- #1 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
97% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 39.2%, City Builder 36.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Strategy 4.9%, Medieval 4.5%
- #2 Peasants
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.6%, Medieval 6.6%
- #3 NOVA ATLANTIS
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, City Builder 34.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 4.1%
- #4 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
95% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 33.9%, City Builder 33%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #5 Aven Colony
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 42.7%, City Builder 35.3%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.7%
- #6 My Colony
94% matchVery Positive90% of 265 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, City Builder 43%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #7 Rise Against the Invaders
93% 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 33.3%, City Builder 32.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 6.6%, Building 6.4%
- #8 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 31.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 6.4%, Building 5.3%
- #9 Banished
91% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, City Builder 38.6%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5.7%, Medieval 3.4%
- #10 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,364 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, City Builder 27%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Medieval 4.6%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
90% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 43.6%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 5.6%, Simulation 5.1%
- #12 The Blighted Frontier
89% 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 37.3%, City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.5%
- #13 Spirit & Stone
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 29.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 5.5%
- #14 Kingdom Islands
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 33.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Simulation 7.1%, Medieval 6.9%
- #15 Fio and the Doomed City
86% 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 34.9%, City Builder 31.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 5.7%
- #16 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
87% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 40.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%
- #17 Kingdoms and Castles
85% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 32.6%, Resource Management 7.3%, Medieval 6.1%, Simulation 5.4%
- #18 Lands of Koastalia
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
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 31.7%, City Builder 30.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #19 Hexagge
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 33%, Simulation 11.7%, Building 5.1%, Base Building 4.4%
- #20 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
83% 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 32.3%, City Builder 30.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Base Building 6.8%
- #21 The Population Must Grow
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 33.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Base Building 7.3%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #22 Frontera
81% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, City Builder 31.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Building 7.2%, Base Building 4.9%
- #23 Age of Pyramids
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 87 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Colony Sim 31.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Base Building 6.7%
- #24 Outlands
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 30.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 4%
- #25 Skyline Settlers
80% 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: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 35.1%, Strategy 9%, Medieval 6.7%, Building 5.5%
- #26 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
78% 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 30.6%, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 6.3%, Simulation 6.1%
- #27 Planetbase
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 39%, City Builder 32.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 5.6%, Resource Management 4.3%
- #28 Colonus
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 29.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Resource Management 5.4%, Medieval 5%
- #29 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
77% matchNo user reviews2027
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 35.8%, Colony Sim 33.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.6%
- #30 Orc Colony
79% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48%, City Builder 17.7%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.4%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #31 Treetopians
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Colony Sim 32%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Base Building 7.1%
- #32 Our Freedom: Prologue
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
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 29.8%, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.5%
- #33 Windowed Realms
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 29%, Simulation 8.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.8%
- #34 Settlements Rising
74% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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 32.6%, City Builder 30.2%, Resource Management 7.3%, Base Building 7.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #35 Isla Paradiso
75% 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 34.4%, City Builder 33.4%, Building 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #36 Pinevale Settlements
75% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 7%
- #37 LowPolis
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Colony Sim 32.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 8.2%, Medieval 6.6%
- #38 Guild of Dragons
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 27.2%, Dragons 11.1% ★, Base Building 8%, Building 6%
- #39 Arcane Shores
73% 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 37.1%, City Builder 34.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Building 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%
- #40 Beware of Light
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 37.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #41 Buoyancy
74% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1%, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Resource Management 4.3%
- #42 Kingdom Square
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mete İlhan
Windows
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 28.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Base Building 5.1%
- #43 Dawn of Man
72% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Colony Sim 42.3%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 4.5%, Resource Management 1.3%
- #44 Patron
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 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 35.3%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 6.5%, Base Building 6.4%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #45 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 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 39.8%, Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 5.2%, Strategy 4.5%
- #46 Above: Colonies of the Mist
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 32.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 5.1%
- #47 Colony Simulator
71% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 38.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 8.9%, 3D 1.5%
- #48 Little Porp
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, City Builder 41.6%, Strategy 11%, Building 5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #49 Sky Base Venus
69% 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 41.5%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6.3%
- #50 Mound Kingdoms
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVA Devs
Windows
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, City Builder 34.5%, Strategy 12%, Base Building 5.9%, Building 5%
- #51 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
70% matchVery Positive84% of 826 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 67.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.1%, City Builder 30.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Medieval 5.9%
- #52 Settlement Survival
68% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 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 33.3%, Colony Sim 31.6%, Building 7.5%, Medieval 7.1%, Base Building 6%
- #53 Our Dear Kingdom
67% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 5.4%, Resource Management 3.8%
- #54 Pixel Colony
67% matchPositive93% of 40 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 36.6%, City Builder 34.9%, Resource Management 8%, Strategy 5.3%, Simulation 4.8%
- #55 T-Minus 30
68% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 7%
- #56 Oxygen: First Breath
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 30%, City Builder 30%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #57 Generations: Utopia
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tom Yum Games
Windows
Generations: Utopia is a wry city-building strategy about generational conflict. Build the city of the future, balance the interests of the silent types, boomers, X, Y and Z, and cope with protests, crises and social tensions. Run a city where every generation is sure you’re doing everything wrong.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, City Builder 34.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 5.4%, Building 4.7%
- #58 Gnomoria
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 41.3%, City Builder 33.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Building 6.2%
- #59 FireMatch Empire
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 32.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 7.5%