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 27.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 12.8%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest thematic match, focusing specifically on building and managing a magical academy with curriculum and staff management.

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 11.4%, Tactical RPG 10.6%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony sim that shares the deep management, emergent storytelling, and base-building complexity found in Mind Over Magic.

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 25.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar 3D base-building experience with a medieval aesthetic and colony survival mechanics.

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 37.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 14.2%, Survival 13.9%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep magic and cultivation systems that mirror the complexity of training mages and mastering relics.

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 29.1%, Base Building 16%, Building 14.7%, Management 12.9%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation game that offers unparalleled depth in colony management and procedural world-building.

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 36.3%, Base Building 19%, Survival 13.2%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the optimization and resource management aspects of base-building that fans of Mind Over Magic will appreciate.

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 23.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that captures the management and exploration feel in a fantasy setting.

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 25.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.3%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: A character-driven colony sim that emphasizes the social and political dynamics between your inhabitants.

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 29.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.3%, Survival 12%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar sense of survival and base-building, but set aboard a customizable spaceship.

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 24.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.5%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines roguelite elements with city-building, offering a challenging and rewarding management loop.

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 27.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with RPG elements, allowing you to influence your subjects directly.

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 22.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.1%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on underground base-building and automation, similar to the Underschool mechanics.

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 24.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.6%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and crafting, providing a satisfying progression loop similar to academy optimization.

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 30.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a survival and combat layer to the colony sim genre, similar to the dungeon-crawling in the seed game.

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 10.9%, Survival 7.9%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A friendly, accessible colony sim that focuses on building and character needs.

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%, Building 22%, Crafting 20.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Indie 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and lineage in a harsh environment, sharing the management depth of colony sims.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 14.6%, Economy 13.9%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive scale colony management with complex social and economic systems.

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 24.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.6%, Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features colony management and tactical combat, though focused on an ant colony rather than mages.

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 24.7%, Building 18.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 13.3%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished city-builder with strong survival and resource management mechanics.

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 30.7%, Building 16.4%, Management 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder with survival mechanics that emphasizes efficient resource chains.

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 11.1%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused colony sim that emphasizes base construction and expansion.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 51.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 16%, Resource Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging mix of god-game and colony sim that requires careful management of resources and defenses.

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 30.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim with a dark fantasy aesthetic that focuses on crafting and survival.

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 29.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Economy 14.4%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a dungeon and its inhabitants, sharing the underground exploration theme.

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 25.4%, Base Building 14%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder with colony management elements that requires careful planning.

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 24.1%, Economy 14.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival in a unique environment.

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 30.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Tactical RPG 9.1%, Building 8.5%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony sim that emphasizes character development and evolution.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.4%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony building with a unique survival twist that requires careful management of your population.

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 26.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 31.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.6%

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 41.3%, Survival 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim with a focus on simulation and survival in a hostile environment.

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 14.4%, Tactical RPG 13.4%, Strategy RPG 13.2%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.5%

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 13.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.8%

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 11.8%, Crafting 10%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 22.8%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 8.5%

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%, Crafting 10.8%

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 11.9%, Management 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.8%

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 20.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Economy 10.5%, Building 10.1%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 13%

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 24.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 10%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.4%

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%, Base Building 15%, Survival 11.2%, Management 10.8%

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 12.6%, Management 11.7%, Survival 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 27.2%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%

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%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13.4%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 9.8%

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%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Management 11%

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 26.9%, Building 13.2%, Economy 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%

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 39.8%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 12.7%, Building 7.7%, Management 6.5%

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 24.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 12.3%, Building 12%, Management 10.5%

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 28.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.2%, 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 12.7%, Management 11.5%

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 23.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Economy 9.6%

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 36.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.8%, Building 13.7%

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.9%, Crafting 11%

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 13.3%, Survival 11.7%, Management 10.2%

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 21.8%, Economy 20.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 8.7%

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 31.6%, Survival 22.8%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Fantasy 10.3%

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%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9.1%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 12%, Economy 11.7%, Building 11.7%, Survival 11.5%

Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11.4%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.2%