- #1 Ostriv
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,621 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Farming Sim 12.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Agriculture 7.5% ★
- #2 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
96% matchMixed65% of 26 reviews2026
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: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 29.5%, Farming Sim 17.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #3 H3X@G0N@L
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Incremental 18.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Top-Down 6.5%
- #4 dEskape
95% matchMixed59% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows
'dEskape' is a base-building game which sits across the bottom of your desktop allowing you to work, browse, or watch something else while you play. It's idle when you like and active when you want.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Farming Sim 18.6%, Incremental 17.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #5 Dream Town Island
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 544 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 23.4%, Farming Sim 23.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Agriculture 4.6% ★
- #6 Farmers Market
93% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: RomeeStudio27
Windows
Grow crops, outsmart a changing market, and help a village full of characters rebuild their lives. What you grow matters. When you sell matters. And every meal makes a difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19.2%, Farming Sim 17.2%, Incremental 16.2%, Agriculture 11.4% ★
- #7 Terrarium Builder
94% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 25.2%, Farming Sim 24.2%, Realistic 5.7%, Base Building 5.5%
- #8 Torp
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobblegoat
Windows · Linux
Torp is a viking age colony simulator where you guide a group of norsemen in their quest to build a peaceful and thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 26.4%, Farming Sim 25.7%, Top-Down 5.1%, Base Building 4.8%
- #9 Isla Paradiso
91% 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 32.5%, City Builder 28.9%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #10 Agromatic
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
An industrial empire builder where the workforce is the automation. Hire specialists with their own traits and put them to work wherever the operation needs them, mines, workshops, rail depots, research labs. You decide what gets built. They make it run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 21.7%, Farming Sim 21.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.5%
- #11 Scaling Up
89% matchPositive86% of 29 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 27.5%, Farming Sim 24.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Economy 6.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #12 8-Bit Farm
90% matchMixed67% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Farm management simulation game! Create the most awesome farm!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Farming Sim 27.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Agriculture 14% ★, Strategy 7.3%
- #13 Mars Future
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STM GAMES
Windows
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 29%, City Builder 24.7%, Farming Sim 21.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Economy 5.9%
- #14 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
88% matchVery Positive86% of 205 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 35.2%, City Builder 31.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 5.1%
- #15 Sylox
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
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 39.5%, City Builder 27.3%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 8%, Economy 6.8%
- #16 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 27.4%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Top-Down 5.6%
- #17 Mound Kingdoms
85% 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 34.3%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 6.5%, Realistic 5.9%
- #18 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
86% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Farming Sim 26.8%, City Builder 20.7%, Agriculture 12.9% ★, Strategy 3.8%
- #19 Rise Against the Invaders
84% 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 34.6%, City Builder 30.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 8%, Building 4.8%
- #20 City and War
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Baicheng Zhang
Windows
City And War is a single-player strategy game combining city building, production management, and real-time warfare. Develop your population and industries, manufacture supplies and weapons, and command armies across battlefields and an expedition map.
Why similar: Farming Sim 28.9%, Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 24%, Agriculture 9.9% ★, Base Building 5.3%
- #21 Virum:Colony
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 8.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #22 Arcane Shores
82% 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 35.7%, City Builder 30.3%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Base Building 6.2%
- #23 Founders' Fortune
82% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 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 44.5%, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 5.4%, Economy 4.5%
- #24 HistoriCity: Florence
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 22.3%, Agriculture 14.5% ★, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #25 Exile
80% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 25.4%, Agriculture 11.2% ★, Economy 8.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #26 Aven Colony
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,779 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 45%, City Builder 34.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 1.9%
- #27 Settlement Survival
79% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 31.3%, Agriculture 7.3% ★, Base Building 6.6%, Building 5.5%
- #28 Randoville
79% matchMixed65% of 67 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 24.8%, City Builder 23.2%, Farming Sim 19.3%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 9%
- #29 Sprite's Honor!
