- #1 Prison Architect
97% matchVery Positive89% of 73,679 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Capitalism 10.7%, Management 8.8%
- #2 Academia : School Simulator
96% matchVery Positive86% of 3,072 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Capitalism 15.2%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%
- #3 Hamlet
96% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 22.9%, Trading 11%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.3%
- #4 Patron
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 27%, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 9.4%, Moddable 7.6% ★, Base Building 7.1%
- #5 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 23%, Trading 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Economy 8.7%
- #6 Kingdoms Reborn
94% matchVery Positive90% of 9,706 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 31.1%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8%
- #7 Isla Paradiso
93% 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 27.1%, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 13.9%, Management 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #8 Blacksmith Master
91% matchVery Positive83% of 2,719 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 20.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 11.3%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9.8%
- #9 One More Island
92% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Trading 15.3%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 9.5%
- #10 Deep Space Directive
91% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 14.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Hex Grid 12.3% ★
- #11 Big Market Simulator
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mobaroid
Windows
Build and manage a massive supermarket. Order products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your business into the ultimate shopping destination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 22.4%, Capitalism 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.2%
- #12 Bustle Beacon
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
Become the Landman of a fog-light station. Expand your hearth, harvest resources from the dark forest, and build production chains based on available permits. Attract tourists and traders — trade, feed, and entertain them. Develop your settlement according to decrees. Turn a profit in your new home.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 21%, Capitalism 13.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #13 Pixel Colony
89% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 27.5%, Management 10.3%, Trading 7.5%, Economy 7%
- #14 Viceria
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayfulFoxStudio
Windows
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 23.9%, Trading 15.8%, Economy 13.3%, Management 9.8%
- #15 Our Freedom: Prologue
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8%
- #16 Exoplanet Outpost
86% matchNo user reviews2030
Dev: Aartform LabsPub: Aartform Ltd
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Capitalism 14.5%, Trading 10.9%, Economy 10%
- #17 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tec Enterprise
Windows
Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Economy 13.9%, Capitalism 12.6%, Trading 12.1%
- #18 The Guild II Renaissance
86% matchVery Positive83% of 4,192 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Economy 17.4%, Trading 14.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #19 IsleFolk: Build. Trade. Survive.
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Satama Games
Windows
Build and grow your own island colony, gather resources, craft structures, and trade with visiting merchants. Guide your workers, expand your shores, and uncover the secrets of the sea.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 22.3%, Trading 16.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 7.4%
- #20 Oxygen: First Breath
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 11.6%, Management 7.7%
- #21 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10.3%, Management 6.3%
- #22 Mad Tower Tycoon
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 443 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Economy 12.2%, Capitalism 10.7%, Trading 10.5%
- #23 All Roads Connected
82% matchNo user reviews2026
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 22.9%, City Builder 21.9%, Trading 13.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 11%
- #24 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.5%, Base Building 8.5%
- #25 Scorchlands
80% matchVery Positive89% of 140 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Hex Grid 16.4% ★, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 8.9%
- #26 Blueprint Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Management 16%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #27 Arcane Shores
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 29.2%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 6.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #28 MicroTown
79% matchVery Positive95% of 477 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Hex Grid 9.1% ★
- #29 The Blighted Frontier
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.3%, Simulation 7%
- #30 Gargantua
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Abdullah Furkan DoğanPub: AFD
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Capitalism 19.7%, Economy 13.1%, Trading 12.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #31 What's Left Behind
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Economy 14.1%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #32 Rise of Industry
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,191 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 16.7%, Management 12.8%, Trading 12.6%, Capitalism 9.6%
- #33 T-Minus 30
76% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 9.7%, Economy 7%
- #34 Shanhe Builders
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Build an ancient mountain settlement in a deterministic 3D colony survival sim. Choose settlers, plan shelters, farms, workshops, storage and defenses, then survive hunger, winter, illness, trade demands and social strain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 28.4%, Trading 12.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.8%
- #35 Founders' Fortune
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 6.4%, Management 6.1%
- #36 Pharaoh™: A New Era
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,339 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Trading 13.7%, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.4%
- #37 The Fire Must Grow
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 27%, Economy 13.5%, Hex Grid 10.5% ★, Base Building 7.9%
- #38 Skyline Settlers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Colony Sim 30.5%, Economy 14.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Management 6.9%
- #39 Aven Colony
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,778 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, City Builder 33.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5%
- #40 Dungeon Overseer
74% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 22.5%, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 7.2%
- #41 The Hostel Project
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Capitalism 15%, Management 13.2%, Economy 10%
- #42 Camping Keeper
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Studio Durand
Windows
Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Capitalism 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 11.5%
- #43 Exile
71% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.1%, Economy 12.8%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 6.5%
- #44 Frontera
71% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 28%, Economy 15.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Base Building 6.3%
- #45 Egypt
71% 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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 11.2%, Management 9.9%
- #46 Kingdom Islands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Trading 7.6%, Simulation 6%
- #47 Hexagge
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, City Builder 30%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 6%
- #48 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
69% matchVery Positive89% of 636 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Economy 12.5%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #49 SpellSlinger Towns
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 19.4%, Trading 15.1%, Economy 12%, Base Building 9.5%
- #50 Settlements Rising
68% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 28.4%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 8.2%, Economy 7.4%
- #51 Family Office Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Vitalis Interactive
Windows
Build and manage a real multi‑entity family office as you acquire properties, hire staff, structure trusts, and grow generational wealth through authentic financial systems.
Why similar: Capitalism 24.8%, Trading 19%, Economy 18.4%, Management 12.9%, Realistic 6.5%
- #52 Airport City Transport Manager
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Game Insight UAB
Windows
Tired of repetitive farm sims and basic plane games? Put your farm on hold. Start building a tiny town and transform it into a massive megapolis with a world-class modern airport! We constantly update the game to ensure you are always engaged—both on the ground and in the air.
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Capitalism 23.8%, Economy 16.1%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #53 Project AURA
70% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Economy 12.4%, Trading 11.7%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #54 Angkor: The Holy City
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 7.2%
- #55 Idle Terra
67% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 18.4%, Trading 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 9.1%
- #56 Gnome Glen
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
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 26.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 6.7%
- #57 Highrise Mogul
69% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Capitalism 22.6%, Economy 15%, Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #58 Colonize Prologue
68% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 23.7%, Trading 16.1%, Economy 12%, Management 9.8%
- #59 Passive Income
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReallyMushroom
Windows · Mac
Passive Income is an idle-ish simulator game where you can build houses, get upgrades, and gain money over time! Chill out and relax as you rip rent out of little cartoon people's pockets. Grow your passive income now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Capitalism 15.4%, Economy 10.2%, Strategy 6.2%