Games Like Pico Islands

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 23.4%, Economy 14%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.5%

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 24.4%, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 13.8%, Simulation 9%, Building 8.9%

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 21.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 10.8%, Building 8%, Management 7.9%

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Economy 7.7%

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 26%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 6.9%

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 20.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 9%, Management 7.3%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 26%, Economy 13.8%, Management 9.8%, Building 9.6%

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 24.1%, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 13.5%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.4%

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 22.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Economy 12.4%, Idler 10.4%, Management 8.8%

Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 13.7%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.5%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Management 15.6%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 9%

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 19.8%, Building 7.7%, Base Building 7%, Economy 6.4%

Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 7.1%, Economy 6.9%

This is a tower-building simulation where you place offices, homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, and more inside a growing high-rise. People move autonomously toward their destinations, using elevators as the building comes to life. Balance profit and expansion as you create a busy tower of your own.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Economy 11.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.7%

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 25.5%, City Builder 23.3%, Economy 14.9%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%

PolyTown is a modern, low poly city building game. Zone areas for residents and businesses, connect them and build services and utilities to keep your citizens satisfied. But don’t get too comfy, if you don’t do your job well, people will make you pay the price.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Economy 18.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Old School 8.9%

Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 13.4%, Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8%

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 24.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 8.3%, Building 8%

Build the Khmer empire from a delta village to the temple-city of Angkor. Dig canals, route monsoon floodwater into rice paddies, and raise stone monuments. A compact historical city builder, no combat, where every city you found lives or dies by the water you can hold.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 8.1%, Isometric 7%

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.6%, Building 7.3%

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 23.5%, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.3%, Management 8.2%

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 20.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 7.8%

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 30.3%, City Builder 22.7%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Base Building 7.1%

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 28.3%, City Builder 26%, Economy 14.3%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 6.3%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 28%, Economy 15%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 6.5%

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 24.2%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Economy 15.6%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 21.6%, Idler 10.9%, Economy 7.6%, Building 7.2%

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 25.5%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 11.2%, Management 10%, Building 7.9%

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 27.5%, City Builder 25.9%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 7.6%

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.4%

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 23.3%, City Builder 20.4%, Economy 13.1%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.9%

Embark on a cozy journey to settle and thrive on floating islands in the remnants of a ruptured world. Grow your village, manage resources, and become the renowned pioneer of the clouds. A relaxing city-building experience where you build and optimize your serene sanctuary in the skies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 24.2%, Idler 13%, Economy 11.8%, Strategy 7.4%

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 21.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7.6%

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 27.2%, Colony Sim 26%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Economy 6.7%

Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 10.7%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.3%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 22.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Economy 7.4%

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 24.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.1%

What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 26.5%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 8.1%

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 27.2%, City Builder 24.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Economy 8.9%, Building 6.8%

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 22.5%, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 14%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.5%

STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Resource Management 11%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 7.5%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.2%, Building 7.8%

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 22.5%, Economy 13.3%, Management 9.6%, Building 8.5%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.7%, Base Building 6.7%

Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Economy 14%, Colony Sim 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%

Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 15.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 10.1%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Management 15.1%, Isometric 9.3%, Building 8.7%

In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes

Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 15.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.1%

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 31%, Colony Sim 23%, Economy 10.6%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 6.7%

Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7.4%

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 23.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Economy 13%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.8%

Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Management 11.7%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.3%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Management 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Economy 9.7%

A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Idler 11.2%, Economy 10.7%, Building 7.1%

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 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Economy 16.3%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 23.7%, Colony Sim 21%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 8.1%

Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 20%, Economy 13.3%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 7.2%

A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, 2.5D 12.3%, Economy 11%, Isometric 8.9%, Simulation 7.8%