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Holographicquad
Windows
Gnomes stole your boat parts! Gather resources to master Fae powers. Farm mythical creatures and build a colony to defeat the gnome kings and get back home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Farming Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17%, Agriculture 11.4% ★, Incremental 10.7%
- #30 Pick Me Up
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 24.3%, Incremental 17.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 4.9%
- #31 Little Porp
77% 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 39.9%, City Builder 36.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Top-Down 8%, Building 3.4%
- #32 Routes and Forges
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bznk Pixel Works
Windows · Linux
A unique blend of RTS, Tycoon, and Tower Defense, where you are the architect, mayor, and commander of a growing village (and conurbation of villages). Your goals are simple: build a prosperous community, optimize production chains, and survive the horrors that emerge from the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 22.8%, Farming Sim 20.3%, Agriculture 11.7% ★, Strategy 10%
- #33 OBRII
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 29.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #34 All Roads Connected
76% matchNo user reviews2026
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 27.2%, City Builder 23.3%, Farming Sim 19.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8%
- #35 The Blighted Frontier
75% 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 39%, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 8%, Survival 3.9%
- #36 Compact Colonies
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
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 37.3%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Economy 7.6%, Farming Sim 7.4%
- #37 Resource chill
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 23.4%, Incremental 21.3%, Economy 7.1%, Base Building 6.8%
- #38 Catizens
73% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 23%, Farming Sim 20.7%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #39 Banished
74% matchVery Positive90% of 43,296 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 43.8%, City Builder 37.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 4.8%, Economy 3.1%
- #40 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,826 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 41%, Strategy 6.9%, Survival 5.6%, Economy 3.8%
- #41 Fill Up The Hole
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,193 reviews2025
Dev: Fluffy Lotus
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Incremental 27.3%, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Strategy 5.2%
- #42 Pocket Harvest
72% matchVery Positive89% of 130 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Reap the joys of country life and cultivate your farm and fame!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Farming Sim 27.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Agriculture 13.7% ★, Strategy 7.4%
- #43 Patron
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 34.9%, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Economy 7.4%
- #44 Oxygen
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 7.5%, Strategy 6.7%
- #45 Oxygen: First Breath
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 28.7%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 8.6%, Strategy 7.6%
- #46 Greenfeet Haven
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Farming Sim 19.4%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Agriculture 11.1% ★
- #47 Celestial Trails
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Universal Games
Windows
You arrive on a barren island seeking a fresh start. Gather resources, farm, fish, and craft to build a thriving society. Unlock advanced technologies, manage resources, and grow your settlement from humble beginnings to exploring the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 29.8%, Farming Sim 28.7%, 3D 3%, Building 2.6%
- #48 Farmman
70% 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 32.8%, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 5.6%
- #49 Minion Colony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jam Studios
Windows
A fantasy city builder where you build up your army of minions to take on monsters, bandits and even entire armies! Recruit a wide range of minions to help you gather resources, craft weapons and armor, and develop your colony into the stronghold it was always meant to be.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 20.7%, Farming Sim 18.4%, Incremental 17.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #50 Clicker Kingdom
68% matchMostly Negative37% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: NecoPlanet
Windows
Click gold. Build a kingdom. Become disgustingly rich. A cozy medieval idle clicker across 8 guilds, 20 buildings, and 315 upgrades. Ascend. Prestige. Repeat. Even your Twitch chat can join the realm. 50 achievements await, Your Majesty.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Incremental 19.2%, Economy 7.5%
- #51 Farm Manager World
68% matchMixed70% of 647 reviews2025
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, City Builder 20.1%, Agriculture 14.3% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 8.2%
- #52 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
68% 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 33.6%, City Builder 28.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 5.8%
- #53 Planetbase
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,422 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 5.1%
- #54 Scribbleman Army
69% matchMixed68% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Hope Drinkers
Windows
Explore a dark cave. Craft tons of units to help you collect resources. Create new buildings and unlock new recipes. Grow your scribbleman army and be ready to fight monsters!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Incremental 17%, Base Building 9.4%, Third Person 7.3%
- #55 Beware of Light
67% 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 40.2%, City Builder 34.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Survival 6.2%, Resource Management 2.3%
- #56 Terrafarm
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Justin
Windows
Robots emerge from the underground vault to cleanse the surface and restore nature. Replant and restore the wilds while growing food in order to support humans returning to the surface. A new culture of sustainable life and living in harmony with nature will be born.
Why similar: Farming Sim 34.9%, Colony Sim 30.6%, Agriculture 12.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 3.2%
- #57 My Colony
69% matchVery Positive90% of 279 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8%, City Builder 43.3%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 0.9%
- #58 Marsbound
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, City Builder 30.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Economy 5.7%, Survival 5.3%
- #59 Quriocity
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
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 32.4%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Top-Down 6%
- #60 Mistpaw Ravine
64% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Farming Sim 20.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Strategy 5.7%