- #1 Frontier Roots
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 11.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Nature 8.5%
- #2 Farmman
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 12.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Management 8.3%
- #3 Stone to Stars
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OnlyLogic
Windows · Mac
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
- #4 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 25.9%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 7%, Crafting 6.6%
- #5 Isla Paradiso
94% 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 27.4%, City Builder 26.5%, Economy 14.6%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8%
- #6 Arcane Shores
94% matchNo user reviews2027
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 29.3%, City Builder 27%, Economy 13.7%, Survival 8.7%, Base Building 6%
- #7 Exile
93% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 12.3%, Management 9.5%, Nature 9.4%
- #8 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
92% matchVery Positive89% of 639 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 21%, Economy 12%, Management 10.5%, Survival 9.7%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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 23.1%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 11.8%, Survival 8.3%
- #10 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
What if crows had evolved like humans? In this cozy city builder, build a thriving civilization in the treetops, discover unique avian technologies, manage your flock and logistics, and harness the power of the wind.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 13%, Nature 12%, Management 10.5%
- #11 The Blighted Frontier
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Survival 6.3%
- #12 Frontera
89% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 14.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Management 5.8%
- #13 Seeds of Resilience
89% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 12.6%, Nature 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #14 Founders' Fortune
87% 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 37.4%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 6.4%, Management 6.3%
- #15 Make Your Kingdom
86% 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 24.2%, City Builder 23%, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.6%
- #16 That's My Village!
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Binięda
Windows · Linux
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 8.4%
- #17 One More Island
86% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 25.7%, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.2%
- #18 Pixel Colony
84% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 27.7%, Management 11.4%, Survival 7.9%, Economy 7.5%
- #19 Cloudlings
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9%
- #20 Compact Colonies
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Economy 10.9%, Nature 9.6%, Survival 8.9%
- #21 Shanhe Builders
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 27.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Management 8.2%
- #22 Kingdoms Reborn
82% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 32.5%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.2%
- #23 Sylox
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 26.4%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Management 6.6%
- #24 Terra-7
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 26.4%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.6%
- #25 Goblin Colony
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 11.2%, Survival 6.9%
- #26 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26.8%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Management 8.6%
- #27 Voxelony
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: ShinyScale Games
Windows · Linux
Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 13.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Management 8.2%
- #28 Oxygen
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 23.8%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11%, Survival 8.4%
- #29 MicroTown
78% matchVery Positive95% of 478 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 25.6%, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.3%
- #30 Lil Guys
77% 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 31%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10.6%, Survival 9.8%
- #31 Paragon Pioneers
76% 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 26.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Economy 13.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Management 10.1%
- #32 United Penguin Kingdom
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Economy 16.1%, Management 12.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #33 Settlement Survival
74% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 30.3%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Management 11.5%, Survival 9.4%, Economy 6.8%
- #34 Idyll
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdyllWorks
Windows
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11.1%, City Builder 9.7%, Management 8.1%
- #35 Patron
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 30.2%, City Builder 27.1%, Economy 10.9%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #36 Crowded Blue Dot
76% matchMixed59% of 53 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 28.1%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Management 11.9%, Economy 6.4%
- #37 Skyline Settlers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 31.1%, Economy 15.5%, Management 7.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #38 Going Medieval
70% matchVery Positive89% of 21,464 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 32.6 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 20.2%, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 11.4%, Nature 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%
- #39 Zoo Park Story
72% matchVery Positive86% of 132 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 22.5%, Nature 14.4%, Economy 7.2%, Management 6.2%
- #40 Lords and Villeins
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 28.6%, City Builder 23%, Economy 11.7%, Management 11.1%, Crafting 7.5%
- #41 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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: City Builder 39.1%, Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 9.8%, Economy 5.7%, Strategy 4.2%
- #42 Above: Colonies of the Mist
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 27.7%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%
- #43 Agromatic
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.5%
- #44 Diluvian Winds
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 391 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Nature 10.3%
- #45 Banished
72% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 38.8%, City Builder 36.2%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 4.7%, Strategy 4.6%
- #46 Endzone 2
69% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 26.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.5%
- #47 The Fire Must Grow
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 27.3%, Economy 14.5%, Management 8.7%, Base Building 7.9%
- #48 Tokeis
69% 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 24.2%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Economy 16.7%, Management 11.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #49 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 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 34.6%, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 8.8%, Management 5.4%
- #50 Aven Colony
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 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 40.9%, City Builder 33.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 3.5%
- #51 Beneath a Dead City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 13.5%, Survival 10.4%
- #52 SeaColony
66% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 12.5%, Management 10.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #53 Country Architect
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 24.5%, Economy 10.7%, Management 7.2%, Base Building 7%
- #54 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 11.6%, Economy 10.3%
- #55 Settletopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 7.5%
- #56 Crow's Nest
68% 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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 23.9%, Economy 11.4%, Management 11%, Base Building 9.6%
- #57 The Undercity: Last Light
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, City Builder 25.9%, Management 12%, Survival 8.8%, Base Building 8.8%
- #58 Factory Town 2: Paradise
64% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%