60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Building.
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.
Frostpunk
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?
Frostpunk: 1886
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
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 26.4%, Steampunk 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.4%, Base Building 5.8%, Survival 5.6%
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Steampunk 22.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 5.3%
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 26%, City Builder 19.4%, 2.5D 13.4%, Automation 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%
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 24.8%, 2.5D 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 13%, Automation 8.2%
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 28.2%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 13.9%, 2.5D 9.7%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
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 24.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Automation 11.7%, Management 5.8%
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 39.4%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 6%, Strategy 4.5%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 22.5%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 6.3%
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 7.1%, Strategy 6.4%
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Steampunk 18.2% ★, Automation 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 12%, Automation 11.7%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Management 6.5%
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 24.7%, 2.5D 16.7%, Automation 9.5%, Strategy 7%
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Automation 21.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 5.5%
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 32.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Management 8.3%
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 34.8%, City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 5.5%, Survival 5.1%
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 24.3%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Automation 10.9%, Procedural Generation 6%
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 32.8%, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 7.9%, Strategy 7.3%
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!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 29.7%, Alternate History 15.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Management 7.5%
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 28.9%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 14%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Management 6.4%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Lovecraftian 16.9%, Alternate History 14.1%, Base Building 9.6%
A secret Soviet research institute is conducting an experiment to create a utopian city. Develop your city, resolve generational conflicts, and overcome the challenges prepared by the institute.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 22.5%, Alternate History 18.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 6.1%
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 30.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 7%
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 28.9%, City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Building 7.4%
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!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 13.3%, Management 7%
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 31.3%, City Builder 29.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.8%, Management 6.7%
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 32.8%, City Builder 29.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
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: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Building 6.2%
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 41.6%, City Builder 33.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Survival 2%
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 30.9%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 10.8%, Management 7.5%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 18%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 5.6%
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 29.5%, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 10%, Procedural Generation 6.6%, Building 6%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 7%, Strategy 6.7%
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 30.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 6%
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 27.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 6.4%
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, City Builder 29.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 6.2%
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 24%, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 6.1%
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 35%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 6.2%, Procedural Generation 5.4%
Build the town of your dreams in this cosy fantasy city-builder. Pass policies which impact future gameplay, unravel the mysteries which led to the horrifying downfall of your predecessors and try to keep things together as invisible forces claw at the edges of your hard-fought peace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 22.1%, Automation 11.6%, Lovecraftian 9.7%, Base Building 8.5%
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 30.3%, City Builder 25%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Management 5.2%
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 31.9%, Colony Sim 30.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 7.9%, Management 7.6%
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: Colony Sim 34.1%, City Builder 31.1%, Base Building 7.6%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.5%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Alternate History 20.9%, Automation 10.6%, Steampunk 9.9% ★
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.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Steampunk 20.2% ★, Automation 16.8%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%
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.
Why similar: Steampunk 23.1% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 6.1%
What if crows had evolved like humans? In this cozy city builder, build a thriving civilization in the treetops, discover unique avian technologies, manage your flock and logistics, and harness the power of the wind.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 26.4%, Alternate History 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Management 7.5%
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 40.8%, City Builder 37.3%, Strategy 5.7%, Resource Management 5%, Building 5%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 36.4%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Survival 6.2%, Strategy 6%
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Lovecraftian 11.6%, Building 5.4%
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 6.3%
A slow paced survival colony sim with aspects of survival RPG with you as a Mycenaean King during the Late Bronze Age. Lead your colony, trade items, import raw materials and export crafted goods. Defend your colony against enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Alternate History 27.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 6.5%, Base Building 5.5%
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 41%, City Builder 37.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Survival 5.2%, Resource Management 2.2%
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 28.6%, Lovecraftian 11.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.7%
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 32.1%, City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 10.2%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 26.4%, Automation 16.1%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Building 6.7%
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 27.9%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Building 7.3%
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil 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.
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 7.6%
