Games Like Mind Over Magic

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Economy 12.6%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar magical school management and curriculum-building theme with architectural freedom.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 11.5%, Tactical RPG 10.6%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same deep, emergent storytelling colony-simulation framework and intricate survival mechanics.

A 3D builder management sim. You are the Headmaster: build your wizarding academy floor by floor, train students into accomplished wizards, and keep your school alive through mana droughts, staff drama and rival academies. Your school, your rules.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the magical academy theme where you build and manage a school for young magic users.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Survival 14%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep eastern fantasy, magical cultivation, and intricate colony management akin to training mages.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.8%, Management 12.8%, Survival 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate complex, emergent simulation depth for building and defending sprawling underground settlements.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.9%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar stylized perspective and detailed survival-focused colony simulation.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 14%, Economy 12.5%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes multi-layered architectural construction and survival management in a historical setting.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 13.3%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you with complex base layout planning, life support, and intricate automation systems.

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Tactical RPG 14%, Management 12.2%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines underground dungeon survival with settlement building and tactical strategy.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 14%, Economy 12.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on micro-managing individuals and their unique relationships within a strategic settlement.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 13%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers intense rogue-lite city building with a strong emphasis on adapting to harsh fantasy environments.

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 23%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Centers heavily on vertical underground mining, crafting, and dwarven colony management.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.2%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the classic colony simulation loop into a tightly controlled sci-fi spaceship environment.

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 30.8%, Building 16.6%, Survival 12.8%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and keeping a growing colony alive against environmental pressures.

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 37.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11%, Survival 8%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on friendly colony building, crafting, and defending your people from seasonal threats.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Building 19.6%, Procedural Generation 17.7%, Management 16.7%, Survival 16%

Why You'll Like It: Blends dungeon keeper mechanics with rogue-like dungeon crawling and base defense.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends occult themes, survival crafting, and base defense with micro-managed survivors.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on deep base building and resource supply chains in a harsh extraterrestrial setting.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 14%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers reactive colony simulation where individual characters have complex social dynamics and agency.

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: Base Building 14.5%, Tactical RPG 13.6%, Strategy RPG 13.3%, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Requires training recruits and managing a specialized base to achieve specific operational goals.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.7%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on specialized production chains and managing a medieval craft business.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 16%, Survival 12.1%, Management 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base builder featuring scavenging and colony survival mechanics.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.6%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Involves multi-level base building and intricate resource management with unique characters.

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a gothic-themed colony management experience with crafting and strategic expansion.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Building 18.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 13.1%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Demands careful agricultural planning and town management to protect citizens from rugged survival conditions.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Tactical RPG 9.2%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategic colony building with deep character progression and tactical encounters.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Building 21.9%, Crafting 20.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Indie 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply realistic Scottish highlands colony sim focused on survival, building, and generations.

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 27%, Building 13.3%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation, logistics, and resource management within a grid-based sandbox.

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 29.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Economy 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you build up a powerful underground dungeon and manage dark minion economies.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.5%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 15.6%, Management 11%, Survival 8.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.7%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.1%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Economy 14.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Management 10.1%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Tactical RPG 15.2%, Strategy RPG 13.3%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.8%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.1%, Strategy RPG 11.5%, Survival 10.8%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 16.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 8.4%

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.3%, Economy 10.3%, Building 10.1%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.2%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.3%, Management 10.7%

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 34.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%

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%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 12.9%, Building 7.7%, Management 6.5%

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 24.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.4%

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Survival 11.1%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Management 11%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%

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 23.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Economy 9.5%

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 14%, Building 13.8%, Economy 13.6%

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 25.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 8.4%

A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Tactical RPG 12.9%, Strategy RPG 10.9%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.7%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.5%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Survival 13.6%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 6.9%

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 24.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.5%

Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.

Why similar: Management 31.4%, Survival 23.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Fantasy 10.4%

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Management 22.6%, Building 22%, Economy 20%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 8.7%

Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 13.4%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.1%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Economy 13%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.5%

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 29.1%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 9%

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: Colony Sim 36.3%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 9.3%

Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Management 14%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12%, Economy 11.2%