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  1. #1 Alien Land
    97% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
    Dev: liuliu
    Windows

    This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.

    Why similar: God Game 26.6%, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Building 6%

  2. #2 Exodus Borealis
    96% matchVery Positive86% of 302 reviews2021
    Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
    Windows

    In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

    Why similar: God Game 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Tower Defense 13.9%, Building 9.8%

  3. #3 The Settlers: New Allies
    96% 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 25.3%, Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Building 7.6%, Management 6.7%

  4. #4 Rise to Ruins
    95% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
    Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 21.2%, God Game 19.4%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Survival 7.5%

  5. #5 The Universim
    94% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
    Dev: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 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: God Game 27.1%, Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 19%, Building 8.5%, Survival 7%

  6. #6 Goblins of Elderstone
    94% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
    Dev: Outerdawn
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    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: God Game 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Tower Defense 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

  7. #7 Childwood
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Oneiric Tales Studio
    Windows

    Childwood is a survival management horror game in which you help a group of children survive in a hostile environment. Keep the campfire burning to protect them from night creatures, but your kind won’t hesitate to demand immoral sacrifices in exchange for rewards.

    Why similar: God Game 23.4%, City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.9%

  8. #8 Sapiens
    92% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    Why similar: God Game 26.2%, Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 7.8%, Management 7.1%

  9. #9 Settlements Rising
    91% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 22%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8%, Management 7.4%

  10. #10 Keep Them Busy
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hooded Penguin
    Windows · Mac

    A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!

    Why similar: God Game 22.1%, Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.6%

  11. #11 Pick Me Up
    89% 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 24.5%, God Game 20.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 8.1%, Management 7.6%

  12. #12 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    90% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 31.9%, City Builder 30.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 6.5%, Building 6.5%

  13. #13 Aldo: Memory of the Kingdom
    89% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
    Dev: Meleiko
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Action-adventure RPG meets city-building colony sim. An old king tells his kids about an epic past, full of brave adventures, building a kingdom and saving his settlement.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 7.3%

  14. #14 Landslide
    88% 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 30.8%, Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Strategy 9%, Building 7%

  15. #15 Reus 2
    87% 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 29.5%, Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.3%

  16. #16 Skyline Settlers
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Riza Ozhan
    Windows

    Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Medieval 8.1%, Building 8%

  17. #17 Angkor: The Holy City
    86% 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 22.3%, City Builder 20.9%, God Game 16.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.1%

  18. #18 Pixel Colony
    85% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
    Windows · Linux

    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: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 25.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.4%, Survival 8.4%

  19. #19 Song of Slavs
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
    Windows

    Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Building 8.8%, Side Scroller 8.8%

  20. #20 FireMatch Empire
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FireMatch Studio
    Windows

    Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.

    Why similar: God Game 28.6%, Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 23.8%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 6.9%

  21. #21 Halloween Store Simulator
    83% 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 25.4%, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 19.6%, Building 8.1%, Management 7.1%

  22. #22 Planet Barren Objective
    82% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: Kaan Özgül
    Windows

    Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Tower Defense 12.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Side Scroller 9.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

  23. #23 Lil Guys
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Radnyx
    Windows

    Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.6%

  24. #24 Kingdoms and Castles
    82% 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: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 29.4%, Building 9.2%, Medieval 7.9%, Resource Management 6.8%

  25. #25 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
    Windows

    A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Tower Defense 11.8%, Management 8.2%, Building 8.1%

  26. #26 Icetwine
    79% 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: God Game 19.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.8%

  27. #27 Alpha Lyrae Discovery
    80% 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 25.7%, City Builder 21%, God Game 19.2%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Building 9.3%

  28. #28 Earthlings
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Studio Monoblok
    Windows · Mac

    Build settlements, lead your people, and design weird monuments for a space delivery guy who is pretending to be your God.

    Why similar: God Game 24.7%, Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Exploration 5.4%

  29. #29 Stonehearth
    79% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 27.2%, Building 10.9%, Survival 8.5%, God Game 5.8%

  30. #30 Croswa
    77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
    Dev: Ausuc Games
    Windows · Linux

    A world where mechanical and magical civilizations intersect. A strategy and simulation game in which you become a god and build multiple civilizations.

