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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Management, Base Building, Colony Sim.

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Light Up the Dark is a colony survival sim set in a dark world filled with unseen horrors. Collect, build, automate, research techs, and explore the procedural map. Manage three classes of colonists; keep them sane, or make use of their insanity. Solve endless interesting problems, your way.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: MountQ Studios
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    97% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
    Dev: One Wheel Studio
    Windows

    Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!

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  2. #2 Survivors of the Wildstone
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Fire Toast
    Windows

    Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 18.4%, Automation 11%, 2.5D 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%

  3. #3 Beneath a Dead City
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonroof Studios
    Windows

    Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Management 12.8%

  4. #4 Beyond These Stars
    95% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 18.2%, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 9.3%

  5. #5 Architect of Ruin
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Automation 14.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 8.9%

  6. #6 Frostpunk: 1886
    94% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows

    The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 20.8%, Steampunk 19.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 7.2%

  7. #7 Founders' Fortune
    93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 6.9%, Management 6.7%

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    92% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 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 26.1%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Steampunk 20.1%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 6%

  9. #9 Settletopia
    91% 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.

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    91% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
    Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
    Windows

    Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

    Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.9%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

  11. #11 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
    90% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
    Windows

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.4%, Steampunk 15.3%, Automation 13.3%, Base Building 9.2%

  12. #12 Avian Colony
    89% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    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 29.2%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 12.5%, Management 12%

  13. #13 Stonedeep
    89% 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.

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    88% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 27.5%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.8%

  15. #15 Clipper
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Adequate Games
    Windows · Linux

    An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Automation 26%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 7.7%

  16. #16 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
    86% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

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    87% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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.

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    85% 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.

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    84% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2022
    Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
    Windows · Mac

    What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!

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    83% 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 31.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 11.4%, Survival 8.5%

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    82% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 30%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7.7%

  22. #22 The Crust
    82% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

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    84% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 26.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.6%

  24. #24 OBRII
    81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: Exponenta Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 27.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Procedural Generation 10.3%

  25. #25 Settlements Rising
    80% 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.

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  26. #26 Oxygen: First Breath
    79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 9.2%, Survival 7.8%

  27. #27 The Colonists
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 20.6%, Automation 18.2%, Management 10%, Base Building 9.7%

  28. #28 Island Master
    79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: Cody Cornell
    Windows

    Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.

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  29. #29 Rise Against the Invaders
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 29.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.4%

  30. #30 Kingdoms Reborn
    78% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 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 32.6%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 10.3%, Procedural Generation 6.5%

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    77% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
    Dev: JD7 Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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.

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  32. #32 Aquasplendere
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ivan Armandy
    Windows

    Nothing is greater than Aquasplendere, and we hear his voices. His blood flows through our world. Embody the descendants of the Great Deaf bloodline and lead the epic journey of our civilization.

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  33. #33 Arcane Shores
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Absent Slumber
    Windows

    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.

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  34. #34 Windowed Realms
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
    Windows

    Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

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  35. #35 Kingdoms and Castles
    75% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 34.4%, Base Building 8%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%

  36. #36 Venusville
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
    Windows

    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.

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  37. #37 Harrowlands
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
    Windows

    Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.

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  38. #38 Greedy Little Kingdoms
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: zlorky
    Windows · Mac

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

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  39. #39 Edge Islands
    72% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

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    71% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
    Dev: Sonderlust Studios
    Windows

    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.

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    75% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
    Dev: Ozol Games
    Windows

    Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 27.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Management 9%

  42. #42 Aven Colony
    74% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 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 41.7%, City Builder 32.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Management 3.1%

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    73% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, City Builder 9.1%, Management 8.9%

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    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
    Dev: Ludeon Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

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    69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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?

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    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Nestwork Games
    Windows

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    69% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

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    69% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

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  49. #49 Arcane Rings
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: GameTide
    Windows

    Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.

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  50. #50 After the Collapse
    71% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

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    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AnvilWorks
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.

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    71% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
    Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%

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    68% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

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    66% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: PanfachDev
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    67% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
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    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    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.

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    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sower InteractivePub: Judatone Studios
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    Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power. Manage intricate supply chains, expanding cities, and innovations in a hopeful, procedurally generated, isometric simulation of industrial antiquity.

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    68% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
    Dev: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    65% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
    Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac

    Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

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    67% 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!

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    66% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 18.8%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Procedural Generation 9.4%

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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