- #1 Kingdoms and Castles
97% 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: City Builder 34.1%, Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 7.7%, Resource Management 6.1%, Building 5.8%
- #2 Populus
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stalwart Fox Entertainment
Windows · Linux
A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Political Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Building 6.2%
- #3 Ancient Polis
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PKP Games
Windows
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Political Sim 13.7% ★, Wargame 11.5%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #4 Peasants
95% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 11%, Medieval 6.3%, Strategy 6.2%
- #5 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% 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: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%
- #6 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Political Sim 14.4% ★, Resource Management 10.6%
- #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: City Builder 30.2%, Colony Sim 30% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 6.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #8 Fio and the Doomed City
91% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 5.2%
- #9 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
92% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 36.8% ★, City Builder 35.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 4.7%, Building 4.4%
- #10 Aven Colony
91% 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 39.7% ★, City Builder 34%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.5%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
90% 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 39.4% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 5.9%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #12 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
89% 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 31.7% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 7%
- #13 MEMORIAPOLIS
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #14 Border Base
87% 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 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Political Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9%
- #15 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
88% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 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 35.8% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 5.5%
- #16 NOVA ATLANTIS
86% 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 35.1% ★, City Builder 33.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 4%
- #17 Pinevale Settlements
86% 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 28.2%, Base Building 18%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 6.9%
- #18 Lands of Koastalia
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
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 28.3% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.1%
- #19 Kingdom Islands
84% 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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 6.7%
- #20 Spirit & Stone
84% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Base Building 8.3%
- #21 The Population Must Grow
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 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 32.4% ★, City Builder 31%, Simulation 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #22 Our Freedom: Prologue
83% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.6%
- #23 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
82% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 6.4%
- #24 Clan & Flood
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, Political Sim 17% ★, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.7%
- #25 Windowed Realms
80% 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 33.6% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Simulation 7.6%
- #26 Planetbase
81% 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 34.9% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 5.1%
- #27 FarHearth
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: matchaserf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Political Sim 10.5% ★, Resource Management 9.6%
- #28 Settlements Rising
78% 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 29.2% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 5.9%
- #29 Banished
79% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 39.6% ★, City Builder 38.3%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 5.7%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #30 Towerfolk
76% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Wargame 9.2%
- #31 Age of Pyramids
78% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 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 36.6%, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #32 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
77% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Simulation 10.1%
- #33 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 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 39.4% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #34 Deep Space Directive
75% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Hex Grid 16.6% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #35 Kolo
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Medieval 5.9%
- #36 My Colony
76% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, Colony Sim 42.8% ★, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #37 Isla Paradiso
74% 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: City Builder 31.6%, Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.1%
- #38 Oxygen: First Breath
73% 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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 6.1%
- #39 MicroTown
74% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Hex Grid 12.5% ★, Resource Management 10.9%
- #40 Hexagge
73% 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 33.5% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Base Building 6.8%, Building 5.5%
- #41 Treetopians
73% 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 30.9%, Colony Sim 29.4% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 8.6%
- #42 Guild of Dragons
72% 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 26.3%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Dragons 9.3% ★, Resource Management 8.7%
- #43 Frontera
71% 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 31.7% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 7.7%, Base Building 7.4%
- #44 Kingdoms Reborn
71% 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 36.9%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 4.2%
- #45 Outlands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 6.2%
- #46 Patron
71% 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 32.2% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #47 Buoyancy
72% matchMixed56% of 820 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 44% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #48 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 37.4% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.6%
- #49 Venusville
69% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 5.8%
- #50 Lil Guys
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 6.4%
- #51 The Fire Must Grow
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 30%, Hex Grid 14.5% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.5%
- #52 First Feudal
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 7.1%
- #53 Kingdom Square
68% 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 33.5% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Base Building 7.8%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #54 Skyline Settlers
67% 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 34.6%, Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Resource Management 7.6%, Medieval 6.5%
- #55 Settletopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 8%, Building 6.5%
- #56 Beware of Light
66% 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 37.3% ★, City Builder 36.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Resource Management 12.8%
- #57 Dungeon Overseer
68% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 25%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 6.6%
- #58 Foundation
64% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 44.2%, Colony Sim 14% ★, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 7.6%, Medieval 7%
- #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: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.9%