- #1 Manor Lords
97% matchVery Positive84% of 90,512 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.2 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: City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Historical 11.6%, Medieval 9.9%, Colony Sim 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed medieval setting with organic city-building and a focus on realistic resource chains.
- #2 Farthest Frontier
96% matchVery Positive86% of 25,375 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 27.1 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: City Builder 14.4%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Building 9.4%, RTS 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival-focused city-builder where managing the environment and seasonal resources is critical.
- #3 Foundation
96% matchVery Positive87% of 24,128 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.2 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 26.8%, Medieval 9.3%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Resource Management 6.3%, Management 6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic, grid-less city building that captures the charm and historical feel of medieval settlement development.
- #4 Banished
95% matchVery Positive90% of 43,296 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 29%, City Builder 27.3%, Survival 6.7%, Medieval 5.3%, Strategy 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational classic for survival-based city-builders where you must manage a growing population against harsh natural elements.
- #5 Going Medieval
94% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 15.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Moddable 11.8% ★, RTS 10%, Base Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with multi-level building mechanics in a medieval setting that requires careful planning against the elements.
- #6 Ostriv
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,621 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 8.5%, Historical 8.3%, Farming Sim 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply realistic city-builder that emphasizes historical accuracy and complex, interconnected production chains.
- #7 Timberborn
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Farming Sim 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique water-based ecosystem simulation where you must terraform the land to ensure your colony's survival.
- #8 Settlement Survival
93% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Building 10%, Management 8.4%, Survival 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that challenges players to manage resources and disasters in a changing environment.
- #9 Lords and Villeins
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 977 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 21.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Medieval 8.9%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim that emphasizes the social hierarchy and individual needs of your villagers in a medieval setting.
- #10 Kingdoms and Castles
91% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 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: City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 15.7%, RTS 8.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a more stylized approach to medieval city-building with a focus on defense and managing a growing kingdom.
- #11 Norland
90% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 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 13.3%, City Builder 11.6%, Moddable 9.7% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Historical 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social and political simulation of a medieval noble family managing their settlement and subjects.
- #12 Bellwright
89% matchVery Positive80% of 21,324 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 41.4 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 30.5%, Medieval 16.7%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13.9%, Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with third-person survival and combat, allowing you to lead a rebellion from a small village.
- #13 Songs of Syx
89% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 17.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Moddable 11.9% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony simulation that handles thousands of citizens and complex logistics within a living, breathing world.
- #14 The Wandering Village
86% matchVery Positive92% of 8,415 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.0 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 19.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Farming Sim 10.4%, RTS 9.6%, Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique symbiotic relationship between your settlement and a giant creature, emphasizing environmental management.
- #15 Patron
88% 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 18.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Moddable 8% ★, Base Building 6.5%, Survival 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A social-survival city-builder that requires balancing resource production with the complex needs and happiness of your citizens.
- #16 RimWorld
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 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 23.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Moddable 12.9% ★, City Builder 10.3%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for emergent storytelling and colony simulation, where every character and environmental interaction matters.
- #17 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
87% matchMixed66% of 6,015 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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 29.3%, City Builder 27.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Medieval 7.4%, Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic medieval village simulator that forces players to manage food, health, and weather to survive the seasons.
- #18 Clanfolk
85% matchVery Positive92% of 4,027 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 26.3%, Farming Sim 21.7%, Medieval 13.4%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation colony-builder set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on survival and family lineage.
- #19 Whiskerwood
82% matchVery Positive92% of 3,269 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 14.1%, City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 10.2% ★, Base Building 9%, Historical 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that brings a unique aesthetic to the colony-sim genre while maintaining deep management mechanics.
- #20 Founders' Fortune
84% 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 28.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted colony-sim that focuses on building, resource management, and the individual needs of your settlers.
- #21 Folklands
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 reviews2025
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 18.3%, City Builder 16.1%, RTS 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Moddable 8.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-focused colony-builder that emphasizes building and managing a settlement in a natural landscape.
- #22 Blacksmith Master
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,724 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 13.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 10.5% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Medieval 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the production and management side of a medieval settlement, specifically through the lens of a blacksmith shop.
