- #1 Harvest Village
97% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.
Why similar: Mining 17% ★, City Builder 14.3%, RTS 10.5%, Medieval 9.1%, Building 8.9%
- #2 Randoville
96% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Farming Sim 13.1%, Economy 10.9%, RTS 10.1%
- #3 Towerfolk
96% 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: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Wargame 10.8%, Medieval 9.1%
- #4 Kingdom Workshop
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Automation 11.7%, Economy 11.3%, Crafting 10%
- #5 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
94% matchMixed63% of 114 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 15.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Automation 12.7%, Wargame 12.1%, RTS 10%
- #6 Bread & Bravery
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, RTS 13.1%, Base Building 10%, Farming Sim 9.7%
- #7 Of Life and Land
93% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Farming Sim 12.3%, RTS 11%, Base Building 10%
- #8 Survivors of the Wildstone
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 12.5%, Automation 10.1%, Medieval 9.6%
- #9 The First Explorers®
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 17.2%, RTS 15%, Economy 13.4%, Building 8.8%
- #10 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
91% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Upper Class Walrus
Windows
Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Economy 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.8%
- #11 Becastled
89% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, RTS 13.5%, War 9.5%
- #12 Kastle Kraft
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite and Unbound Studios
Windows
Gather, craft, and then automate resources to build fabulous Kastles. Beware the locals don't like you destroying their land. Defend your Kastles through combat and defenses. Explore the land to find additional recipes, resources, and items to help you defend and build your Kingdom!
Why similar: Mining 19.2% ★, Automation 16.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 10.5%
- #13 Civica: Italian Renaissance
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, RTS 16.1%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Economy 5.8%
- #14 Make Your Kingdom
89% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #15 The First Settlement VR
87% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 11.9%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%
- #16 Cog Foo
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Automation 15%, Farming Sim 14.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 10.3%
- #17 Folklands
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 12.9%, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%
- #18 Kingdoms Reborn
86% 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 25.7%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 9.1%, Management 8.4%
- #19 Lord of the Wilds
84% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: AuroraDawnGames
Windows
Lord of the Wilds is a strategy game where you build and defend your territory in a wild land. Gather resources, train armies, and face threats from rival lords, orcs, and undead. Strategize to conquer the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Wargame 17.4%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 10.8%, War 10.4%
- #20 LouLan Kingdom
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MockingCrown Games
Windows
Loulan Kingdom is a city-building survival and real-time strategy game. As the ruler of Loulan, you must build your city amid a perilous desert oasis, grow your power through the Silk Road, and fight to protect your kingdom—until the very end.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Wargame 17.4%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%
- #21 Steam & Stones
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Mining 12.1% ★, Base Building 9%
- #22 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
82% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 14.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 7.8%
- #23 Age of Respair
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.4%, RTS 11.3%, Automation 10.7%
- #24 Monastery Builder
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SolidGames
Windows
Become a monk in a medieval European monastery. Be diligent with your duties, and develop and expand your friary. Learn plenty of useful skills and contribute to raising the standard of living for the local community.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Farming Sim 14.7%, Economy 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #25 Paragon Pioneers
81% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 10%
- #26 Wildwood: A Town Building Game
80% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Thermal Expansion Games
Windows
Welcome to Wildwood, the ultimate town building game. Start from nothing. Provide food, shelter and protection for your settlers. Forage for resources, research new technologies, Craft new items, construct new buildings and grow from a surviving colony into a thriving one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Farming Sim 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.5%
- #27 Captain of Industry
79% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 16%, Economy 12.2%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 9.6%
- #28 All Roads Connected
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Farming Sim 14.4%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10.5%
- #29 Incremental Town RPG
78% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Mining 14.5% ★, Farming Sim 13.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Automation 12.2%
- #30 Stellar Shipyard
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ursa Dev
Windows · Linux
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Mining 17.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 8.3%
- #31 Rise Under the Warstorm
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #32 The Gears: Factory
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Automation 16.9%, City Builder 15.8%, RTS 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%
- #33 Tokeis
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Economy 14.5%, RTS 12%, Management 10.2%
- #34 The Colonists
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 17%, Automation 16.5%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 9.3%
- #35 Pirate Plight
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 15%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 11%
- #36 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive92% of 10,053 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 11.6%, Economy 10.2%, War 10.2%
- #37 Farmman
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 13.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.7%
- #38 Factor Y
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 21.5% ★, Automation 18.7%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%
- #39 Magnery Reign
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Wargame 15.3%, City Builder 14.9%, RTS 13.8%, Automation 11.9%
- #40 Truck City
73% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Automation 16%, Mining 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.1% ★, Base Building 10.9%
- #41 Factory Town 2: Paradise
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%
- #42 Pioneers of Pagonia
70% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 12.9%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%
- #43 Scaling Up
71% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, City Builder 18.1%, Automation 15.1%, Economy 8.6%
- #44 Kingdoms and Castles
72% 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: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #45 Village Empires
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: djva caravana
Windows
Build a mighty empire and lead your army to victory to become a great emperor who will be remembered forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 18.9%, War 12.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Economy 7.2%
- #46 Hammerting
72% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Mining 17.8% ★, Automation 14.4%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%
- #47 Forgotten Vale
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 12.3%, RTS 11.2%, Base Building 9.4%
- #48 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
71% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 11.5%, Economy 10.5%, War 10%
- #49 Skyline Settlers
69% 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: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 13.9%, Medieval 11.4%, Building 8.4%
- #50 The Stronghold Collection
71% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 reviews2009
Dev: FireFly Studios
Windows
Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 11.5%, Economy 10.5%, War 10%
- #51 Feudal Craft
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 10.4%
- #52 Island Idle RPG
69% matchMixed67% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the Balgairs - mercenaries creatures and experts in the art of hard working - manage the workforce, inputs, capital, other resources and help provide all the equipment and weaponry needed to defeat bosses in distant Dungeons
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Farming Sim 16.2%, City Builder 14.1%, Automation 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%
- #53 Territory: Farming and Warfare
65% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 12.4%, RTS 11.9%
- #54 Agromatic
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Farming Sim 21.6%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Building 8.5%, Automation 8.5%
- #55 Deep Space Directive
67% 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 23% ★, Automation 21.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 10.8%
- #56 Four Mini Kingdoms War
66% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Fox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is an RTS game less than 300MB, but it already contains many interesting game mechanics, There are many types of soldiers and tactics for you to choose. Support LAN online battle. Special Thanks for Pixel Art UwU~ I hope you will be interested in more RTS games after playing :)
Why similar: RTS 18.2%, City Builder 14.4%, Wargame 14.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 13.2%
- #57 SugarWinds: Prologue
69% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
SugarWinds: sail, establish a colony, make it thrive, and defend it from attacks. Trade worldwide. Enjoy and chill!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Building 9.7%
- #58 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Automation 17.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 9.4%
- #59 Factory Town
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 9.7%
- #60 Kolo
66% 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: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Medieval 10.9%