- #1 CENTAVO
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Capitalism 14.8%, Economy 12.7%, Management 7.7%
- #2 Property Pro
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Economy 12.8%, Capitalism 12.3%, Management 9.8%
- #3 Prison Architect
96% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 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 22.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Capitalism 10.6%, Management 8.7%
- #4 Academia : School Simulator
95% matchVery Positive81% of 3,240 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 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 20.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Capitalism 15.1%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 9.3%
- #5 Hamlet
94% 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 23.6%, City Builder 23.1%, Trading 10.9%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #6 Battle for Everworld
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GATO PRETO GAMES LTDA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a settlement, connect production chains and meet your citizens’ needs in a persistent strategy MMO. Expand across a shared 3D world, command armies and chat with other governors while construction and production continue when you are offline.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Massively Multiplayer 20.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Economy 11.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #7 Patron
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 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 25%, Economy 9.2%, Moddable 7.7%, Base Building 7.1%
- #8 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
92% 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 24.1%, City Builder 23.3%, Trading 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Economy 8.5%
- #9 Kingdoms Reborn
91% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 31.3%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 9%, Management 7.9%
- #10 Isla Paradiso
91% 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 27.2%, City Builder 27.1%, Economy 13.6%, Management 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%
- #11 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.4%, Economy 8.5%
- #12 Blacksmith Master
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,773 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 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 20.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 11%, Moddable 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #13 One More Island
89% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 24.8%, City Builder 22.1%, Trading 15.2%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 9.5%
- #14 By Royal Charter
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dovren Games
Windows
Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 21%, Trading 10.6%, Economy 10%, Management 7.3%
- #15 Deep Space Directive
87% 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 20.9%, City Builder 19%, Economy 13.9%, Hex Grid 12.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%
- #16 Big Market Simulator
86% matchNo user reviews2026
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 22.6%, Capitalism 9.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%
- #17 Pixel Colony
86% matchPositive93% of 46 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 28.4%, City Builder 27.8%, Management 10.2%, Trading 7.4%, Economy 6.9%
- #18 FD's Industry Tycoon
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Capitalism 16.2%, Economy 14.4%, Trading 11.7%, Management 10.3%
- #19 Viceria
84% 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 25.7%, City Builder 24.3%, Trading 15.7%, Economy 13.1%, Management 9.7%
- #20 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
84% 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 24.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8%
- #21 Terraform Co: Factory and City
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 23.9%, Capitalism 12.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Economy 7.9%
- #22 Islefolk
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Satama Games
Windows
A laidback island colony sim where autonomous villagers do the work. They'll chop wood, farm, mine, and build while also expanding your island tile by tile. No deaths, no fail states, just a colony that grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 22.5%, Trading 16%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 7.4%
- #23 Exoplanet Outpost
81% 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 20.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Capitalism 14.5%, Trading 10.8%, Economy 9.8%
- #24 The Guild II Renaissance
82% matchVery Positive84% of 4,239 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.2 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 30.6%, Economy 17.1%, Trading 14.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #25 Build It Up! - The Holy Roman Empire
81% 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Economy 13.7%, Capitalism 12.6%, Trading 12%
- #26 Terra-7
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 26.5%, Economy 14.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 8.6%
- #27 Oxygen: First Breath
79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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 24.4%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 11.4%, Management 7.6%
- #28 All Roads Connected
78% match7 user reviews100% of 7 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 23%, City Builder 22.1%, Trading 13.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 10.8%
- #29 Oxygen
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 23.1%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10%, Management 6.2%
- #30 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
77% 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 27.6%, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8.5%, Base Building 8.5%
- #31 Mad Tower Tycoon
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 445 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 19.2%, Colony Sim 19%, Economy 12%, Capitalism 10.7%, Trading 10.5%
- #32 Scorchlands
76% 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 16.9%, Hex Grid 16.5% ★, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #33 TOWERPUNK
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TESSERAX GAMES
Windows
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Economy 12.1%, Capitalism 11.4%, Management 9.9%
- #34 Blueprint Tycoon
77% 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 36.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Management 15.9%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #35 Arcane Shores
75% matchNo user reviews2027
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 31%, City Builder 29.4%, Economy 13.6%, Base Building 6.6%, Strategy 6.1%
- #36 The Blighted Frontier
74% 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 33.2%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #37 MicroTown
75% matchVery Positive95% of 478 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 25.3%, City Builder 23.4%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Hex Grid 9.2% ★
- #38 Gargantua
73% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Abdullah Furkan Doğan
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 27.5%, Capitalism 19.7%, Economy 12.8%, Trading 12%, Base Building 8.2%
- #39 T-Minus 30
73% 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 29.4%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 9.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #40 What's Left Behind
74% 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 31%, Colony Sim 30.3%, Economy 13.8%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 5.2%
- #41 Rise of Industry
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 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 22.9%, Economy 16.4%, Management 12.7%, Trading 12.6%, Capitalism 9.7%
- #42 Shanhe Builders
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 28.6%, Trading 12.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.7%
- #43 Founders' Fortune
72% 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 39.1%, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 6.3%, Management 6%
- #44 Bottlecappers
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShardanaForge
Windows
Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.
Why similar: Capitalism 21.9%, Economy 15%, Colony Sim 13.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Management 10.8%
- #45 Salt of the Earth
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cattrall Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An isometric medieval city builder. You hold one manor by charter: lay the roads, work the fields, and raise hovels into town houses by meeting what each household needs. Winters take stores, the Crown takes dues, and raiders take whatever will burn.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 12.2%, Trading 11.4%, Base Building 7.7%
- #46 Pharaoh™: A New Era
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 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 26%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Trading 13.6%, Economy 12%, Management 9.3%
- #47 Aven Colony
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 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 33.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5%
- #48 Goblin Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%
- #49 The Fire Must Grow
69% 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 27.8%, City Builder 27.3%, Economy 13.2%, Hex Grid 10.5% ★, Base Building 7.9%
- #50 Dungeon Overseer
71% matchMixed55% of 51 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 27.4%, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 7.1%
- #51 Camping Keeper
69% 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 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Capitalism 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 11.4%
- #52 Skyline Settlers
69% 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 32%, Colony Sim 30.7%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Management 6.8%
- #53 The Hostel Project
68% 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 27.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Capitalism 15%, Management 13%, Economy 9.9%
- #54 Folklands
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 10%, Management 8.6%
- #55 Exile
68% 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 27%, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 12.5%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 6.5%
- #56 Frontera
67% 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 30%, City Builder 28.3%, Economy 14.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Base Building 6.3%
- #57 Kingdom Islands
67% 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 31%, City Builder 30.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Trading 7.5%, Simulation 6%
- #58 Egypt
67% 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 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 10.9%, Management 9.8%
- #59 Hexagge
66% 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 32%, City Builder 30.2%, Economy 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 6%