Games Like Lil Guys

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 35.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 6.8%, Survival 6.7%

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 22.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 25.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 8.2%, Survival 7.1%

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 33% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 8.2%

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 25.4% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 7.9%

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 26.5% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.4%, Management 8.1%

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 32% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 5.2%

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%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 28.6% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.9%

Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 11%, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 8.4%

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 36.8% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7%

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 30.9% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.3%

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 27.2% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8%

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 32.9% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6%

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 30.2% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 8.8%, Building 8.6%

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 25.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.1%

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 34.7% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Management 7%, Survival 7%, Building 6.4%

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 7.5%, Survival 7.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 7.4%

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 27.6% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.6%

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 19.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.2%, Management 9%

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 31.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Survival 10.7%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%

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 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9.2%

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 22.2% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 9.9%

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 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.4%

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 30.1% ★, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 10.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9%

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 34.3% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Survival 8.6%, Building 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%

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 26.2% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Management 9.1%

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 25.6% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.4%, Management 8.6%

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 35.3% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 12%, City Builder 9.2%, Building 8.6%

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 28.3% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%

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%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 8%

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%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 7.6%

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 28.7% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 10.2%, City Builder 9.8%, Management 9%

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 23.3% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 8.6%, Survival 8.6%

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 25.6% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.9%

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% ★, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.6%, Strategy 11%, Management 7.8%

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 43.3% ★, Base Building 18%, Survival 8.2%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6%

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 24.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.5%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Survival 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 34.7% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Management 10%, Building 8.2%, Survival 6.8%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9%, Building 8.5%

A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 11.5%, City Builder 9.3%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 8%, Resource Management 6.7%

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 30.4% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 6.9%

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 27.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.1%

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 34.8% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 11.3%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 12%, City Builder 7.8%, Resource Management 5.8%

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 29.5% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 8.6%, Management 7.9%

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% ★, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Survival 10.9%, Management 10.4%

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 7.7%

Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

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 38.7% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Survival 7.7%, Building 5.9%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 9.8%, Building 8.9%

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 24.9% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.7%

Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10.1%, Survival 10.1%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 13.8%, Survival 10.1%, Management 9.5%

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 28.9% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.6%

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 33.1% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Management 12.1%, City Builder 12%, Survival 12%