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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 29.2%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 8.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Survival 6.9%, Building 6.8%

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 30.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 7.8%, Survival 7%

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 22.4%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 7.9%

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%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 7.9%, Survival 7.3%

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 32.9%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 7.6%

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 25.5%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 8%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8%

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: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.6%, Management 9.2%

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: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

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 31.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 5.2%

Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 19.7%, Management 9.6%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%

Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.

Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.7%

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 27.7%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.3%

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 30.8%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.4%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 7.1%

Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11%, Management 8.9%, Crafting 8.1%

Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 18.4%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%

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 30.1%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%

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 27.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.4%

Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 7.3%, Management 7.2%

Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 6%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.2%

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 34.8%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 7.1%, Management 6.7%, Building 6.5%

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 31.1%, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 10.9%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 10.9%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 7.9%

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 29.3%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 9.8%, Management 8.8%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.6%

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 27.7%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.2%, Management 7.3%

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!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.6%

Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Survival 10.8%, Building 8.3%

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 25.5%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.5%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 10.1%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 12.3%, City Builder 9.4%, Building 8.7%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Survival 8.8%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 8.2%, Survival 7.8%

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 28.4%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 7.6%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 13%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9.5%

Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.9%, City Builder 9.5%

Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 7.4%

STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.7%

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7%, Strategy 6%

Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.6%

Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 6.5%

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 24.8%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12%, Survival 8.5%, Management 8.5%

Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 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 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 24.8%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.2%, Management 8.2%

A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 10.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 8.7%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 7.6%

Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 8.8%, Management 8.3%

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 26.5%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.5%

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 25.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Base Building 18%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7%

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 30.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Management 6.3%

You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 7.9%

Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 11.8%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.5%