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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 — 62% — of 90 reviews
Released: 2026-01-02
Developer: Sokpop Collective
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    97% matchVery Positive90% of 133 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 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%

  3. #3 Diluvian Winds
    96% matchMostly Positive73% of 386 reviews2024
    Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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 24.4%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.1%

  4. #4 One More Island
    95% matchMixed68% of 257 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 32.4%, City Builder 26.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.7%, Exploration 7.4%

  5. #5 Farlanders
    94% matchVery Positive91% of 579 reviews2023
    Dev: Andrii 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 30.8%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 6.2%

  6. #6 Ratopia
    93% matchVery Positive88% of 4,710 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 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 Stonehearth
    94% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,032 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%

  8. #8 Settlement Survival
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 7,950 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.9 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 28.6%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 7.2%, Base Building 5.7%

  9. #9 Microtopia
    91% matchVery Positive87% of 943 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 22.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Exploration 5.8%

  10. #10 Orrstead
    91% matchVery Positive80% of 80 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%

  11. #11 CLOUD DWELLERS
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 77 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 9.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.9%

  12. #12 Flotsam
    89% matchVery Positive81% of 4,433 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 25.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.1%

  13. #13 Odd Realm
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 1,005 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    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 28%, City Builder 17.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.2%

  14. #14 Dawnfolk
    86% matchVery Positive95% of 707 reviews2025
    Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 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 31.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Exploration 7.8%

  15. #15 Edge Islands
    87% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 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%

  16. #16 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    88% matchMixed69% of 365 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 20.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 7.3%

  17. #17 Beastie Bay DX
    86% matchVery Positive83% of 105 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 25.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Exploration 6.1%, Survival 5.5%

  18. #18 SteamWorld Build
    84% matchVery Positive84% of 2,187 reviews2023
    Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.4 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.

    Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Relaxing 8.5%, Strategy 8.2%

  19. #19 Flooded
    85% matchVery Positive82% of 128 reviews2023
    Dev: Artificial Disasters
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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 27.7%, Base Building 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Resource Management 6.4%

  20. #20 Synergy
    84% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,052 reviews2025
    Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.9 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%

  21. #21 Havendock
    81% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,915 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 22.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 6.8%

  22. #22 City idle
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 222 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 39.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Logic 8.3%, Exploration 8%

  23. #23 Oxygen
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 890 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 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 26.5%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 7.1%

  24. #24 Mini Settlers
    80% matchVery Positive82% of 708 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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 30.8%, City Builder 23.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 6.7%

  25. #25 Buoyancy
    83% matchMixed55% of 827 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.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, City Builder 25.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 8.1%, Survival 5.4%

  26. #26 Dream Town Island
    79% matchVery Positive96% of 490 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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 26.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.6%

  27. #27 The Wandering Village
    76% matchVery Positive92% of 8,256 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?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 24.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Base Building 6.7%

  28. #28 Gnomoria
    81% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,537 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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 25.4%, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.3%

  29. #29 Space Haven
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 10,816 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 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.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.5%

  30. #30 Cavern Adventurers
    78% matchMixed65% of 130 reviews2025
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 26.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Exploration 6.2%, Survival 5.5%

  31. #31 pyramida
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 749 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: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 35%, Strategy 18.9%, Survival 11%

  32. #32 Surviving the Aftermath
    77% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,539 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.2 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 30.9%, Colony Sim 28%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Survival 8.4%

  33. #33 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.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 30.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Relaxing 6.1%

  34. #34 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.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 7.1%

  35. #35 Settlements Rising
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 428 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 29.1%, City Builder 25.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 6.7%

  36. #36 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    77% matchMixed66% of 6,000 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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%, City Builder 34.2%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 5.1%, Simulation 4.6%

  37. #37 Catizens
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
    Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 6.7%, Survival 6.5%

  38. #38 Outpath
    72% matchVery Positive93% of 3,051 reviews2023
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    Why similar: Sandbox 24.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%

  39. #39 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
    73% 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%

  40. #40 Dice Legacy
    74% matchMixed68% of 1,052 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%

  41. #41 Project AURA
    74% 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.

    Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Base Building 6.8%

  42. #42 Slimeward
    68% matchVery Positive92% of 256 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 45%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

  43. #43 Stacklands
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,660 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!

    Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Survival 16.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Cute 7.5%

  44. #44 Land Above Sea Below
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 147 reviews2023
    Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
    Windows

    Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

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  45. #45 Outlanders
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 494 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.

    Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Cute 10.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Relaxing 9.2%

  46. #46 Civitatem
    72% matchMixed63% of 134 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.

    Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 7.5%

  47. #47 Lords and Villeins
    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 970 reviews2022
    Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 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!

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  48. #48 Before We Leave
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,711 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.

    Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Hex Grid 17%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 6%

  49. #49 AColony
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 136 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.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 7.6%, Exploration 6.3%

  50. #50 Mini Settlers: Prologue
    68% 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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  51. #51 These Doomed Isles
    68% matchMostly Positive72% of 226 reviews2024
    Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    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 29.5%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.7%

  52. #52 Exogate Initiative
    67% matchMostly Positive75% of 710 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 Crowded Blue Dot
    71% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
    Windows · Linux

    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.

    Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Simulation 7.7%, Sandbox 6.5%

  54. #54 Dwarf Fortress
    65% matchVery Positive95% of 31,162 reviews2022
    Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 38.8 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 9.8%, Survival 7.3%

  55. #55 Planetbase
    69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,351 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%

  56. #56 Dungeon Village
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 824 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 30.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Fantasy 7.1%, Simulation 5.1%

  57. #57 Grimgrad
    69% matchMixed52% of 89 reviews2023
    Dev: Juvty WorldsPub: Juvty Worlds
    Windows

    Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

    Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Base Building 6.9%

  58. #58 Endzone 2
    65% matchMixed69% of 1,033 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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 31.5%, City Builder 25%, Sandbox 13%, Base Building 8.1%, Survival 7.7%

  59. #59 Banished
    66% matchVery Positive90% of 43,179 reviews2014
    Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
    Windows
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 32.3%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 6.9%, Survival 6.1%

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