- #23 Ancient Cities
84% matchMixed63% of 2,160 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 16%, Moddable 13.1% ★, Colony Sim 11%, Historical 10.2%, Resource Management 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes the evolution of society and technology through the lens of environmental survival.
- #24 Havendock
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,948 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 15%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing colony-sim that tasks you with building a thriving settlement on the ocean, focusing on resource automation.
- #25 Synergy
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized city-builder that focuses on economy and colony management within a challenging, resource-scarce environment.
- #26 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
78% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Historical 8.4%, Moddable 8.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex logistics and resource management simulation available for those who want deep, realistic systems.
- #27 Frostpunk 2
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,922 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Colony Sim 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game where the environment is your greatest enemy, requiring strict resource control to survive.
- #28 Civitatem
81% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Medieval 9.6%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on the struggles of a small tribe trying to survive and grow into a thriving town.
- #29 Colonize
79% matchMostly Negative41% of 206 reviews2026
Dev: Rembrosoft
Windows
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 26.1%, RTS 20.9%, Medieval 7.7%, Strategy 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city-builder that focuses on the challenges of settling a new land and managing its inhabitants.
- #30 Orrstead
79% matchVery Positive80% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox-style city-builder that emphasizes growth and management in a charming, stylized world.
- #31 Let Them Trade
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,176 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Economy 11.7%, Medieval 10.9%
- #32 Settlements Rising
77% 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 19.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8%, Medieval 7.5%
- #33 Pioneers of Pagonia
75% matchVery Positive81% of 5,473 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.2%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #34 Land of the Vikings
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,258 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Historical 7.5%, Building 7.2%
- #35 Nova Roma
74% matchVery Positive94% of 2,244 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 13.2%, City Builder 13%, Moddable 10% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Historical 8.1%
- #36 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
75% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #37 Kingdoms Reborn
76% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 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 24.1%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 11%, Management 7%, RTS 6.3%
- #38 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.5%
- #39 Celestial Empire
73% matchVery Positive90% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 13.4%, RTS 12.7%, Historical 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #40 Corsair Cove
72% matchVery Positive86% of 3,074 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Moddable 9.2% ★, Historical 8.2%
- #41 ALL WILL FALL
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #42 Flotsam
71% matchVery Positive81% of 4,563 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 15.1%, Farming Sim 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #43 Settler's Domain
73% matchMixed63% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Economy 8.9%
- #44 Stonehearth
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 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 31.6%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 7.4%
- #45 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
70% matchVery Positive84% of 764 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 16.3%, City Builder 14.3%, RTS 10.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 7.2%
- #46 Humanica
70% matchVery Positive93% of 175 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: City Builder 16.5%, Colony Sim 15%, Base Building 9.9%, Historical 8.4%, Management 7.8%
- #47 Territory: Farming and Warfare
69% matchVery Positive85% of 755 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 13%, RTS 10.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #48 Dawn of Man
71% matchVery Positive87% of 17,826 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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: City Builder 30.7%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Survival 8.1%, Historical 6.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #49 Noble Fates
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,483 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Moddable 11% ★, Sandbox 7.8%
- #50 Outlanders
69% matchVery Positive90% of 510 reviews2023
Dev: Pomelo Games
Windows
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Building 17.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 14.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #51 Frozenheim
70% matchMixed69% of 3,911 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Economy 14.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Medieval 10.6%
- #52 Catizens
68% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 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 21.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Farming Sim 12.5%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #53 Fabledom
67% matchVery Positive85% of 7,762 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #54 Hearth and Hamlet
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,503 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Management 12%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #55 Odd Realm
67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.9%
- #56 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.2%, Moddable 9.1% ★
- #57 Against the Storm
65% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 12.9%, City Builder 11.9%, Moddable 9.7% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Historical 7.1%
- #58 Feudal Baron: King's Land
69% matchMixed41% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, RTS 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Medieval 10.5%
- #59 Town to City
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,015 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 14.1%, Economy 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #60 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 19.7%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 10%, Building 8.5%, Management 8.2%