- #1 Citizens: On Mars
96% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: RedKar Devs
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 23% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #2 Sylox
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%
- #3 Farlanders: Prologue
95% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Mars 27.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 7.1%
- #4 MARS
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyborg Dreams
Windows
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Mars 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%
- #5 Space Station Tycoon
94% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.8%
- #6 Outpost Surge
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thrive Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Mars 31.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 14% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Space 5.5%
- #7 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
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.
Why similar: Mars 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 4.8%
- #8 Quriocity
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
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 25.3% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Mars 15.2% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #9 Isla Paradiso
91% 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 27.5% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 6.9%
- #10 Space Hotel Ltd
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gregry Boyd
Windows
Space Hotel offers a bold new twist on the classic city builder and tycoon genres. Take your management skills beyond the surface and into orbit. Experience the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a luxury space hotel where the stakes are high and the rewards are out of this world.
Why similar: Mars 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8.2%
- #11 Farlanders
89% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Space 5.9%
- #12 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
88% 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 23.7% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 7%
- #13 Planetbase
89% 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 14%, Space 8.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #14 IXION
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 10%, Space 9.9%, Economy 6.4%
- #15 Aven Colony
87% 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 38.1% ★, City Builder 30%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Sci-fi 5.3%
- #16 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
85% matchMixed52% of 1,856 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Why similar: Mars 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 6.5%
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Tower Defense 11.8%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #18 Outer Space Shack
84% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Open Lowcode SAS
Windows
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Mars 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 7.1%
- #19 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
84% 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 31.3% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 6%
- #20 Arcane Shores
83% 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%
- #21 Venusville
82% 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13%, Space 7.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #22 Fio and the Doomed City
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 5.4%
- #23 Settlements Rising
81% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Tower Defense 9.2%, Management 6.3%
- #24 Founders' Fortune
81% 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 39.2% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 5.2%, Strategy 5%
- #25 Drill Core
78% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Tower Defense 18.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 6.8%
- #26 Rise Against the Invaders
79% 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 30.9% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Building 5.6%
- #27 Rise to Ruins
80% 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 31.3% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 5.7%
- #28 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 10%, Strategy 6.8%
- #29 NecroCity: Prologue
78% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Tower Defense 20%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Management 7.8%
- #30 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 8%, Choices Matter 8%
- #31 Patron
77% 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 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%
- #32 Solargene
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Mars 14.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 8.8%
- #33 Generation Exile
75% 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 7.8%, Space 6.7%
- #34 Mars Era
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Osis Studio
Windows
Mars Era is a turn-based strategy game about Mars colonization. Build your base, welcome settlers, gather resources, research technologies, and overcome the harsh conditions of the Red Planet. Manage your settlers, develop infrastructure, and turn Mars into a new home for humanity! 🚀
Why similar: Mars 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 7.2%, Management 6.9%
- #35 Farmman
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
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 28.7% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.2%
- #36 DarkSwitch
74% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 21%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 5.5%
- #37 Sky Base Venus
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Space 10%, Strategy 6.6%
- #38 Marsbound
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Strategy 12%, Economy 6.8%, Sci-fi 6%
- #39 Make Your Kingdom
74% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
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 26.1% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.5%, Management 8.3%
- #40 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
72% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Tower Defense 24.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 7.4%
- #41 The Great Beyond
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Tower Defense 14.3%, Strategy 9%, Economy 6.2%
- #42 Kingdoms and Castles
73% 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 34.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 5.2%
- #43 Border Base
71% 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 27.7% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #44 Gnome Glen
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.8% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 10.8%, Strategy 5.5%
- #45 Red Dust Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Mars 24% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Management 6.3%, Survival 6%
- #46 Kingdoms Reborn
70% 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 33.3%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 8.7%, Management 7.3%
- #47 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 7.1%
- #48 What's Left Behind
71% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 8.7%, Building 6.5%
- #49 Skyline Settlers
69% 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: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 5.9%
- #50 Aquatico
69% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 6.5%
- #51 Reshaping Mars
69% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Mars 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 8%, Space 6.1%
- #52 Zombie Cure Lab
67% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9.2%
- #53 Calyx
66% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Why similar: Mars 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Tower Defense 13.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 8.9%
- #54 Gargantua
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abdullah Furkan DoğanPub: AFD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your spaceship-city Gargantua. Forge industries, bend the free market, trade between planets, and defend your growing wealth. Every bullet is bought or produced in a simulated economy where a single mistake can shatter supply chains and trigger interstellar crises. In Gargantua, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 6.4%
- #55 Exostation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #56 Oxygen
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 25.3% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 6.4%
- #57 Exile
67% 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Economy 11.2%, Management 8%, Base Building 7.2%
- #58 Pixel Colony
66% 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 32% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Management 9.2%, Economy 6.5%, Base Building 6.3%