
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
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Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.

United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.

Oxygen
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!
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.7%
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 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 8.5%
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%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.7%, Survival 10%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.9%
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 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Nature 9.6%, Resource Management 8.7%
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Nature 11.3%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%
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: City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Time Management 11%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.3%
Explore the uncharted depths of Tethys, and scavenge resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. Lead expeditions of Knights through the dark and the unknown, and help them rebuild their long lost Kingdom.
Why similar: Underwater 20.3% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.8%
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Science 15.5% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 6.3%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Underwater 21% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Base Building 8%, Building 7.5%
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Time Management 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.3%
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 19%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.4%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9%, Management 8.5%
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 17.4%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Management 8.5%, Nature 8%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.9% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.5%
Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 9.1%
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Nature 13.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
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 25.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 8.5%, Management 8.4%
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: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.2%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.9%, Survival 7.9%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 20%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 7.1%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Science 14.8% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.4%
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 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Building 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Survival 8.9%
Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.
Why similar: Underwater 27.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.3%, Management 7.8%
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Nature 10%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.9%
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 19.5% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Nature 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Science 12% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
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 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Building 10.9%, Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Science 15.2% ★, Survival 14.2%, Management 13.4%, Resource Management 10.5%
A survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of unstable islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Underwater 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.2%
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 29.6% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.9%, Survival 6.6%
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.9%
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 26.8%, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Resource Management 13%, Survival 12%, Building 7.3%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 9.9%
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 20.3% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.9%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.1%, Survival 9.5%
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7%
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 32.7%, Survival 13.1%, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 6.8%
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 21.4% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Base Building 9.3%
Build the garden, fulfilling requests from the cute visitors, and even recruit them to create items! Decorate your misty garden to welcome cute little creatures, provide a place to help them relax!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Nature 11.6%, Resource Management 10%, Relaxing 8%
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.7%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 9.7%
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 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Underwater 12.2% ★, Simulation 8.5%, Building 7.7%
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: Underwater 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 24% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 10.7%, Survival 8.2%
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 19%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Nature 8.6%
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters is an eco tycoon sim. Work with your team of scientists to build, repair and maintain the delicate ecosystem of your lakes. Experiment with flora and fauna - everything from vicious pikes to peaceful puddle ducks.
Why similar: Underwater 24.1% ★, Nature 17.1%, Science 15.9% ★, Management 7.3%, Simulation 6.6%
"Keeping It Shrimple" is a management game where you breed, feed, and care for your adorable shrimp. Experiment with breeding pairs. Manage the water properties of your tanks. Sell rare breeds on the market. With planning, experimentation, and a dose of luck, you may just breed the perfect shrimp!
Why similar: Underwater 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Time Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 11.5%
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 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.3%
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: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.6%
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 22.7% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.7%, City Builder 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%
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 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 7.5%
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: City Builder 16.4%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Nature 10%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
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 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 6.8%