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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Singleplayer, Colony Sim.

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Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Reviews: Mixed — 63% — of 89 reviews
Released: 2026-01-02
Developer: Sokpop Collective
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchVery Positive91% of 131 reviews2024
    Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Linux

    Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Hex Grid 17.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 7.5%

  2. #2 Stonehearth
    96% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 29.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 6.3%, Strategy 6%

  3. #3 MicroTown
    96% matchVery Positive95% of 475 reviews2019
    Dev: Snowy Ash Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Sandbox 11%, Hex Grid 9%, Base Building 8.8%

  4. #4 One More Island
    95% matchMixed68% of 254 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 26.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.6%, Exploration 7.4%

  5. #5 Diluvian Winds
    94% matchMostly Positive73% of 385 reviews2024
    Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

    Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.1%

  6. #6 Ratopia
    93% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 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 27.1%, City Builder 19.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.5%

  7. #7 Farlanders
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 576 reviews2023
    Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 6.2%

  8. #8 Flotsam
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 4,361 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.1%

  9. #9 Settlement Survival
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 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 29%, City Builder 28.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 7.1%, Base Building 5.7%

  10. #10 CLOUD DWELLERS
    90% matchVery Positive92% of 71 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 41.4%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.9%

  11. #11 Orrstead
    91% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 reviews2024
    Dev: IndividualKex
    Windows

    Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 25.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 5.6%

  12. #12 Dawnfolk
    88% matchVery Positive95% of 693 reviews2025
    Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

    Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Exploration 7.8%

  13. #13 Edge Islands
    89% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 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 33.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 9%

  14. #14 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    89% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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 39.4%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 7.3%

  15. #15 Space Haven
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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.

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  16. #16 Beastie Bay DX
    87% matchVery Positive83% of 104 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 25.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 6.1%, Survival 5.5%

  17. #17 Odd Realm
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.2%

  18. #18 Flooded
    86% matchVery Positive83% of 123 reviews2023
    Dev: Artificial Disasters
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

    Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Resource Management 6.4%

  19. #19 Synergy
    85% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,039 reviews2025
    Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    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 25.9%, City Builder 23.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.2%

  20. #20 SteamWorld Build
    83% matchVery Positive84% of 2,156 reviews2023
    Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

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    81% matchVery Positive84% of 652 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 6.7%

  22. #22 City idle
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 219 reviews2023
    Dev: Grest Games OÜ
    Windows

    Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Logic 8.3%, Exploration 8%

  23. #23 Oxygen
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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 26.6%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 7.1%

  24. #24 Buoyancy
    84% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
    Dev: Devs on a Boat
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

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  25. #25 Dream Town Island
    80% matchVery Positive96% of 460 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 31.1%, City Builder 26.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.6%

  26. #26 The Wandering Village
    78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,187 reviews2025
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

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  27. #27 Cavern Adventurers
    79% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2025
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 26.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Exploration 6.2%, Survival 5.5%

  28. #28 Outpath
    77% matchVery Positive93% of 2,948 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  29. #29 Gnomoria
    81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 25.3%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.3%

  30. #30 pyramida
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 746 reviews2020
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 35.1%, Strategy 18.9%, Survival 11%

  31. #31 Stonedeep
    79% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
    Dev: Direfang
    Windows

    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.

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  32. #32 HEXAROMA: Village Builder
    76% matchVery Positive82% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: Almost a Game CompanyPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.

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  33. #33 Settlements Rising
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 426 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    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 29.2%, City Builder 25.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 6.7%

  34. #34 Surviving the Aftermath
    77% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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: City Builder 30.8%, Colony Sim 28%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Survival 8.4%

  35. #35 Havendock
    73% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,898 reviews2025
    Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 22.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 6.8%

  36. #36 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
    74% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
    Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
    Windows

    Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Exploration 8.9%, Colorful 7.3%

  37. #37 Catizens
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
    Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%

    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 29.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 6.7%, Survival 6.5%

  38. #38 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    76% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 34.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 5.1%, Simulation 4.6%

  39. #39 Microtopia
    71% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 30.1%, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Exploration 5.8%

  40. #40 Project AURA
    75% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
    Dev: Nexcentric Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

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    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 147 reviews2023
    Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
    Windows

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  42. #42 Kingdoms and Castles
    71% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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  43. #43 Outlanders
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 491 reviews2023
    Dev: Pomelo Games
    Windows

    Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

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  44. #44 Civitatem
    73% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
    Dev: LW Games
    Windows

    Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

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  45. #45 Before We Leave
    71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,706 reviews2021
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

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  46. #46 Slimeward
    67% matchVery Positive94% of 218 reviews2026
    Dev: ByeolGamesPub: ByeolByte
    Windows

    Slimeward is an idle game where players build and upgrade a village, recruit heroes, and defeat Monster 'Slime' that fell in front of the house one day,

    Why similar: City Builder 44.9%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

  47. #47 Stacklands
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,480 reviews2022
    Dev: Sokpop Collective
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

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  48. #48 AColony
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

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  49. #49 Colony Survival
    70% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 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!

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  50. #50 Crowded Blue Dot
    72% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
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    Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

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  51. #51 These Doomed Isles
    68% matchMostly Positive72% of 223 reviews2024
    Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.7%

  52. #52 Exogate Initiative
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 707 reviews2025
    Dev: Xeno Bits
    Windows

    Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 22.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Strategy 7.2%

  53. #53 Mini Settlers: Prologue
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
    Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

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  54. #54 Lords and Villeins
    69% matchMostly Positive71% of 966 reviews2022
    Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.5%

  55. #55 Dungeon Village
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 794 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, City Builder 30.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Fantasy 7.1%, Simulation 5.1%

  56. #56 Dwarf Fortress
    65% matchVery Positive95% of 31,055 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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%, City Builder 23.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 7.3%

  57. #57 Dice Legacy
    69% matchMixed68% of 1,050 reviews2021
    Dev: DESTINYbit
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

    Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 7.6%

  58. #58 Wayward
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
    Dev: Unlok
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

    Why similar: Sandbox 25.6%, Survival 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Simulation 11%, Open World 9.9%

  59. #59 Planetbase
    68% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 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 35.6%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 6.6%

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