- #1 Skyberry Garden
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 12.6%
- #2 HavenCraft
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Automation 16%, Sandbox 14.2%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%
- #3 Gridmax
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Automation 16.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 12.9%, Base Building 11.8%
- #4 Space Architect
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Automation 15%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #5 One More Release: Indie Studio Tycoon
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Daniil Tarasau
Windows
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
Why similar: Game Development 49.1% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 11.6%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 6%
- #6 Game Corp DX
94% matchVery Positive88% of 3,083 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Game Development 30.1% ★, Management 27.9%, Economy 20.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #7 The Glorious Colony
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WeLIAS Studio
Windows
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Automation 25.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 10.7%
- #8 Clipper
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Automation 23.7%, Management 15%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 9.9%
- #9 Terra-7
91% 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 29.3%, Economy 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 11.4%
- #10 Common'hood
91% matchMixed51% of 341 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 23.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 12.2%, Automation 11.5%
- #11 Necromancer's Workshop
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Economy 10.7%
- #12 SeaColony
89% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.7%
- #13 Fosoria
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #14 Modern Game Tycoon
88% matchMostly Negative23% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: NordCode
Windows · Linux
You are an aspiring game developer in 2000. Hire personal, expand offices, design the games of your dreams and try to make money from them. Reach as high as you can. From a small company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 49.8% ★, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 10.1%, 2.5D 9.2%, Management 7.6%
- #15 Stonedeep
87% matchMixed46% of 105 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 26%, Base Building 14.8%, 2.5D 13.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.4%
- #16 White Fountain
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mick609
Windows
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Automation 24.9%, 2.5D 15.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 2.1%
- #17 Blueprint Tycoon
86% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Management 21.2%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #18 GamersGoMakers
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 399 reviews2014
Dev: gnifrebel Games UG
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.
Why similar: Game Development 44.6% ★, Management 22.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 4.9%
- #19 Factory Town
84% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Automation 19%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13%, Management 11.4%
- #20 CircuitVeil
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Automation 20.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.6%
- #21 Game Dev Company
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Quark Game
Windows
Game Dev Company is a simulation of game dev company, where you can build company, add furniture,build develop department ,Develop your own games to make money and make your company the most famous game company.
Why similar: Game Development 57.8% ★, Management 13.2%, Simulation 12%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 5%
- #22 Software CEO
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Economy 19%, Management 17.2%, Automation 16%, Sandbox 14.7%, Game Development 12.8% ★
- #23 Black Market INC.
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pixellow Official
Windows
Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 12.1%, Automation 10.8%
- #24 Resort Galactica
81% 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 27.2%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 12.4%, Economy 10.9%
- #25 Sweets Inc.
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Road Turtle Games
Windows
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Management 17.2%, Sandbox 16.9%, Economy 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.4%
- #26 The Colonists
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,240 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Automation 17.4%, Economy 14.1%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%
- #27 Game Giant
78% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Games
Windows · Linux
Become the biggest game publisher! Find developers, negotiate contract and market the games. Grow your company and design your offices.
Why similar: Game Development 27.5% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Economy 13%
- #28 Another Brick in The Mall
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Management 17.5%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%
- #29 Odd Realm
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 26.3%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 12.2%
- #30 Captain of Industry
78% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 15%, Economy 14.2%, Management 11%
- #31 Prison Architect
79% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 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 27.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 13.4%, Economy 9.8%
- #32 Scaling Up
76% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Economy 9.7%, Management 7.5%
- #33 Star of Games
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Velo GamesPub: Infini Fun
Windows
Ever dreamed of creating a genre-defining masterpiece? Star of Games is a next-gen simulation management game centered on game dev. You'll act as an aspiring developer, starting from a humble garage startup and embarking on a glorious journey—from recreating classics to forging your own legends.
Why similar: Game Development 45.4% ★, Management 13.6%, Economy 12%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #34 Galaxy Scavengers
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 11.8%, Automation 10.8%
- #35 Production Line : Car factory simulation
77% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 19.6%, Automation 18.3%, Economy 15.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%
- #36 Phantasm Cube
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAEMOSU
Windows
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 11%
- #37 On & Under
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #38 Factory Town 2: Paradise
72% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 19.2%, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 10.8%
- #39 Agromatic
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
An industrial empire builder where the workforce is the automation. Hire specialists with their own traits and put them to work wherever the operation needs them, mines, workshops, rail depots, research labs. You decide what gets built. They make it run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Automation 18.4%, Economy 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.6%
- #40 Malignus
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 11%, Management 9.6%
- #41 Radia Island
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 11.6%, Economy 11.4%
- #42 Halloween Store Simulator
73% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Economy 12.5%, Automation 12.2%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 10%
- #43 The Hostel Project
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Management 18%, Sandbox 15%, Economy 11%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 Artificer's Tower
71% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 13.5%, 2.5D 10.5%, Economy 10.4%, Management 10.1%
- #45 ASTERSTEAD
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LUMICROFT
Windows
Mine. Process. Circulate. Stabilize. Build an unmanned planetary base capable of surviving every test before humanity takes its first step onto the surface.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Base Building 20.6%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 8%
- #46 Frostward
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Acres Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Sandbox 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, Automation 10.1%, Management 8.9%
- #47 Farmman
70% 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 31%, Sandbox 15.9%, Economy 15.3%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%
- #48 GUILDMAKER
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LEONAN
Windows
Run a guild of valiant, procedurally generated adventurers who fight, trade, craft, and do quests on their own. Do your best as their guildmaster to provide them a place to rest and thrive, and restore an old guild to its former glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Automation 8.3%
- #49 Mad Games Tycoon 2
69% matchVery Positive94% of 7,786 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 38.2% ★, Management 16.8%, Economy 16.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #50 游戏梦之路 / game dream journey
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StarTraceark
Windows
Forge Your Dream Games, Build a Legendary Studio! Unearth and cultivate talented employees, leading your team through countless critical decisions as you rise from obscurity to claim the coveted Game of the Year award. This is your path to becoming a legend. Are you ready to write your own chapter?
Why similar: Game Development 44.3% ★, Management 13.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 5%
- #51 Scorchlands
69% matchVery Positive89% of 140 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 21.8%, Automation 14.7%, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Base Building 11.3%
- #52 Dungeon Overseer
70% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
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 30.5%, Economy 16.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #53 Astral Enterprises
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimise production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, Economy 18.7%, Management 18.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #54 The Crust
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 13%, Management 10.7%
- #55 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 25%, Automation 18.3%, Economy 12.9%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%
- #56 Kingdom Workshop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Economy 15%, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 11.6%
- #57 ALL WILL FALL
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 8.9%
- #58 Urban Entrepreneur
67% 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 23.8%, Automation 15.2%, Economy 15%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #59 Islandustry
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 12.5%, Economy 7.6%
- #60 Founders' Fortune
68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 44.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 8.6%, Economy 7.2%