- #1 RimWorld
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Moddable 12.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony simulator that offers unparalleled depth in social dynamics and emergent storytelling.
- #2 Norland
96% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Moddable 13.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A kingdom management sim that places a heavy emphasis on the complex social interactions and drama of your noble family.
- #3 Going Medieval
96% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Moddable 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that focuses on medieval architecture and surviving against the elements.
- #4 Bellwright
95% matchVery Positive81% of 18,990 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Medieval 18.5%, Survival 15.2%, Building 14.3%, Third Person 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines 3D colony management with direct combat and leadership, mirroring the third-person control of Noble Fates.
- #5 Songs of Syx
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 12% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale fantasy city-builder that captures the strategic complexity of managing a growing population.
- #6 Kenshi
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 12.7%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massive sandbox RPG that allows for base-building and squad management in a harsh, unforgiving 3D world.
- #7 Medieval Dynasty
93% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 22.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Medieval 16.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on medieval village management combined with survival and RPG progression.
- #8 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
91% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: Medieval 27%, Sandbox 19%, Moddable 18.4% ★, Character Customization 12.2%, Strategy 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a grand scale of kingdom management and tactical combat that captures the feeling of ruling a realm.
- #9 First Feudal
92% 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 23.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.9%, Medieval 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the progression from a single settler to a thriving medieval village through resource management and building.
- #10 Dwarf Fortress
90% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation of character traits and world-building available, serving as the foundation for the entire colony-sim genre.
- #11 Founders' Fortune
91% 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 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that prioritizes character personality and social needs within a charming fantasy setting.
- #12 Manor Lords
89% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 16%, Moddable 14.1% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Blends realistic medieval city-building with large-scale tactical combat and territory management.
- #13 Kingdoms Reborn
89% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Management 8.6%, Medieval 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with colony mechanics that supports multiplayer and offers a unique card-based progression system.
- #14 Farthest Frontier
86% 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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 20%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed medieval city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource management, and town defense.
- #15 Stonehearth
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes creative building and managing the unique roles of your settlers.
- #16 Kingdoms and Castles
87% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Medieval 9.2%, Building 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible medieval city-builder that focuses on defending your kingdom from dragons and invaders.
- #17 Settlement Survival
86% 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 22.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Medieval 10%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges you to manage resources and population growth in a harsh environment.
- #18 Sapiens
85% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 12.1%, Moddable 10.9% ★, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game style colony sim that allows you to guide a prehistoric tribe through exploration and building.
- #19 Clanfolk
84% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1% ★, Sandbox 23.1%, Building 20.3%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that focuses on family survival and the generational progression of your settlers.
- #20 Odd Realm
84% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that offers deep management systems and a variety of fantasy races to control.
- #21 Airborne Empire
82% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy-RPG that combines floating city-building with exploration and management.
- #22 Fata Deum - The God Sim
83% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Moddable 13.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the god-game aspect of influencing followers and shaping the world through divine intervention.
- #23 Foundation
80% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Medieval 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: An organic medieval city-builder that emphasizes social simulation and non-grid-based construction.
- #24 Pioneers of Pagonia
79% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 8.4%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy city-builder that focuses on exploration, production chains, and managing a growing population.
- #25 Patron
82% 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 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Moddable 9.6% ★, Base Building 8%, Medieval 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates social and survival mechanics to keep your population happy and productive.
- #26 Lords and Villeins
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Management 10.1%, Medieval 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim that focuses on the social hierarchy and family lines within a medieval village.
- #27 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
81% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Medieval 8.2%, Building 6.9%, Survival 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy city-builder that requires careful management of resources through changing seasons.
- #28 Settlements Rising
78% 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% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 9.3%, Medieval 8.1%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A resource-heavy city-builder that integrates colony simulation elements to manage a growing medieval town.
- #29 Blacksmith Master
77% 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 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 13.7% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #30 Noble Legacy
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Medieval 9.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #31 Gnomoria
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 23%, Sandbox 14%, Building 8.7%, Survival 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic colony sim that provides deep crafting and building mechanics in a procedural world.
- #32 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
75% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.2%
- #33 Hearthlands
78% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Medieval 9.9%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes logistics and the efficient management of your kingdom's economy.
- #34 Nova Roma
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Moddable 13.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #35 Outland Kingdoms
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.6%, Medieval 7.1%
- #36 Whiskerwood
73% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Moddable 13.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #37 TFM: The First Men
75% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, City Builder 7.4%, Building 7.3%
- #38 Of Life and Land
72% 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 19.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Moddable 10.9% ★, Sandbox 7.8%
- #39 Edge Islands
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #40 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 23.6% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.6%
- #41 Land of the Vikings
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #42 Dungeons & Kingdoms
71% matchMixed42% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Medieval 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.3%
- #43 MEMORIAPOLIS
69% 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: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.5%
- #44 Mountaincore
70% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Jump Technology
Windows · Mac · Linux
Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Moddable 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 7.7%
- #45 The Universim
68% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.1%
- #46 Heart of the Machine
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Moddable 13.8% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #47 Ragnorium
71% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Character Customization 10%
- #48 Embark
72% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 7.8%, Moddable 6.3% ★
- #49 Humanica
67% 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 19.2% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #50 Wizdom Academy
69% matchMixed61% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Kipwak Studio
Windows
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #51 Goblins of Elderstone
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.9%
- #52 Catizens
67% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 18%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%
- #53 Dawn of Man
68% 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 38.2% ★, City Builder 37%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #54 Ancient Cities
68% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, Moddable 13.9% ★, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Base Building 8%
- #55 A Game of Humans
70% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 The Bloodline
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,777 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: Sandbox 23.1%, Medieval 22.2%, Character Customization 20.6%, Third Person 11.9%, Fantasy 9.9%
- #57 Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,633 reviews2025
Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Medieval 9.8%
- #58 Rise to Ruins
67% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 6.7%