
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Base Building, Colony Sim, Management.

Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

Beyond These Stars
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.

Architect of Ruin
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.
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%