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  1. #1 First Feudal
    97% matchMostly Positive76% of 635 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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 37.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 6.8%

  2. #2 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 35.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Survival 12.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 6.4%

  3. #3 Sapiens
    96% matchVery Positive83% of 2,139 reviews2022
    Dev: Majic Jungle
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Survival 11.3%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.6%

  4. #4 Oxygen
    95% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 19%, Survival 12.8%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.3%

  5. #5 Space Haven
    94% 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 35.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 11.9%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8%

  6. #6 Dawn of Man
    94% matchVery Positive87% of 17,766 reviews2019
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 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: Colony Sim 42.5%, City Builder 26.7%, Survival 12%, Strategy 4.9%, Historical 4.5%

  7. #7 Ragnorium
    93% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
    Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows

    Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Survival 17.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Historical 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

  8. #8 Marble Age: Remastered
    92% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
    Dev: Clarus Victoria
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Survival 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Historical 9.3%

  9. #9 Odd Realm
    91% 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 35.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Survival 10.8%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

  10. #10 Going Medieval
    89% 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 36%, City Builder 17.5%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 8.7%, Historical 8.4%

  11. #11 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,258 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Survival 16.2%, City Builder 9.4%, Sandbox 7%, Building 5.9%

  12. #12 Patron
    90% 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 39.1%, City Builder 20.5%, Survival 13.4%, Building 6.7%, Strategy 5.8%

  13. #13 Polylithic
    89% matchMixed68% of 175 reviews2023
    Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 55.3%, Survival 22.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Strategy 5.9%, Indie 1.6%

  14. #14 Planetbase
    88% 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 45.5%, City Builder 22.1%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 5.3%, Building 5.1%

  15. #15 Colonize Prologue
    87% matchMixed64% of 513 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 35.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Survival 11%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

  16. #16 River Town Factory
    84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,343 reviews2024
    Dev: iFAction Studio
    Windows
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

    Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 15.5%, Simulation 12.9%

  17. #17 Flooded
    85% 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: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Building 13.2%, Management 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%

  18. #18 Bronze Age - HD Edition
    86% matchMostly Positive77% of 375 reviews2017
    Dev: Clarus Victoria
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 14.8%, Building 11.1%, Historical 8.9%

  19. #19 The Final Earth 2
    84% matchVery Positive97% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Florian van Strien
    Windows

    The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Strategy 6.2%

  20. #20 Maia
    86% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 53.6%, Survival 14.5%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 5.2%

  21. #21 The Universim
    82% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,595 reviews2024
    Dev: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 11%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.6%

  22. #22 Temporian
    83% matchVery Positive82% of 89 reviews2023
    Dev: ChallAcc
    Windows · Linux

    Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?

    Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Building 25.5%, Historical 17.7%, Management 11.9%, Top-Down 8.5%

  23. #23 Primitive Society Simulator
    82% matchVery Positive83% of 747 reviews2024
    Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Historical 8.6%

  24. #24 Mistward
    80% 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 39.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 8.7%, Simulation 8.3%

  25. #25 The Colonists
    81% 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 37.9%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 7.2%

  26. #26 Ostriv
    79% 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: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.6%, Historical 7.9%

  27. #27 Aven Colony
    81% 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 52.7%, City Builder 25.4%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 4.7%

  28. #28 Stonehearth
    78% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,043 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 42.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 10%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

  29. #29 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    79% matchMixed66% of 6,003 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 47%, City Builder 25.4%, Survival 8.5%, Building 6.3%, Strategy 4.8%

  30. #30 New Cycle
    76% 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 35.3%, City Builder 19.9%, Survival 13.5%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 6.4%

  31. #31 Aquatico
    77% matchMixed67% of 867 reviews2023
    Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, City Builder 23.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%

  32. #32 The Pyraplex
    77% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Building 9.9%, Historical 9.3%, Simulation 8.1%

  33. #33 One Lonely Outpost
    76% matchMixed58% of 649 reviews2025
    Dev: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 57%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Simulation 6.2%

  34. #34 Marble Age
    78% matchVery Positive83% of 745 reviews2015
    Dev: Clarus Victoria
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

    Why similar: Survival 20.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Building 15.4%, Historical 12.4%, Simulation 10.6%

  35. #35 City idle
    75% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2023
    Dev: Grest Games OÜ
    Windows

    Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 56.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

  36. #36 Endzone 2
    73% matchMixed68% of 1,037 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, City Builder 18.6%, Survival 12.8%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.5%

  37. #37 After the Collapse
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 211 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, City Builder 16.7%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Strategy 5.5%

  38. #38 Endzone - A World Apart
    74% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Survival 18%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.7%

  39. #39 River Town Factory: Prologue
    73% matchVery Positive85% of 125 reviews2024
    Dev: iFAction Studio
    Windows

    If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

    Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Building 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%

  40. #40 Stranded: Alien Dawn
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 11,117 reviews2023
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Survival 26.3%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 5.2%

  41. #41 Farlanders
    73% 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 37.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 5.9%

  42. #42 Adaptory
    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 109 reviews2026
    Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows · Mac

    Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 54.5%, Survival 16.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 8.9%, Management 4.9%

  43. #43 Colony Simulator
    74% matchMixed66% of 424 reviews2022
    Dev: Indie Marc
    Windows

    Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 52.1%, City Builder 30.2%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

  44. #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: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 24.2%, Survival 14.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%

  45. #45 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    71% matchVery Positive86% of 202 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Nebula
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, City Builder 22.9%, Survival 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 7.4%

  46. #46 Humanica
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 164 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: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 19%, Survival 12.6%, Building 8.1%, Historical 7.3%

  47. #47 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
    70% matchMostly Positive70% of 828 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Survival 11%, Building 10%, Simulation 6.5%

  48. #48 One More Island
    71% matchMixed67% of 260 reviews2022
    Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    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 38.4%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 12.6%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 5.2%

  49. #49 MEMORIAPOLIS
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,767 reviews2025
    Dev: 5PM Studio
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, City Builder 24.4%, Building 11%, Historical 7.9%, Strategy 5.6%

  50. #50 My Colony
    70% 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 53.3%, City Builder 30.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Indie 1.4%

  51. #51 Banished
    69% 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 44.2%, City Builder 24.1%, Survival 10.2%, Simulation 5.9%, Strategy 5.2%

  52. #52 Starmancer
    70% matchMixed63% of 1,041 reviews2021
    Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Management 6.1%

  53. #53 Post-Apo Builder
    68% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
    Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Top-Down 7.9%

  54. #54 Faun Town
    66% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
    Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
    Windows

    After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

    Why similar: Building 26.5%, Sandbox 23.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%

  55. #55 Phoenix Hope
    69% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
    Dev: Honorable Pixel
    Windows

    Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Survival 16.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 8.3%

  56. #56 Heian City Story
    65% matchVery Positive89% of 191 reviews2025
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    A city-building sim with a historical twist

    Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Historical 7.8%

  57. #57 Ecopunk
    65% matchVery Positive84% of 129 reviews2025
    Dev: Zerone Games
    Windows

    Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 6.1%

  58. #58 Predynastic Egypt
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,916 reviews2016
    Dev: Clarus Victoria
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!

    Why similar: Survival 21%, City Builder 19.8%, Building 14.8%, Historical 12.5%, Simulation 11%

  59. #59 MicroTown
    67% 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 45%, City Builder 23.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 5.6%, Management 5.4%

  60. #60 Civitatem
    67% 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 37%, Survival 15%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 9.9%

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