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  1. #1 Beyond These Stars
    97% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, City Builder 9.7%, Resource Management 8.1%

  2. #2 Architect of Ruin
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, City Builder 9.5%, Resource Management 7.9%

  3. #3 Guardians of the Sanctree
    96% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2024
    Dev: HuCang Studio
    Windows

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.4%, Tower Defense 12.1%, Automation 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, City Builder 8.2%

  4. #4 Settlements Rising
    94% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    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 22.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.4%

  5. #5 Stonedeep
    95% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
    Dev: Direfang
    Windows

    Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.9%, Automation 8.5%

  6. #6 The Crust
    94% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 16%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%

  7. #7 Hostile Mars
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Big Rook Games
    Windows

    Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 13.7%, Automation 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%

  8. #8 Villagedom
    92% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dazar
    Windows

    Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Tower Defense 14.3%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.6%

  9. #9 Sandustry
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 8.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

  10. #10 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
    Windows

    A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, City Builder 10.6%, Side Scroller 8.2%

  11. #11 Ratopia
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
    Dev: Cassel Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11%, City Builder 10.1%, Survival 7.9%

  12. #12 Settletopia
    90% 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 22.6%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.1%

  13. #13 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Divinus Games
    Windows · Mac

    Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Tower Defense 13.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Side Scroller 9.9%, Survival 8.6%

  14. #14 Underground Nomads
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Funzen Games
    Windows

    You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Automation 11.2%, Survival 9.2%

  15. #15 Drill Core
    86% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
    Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Side Scroller 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 10.2%

  16. #16 Kingdom: Classic
    87% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
    Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Tower Defense 10.5%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

  17. #17 Castle Formers
    86% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
    Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
    Windows

    Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Tower Defense 15%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.7%

  18. #18 Oxygen Not Included
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.9%

  19. #19 Hold The Roost
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
    Windows

    A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Automation 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

  20. #20 Insect Empires
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
    Windows

    Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Tower Defense 9.9%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 8.9%

  21. #21 Vilset
    84% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
    Dev: Another Reality
    Windows

    Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.4%, Survival 9.1%

  22. #22 Starship Colony
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

    A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 7.7%

  23. #23 Edge Islands
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 15%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 8.5%, City Builder 8.3%

  24. #24 Space Haven
    82% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.5%, Building 9%, Resource Management 7.8%

  25. #25 Mob Factory
    80% matchMostly Positive72% of 474 reviews2023
    Dev: LiterallyEveryone Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.

    Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 7.1%

  26. #26 TFM: The First Men
    81% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Gathering Tree
    Windows

    An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.3%

  27. #27 PoliPlanet
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: -
    Windows

    Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.

    Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 9.7%

  28. #28 Hive and Seek
    78% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl Games
    Windows

    Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Tower Defense 14%, Side Scroller 11%, Base Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.1%

  29. #29 Founders' Fortune
    79% 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 33.7%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 6.7%

  30. #30 Settler's Domain
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: rick
    Windows

    Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, Building 6.9%

  31. #31 Oxygen: First Breath
    77% 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%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.4%

  32. #32 Phoenix Hope
    78% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
    Dev: Honorable Pixel
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Survival 9.5%, Side Scroller 9.4%

  33. #33 Lost Heaven Station
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Varnonsoft
    Windows

    Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%

  34. #34 Rise to Ruins
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
    Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Tower Defense 19.7%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10%, Survival 7.8%

  35. #35 Lil Guys
    75% 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 26.8%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 11%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%

  36. #36 Song of Slavs
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
    Windows

    Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 10.2%

  37. #37 Survival Vacancy
    76% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.7%

  38. #38 Airborne Empire
    72% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
    Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Tower Defense 11%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%

  39. #39 Candy Factory TD
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
    Windows

    Build a candy factory to defend against waves of candy creatures! A first-person tower defense factory building automation game. Manage productions, build candy turrets, expand the island, and beat the waves!

    Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8%

  40. #40 Until We Die
    74% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
    Dev: Pixeye Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Survival 11%

  41. #41 Blacksmith Master
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 11%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%

  42. #42 Mindustry
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,660 reviews2019
    Dev: AnukenDev
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

    Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 8.2%

  43. #43 DarkSwitch
    71% matchNo user 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 Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Tower Defense 14.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.5%

  44. #44 Oxygen
    72% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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 20.9%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.2%

  45. #45 Crowded Blue Dot
    73% matchMixed58% of 52 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: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 12%, Management 9.4%

  46. #46 Avian Colony
    70% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 14%, Automation 11.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 9.5%

  47. #47 Pawnholm
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hugimugi
    Windows · Linux

    Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 12.3%, City Builder 12.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 7.7%

  48. #48 Border Base
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bitzooma
    Windows

    Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Tower Defense 12.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

  49. #49 Substructure
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.

    Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 8.9%

  50. #50 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
    68% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: Studio Baikin
    Windows

    An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Tower Defense 21%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.2%

  51. #51 Rise Under the Warstorm
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Last Signal
    Windows

    Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.

    Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 9.2%, City Builder 8.3%

  52. #52 Microtopia: Prologue
    68% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 16.1%, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.1%, Building 9%

  53. #53 Kingdom Eighties
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,163 reviews2023
    Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Tower Defense 14.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Side Scroller 11.2%, City Builder 11%

  54. #54 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    65% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Automation 13.3%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.7%

  55. #55 Age of Respair
    67% 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 20.1%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Automation 11%, Building 9.5%

  56. #56 The Colonists
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.5%

  57. #57 Fio and the Doomed City
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
    Windows · Mac

    A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Tower Defense 18.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.2%

  58. #58 Cosmic Castaway
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Vinciware
    Windows

    Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 8.6%

  59. #59 Islandustry
    66% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Proper Puppy
    Windows

    Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.

    Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 11%, City Builder 10.3%, Sandbox 10%

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