Games Like One More Island

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Economy 15.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep, complex production chains and logistics management that will appeal to fans of the seed game's economic depth.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on automation and building complex transport networks to support a growing colony.

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 23.3% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Building 11.6%, Survival 8.6%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused city-builder emphasizes trade and resource management in a way that feels very similar to the seed game's core loop.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 48.7%, Economy 21.3%, Resource Management 6.7%, Simulation 6%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive island-hopping production chain game that perfectly mirrors the colonial expansion and trade route mechanics of the seed game.

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 23.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D colony-sim that emphasizes economic management and building, matching the visual and mechanical style of the seed game.

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim offers a great balance of management and building with a focus on social and economic layers.

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 21.6% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique roguelite approach to managing multiple settlements and resource chains in a harsh, expanding environment.

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 22%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, realistic city-builder that emphasizes complex production chains and individual villager needs.

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 34.9% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines colony-sim mechanics with building and economy management in a charming, accessible way.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Economy 21.6%, Management 14.2%, Building 9%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on island-based management and trade routes, capturing the colonial empire-building theme of the seed game.

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 19.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Trading 14.7% ★, Economy 12.7%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and adaptation to a changing world.

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: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features unique resource management and vertical expansion mechanics that provide a fresh take on the colony-sim genre.

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an idle-style approach to colony expansion and resource management that is highly addictive.

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 26.5% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows for detailed vertical building and complex management of your settlers' needs.

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 26.1% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 13.5%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on automation and crafting, which are core components of the seed game's production systems.

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Management 16.5%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses almost entirely on the management and production chain aspects of building a colony.

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 31.4% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 10.8%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D colony-sim with exploration and base-building elements that feels very similar to the seed game's aesthetic.

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 38% ★, City Builder 33%, Survival 9.4%, Economy 4.4%, Simulation 4%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that set the standard for resource management and colony growth.

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 36.7%, Colony Sim 13% ★, Economy 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers organic city-building with a strong focus on production chains and villager management.

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 51.5% ★, Building 24.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival colony-sim that focuses on managing family lineages and resources in a harsh environment.

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 32% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7.1%, Survival 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that balances building, resource management, and defense against external threats.

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and settler needs.

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 21.2%, Trading 18.3% ★, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game highlights the economy and trade aspects of city-building, which are central to the seed game.

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed city-builder that emphasizes resource management and colony growth in a compact space.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival and base-building mechanics on a coastal map that echoes the island theme of the seed game.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces players to make difficult management decisions to keep their colony alive.

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 24.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.7%

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 25.6% ★, City Builder 22%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on resource management and building a thriving community from the ground up.

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 28.3%, Building 21.2%, Management 16.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Base Building 12%, Management 9.4%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on resource management and base-building with a management-heavy approach.

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 27.3% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.4%

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 27.4% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Survival 10.2%, Economy 9.6%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that incorporates social and political mechanics into the standard resource management loop.

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2% ★, City Builder 44.2%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and effective colony-sim that provides a classic building and management experience.

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, 2D 4.5%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.6%, Exploration 7.4%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 20%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 10.8%, Management 10.1%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10.1%

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Building 10.9%, Economy 6.9%, Management 5.7%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Economy 20%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 12.3%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 6.7%

Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Building 17.4%, Survival 17.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Exploration 7.8%

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 41.9% ★, City Builder 32.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Simulation 4.3%, Survival 4%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.6%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 13%, Management 10%, Building 9.1%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 5.9%

Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 11.5%, Resource Management 7%, Management 6.2%

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 31% ★, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 15%, Building 14.3%, Management 9.7%

Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Survival 9.3%

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 18.2%, Trading 15.5% ★, Management 13.8%, Base Building 9.6%

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Trading 26.7% ★, Economy 15.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 11.3%, Building 11.1%

Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Building 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, Management 10.1%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Economy 17.6%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11.4%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.8%

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Trading 19.5% ★, Economy 14.9%, Building 14.6%, Management 9.6%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Trading 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.4%

Island Market Simulator – In this strategy and economy simulation game set in an island town, build your trade empire by starting with a small market. Produce your goods through farming, livestock, and supply chain management, and expand your business with seasonal dynamics and festivals!

Why similar: Trading 32.9% ★, Economy 23%, Building 17.5%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 10.2%

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 24.7% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.4%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.1%

Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 14.7%, Building 12.8%, Management 8.7%

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 21.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.1%