    Why similar: God Game 27.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 6.6%, Strategy 5.8%

  31. #31 Odd Realm
    76% matchVery Positive85% of 992 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 24.6%, God Game 23.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Management 9.4%, Survival 8.4%

  32. #32 United Penguin Kingdom
    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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 24.5%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 11.2%, Survival 10.5%

  33. #33 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    78% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 8.4%

  34. #34 Plebs and Pillagers
    76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: Kloppfer
    Windows

    Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Side Scroller 9.9%, Building 8.9%, Management 8%

  35. #35 Towerfolk
    75% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
    Dev: 99 Interactive
    Windows

    In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.

    Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.2%, Tower Defense 8.7%

  36. #36 Settlement Survival
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Survival 9%

  37. #37 Goblin Colony
    74% 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 26.9%, Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 19.4%, Building 8.6%, Wargame 6.4%

  38. #38 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
    Dev: Door 407
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Building 8.1%, Management 6.9%

  39. #39 Hearthlands
    75% 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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.8%, God Game 14.3%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

  40. #40 Dubai Builder
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Games Incubator
    Windows

    Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.9%

  41. #41 Lands of Koastalia
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Asaloda Games
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 24.5%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10%, Management 8.1%

  42. #42 First Feudal
    73% 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 24.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10%, Crafting 8%

  43. #43 Black Forest
    71% 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 19.8%, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 7.4%

  44. #44 Villagedom
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dazar
    Windows

    Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Side Scroller 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Management 6.4%

  45. #45 Stonedeep
    72% 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 22.6%, God Game 14.8%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.3%

  46. #46 Shoni Island
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Golden Horde Studios
    Windows

    Settle, build, and survive on the enigmatic Shoni Island. Manage quirky NPCs, farm, and appease four unpredictable gods. Solve tricky puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, and balance chill with challenge in this captivating cozy survival adventure. Will you escape or become part of the island’s legend?

    Why similar: God Game 22.7%, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7.2%

  47. #47 Settler's Domain
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: rick
    Windows

    Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 9.4%, Management 6.6%

  48. #48 Fata Deum - The God Sim
    69% 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 25.6%, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.9%

  49. #49 Dungeon Overseer
    71% 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 24.6%, City Builder 20.3%, God Game 18.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.4%

  50. #50 Ages of Cataria
    68% matchMostly Positive71% of 41 reviews2025
    Dev: Third Pie Studios
    Windows

    Set in a new fantastical world, Ages of Cataria is a cozy-friendly town sim. Watch as your village evolves from humble beginnings, with just one family, to a community of multiple families living together across generations of time.

    Why similar: God Game 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8.2%

  51. #51 DawnWorld Founders
    68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: Mindful Games
    Windows

    Shipwrecked and abandoned in an unknown land. Build, expand, and even influence a medieval world where every decision shapes your rise. Establish yourself, repel threats, and guide your people's progress and destiny from above and on the ground in this relaxing single-player city builder.

    Why similar: God Game 27.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 8.4%

  52. #52 Hive and Seek
    68% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl Games
    Windows

    Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 15.8%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

  53. #53 GARDEN OF EDEN
    70% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
    Dev: 凯撒工作室
    Windows

    Commander, lead your army, build the strongest weapons, conquer the harsh weather and enemies, and build a new Eden on the sea!!!!

    Why similar: God Game 27.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.8%

  54. #54 Banished
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
    Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 32.8%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.3%, Resource Management 4.9%

  55. #55 Kingdom: Classic
    69% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
    Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 16.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Tower Defense 10.2%, Building 10.2%

  56. #56 DarkSwitch
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
    Windows

    DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20%, Tower Defense 13.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.1%

  57. #57 Border Base
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bitzooma
    Windows

    Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9%

  58. #58 Settletopia
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Management 9.4%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

  59. #59 Beware of Light
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bajka Games
    Windows

    Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Resource Management 13%, Survival 11.4%

  60. #60 Patron
    66% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 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 27.6%, City Builder 25.5%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 8.5%, Building 7.3%

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