- #1 Captain of Industry
97% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 18.4%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 15.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
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.
- #2 The Colonists
96% matchVery Positive86% of 1,231 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 23.9%, City Builder 20%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on automation and building complex transport networks to support a growing colony.
- #3 Settlement Survival
96% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 11.7%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8.3%
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.
- #4 Anno 1800
95% matchVery Positive81% of 31,755 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 49.3%, Economy 20.8%, Resource Management 6.6%, Simulation 6%, Building 5.5%
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.
- #5 Ratopia
94% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 8.5%
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.
- #6 Lords and Villeins
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 974 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Building 10.5%, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim offers a great balance of management and building with a focus on social and economic layers.
- #7 Against the Storm
92% matchVery Positive95% of 36,338 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 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 21.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique roguelite approach to managing multiple settlements and resource chains in a harsh, expanding environment.
- #8 Ostriv
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,538 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.8 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 22.5%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, realistic city-builder that emphasizes complex production chains and individual villager needs.
- #9 Synergy
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,057 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.3 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 19.8%, City Builder 17.8%, Trading 14.6%, Economy 12.4%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and adaptation to a changing world.
- #10 Founders' Fortune
91% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 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 34.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.2%, 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.
- #11 Timberborn
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,383 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 43.1 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 26%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 11.1%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features unique resource management and vertical expansion mechanics that provide a fresh take on the colony-sim genre.
- #12 Tropico 6
90% matchVery Positive88% of 29,191 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 43.4%, Economy 21.1%, Management 13.9%, Building 9.1%, 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.
- #13 Paragon Pioneers
89% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 12.1%, Building 12%, Base Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an idle-style approach to colony expansion and resource management that is highly addictive.
- #14 Kubifaktorium
89% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 26.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on automation and crafting, which are core components of the seed game's production systems.
- #15 Going Medieval
85% matchVery Positive89% of 21,102 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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 26.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 14.2%, Base Building 13%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows for detailed vertical building and complex management of your settlers' needs.
- #16 Odd Realm
86% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 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 25.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.1%
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.
- #17 Blueprint Tycoon
87% 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 38.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Management 16.3%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses almost entirely on the management and production chain aspects of building a colony.
- #18 Banished
86% matchVery Positive90% of 43,196 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 38%, City Builder 33.3%, Survival 9.5%, Economy 4.3%, Simulation 4%
Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that set the standard for resource management and colony growth.
- #19 Foundation
82% matchVery Positive87% of 23,903 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 26.9 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 37.2%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers organic city-building with a strong focus on production chains and villager management.
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
84% matchVery Positive94% of 31,238 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 22.9%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that balances building, resource management, and defense against external threats.
- #21 Clanfolk
83% matchVery Positive92% of 3,924 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.7%, Building 25%, Simulation 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, 2D 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deep survival colony-sim that focuses on managing family lineages and resources in a harsh environment.
- #22 Meeple Station
84% matchMixed57% of 951 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
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 23.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and settler needs.
- #23 Let Them Trade
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,125 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 21.5%, Trading 18.4%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game highlights the economy and trade aspects of city-building, which are central to the seed game.
- #24 MicroTown
81% matchVery Positive95% of 476 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 26.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed city-builder that emphasizes resource management and colony growth in a compact space.
- #25 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
82% matchMixed69% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 18.3%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10%
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.
- #26 Frostpunk
79% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.2%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Survival 12.5%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 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.
- #27 Settlements Rising
78% matchVery Positive81% of 430 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 25.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on resource management and building a thriving community from the ground up.
- #28 Outpath
77% matchVery Positive93% of 3,073 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 28.5%, Building 21.5%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Simulation 8.8%
- #29 Flotsam
76% matchVery Positive81% of 4,469 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 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 24.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 11%, Building 9.8%
- #30 Crowded Blue Dot
81% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 22.8%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on resource management and base-building with a management-heavy approach.
- #31 Havendock
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,924 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 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 27.3%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.2%
- #32 Patron
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,181 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 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 27.7%, City Builder 23.3%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 9.2%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that incorporates social and political mechanics into the standard resource management loop.
- #33 My Colony
79% matchVery Positive90% of 270 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48%, City Builder 44.4%, Simulation 6%, Strategy 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and effective colony-sim that provides a classic building and management experience.
- #34 Mistward
75% matchMixed62% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
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 26.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.7%, Exploration 7.4%
- #35 CLOUD DWELLERS
74% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 11.7%, City Builder 7.5%
- #36 Factory Town Idle
74% matchVery Positive91% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 35.9%, City Builder 31%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, 2D 4.5%
- #37 Space Haven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 10,886 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 24.7%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9%
- #38 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 23.6%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.9%
- #39 Dream Town Island
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 510 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 25.4%, Building 11%, Economy 6.7%, Management 5.7%
- #40 Aven Colony
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,765 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 41.9%, City Builder 32.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Simulation 4.2%, Survival 4%
- #41 Planetbase
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,370 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.7%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 5.9%
- #42 SteamWorld Build
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,197 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 30%, Economy 19.5%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 12.2%
- #43 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 11.9%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.6%
- #44 Surviving the Aftermath
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,548 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 28.7%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 6.8%
- #45 Microtopia
70% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28.9%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 13%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.1%
- #46 Farlanders
71% matchVery Positive91% of 583 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 24.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 12%, Building 11%, Management 8.4%
- #47 Imagine Earth
72% matchVery Positive82% of 961 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.1%, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 14.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 10%
- #48 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
73% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Andymente
Windows
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 25.5%, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 6.1%
- #49 Nova Lands
69% matchVery Positive89% of 3,465 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 17.5%, Survival 17.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Exploration 7.9%
- #50 Edge Islands
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Management 9.5%
- #51 Merchant of the Skies
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,276 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Trading 26.6%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 11.2%
- #52 Rise of Industry
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 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 17.7%, Trading 15.5%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #53 Tribe: Primitive Builder
68% matchVery Positive81% of 788 reviews2023
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 20.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #54 Flooded
68% matchVery Positive82% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.6%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Building 12%, Economy 10.8%, Management 10%
- #55 AColony
68% matchVery Positive89% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
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 17.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.4%
- #56 Island Market Simulator: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Zentium Studio
Windows
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 33%, Economy 22.7%, Building 17.9%, Management 15.6%, Resource Management 10%
- #57 Iron Village
66% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.3%, Trading 19.4%, Building 14.8%, Economy 14.5%, Management 9.5%
- #58 Farthest Frontier
63% matchVery Positive86% of 24,898 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Building 14%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #59 New Cycle
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #60 Moons of Ardan
67% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Pandora Technology
Windows
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 27.5%, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 14.3%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.6%