medieval city-building framework.
- #24 IXION
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on resource management and survival in a harsh, space-based environment with high stakes.
- #25 Blacksmith Master
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.2%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Highlights the production chain and management aspects of city-building by focusing on a specific trade.
- #26 Lords and Villeins
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 966 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 20.5%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.7%, Economy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a colony-sim experience that focuses on social hierarchy and production management.
- #27 Whiskerwood
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,024 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 9.2%
- #28 Aven Colony
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim that requires managing resources and surviving in a hostile, alien environment.
- #29 Of Life and Land
78% matchVery Positive86% of 356 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 17.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony management and interacting with a living ecosystem to sustain a population.
- #30 Power to the People
79% matchVery Positive82% of 547 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics-heavy management game that requires careful planning to keep a city running under pressure.
- #31 Nova Roma
75% matchVery Positive95% of 1,833 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 9.2%, Building 9.1%
- #32 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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 22.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.5%
- #33 Ancient Cities
78% matchMixed63% of 2,122 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes survival and long-term development in a challenging era.
- #34 United Penguin Kingdom
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 439 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Economy 11%, Management 10.2%
- #35 STARIO: Haven Tower
74% matchVery Positive94% of 343 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: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #36 Endzone - A World Apart
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8%, Strategy 7%
- #37 Let Them Trade
73% matchVery Positive86% of 1,081 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #38 Farthest Frontier
72% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #39 Airborne Empire
72% matchVery Positive88% of 851 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Real-Time with Pause 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 7.3%
- #40 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 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 16%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 14.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #41 ALL WILL FALL
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,116 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 10.7%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #42 Planetbase
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 28.1%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Survival 5.8%
- #43 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 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 20.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #44 MEMORIAPOLIS
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,755 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.1%
- #45 Project AURA
75% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.5%
- #46 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
73% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 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: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 31.5%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 5.4%
- #47 Highrise City
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,288 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Economy 8.3%
- #48 Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
71% matchMixed62% of 1,266 reviews2022
Dev: TeaForTwoPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #49 Kubifaktorium
70% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Automation 14.6%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #50 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
66% matchVery Positive85% of 739 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.7%
- #51 Oxygen: First Breath
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 18.4%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 8%
- #52 Dawn of Man
68% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Economy 4.4%
- #53 The Universim
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,560 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 14.3% ★, Building 10.2%, Management 7.2%
- #54 Rise of Industry
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 13.8%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #55 Good Company
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 15.4%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #56 City Tales - Medieval Era
65% matchVery Positive90% of 571 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Building 16.8%, Economy 15.4%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 11.9%
- #57 Norland
65% matchVery Positive82% of 9,913 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.9%
- #58 Odd Realm
66% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.9%, Automation 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #59 Seeds of Resilience
69% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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 19.3%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.5%, Economy 8.6%
- #60 Havendock
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,898 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%