- #1 Surviving the Aftermath
97% 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: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Survival 11.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #2 Punk Wars
96% matchMixed61% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.
Why similar: Transhumanism 32.1% ★, Dystopian 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%
- #3 Scavenger T.O.M
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Underground 20% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Life Sim 9.9%
- #4 Escape the End
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 21.5%, RTS 13.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #5 Paradise Lost
94% matchMixed64% of 2,474 reviews2021
Dev: PolyAmorousPub: Walkabout
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.
Why similar: Transhumanism 31.8% ★, Underground 30.8% ★, Dystopian 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Exploration 4.3%
- #6 Rochford Reanimated
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: aweasd
Windows
Rochford Reanimated is a card-based survival strategy game set in a zombie apocalypse. Lead survivors on missions, manage resources, and make tough choices to rebuild your community or fall to the undead. Every decision could be your last.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, RTS 12%, Dystopian 11%, Tactical 9.9%
- #7 Winter Nest
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
You play as a beetle exploring the underground world, working together with ants. Expand the nest, gather resources, and maintain the nest’s temperature to survive the long winter.
Why similar: Underground 28.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
- #8 Cavern Adventurers
91% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Underground 20.4% ★, Survival 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%
- #9 Convenience Stories
91% matchVery Positive93% of 242 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, City Builder 15%, RTS 14.6%, Life Sim 13%, Simulation 10.8%
- #10 Civica: Italian Renaissance
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, RTS 15.7%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%
- #11 Buoyancy
90% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Survival 8.3%, RTS 6.8%
- #12 Mega Mall Story 2
89% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Life Sim 16.9%, RTS 15.2%, City Builder 15.1%, Simulation 10.8%
- #13 The Wandering Village
86% 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 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, RTS 10.1%, Life Sim 10.1%
- #14 Hot Springs Story 2
88% matchVery Positive85% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A "hot" new hot springs resort sim with a ton of new exclusive features!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Life Sim 17.6%, RTS 16.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #15 Luthenia
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: arthurluthen
Windows
Shape a new society in Luthenia, a deep colony simulation game. Don't give direct orders—pass laws, respond to crises, and manage a living economy. Guide your people from primitive survival to a complex civilization where every individual settler matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Life Sim 10.9%, Dystopian 9.6%, Immersive Sim 9.5%
- #16 Dawn of Man
86% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, City Builder 36%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 5.3%, RTS 4.4%
- #17 Night is Coming
84% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 16.2%, RTS 15.3%, Tactical 11.1%, Survival 10.6%
- #18 pyramida
85% matchVery Positive84% of 743 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Survival 15.5%, RTS 13.3%, Strategy 12.4%
- #19 Endzone - A World Apart
84% 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 33.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Survival 15%, Strategy 6.5%
- #20 Goblin Colony
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Underground 18.6% ★, RTS 13.6%, Top-Down 6.1%
- #21 SKY HARVEST
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nadir Kaan Sezi
Windows
The Earth is dead. Take control of the ARC-7 terminal and manage the fate of 5,000 souls. Balance energy and credits, make moral choices, gamble, and survive the Loan Shark. Every keystroke has a price in this 100-day dystopian text-based simulation. Your shift begins now, Operator.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.4%, Underground 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Simulation 8.3%
- #22 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Tactical 9.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #23 City Builder Pro
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9%
- #24 Paleon
81% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 15.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 5.6%
- #25 Banished
82% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40% ★, City Builder 33.8%, Survival 10.9%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 5.8%
- #26 Quarantineer
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: Papaonn
Windows · Mac
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Dystopian 18.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, RTS 11.8%
- #27 Quriocity
79% 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 29.3% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Survival 11%, RTS 10.9%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #28 Outlands
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #29 AI Society
77% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: b8ve
Windows
Build a society powered by AI characters. Give your townsfolk unique personalities, hobbies, and traits; then step back and watch them work, argue, form friendships, and fight on their own. Runs 100% locally on your machine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Life Sim 16.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9.3%
- #30 Rise Against the Invaders
78% 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 33.3% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #31 Hexity
77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 25.7%, RTS 16.5%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #32 DUSK OF WAR
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: oedipe games
Windows
DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, RTS 14.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #33 Colony Simulator
76% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #34 Little Porp
