
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Resource Management, Singleplayer, Colony Sim.

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.

Aquatico
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.

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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.
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 21.1% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.7%
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 16.7%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Time Management 9.6%, Building 8.8%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Nature 12.4%, Resource Management 11.1%
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 16.5%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Nature 10%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.4%
Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!
Why similar: Underwater 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, Nature 11.9%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
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 20.3%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Nature 9.5%, Resource Management 8.7%
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: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Nature 10.1%
Helle's Undersea City Project - Bringing Air to The Garden - Grow and expand the land with air, aiming to rebuild the undersea city with a lone girl, Hele! A new type of undersea city-building simulation game!
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Underwater 26.4% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Time Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Nature 27.8%, Relaxing 11.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 9%
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 22.1%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.7%, Survival 10%
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 20%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.9%
Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Nature 19.7%, Building 17.6%, Relaxing 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Underwater 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.1%
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 26.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 12%, Building 7.5%
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 16.9%, City Builder 16%, Nature 13.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Nature 11.3%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Underwater 15.6% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Building 8.7%
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Why similar: Underwater 41.6% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Stylized 10.2%, Relaxing 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%
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 34.9%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 8.2%, Management 8.1%
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
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: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Nature 10.7%, Resource Management 10%
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Why similar: Underwater 38.6% ★, Building 17.3%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 7.5%
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 19.2%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.8%
Build beautiful aquariums, care for exotic marine life, complete creative customer jobs, and grow your own aquarium business into a world-class oceanarium in this relaxing sandbox simulation.
Why similar: Underwater 36.2% ★, Management 16.3%, Building 15%, Resource Management 13.8%, Relaxing 9.4%
It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 24.2%, Nature 10%, Underwater 9.8% ★, Building 8.8%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%
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 24%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 8.1%
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 18.8%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.7%
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Why similar: Crafting 30%, Building 28%, Relaxing 23.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Building 16.2%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Relaxing 8.5%
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Underwater 36.9% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!
Why similar: Underwater 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Science 16.1%, Nature 11%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 19%, Nature 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.3%
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating 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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.5%
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 22.6%, City Builder 22%, Science 15.6%, Base Building 7.6%, Survival 6.3%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Building 21.1%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.2%, Relaxing 11.9%
Subside is an immersive aquatic VR experience with multiple areas to explore and lifelike aquatic creatures to interact with. Crafted with unparalleled realism, it aims to replicate the nuances of real-life swimming and diving in shallow waters
Why similar: Underwater 54.6% ★, Nature 18.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Relaxing 8.2%, Atmospheric 5.3%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%
Make a fantastic, dazzling water park!
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Underwater 22.3% ★, Building 10.8%, Management 9.1%, Colony Sim 8.5%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Crafting 17.6%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 15.2%, Survival 15.2%
Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Nature 16%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 12.7%, Management 11.4%
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 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.4%
Fishery is a stylized aquarium simulation game. Harness your creativity to build and maintain beautiful aquatic habitats. Then relax and watch your beautiful fish enjoy their home.
Why similar: Underwater 32.4% ★, Resource Management 17.6%, Nature 15.2%, Building 11.9%, Management 10.7%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 11%
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Survival 11.2%
Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.
Why similar: Underwater 62.8% ★, Science 14.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Nature 6.7%, Story Rich 3.3%
Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!
Why similar: Underwater 45.6% ★, Resource Management 17%, Management 13.9%, Relaxing 10.2%, Building 5.8%
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 22.4%, City Builder 20.7%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%
Dive into the vibrant world of aquatic retail with Aquatic Store Simulator! Take on the challenge of managing your underwater-themed supermarket, blending business management with the beauty of marine life. Stock shelves with exotic fish, decorations, set prices, take payments and maintain aquariums
Why similar: Management 33.1%, Building 20.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Relaxing 15.2%, Resource Management 11.4%
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: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
Koral, a love letter to the ocean. Dive into the beautiful underwater world as a sea current. Solve puzzles to bring back to life coral reefs and spread the beauty of the oceans in different sea ecosystems.
Why similar: Underwater 58.8% ★, Relaxing 12.5%, Atmospheric 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Story Rich 5.8%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 12%
Coral Cove is a relaxing match 3-like underwater game in which you try to build the largest reef without running out of corals to place.
Why similar: Underwater 30.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Nature 13.9%, Building 13.9%, Relaxing 6.9%
Create stunning virtual aquariums on your PC! Our advanced 3D engine brings your fish tank to life with breathtaking realism, featuring lifelike fish, plants, decorations, and more. Transform your monitor into a vibrant, living aquarium. Virtual aquascaping has never been easier!
Why similar: Underwater 49.1% ★, Nature 21.2%, Building 14.1%, Relaxing 10.6%, Simulation 5%
Biotope will be the most detailed and realistic aquarium simulator on the market. Biotope makes it possible to create complex aquarist ecosystems and simulate realistic life cycles of plants and fish.
Why similar: Underwater 28.7% ★, Science 24.5%, Management 14%, Simulation 8.3%, Relaxing 8%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Science 17.6%, Nature 14.5%, Base Building 11.3%
Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: City Builder 50.7%, Building 26%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Atmospheric 2.1%
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.4%
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 24.6%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 10.2%