- #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 17.1% ★, Pirates 15.4% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 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 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 8.7%
- #3 Folklands
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 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% ★, City Builder 16.9%, RTS 12.9%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 11.6%
- #4 Pirate Plight
95% 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%, RTS 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 9.6%
- #5 Kingdoms Reborn
94% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 13%, Economy 8.4%, RTS 8.2%
- #6 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 17.2%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 8.5%
- #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 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 14%, RTS 10.7%, Economy 9.4%
- #8 Becastled
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 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 21.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, RTS 14.9%, Military 8.5%
- #9 Make Your Kingdom
92% matchMixed58% of 195 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%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 10.5%, RTS 10.4%
- #10 VENOY
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, RTS 20.1%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 9.4%
- #11 Aquis
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith 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 23.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Economy 13.9%, RTS 13.8%, Building 10.6%
- #12 Pioneers of Pagonia
89% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 13.4%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #13 One More Island
89% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11.8%, Trading 9.6% ★
- #14 The First Explorers®
88% 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 20.2% ★, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 17.2%, Economy 13.5%, Building 8.5%
- #15 Isla Paradiso
87% 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 24.3% ★, City Builder 22%, Economy 13.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.1%
- #16 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
86% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 20.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, RTS 15.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 7.6%
- #17 Tokeis
86% 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 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Economy 13.6%, RTS 12.8%, Base Building 10.1%
- #18 Civica: Italian Renaissance
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
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 22.9%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, RTS 18.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Economy 5.9%
- #19 Ground of Aces
84% matchVery Positive85% of 1,315 reviews2025
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.7 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 13.5%, Base Building 13.2%, RTS 12.4%, Military 8.9%
- #20 Angkor: The Holy City
84% 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 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11%, RTS 10.8%, Economy 10.1%
- #21 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
83% 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 22.1% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.6%
- #22 Arcane Shores
82% 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 26.5% ★, City Builder 23%, Economy 12.9%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #23 Republic of Pirates
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 476 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 15% ★, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 14.3%, Management 6.8%
- #24 Oikizo
81% 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 23% ★, City Builder 19%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 7.3%
- #25 SugarWinds
81% matchNo user reviews
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 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.3%, RTS 11%
- #26 The First Settlement VR
80% 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 16.4%, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11%
- #27 Aztecs: The Last Sun
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 12.2%, Economy 11.2%
- #28 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
79% 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 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, RTS 17%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 9.1%
- #29 Celestial Empire: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive85% of 370 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 20.9% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11.6%, RTS 10.6%, Economy 9.6%
- #30 All Roads Connected
78% matchNo user reviews
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 20.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 10.4%, Trading 8.5% ★
- #31 Randoville
78% matchMixed66% of 65 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 17.9%, RTS 12.9%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 12.1%
- #32 Oxygen: First Breath
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 21.2% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Economy 11.2%, Building 8.4%
- #33 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 17.9%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 13.1%, Building 8.3%
- #34 Dungeon Overseer
77% 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 23.5% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 13.7%, Building 8.8%
- #35 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
74% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2024
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 15.1%, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.5%
- #36 Recovery Syndicate
75% 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%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 9%
- #37 Kingdoms and Castles
75% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 9%, Strategy 6.3%
- #38 Founders' Fortune
74% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 34.5% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 8.7%, Economy 6%
- #39 Venusville
73% matchNo user reviews
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 19.3%, Base Building 16.3%, RTS 11.9%, Management 6.9%
- #40 Pirates Journey
72% matchMixed60% of 103 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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.3%
- #41 Northgard: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive85% of 68,002 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 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 20.5%, RTS 20%, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Base Building 10%, Economy 8.1%
- #42 Buoyancy
73% matchMixed56% of 820 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Pirates 10.8% ★, RTS 8.3%
- #43 Colonize Prologue
72% matchMixed64% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 22.4% ★, City Builder 18.7%, RTS 13.6%, Economy 11.1%, Trading 9.9% ★
- #44 Ulia Chronicles
71% 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%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 12.9%, Building 9.2%
- #45 PlanetX
70% matchMixed66% of 50 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 18.7%, RTS 17.5%, Economy 11.2%, Building 8.4%
- #46 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
70% matchMixed56% of 106 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 14.5%, RTS 13.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.6%
- #47 Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
71% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 reviews2017
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.6 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 18% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 10.4%
- #48 The Stronghold Collection
71% matchVery Positive89% of 5,569 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 18% ★, City Builder 16%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 10.4%
- #49 Buggos 2
68% matchVery Positive84% of 509 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 21.5% ★, Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 17.3%, RTS 15.2%, Strategy 11.6%
- #50 Mercantile Might
68% match9 user reviews67% of 9 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 23.8%, RTS 21.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 8.5%
- #51 Forgotten Vale
69% 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%, RTS 12.7%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 11.4%
- #52 Our Freedom: Prologue
69% 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 19.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 7.8%
- #53 IXION
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8%, Economy 7.8%
- #54 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
70% 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 25.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 12.9%, Management 12%, Economy 10.5%
- #55 Stronghold: Warlords
69% matchMixed65% of 5,227 reviews2021
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 16.3%, RTS 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #56 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 25.8% ★, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 16%, RTS 14.3%, Building 8%
- #57 Powerplay
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
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%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #58 Settlement Survival
66% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 23.6% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.3%
- #59 Lil Guys
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Management 9.6%, Building 8.3%
- #60 Seven Wonders
67% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 16.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.1%