- #1 SugarWinds: Prologue
97% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
SugarWinds: sail, establish a colony, make it thrive, and defend it from attacks. Trade worldwide. Enjoy and chill!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Pirates 15.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 9.5%, Military 8.8%
- #2 Crow's Nest
96% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Polyburg Studio
Windows
Embark on a journey in this city builder game, crafting and managing your own pirate island. Keep your crews satisfied and your captives in check, all while sending your ships out to gather gold from your nautical adventures.
Why similar: Pirates 26% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 8.2%
- #3 Pirate Plight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, City Builder 15.3%, RTS 15.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 9.1%
- #4 Kingdoms Reborn
95% 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 24.7%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 8.3%, Economy 8%
- #5 Architects of Shangri-La
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 15.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.5%
- #6 Make Your Kingdom
94% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 10.7%, Economy 10%
- #7 Egypt
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 14.1%, RTS 11%, Economy 9%
- #8 Becastled
92% matchVery Positive82% of 5,597 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.5%, RTS 15.1%, Military 8.6%
- #9 VENOY
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, RTS 20.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%
- #10 Pioneers of Pagonia
90% 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 17.1%, City Builder 13.8%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 9.8%
- #11 Aquis
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Base Building 18%, RTS 14.1%, Economy 13.2%, Building 10.7%
- #12 One More Island
89% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.3%, Trading 9.5%
- #13 The First Explorers®
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 17.9%, RTS 17.7%, Economy 12.8%, Building 8.6%
- #14 Isla Paradiso
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 22.6%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.2%
- #15 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
86% matchVery Positive92% of 802 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 16.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 7.4%
- #16 Tokeis
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 16.6%, RTS 13.2%, Economy 13%, Base Building 10.2%
- #17 Civica: Italian Renaissance
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows · Mac
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, RTS 18.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 5.8%
- #18 Folklands
85% 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 20.1%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 14.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11.4%
- #19 Ground of Aces
84% matchVery Positive86% of 1,524 reviews2025
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, RTS 12.6%, Military 9.1%
- #20 SugarWinds
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
SugarWinds: sail, establish a colony, make it thrive, and defend it from attacks. Trade worldwide. Enjoy and chill!
Why similar: Pirates 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11.2%, RTS 11.1%
- #21 Angkor: The Holy City
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.1%, RTS 11.1%, Economy 9.6%
- #22 Republic of Pirates
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 536 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: Pirates 23.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.9%, RTS 14.6%, Management 6.6%
- #23 Oikizo
82% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: L2N Game Studio
Windows
Oikizo is a city-building game. Start by placing your first building and a few citizens, then make your city prosper. The strength of Oikizo lies in the ability to manage a city cooperatively with your friends.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 19.3%, RTS 18.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 7.3%
- #24 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 15%, Building 9%, Economy 8.2%
- #25 Arcane Shores
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #26 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, RTS 17.4%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 14%, Economy 8.6%
- #27 The First Settlement VR
79% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10.5%
- #28 Aztecs: The Last Sun
78% matchMixed69% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 15.9%, RTS 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 10.6%
- #29 Terra-7
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 13%, Building 10.2%
- #30 Randoville
78% matchMixed65% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 18.2%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 11.5%
- #31 All Roads Connected
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 10%, Trading 8.3%
- #32 Celestial Empire: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive86% of 416 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 10.9%, Economy 9.1%
- #33 Empires Edge
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, RTS 16.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 9.8%
- #34 DarkSwitch
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 739 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.8%, RTS 11.1%, Economy 8%
- #35 Age of Respair
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, RTS 13.4%, Building 8.4%
- #36 Oxygen: First Breath
74% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Economy 10.7%, Building 8.6%
- #37 Dungeon Overseer
75% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Economy 13.1%, Building 9%
- #38 Pirates Journey
73% matchMixed56% of 108 reviews2024
Dev: 2MEDYA
Windows
You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.
Why similar: Pirates 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.3%
- #39 Recovery Syndicate
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, RTS 17.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 8.6%
- #40 Venusville
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 16.4%, RTS 12.1%, Management 6.6%
- #41 Buoyancy
74% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Pirates 11% ★, RTS 8.5%
- #42 Founders' Fortune
72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 8.8%, Economy 5.8%
- #43 Hamlet
71% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 10%, Strategy 7.6%
- #44 Northgard: Definitive Edition
72% matchVery Positive85% of 68,658 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, RTS 20.4%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 10%, Economy 7.7%
- #45 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
69% matchVery Positive83% of 185 reviews2026
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 14%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9%
- #46 Colonize Prologue
71% 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 22.5%, City Builder 19.1%, RTS 14%, Economy 10.6%, Trading 9.7%
- #47 Buggos 2
68% matchVery Positive84% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 19.6%, City Builder 16.7%, RTS 15.7%, Strategy 11.1%
- #48 Settlement Survival
70% 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 25.3%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Building 11.7%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #49 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
70% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 9.1%
- #50 Ulia Chronicles
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: NioStudio
Windows
Ulia Chronicles is a city-building game set in a fantasy universe. Build your city, gather resources, and make your citizens thrive. Play alone or with your friends in this game inspired by the classics of the genre.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 14%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.4%
- #51 PlanetX
69% matchMixed67% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 19%, RTS 17.9%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.5%
- #52 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
70% matchVery Positive89% of 5,758 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Military 10.3%
- #53 The Stronghold Collection
71% matchVery Positive89% of 5,758 reviews2009
Dev: FireFly Studios
Windows
Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Military 10.3%
- #54 Forgotten Vale
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.4%, RTS 13%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%
- #55 Mercantile Might
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: SibeRaysGames
Windows
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages and take on the role of a ruler who must transform a small town into a prosperous settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, RTS 21.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.1%
- #56 Powerplay
66% matchPositive87% of 38 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: RTS 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #57 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 7.6%
- #58 IXION
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,592 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8%, Economy 7.4%
- #59 Colonization Simulator
67% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 14.6%, Building 8%
- #60 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
68% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.6%, Economy 10%