- #1 Ostriv
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Management 9%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Farming Sim 8.3%
- #2 Of Life and Land
96% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Farming Sim 10%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.1%
- #3 HistoriCity: Florence
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.8%, Historical 8.7%
- #4 Monastery Builder
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SolidGames
Windows
Become a monk in a medieval European monastery. Be diligent with your duties, and develop and expand your friary. Learn plenty of useful skills and contribute to raising the standard of living for the local community.
Why similar: Farming Sim 11.9%, Economy 10.7%, Management 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #5 First Feudal
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 12%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.4%
- #6 Aztecs: The Last Sun
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #7 Common'hood
94% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 11.3%, Economy 9.3%
- #8 Gnome Glen
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%
- #9 Humanica
91% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #10 Sect Leader's Decree
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #11 The Borderless
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: New Eden Games
Windows
Escape the chaos of daily life and build your own floating paradise. In The Borderless, construct, manage, and expand a serene ocean platform into a thriving resort where visitors relax, party, and fuel your dreams with their wallets.
Why similar: Management 13.2%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #12 Settlement Survival
89% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 22.3% ★, Building 12.4%, Management 11.4%, Medieval 10.4%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #13 Anvil Saga
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,787 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Management 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 10.4%, Medieval 9.5%
- #14 Farming Life
89% matchMixed67% of 213 reviews2021
Dev: ▲ Pyramid GamesPub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Are you tired of corporate life? Create your own farm! Plant vegetables and fruits, harvest crops, employ workers, take care of animals. Buy farm equipment, manage employees and just relax!
Why similar: Farming 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, Management 8.6%, Economy 8%
- #15 Orrstead
87% matchVery Positive81% of 77 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 22.7% ★, Management 12%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%
- #16 Settlements Rising
86% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 24.2% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #17 Bread & Bravery
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10%, Building 9.4%, Farming Sim 9%
- #18 Dungeon Overseer
86% 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 23.7% ★, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #19 Wanderers' Outpost
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.5%, Economy 9.4%
- #20 Deep In Snow
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Survival in a post-apocalyptic ice age with settlement building. Dig through the snow, find resources, build shelters, and defend yourself from evolved beasts and feral locals. Explore ruins, trade, and rebuild civilization in the harsh world after the icy cataclysm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #21 Farthest Frontier
81% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Farming 14.8% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Building 11.6%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 8.1%
- #22 Crowncity
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: Building 13.6%, Economy 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Medieval 10.4%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★
- #23 Founders' Fortune
83% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.1%, Management 7.6%
- #24 Farmman
82% 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 24.5% ★, Economy 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11%
- #25 Tokeis
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Economy 13.9%, Management 12.6%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #26 Terra-7
80% 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 24% ★, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10%
- #27 Cat Cafe Simulator
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blink Studios
Windows
Start your new life as the owner of a charming but rundown Cat Cafe. Your mission? To clean, renovate, and bring warmth to a place where both humans and cats can find comfort in the cozy ambiance of your making.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Farming Sim 11.9%, Economy 11.6%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #28 All Roads Connected
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Farming Sim 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 10.3%
- #29 Crypto Mining Tycoon
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MaxSoftGames
Windows
Crypto Tycoon, you relive the rise of the digital currency revolution by starting your own crypto mining and trading company. Build mining farms, trade volatile markets, research new technologies, and expand your operations.
Why similar: Economy 17.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Simulation 8.9%
- #30 Resort Galactica
77% 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 22.7% ★, Building 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #31 Oxygen Not Included
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #32 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.5%
- #33 Lil Guys
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 15%, Management 12.5%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #34 Patron
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Economy 9.7%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #35 Friendly Sheeps: A Cozy Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: AGAMES
Windows
FRIENDLY SHEEPS is a relaxing sheep farming game in which you create your dream farm in a peaceful, colorful world. With its simple gameplay, meet the needs of your sheeps, craft and sell your products, and grow your business!
Why similar: Farming 22.7% ★, Job Simulator 19.1% ★, Farming Sim 16.4%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.7%
- #36 Deichgraf
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Acid Mines Software UG
Windows
Deichgraf is a small, calm, but sometimes intense building game. Build your own village and protect it against water caused by floods and heavy rain!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Building 11.2%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Historical 10.2%
- #37 Randoville
74% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Farming Sim 13.1%, Economy 12.4%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.7%
- #38 Egypt
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 12.6%, Building 11.6%, Economy 10.4%
- #39 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #40 Seeds of Resilience
75% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 11.4%
- #41 Prison Architect
74% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Building 13.4%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #42 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Economy 12%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 9.2%
- #43 Forgotten Vale
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.4%
- #44 Kingdom Workshop
71% 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 18.5% ★, Building 13.6%, Economy 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Medieval 10.8%
- #45 Fantastic Haven
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Restore the equilibrium of magic by saving endangered fantasy creatures. Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 13.4%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #46 Kolo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Economy 13.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 10.4%
- #47 Summa Expeditionis
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 227 reviews2024
Dev: Lobico GamesPub: Megalevel
Windows
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Management 11.9%, Building 11.1%
- #48 Celestial Empire: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Management 12%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10%, Economy 9.9%
- #49 Surviving Ceres
69% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Farming Sim 15%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 11.8%
- #50 Country Architect
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 11.3%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.4%
- #51 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,274 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Management 13.5%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 12%
- #52 Isla Paradiso
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Economy 14.5%, Building 13.8%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #53 Paragon Pioneers
70% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.2%, Management 12%, Base Building 10.5%
- #54 Artificer's Tower
68% 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 25.2% ★, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 10%, Management 9.5%
- #55 Space Architect
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 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 22.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Management 12%, Building 10.3%, Economy 9.6%
- #56 Blacksmith Master
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 11.8%, Management 11.8%, Building 11.4%
- #57 Ratopia
65% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Building 14%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 12%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #58 Shop Life Simulator
66% matchMixed52% of 31 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 25.2% ★, Economy 17%, Management 15.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
- #59 Lands of Koastalia
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Building 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%