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5% ★, City Builder 34.4%, Top-Down 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%, 2D 4.7%
- #35 Surrounded by Death
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Mozonia
Windows
Lead your people, fight for survival, become their ruler in this 2D strategy game. To accomplish this, you will have to create powerful walls, an efficient economy and a strong army. But it's not enough. Destroy all portals for peace to reign
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 19.5%, RTS 16%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Tactical 8.8%
- #36 The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition
75% matchVery Positive84% of 806 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 67.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9% ★, City Builder 25.3%, RTS 16.1%, Strategy 9.8%
- #37 Zoo Park Story
73% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Life Sim 15.6%, Top-Down 8%, Simulation 8%
- #38 Colonize
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 168 reviews2026
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Colonize is a relaxing 17th-century city-builder. Establish a settlement in the New World, manage resources, and ensure your people thrive across three unique levels. No combat, just pure strategy and management in a peaceful isometric world. Build your legacy at your own pace!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 22.4%, RTS 16.9%, Life Sim 15%, Top-Down 6.4%
- #39 Make Your Kingdom
74% 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 27.9% ★, City Builder 24%, Survival 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, RTS 10.2%
- #40 Kingdoms Rise and Fall
73% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Little Dreams GamingPub: Little Dreams Games
Windows
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 24.5%, RTS 15.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 8.9%
- #41 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 28.4%, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #42 ExoColony: Planet Survival
71% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Underground 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Survival 8.9%
- #43 Medieval Knight
71% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Maximilian Drews
Windows · Mac · Linux
Medieval Knight is a text-based management game with roleplay and adventure aspects.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 18%, Life Sim 16.3%, Simulation 5.8%
- #44 Everstead: Origins
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Beaver Fever Games
Windows
Everstead: Origins is a unique idle simulation experience that allows you to watch a self-sustaining village evolve over time. Without direct control, you observe the settlers’ daily routines, social bonds, and the consequences of their decisions in a fully autonomous world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Life Sim 18.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #45 Spirit & Stone
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Strategy 9.9%
- #46 Bleak Frontier
72% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Paladite Games, LLC
Windows
Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, RTS 13.8%, Dystopian 13.5%, Survival 11.9%
- #47 Machinefall
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, RTS 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Dystopian 13.5%
- #48 Childwood
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oneiric Tales Studio
Windows
Childwood is a survival management horror game in which you help a group of children survive in a hostile environment. Keep the campfire burning to protect them from night creatures, but your kind won’t hesitate to demand immoral sacrifices in exchange for rewards.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Survival 10.9%, RTS 10.5%
- #49 My Colony
71% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1% ★, City Builder 40.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #50 After Inc: Revival
67% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Dystopian 15%, Roguelite 7.8%
- #51 Ant Colony: Wild Forest
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Cells
Windows · Mac · Linux
You play as an ant queen, growing an ant colony. Ants cannot be controlled directly. But you can spawn needed types of ants; upgrade them; make raids and most importantly - dig and build a dungeon! The goal of each location is to destroy all enemy bases. If the queen dies - the game ends.
Why similar: Underground 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, RTS 11.5%, Immersive Sim 8.3%
- #52 Dream Park Story
69% matchVery Positive88% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Life Sim 17.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 9.9%
- #53 Post Apo Tycoon: Idle Builder
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PowerPlay Studio
Windows
Enter the world of Post Apo Tycoon, where you will revive a post-apocalyptic fallout landscape after a nuclear explosion. 💣 Take on the challenge of exploring, building, and transforming the landscape back into a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Survival 14.3%, Top-Down 10.3%, RTS 7.8%
- #54 Nortopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SQRT Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Create a new life in the MMO Idle Strategy on the island of Nortopia! Build a fortress, trade with other families, explore dungeons, embark on sea voyages for treasures, and participate in clan battles for power!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, RTS 14.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Survival 7.5%
- #55 Infection Free Zone
67% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, RTS 11.7%, Survival 8.7%
- #56 Earthlings
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Monoblok
Windows · Mac
Build settlements, lead your people, and design weird monuments for a space delivery guy who is pretending to be your God.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 21.6%, RTS 14%, Roguelite 11.1%, Exploration 7.1%
- #57 Avian Colony
67% 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 13%, Tactical 9.4%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #58 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 23%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 6.7%
- #59 New Cycle
66% 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 25.2% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 11.4%, Top-Down 8.4%