- #1 The Last Haven
97% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, RTS 12.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%
- #2 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 8.6%
- #3 ALL WILL FALL
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #4 Tempest Rising
94% matchVery Positive87% of 11,874 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: RTS 51.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Base Building 13%, Action RTS 6.6% ★, War 5.2%
- #5 Post-Apo Builder
95% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: RTS 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, City Builder 12.3%
- #6 They Are Billions
94% matchVery Positive85% of 51,351 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 22.4%, RTS 19.1%, City Builder 8.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #7 After Long Night
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, RTS 14.8%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 9.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #8 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 205 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 12.1%, Action RTS 11.5% ★
- #9 After the Collapse
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
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 31.5%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #10 Reignfall
90% matchVery Positive89% of 424 reviews2018
Dev: Checkmaty
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.8%, City Builder 21.6%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 0.6%
- #11 From Glory To Goo
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,792 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Action RTS 18% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.8%
- #12 reconquest
91% matchMixed55% of 263 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows · Mac
Reconquest is a real-time strategy base building game. After World War III, mankind got close to extinction. You have to reconquer Earth by making better strategic decisions than your opponents.
Why similar: RTS 64.6%, Strategy 35.4%
- #13 Battlefall: State of Conflict
89% matchMixed60% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Kyoto Video Game ConcernPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Command one of three unique factions in a post-apocalyptic old-school RTS. Now featuring Patch 0.4.0 -- new mini-campaign and gamemodes."
Why similar: Action RTS 23.1% ★, RTS 17.7%, Wargame 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%
- #14 Cliff Empire
88% matchVery Positive87% of 4,371 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: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #15 Oxygen
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 8.1%
- #16 Endzone - A World Apart
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,980 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #17 Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,979 reviews2016
Dev: Stardock Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
Why similar: RTS 24.7%, Real Time Tactics 17.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Military 12.2%, War 9.4%
- #18 New Cycle
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #19 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
85% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #20 Ascent of Ashes
84% matchMixed70% of 303 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Building 10.2%
- #21 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
83% matchMixed62% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, RTS 13.9%, City Builder 13.3%, Wargame 12%, Base Building 10.9%
- #22 Darfall
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 502 reviews2025
Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
Why similar: RTS 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Action RTS 15.6% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 13.2%
- #23 Diplomacy is Not an Option
79% matchVery Positive86% of 12,512 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Action RTS 14.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 12.7%, RTS 11.2%
- #24 Alien Marauder
82% matchMixed62% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, RTS 16%, Wargame 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Military 10.1%
- #25 Survive the Fall
80% matchMixed68% of 677 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Real Time Tactics 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Tactical 12.2%
- #26 Industries of Titan
81% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #27 Earth 2160
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,563 reviews2006
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Why similar: RTS 45.4%, Base Building 34.4%, Strategy 13%, Post-apocalyptic 3.9%, Resource Management 2.4%
- #28 Cataclismo
78% matchVery Positive89% of 4,300 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, RTS 16.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #29 Machine Mind
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 591 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Action RTS 32.1% ★, Base Building 20%, Resource Management 16.1%, Tactical 12.3%, Building 11.5%
- #30 Frostpunk
77% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 22.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 7.6%
- #31 Infection Free Zone
76% matchVery Positive81% of 18,524 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, RTS 15.7%
- #32 Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
75% matchVery Positive83% of 4,443 reviews2024
Dev: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.
Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Wargame 19.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.9%, Dystopian 13.2%, Military 13.1%
- #33 Maia
79% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Strategy 10.8%, RTS 6.1%, Simulation 6%
- #34 Homeseek
77% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Dystopian 11.8%
- #35 Retro Commander
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 372 reviews2023
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Why similar: RTS 29%, Wargame 21.9%, Base Building 20.8%, Real Time Tactics 19.2%, Strategy 9.1%
- #36 Annihilate The Spance
74% matchVery Positive90% of 362 reviews2025
Dev: Skyglow Softworks
Windows
An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships. The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses.
Why similar: RTS 24.1%, Base Building 19.6%, War 13.5%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #37 Here Comes The Swarm
73% matchVery Positive85% of 330 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Action RTS 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, RTS 17%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.3%
- #38 Age of Undead
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!
