- #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 29.3%, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 12.7%
- #2 HavenCraft
96% matchNo user reviews
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 30.4%, Automation 16.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%
- #3 Gridmax
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Survive a hostile alien world, gather resources, build a settlement, and grow your colony. Craft tools, construct defenses, and adapt to harsh environments in this open-ended survival colony simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Automation 17.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Management 13%, Base Building 11.7%
- #4 Terra-7
95% 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 26.2%, Sandbox 16%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 11.4%
- #5 Space Architect
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 290 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 23.7%, Automation 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #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 29.5% ★, Management 28.1%, Economy 21.2%, 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 25.9%, Automation 25.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 10.8%
- #8 Clipper
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Automation 24.1%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 9.8%
- #9 Common'hood
91% matchMixed51% of 339 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 23.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Automation 11.7%
- #10 Fosoria
91% 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%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #11 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
90% matchMixed61% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Game Development 38.1% ★, Economy 15.1%, Management 13.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 6.4%
- #12 Stonedeep
89% 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 25.9%, Base Building 14.7%, 2.5D 13.6%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.4%
- #13 SeaColony
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Economy 10.3%
- #14 Blueprint Tycoon
89% 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 38.7%, Management 21.3%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #15 Factory Town
86% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 21.1%, Automation 19.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 11.4%
- #16 Modern Game Tycoon
87% 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 49.2% ★, Economy 11.8%, Simulation 10.2%, 2.5D 9.2%, Management 7.8%
- #17 Software CEO
84% 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 19.2%, Management 17.3%, Automation 16.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Game Development 12.5% ★
- #18 GamersGoMakers
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 399 reviews2014
Dev: gnifrebel Games UG
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.6 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% ★, Management 22.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Economy 7.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #19 Resort Galactica
84% 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 27.1%, Sandbox 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 12.4%, Economy 11.1%
- #20 Game Dev Company
85% 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 57.3% ★, Management 13.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 5%
- #21 Sweets Inc.
82% 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 18.9%, Management 17.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Economy 15.4%, Colony Sim 12.3%
- #22 The Colonists
83% matchVery Positive86% of 1,231 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 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 25.2%, Automation 17.6%, Economy 14.2%, Management 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #23 Captain of Industry
81% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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 27.1%, Base Building 17.8%, Economy 14.7%, Colony Sim 14%, Management 11.2%
- #24 Prison Architect
82% matchVery Positive89% of 73,513 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 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 13.4%, Economy 9.9%
- #25 Odd Realm
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 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 26.2%, Automation 14%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #26 Scaling Up
78% matchPositive86% of 28 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 26.7%, Automation 16%, Sandbox 13.7%, Economy 9.9%, Management 7.5%
- #27 Production Line : Car factory simulation
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 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 18.5%, Economy 16.1%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.4%
- #28 Game Giant
79% 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 27.1% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Economy 13.3%
- #29 Another Brick in The Mall
80% matchVery Positive83% of 2,437 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 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 21.9%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Management 17.3%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 10%
- #30 Galaxy Scavengers
78% 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 20.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Management 11.8%, Automation 11%
- #31 Star of Games
77% 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 44.8% ★, Management 13.7%, Economy 12.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #32 On & Under
77% 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 17.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.3%
- #33 Factory Town 2: Paradise
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10.7%
- #34 Halloween Store Simulator
76% match1 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 26.3%, Economy 12.7%, Automation 12.3%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #35 Farmman
75% 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 30.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Economy 15.6%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 11.6%
- #36 Artificer's Tower
75% 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 13.4%, Economy 10.6%, 2.5D 10.4%, Management 10.2%
- #37 Scorchlands
74% matchVery Positive90% of 135 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 21.7%, Automation 14.9%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%
- #38 GUILDMAKER
73% 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 31.2%, Management 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Automation 8.4%
- #39 Dungeon Overseer
74% 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 30.3%, Economy 16.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #40 Astral Enterprises
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
As CEO, build your corporate empire! Design space-efficient factories in a grid-based puzzle system. Fund cutting-edge research to optimize production, master complex supply chains, and dominate a living interstellar economy.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Economy 18.9%, Management 18.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #41 Kubifaktorium
73% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 24.8%, Automation 18.5%, Economy 13.1%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%
- #42 Urban Entrepreneur
72% 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 23.7%, Automation 15.4%, Economy 15.2%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11%
- #43 Kingdom Workshop
72% 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 22.5%, Economy 15.2%, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 11.6%
- #44 游戏梦之路 / game dream journey
71% 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 43.7% ★, Management 14%, Simulation 13.5%, Economy 12.9%, Strategy 5%
- #45 Islandustry
71% 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 24.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 16%, Management 12.5%, Economy 7.7%
- #46 Mad Games Tycoon 2
70% matchVery Positive94% of 7,699 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 36.9 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 37.8% ★, Economy 17%, Management 16.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #47 Vonkelveld
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Software MoosS
Windows
Kindle a world where every light is a living soul. Shape it — never command it — then fall from the heavens to a single life and follow it. Ask why about anything and get the real causal chain. The stakes always win; how long and how brightly your world burns is the score.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, 2.5D 11.4%, Automation 10.4%, Simulation 10.3%
- #48 Founders' Fortune
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 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 44.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 8.6%, Economy 7.2%
- #49 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Economy 17.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 16.1%, Management 13.9%
- #50 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,637 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 23.8 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 27.8%, Automation 20.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Management 10.7%
- #51 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Automation 19.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 9.3%, Simulation 7.8%
- #52 Shop Life Simulator
68% matchMixed50% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: AIONWARE LTD
Windows
A shop life simulator and management, From owning a small room above the store to selling exclusive products as the highest rated shop, or scratch lottery tickets to try your luck at winning big, In a 24/7 shop, Manage alone or with friends.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Economy 20.2%, Management 17.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 9.5%
- #53 Little Big Workshop
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 18.8%, Automation 17.8%, Simulation 16.3%, Economy 15.4%, Sandbox 12%
- #54 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 14.2%, Economy 13.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 11.1%
- #55 Hammerting
69% matchMixed57% of 2,592 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Automation 16%, Economy 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 11.4%
- #56 Truck City
66% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Economy 11.8%
- #57 Game Builder Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 162 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
Why similar: Game Development 43.3% ★, Economy 17%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 7.8%
- #58 Spaceflight Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Automation 17.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #59 Grim Realms
67% 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 33.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.7%, Economy 11%
- #60 Build To The Moon
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BumpkinBrothers
Windows
A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.7%