- #1 Wanderers' Outpost
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Capitalism 12.7%, Building 10%, Management 9.5%
- #2 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
96% matchVery Positive90% of 1,274 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, Capitalism 15.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #3 Mars Attracts
96% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Capitalism 11.2%, Time Management 10.7%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.1%
- #4 Hell Architect
95% matchMixed69% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Dark Comedy 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Dark Humor 8.8%, Building 8.5%
- #5 Boogie Fungi
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobbly Lines
Windows · Linux
Build and maintain a colony of Mushrooms, keep them happy with constant parties and make sure to deploy some defenses to deal with foragers
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Creature Collector 20.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 7.4%
- #6 Oxygen Not Included
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 33.7% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #7 TFM: The First Men
93% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 32% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 7.6%
- #8 SacriFrogos
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uóki Games
Windows
A roguelike strategy and survival game where ever-growing sacrifices are required to keep the mysterious Eternal Flame alive. Build a colony of Frogos and create unique builds every run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Creature Collector 14.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Time Management 10.5%, Management 9.2%
- #9 Ratopia
91% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 12.5%, Management 9.3%, Survival 8.6%
- #10 Lil Guys
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Management 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #11 Embark
90% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #12 Founders' Fortune
89% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 37.1% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Survival 6.9%
- #13 First Feudal
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.4% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #14 Hell Architect: Prologue
88% matchVery Positive82% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Dark Comedy 11.5%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #15 Farmman
87% 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 26.4% ★, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%
- #16 Sect Leader's Decree
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #17 Synthetica: Cyber Club Manager
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Run a cyberpunk club for lonely souls. Manage your business, craft unique android workers, and change clients’ lives through your decisions. Will you lead your club to success or let it fade into the shadows?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Creature Collector 16.9%, Capitalism 13.7%, Time Management 13.1%, Dark Comedy 10.3%
- #18 Arcbound
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 11.3%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 6.5%
- #19 Common'hood
85% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 10.3%
- #20 CLOUD DWELLERS
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.2%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #21 Settletopia
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 10%
- #22 Prison Architect
83% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 13%, Capitalism 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #23 Dig a Little Deeper
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12%, Crafting 9.7%, Management 9.4%
- #24 Vilset
82% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #25 Underground Nomads
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 13.3%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #26 Urban Entrepreneur
80% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: ArchDawnPub: ArchDawn LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Capitalism 19%, Time Management 13.4%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.6%
- #27 Red Dust Colony
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9%
- #28 Casino Resort Tower
79% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Capitalism 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Time Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #29 Tree House Survivors
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #30 Gateworlds
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.2%
- #31 Space Hotel Ltd
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gregry Boyd
Windows
Space Hotel offers a bold new twist on the classic city builder and tycoon genres. Take your management skills beyond the surface and into orbit. Experience the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a luxury space hotel where the stakes are high and the rewards are out of this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Capitalism 15.1%, Time Management 14%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.5%
- #32 MicroFab
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Flirp
Windows
Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Capitalism 15.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Management 6.2%
- #33 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 24.3% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.9%
- #34 MeadowMeld
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeldFire
Windows
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Creature Collector 22.8%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 7.8%
- #35 Oxygen
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 23.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #36 Oceanarium World
74% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Mazemind
Windows · Mac
Build your ultimate aquarium and water park! Manage marine park and make it successful by building aquariums and attractions. Display beautiful, rare or monstrous fishes that your visitors demand and make them satisfied.
Why similar: Creature Collector 22.3%, Time Management 16%, Base Building 13%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #37 Ecopunk
73% matchVery Positive84% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Sandbox 13%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #38 Terra-7
74% 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 27.4% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 13.2%, Building 10.5%
- #39 Lost Heaven Station
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Management 9%
- #40 News Tower
71% matchVery Positive94% of 4,202 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Why similar: Capitalism 16.7%, Management 16.1%, Time Management 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 10.9%
- #41 Dinky Guardians
73% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Management 10.3%
- #42 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.6% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 6.9%
- #43 Starship Colony
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Management 10.5%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #44 My Drug Cartel
71% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #45 Amozon Extraplanetary Colonization Program
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Misha Smirnov
Windows · Linux
AECP is a chaotic 2D roguelike factory builder inspired by games like Factorio. Build unique and wacky factories using whatever means you have available, and use your revenue to expand further!
Why similar: Capitalism 17.7%, Time Management 17.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 8.6%
- #46 Frontier Roots
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Time Management 15.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #47 Rubbish Paper
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aimer1453
Windows
RubbishPaper: Lab management meets Roguelite. You're a new lecturer, building a lab from scratch—juggling grants, papers, and students. Survive random chaos: funding crises, student meltdowns, rejection letters. No safe retirement—overwork, crash, restart. Until you're a legend, or nothing.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Time Management 15.3%, Building 13.3%, Dark Humor 9.4%
- #48 Plush Parade
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cozy Bee Games
Windows
Design and sell your custom plushies in this cozy and creative sim! Mix and match hundreds of pieces to create unique designs and build your own plush collections. Manage your online shop, launch blind boxes and compete with a rival company to become the ultimate plush designer!
Why similar: Creature Collector 27.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Capitalism 13.3%, Time Management 11.5%, Management 10.8%
- #49 Galaxy Pass Station
69% matchVery Positive87% of 268 reviews2023
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9%
- #50 Cosmic Castaway
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Time Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10%
- #51 Zombie Cure Lab
67% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 22.5% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Time Management 11%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.2%
- #52 Colony Survival
70% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 18%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #53 Grim Realms
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
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 29.8% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #54 Nigredo
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Time Management 18.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%
- #55 Winmon: Prologue
66% matchPositive89% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: IndieLabPub: Ngoc
Windows
Feed your cute little monsters right on your desktop! And once full, it's time to work! From sowing seeds, watering plants, providing light to mining ores and chopping trees. Resources don't come on their own and food isn't bought with air. Everyone will need to work.
Why similar: Creature Collector 27.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Capitalism 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Management 12.1%
- #56 Edge Islands
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
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 30.9% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 10.9%
- #57 Resort Galactica
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Building 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.9%
- #58 Order: The New Dawn
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #59 Scavenger T.O.M
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Creature Collector 14.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.1%