Why similar: RTS 17.6%, Action RTS 16.4% ★, War 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8%
- #39 ReEarth
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd
Windows
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
Why similar: RTS 23.9%, Wargame 17%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, War 11.3%
- #40 City States: Medieval
72% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
You are the leader of a city-state in high medieval Europe. Expand your city through deep city-building systems, build a trade empire across the known world, and lead men to war to defend trade routes in a high-stakes struggle of global strategy and brutal warfare.
Why similar: Action RTS 19.8% ★, RTS 17.1%, City Builder 13%, Wargame 12%, Base Building 8.1%
- #41 The Crust
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, RTS 10.9%
- #42 Repterra
70% matchVery Positive93% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Chute AppsPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, RTS 18.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #43 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
73% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Dystopian 8.9%
- #44 Gods of the Fallen Land
74% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Crow's Key Studios
Windows
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Why similar: RTS 40.9%, Base Building 28.5%, Strategy 27.7%, Indie 2.8%
- #45 Operation: Polygon Storm
72% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: Toxic Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A fastpaced, military tug-of-war game with minimal micromanagement. Choose and deploy from a mix of specialized military units to overwhelm the enemy. Experiment with a huge variety of unit compositions, synergies, abilities, and upgrades to lead your army to victory!
Why similar: Action RTS 22% ★, RTS 14.6%, Wargame 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Military 8.4%
- #46 ICBM
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,930 reviews2020
Dev: SoftWarWarePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
Why similar: RTS 25.2%, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Military 16.6%, War 15.5%, Base Building 10.6%
- #47 Endzone 2
70% matchMixed67% of 1,067 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #48 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 33.4%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 6.3%
- #49 Exogate Initiative
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, RTS 15.1%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #50 Heart of the Machine
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,098 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 13.7%, Building 10.8%
- #51 Eyes of War
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!
Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Wargame 16.9%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 10%
- #52 Deep Among the Swarm
68% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Why similar: RTS 24.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Action RTS 14.4% ★, Resource Management 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
- #53 Project Afterfall
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: MuHa Games
Windows
Wake to a brutal world of Thea, bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51%, Post-apocalyptic 30.5%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 6.3%
- #54 PERIMETER: Legate Edition
67% matchVery Positive93% of 152 reviews2024
Dev: K-D LabPub: Association K-D Lab
Windows · Linux
Perimeter is a real-time strategy game with a destructible world. Utilize the environment for resource gathering and defense against enemies. Immerse yourself in the millennia-spanning history of the Chains of Worlds and lead a faction in the struggle for survival.
Why similar: Action RTS 39.8% ★, RTS 32.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 8%, Resource Management 5%
- #55 BlackChain
69% matchVery Positive86% of 123 reviews2021
Dev: Borington
Windows
A classic single-player RTS set in a Solar System ruled by megacorporations. Journey from Mars all the way to Planet 9 and uncover the secrets of the BlackChain.
Why similar: Action RTS 24.3% ★, RTS 24%, Base Building 17.3%, War 13.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #56 War Selection
66% matchVery Positive85% of 23,502 reviews2019
Dev: Glyph Worlds
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
War Selection is a compelling RTS game featuring base building, resource extraction and warfare. Evolve from a stone age tribe to a distinct industrial nation with unique game mechanics and battle for supremacy with dozens of players on a unique procedurally generated map.
Why similar: RTS 31.1%, Base Building 27.7%, Military 14%, War 13.9%, Strategy 12.1%
- #57 Outlive 25
64% matchVery Positive95% of 265 reviews2026
Dev: Continuum EntertainmentPub: CriticalLeap
Windows
Build your base, prepare your troops, and face your most epic battle yet in this old-school real-time strategy game. Choose between two factions, test your skills in three epic campaigns and engage in online battles with up to 16 players simultaneously.
Why similar: RTS 26.9%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, War 9.7%
- #58 Nuclear Dawn
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,495 reviews2011
Dev: GameConnectPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Base Building 12%, Dystopian 11.4%
- #59 Scarecropia
66% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: JYP Studio
Windows
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
Why similar: Action RTS 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, RTS 12.3%, Wargame 11.9%, Real Time Tactics 10.9%