- #1 The Crust
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 19.3% ★, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 11.5%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #2 Avian Colony
96% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Automation 8.7%, Management 6.6%
- #3 Final Frost
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%
- #4 Oxygen: First Breath
94% 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 20% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.6%
- #5 MEMORIAPOLIS
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Political Sim 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 10%, Building 6.7%
- #6 Drownlight
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #7 Clan & Flood
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Political Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Survival 8.4%
- #8 Beyond These Stars
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 10.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #9 Surviving the Aftermath
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 7.2%
- #10 Frostpunk: 1886
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #11 Lost Heaven Station
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #12 Endzone - A World Apart
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #13 Architect of Ruin
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.5%, Automation 11.1%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #14 Endzone 2
87% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 21.7% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #15 IXION
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Survival 6.9%
- #16 Rise Against the Invaders
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #17 Oxygen
85% 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 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%
- #18 Survival Vacancy
84% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Mining 8.5% ★, City Builder 8.4%
- #19 Zombie Cure Lab
82% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Time Management 8%
- #20 Border Base
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Political Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #21 Founders' Fortune
84% 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 33.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 7.2%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #22 Settletopia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.2%
- #23 Scaling Up
80% matchPositive85% of 26 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 12.2%, Time Management 10.7%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #24 Death By FrostByte
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Mining 12.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Time Management 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%
- #25 STARIO: Haven Tower
79% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Time Management 7.9%
- #26 Stonedeep
81% 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 21.8% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 9.8%, Automation 7.8%, Building 7.4%
- #27 Space Haven
79% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 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 20.7% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Sandbox 8%
- #28 Islandustry
78% 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 17.7%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 8%
- #29 Floodland
78% matchMixed56% of 1,062 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Political Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Choices Matter 7%
- #30 Space Architect
76% 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 21% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 12.7%, Mining 8.6% ★, Sandbox 7.2%
- #31 After the Collapse
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 14%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #32 The Wandering Village
74% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 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 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Automation 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #33 Generation Nova
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Political Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Time Management 7.8%
- #34 Make Your Kingdom
77% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #35 Terra-7
75% 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 10%, City Builder 9.7%
- #36 Farmman
73% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 8.6%
- #37 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, City Builder 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #38 Planet Barren Objective
74% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #39 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Political Sim 18.6% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #40 Frostpunk
73% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #41 Lil Guys
72% 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 27.5% ★, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 7.4%, Management 6.9%
- #42 Quriocity
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #43 Underground Nomads
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Automation 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7.4%
- #44 New Cycle
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Building 7.5%
- #45 Truck City
70% 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: City Builder 15%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Mining 10% ★
- #46 Vilset
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 14.8%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #47 Starship Colony
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 10.5%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 6.8%
- #48 First Feudal
70% 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 24.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #49 Resort Galactica
69% 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 23% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.1%
- #50 Epoch Cycle
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: Political Sim 29% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Building 8.7%
- #51 HolyZone
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 7.8%, Survival 6.6%
- #52 Crowded Blue Dot
70% 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 7.7%
- #53 Settlements Rising
67% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.5%, Building 7.2%
- #54 Wild West Pioneers
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Mining 9.1% ★, Sandbox 8.6%
- #55 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
65% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Automation 11.3%, Building 7.3%
- #56 Gnome Glen
67% 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 23.1% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 8.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #57 The Last Haven
68% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Colony Sim 8.1% ★
- #58 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 23.8% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 7.2%