Games Like Marsbound

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 38.1%, Colony Sim 35.2%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Economy 2.5%

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 39.5%, City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Survival 3.6%

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 33.9%, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 22.8%, Survival 11.2%

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 38.3%, City Builder 36.1%, Strategy 10.6%, Survival 9.1%, Simulation 2.7%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Strategy 22.9%, Survival 12.7%, Indie 2.5%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, City Builder 41.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 3.5%, Indie 1.4%

Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 35.4%, Survival 11%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 5%

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 33.1%, City Builder 32.3%, Strategy 12.6%, Survival 10%, Sci-fi 4.8%

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 32.9%, City Builder 30.7%, Strategy 20.2%, Survival 6.4%, Realistic 4.4%

Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, City Builder 31.6%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 3.3%

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 34.4%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 11%, Economy 7.3%

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 41.3%, City Builder 38.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 7.7%, Simulation 2.1%

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 32.6%, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Survival 8.1%, Economy 7.9%

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 33.2%, City Builder 30.7%, Strategy 20.2%, Survival 4.7%, Economy 4.6%

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 39.5%, City Builder 39.4%, Strategy 19.8%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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 42.5%, City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 5.3%, Economy 3.9%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, City Builder 24.9%, Survival 13.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 4%

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Why similar: City Builder 42.3%, Colony Sim 38.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Economy 1.6%, Simulation 1.2%

Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, City Builder 32.2%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Strategy 5.9%, Survival 5.5%

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 38.9%, Colony Sim 31.8%, Strategy 20.4%, Realistic 4.9%, Simulation 3.6%

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 35.8%, Colony Sim 34.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Economy 7.9%, Simulation 1.2%

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 47%, City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 8.2%, Indie 1.5%

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 38.6%, City Builder 32.4%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! 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: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 30.1%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Sci-fi 6.1%

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 35.4%, City Builder 34.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 9.7%, Simulation 3.3%

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 51.1%, City Builder 29.5%, Strategy 19.4%

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 34.5%, City Builder 31.3%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Economy 5.7%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, City Builder 35.1%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 1.9%

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 33.1%, City Builder 31%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 5.5%, Economy 4.5%

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 37.9%, Colony Sim 32.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Economy 4.6%, Simulation 2.1%

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 40.7%, City Builder 38.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.3%, 3D 4.5%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.3%, Strategy 20%, City Builder 17.9%, Survival 6.9%, Simulation 5.6%

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 36.9%, Colony Sim 34.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Survival 5.5%, Simulation 5.4%

One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 5.3%, Economy 4.8%

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 29.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Choices Matter 3.3%

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 40.4%, City Builder 32.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 3.3%

Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 11.8%, Economy 6.1%

Build and manage a massive supermarket. Order products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your business into the ultimate shopping destination.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 5.6%, Economy 5%

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 47.1%, City Builder 27.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 3.7%

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 32.8%, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%

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 40.6%, City Builder 31%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 8.7%, Simulation 4.6%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Strategy 15.3%, Survival 13.6%, Economy 7%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, City Builder 38.3%, Economy 8.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 3.9%

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 35.1%, City Builder 32.7%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 6.2%, 3D 3.1%

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: City Builder 36%, Colony Sim 30.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 4.1%

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 33.9%, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 32.4%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 6.2%, Survival 5.4%

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 41.8%, City Builder 25%, Strategy 12.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sci-fi 6.5%

Build upward in a city under corporate control. Place tiles, optimize spatial layouts, and manage powerful adjacency effects while balancing profit-driven demands against the needs of your residents in a dense cyberpunk megastructure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 39%, Strategy 17.5%, 3D 3%, Indie 0.8%

Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Survival 12.2%, Economy 3.5%

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 43.3%, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 17.8%, Economy 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

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 38.4%, City Builder 35.9%, Strategy 23.9%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 27.5%, Survival 12%, Strategy 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.5%

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 36.8%, City Builder 35.3%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 10.1%, Economy 4.3%

Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 30%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 5.6%, Economy 5%

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.7%, City Builder 20.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 2.1%, Indie 0.9%

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 30.4%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Economy 7%