- #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 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%
- #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 22.5%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Strategy 8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #3 Farlanders: Prologue
95% matchVery Positive93% of 289 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 6.5%
- #4 MARS
94% matchNo user reviews
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 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%
- #5 Outpost Surge
94% 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 32.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Space 5.5%
- #6 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
93% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Space 4.9%
- #7 Quriocity
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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%, City Builder 21.9%, Mars 15.7% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 5.5%
- #8 Space Station Tycoon
91% matchMixed60% of 218 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 17.4%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%
- #9 Space Hotel Ltd
91% 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 23.9% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 7.6%
- #10 Isla Paradiso
90% 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 27.6%, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 6.7%
- #11 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
89% matchMixed56% of 2,513 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 7.5%, Base Building 6.4%
- #12 Wall World Strategy
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 15.8%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8.4%
- #13 MARSTEAD
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JJJI STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony on Mars. Manage oxygen, power and food, care for your colonists, trade with five alien species, and uncover buried ruins with scanners and mining rovers. Defend your settlement and research a future beyond survival.
Why similar: Mars 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Space 5.4%, Survival 5.1%
- #14 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
86% matchVery Positive92% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 24.2%, City Builder 20.8%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 6.9%
- #15 Planetbase
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 31.4%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Space 8.2%, Strategy 5.4%
- #16 Farlanders
86% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 5.3%
- #17 IXION
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Space 10.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #18 Aven Colony
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 37.7%, City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Sci-fi 5.4%
- #19 Cliff Empire
84% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 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 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #20 DarkSwitch
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 783 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 Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Tower Defense 13%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 6.7%
- #21 Outer Space Shack
83% matchMixed43% of 14 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 28% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 7.1%
- #22 Terra-7
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 6.7%
- #23 NecroCity: Prologue
82% 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 23.9%, Tower Defense 20%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 7.4%
- #24 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
81% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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%, City Builder 29.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 6%
- #25 Virum:Colony
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 9.4%, Space 7.3%
- #26 Venusville
79% matchNo user reviews2026
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 27.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 13%, Space 7.9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #27 Fio and the Doomed City
79% matchNo user reviews2026
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 30.4%, City Builder 26.7%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 5.4%
- #28 Arcane Shores
78% matchNo user reviews2027
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 28.1%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.4%
- #29 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 27.7%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Tower Defense 9.2%, Management 6%
- #30 Founders' Fortune
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 4.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #31 Rise Against the Invaders
76% 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 30.6%, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 5.6%
- #32 Drill Core
75% matchVery Positive85% of 2,478 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26.5%, Tower Defense 19%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #33 Orbit Engineer
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Albion Games
Windows
Orbit Engineer – Build, grow, and survive in your own space station. Manage crew morale, supplies, and research while facing unpredictable space events and system failures. Every decision matters as you expand and fight to keep your station alive in space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 23.7%, Mars 17.4% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Economy 6.5%
- #34 Rise to Ruins
77% matchVery Positive88% of 7,765 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.7 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 31.1%, City Builder 24.6%, Tower Defense 22.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #35 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 24.7%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 6.7%
- #36 Hellcrown
74% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Astral Hearts
Windows · Linux
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Choices Matter 7%
- #37 Mars Era
74% 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 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 7.1%, Management 6.5%
- #38 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
73% 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 26.8%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Economy 7.5%
- #39 Dissent on Mars
73% matchMixed47% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Michael HicksPub: MichaelArts
Windows
A sci-fi life sim where you create new societies unlike anything on Earth. Design your economy and government, build your colony, and experience your choices firsthand by living as a colonist. Will your society become a living utopia, or another dystopia?
Why similar: Mars 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 10.7%, Strategy 5.1%
- #40 Ares Inception
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Spacehabs Studios Inc.
Windows
You're the intelligent electronics of a Mars mission. Four capable crew members. You are not one of them. Your job: keep them alive and happy, they're the only ones who can succeed. Built under the advice of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, the big decisions are yours to make.
Why similar: Mars 33.3% ★, Colony Sim 27.1%, Management 7.9%, Space 7.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #41 The Blighted Frontier
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 34.4%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 14%, Management 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #42 Patron
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 30.4%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #43 Project Oasis
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
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 30%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 8.4%, Management 5.9%
- #44 Solargene
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 855 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 23.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Mars 15% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 8.2%
- #45 NecroCity
71% matchMixed50% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 7.1%, Tower Defense 6.5%
- #46 Farmman
70% 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 28.8%, City Builder 25%, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 7%
- #47 Sky Base Venus
70% 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 35.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Space 10.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #48 Settlement Survival
70% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 30.2%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.5%, Building 6.7%
- #49 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
68% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%
- #50 Marsbound
69% matchNo user reviews2027
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 31.7%, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Economy 6.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #51 Goblin Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
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 35.5%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 7.2%
- #52 Red Dust Colony
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Mars 25.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 6.1%, Management 5.9%
- #53 The Citadel Must Hold
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klenisho Games
Windows
Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 19.8%, Tower Defense 12.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #54 Border Base
67% 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 27.6%, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #55 Make Your Kingdom
69% matchMixed58% of 197 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 26.2%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 9.8%, Management 8%
- #56 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
67% 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 30%, Tower Defense 24.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 7%
- #57 Generation Exile
66% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2026
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 26.8%, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 7.5%, Space 6.8%
- #58 Gargantua
65% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Abdullah Furkan Doğan
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Tower Defense 21.4%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.2%