- #1 Rise Against the Invaders
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Strategy 8.2%
- #2 Powerplay
96% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #3 The Blighted Frontier
96% 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 35.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%
- #4 Xenobiome Command
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gergo Nagy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a colony on a fungal alien world and keep it alive. Explore the shrouded lands and claim them. Build, and grow your colony. Be prepared to defend against hostile and terrible threats. Xenobiome Command goes hard - from planetfall to last stand.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, 4X 21% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Time Management 11.2%
- #5 Surviving the Aftermath
94% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 10.1%
- #6 StellarForge
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justin HellmanPub: Darkstar
Windows
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%
- #7 Buoyancy
94% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%
- #8 Type2
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Isometric 9%, Strategy 8.6%
- #9 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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 30.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%
- #10 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
91% matchPositive95% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 30% ★, Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.6%
- #11 After Inc: Revival
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,512 reviews2026
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, 4X 20.5% ★, City Builder 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%
- #12 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
90% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 38.9%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.3%, Resource Management 7.8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #13 Goblin Colony
88% 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 37.8%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #14 T-Minus 30
87% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
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: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Time Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #15 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
86% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 6.9%
- #16 Colony Simulator
86% matchMixed66% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Simulation 11.2%
- #17 Oxygen: First Breath
85% 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 27.5%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #18 Radia Island
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, 4X 20.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #19 Devouring City
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 8.7%
- #20 Wild West Pioneers
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, 4X 21.9% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Western 6.9% ★
- #21 Arc of Icarus
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, 4X 22.1% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Isometric 6.7%
- #22 Founders' Fortune
82% 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 44.5%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16%, Strategy 6.2%, Building 5.5%
- #23 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, City Builder 20.6%, Strategy 15.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #24 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
80% 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 41.5%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #25 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 9.9%
- #26 Aven Colony
81% 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 45.1%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 5.8%
- #27 Spirit & Stone
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 19%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%
- #28 Project Oasis
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Isometric 6.2%
- #29 Ragnorium
79% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, 4X 14.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%
- #30 Pirate Plight
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, 4X 21.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #31 Lost Heaven Station
77% 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 29.9%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Strategy 9%
- #32 Find Your Way Home: Last Flight
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ert Gaming Studio
Windows · Mac
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, 4X 22.9% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
- #33 Build The Sun
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PUNKCAKE Délicieux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, 4X 26.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 12.3%, Simulation 5.7%
- #34 Make the Empire Great Again
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, and fun—but monsters seize your lands, plundering fields & mines! Fight, reclaim! Build, forge the grandest city! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.5%
- #35 Endzone - A World Apart
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 9.5%
- #36 Fosoria
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 10.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #37 Order: The New Dawn
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, 4X 20.9% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #38 Industries of Titan
74% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%
- #39 Oxygen
73% 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 27.9%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #40 Fio and the Doomed City
71% matchNo user reviews2026
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 36.3%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #41 The Last Haven
72% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Strategy 14.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.3%
- #42 Stranding Echoes
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
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 39.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 6.2%
- #43 Treetopians
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%
- #44 Exogate Initiative
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, 4X 21.1% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #45 Ymir
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, 4X 27.4% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 5.2%
- #46 Sheltered 2
72% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 9%
- #47 Peasants
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.5%
- #48 Tenants of the Shade
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormjest
Windows
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.7%, 4X 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Strategy 10%
- #49 Sky Base Venus
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #50 ALL WILL FALL
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, City Builder 14.2%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #51 Planetbase
70% 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 39.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #52 Novo: The Colony
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Broken Future Games
Windows
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 13%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Time Management 8.7%
- #53 Frostpunk: 1886
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9%
- #54 Pinevale Settlements
67% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Kinetic Quasar Games
Windows
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 19.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%
- #55 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
69% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, 4X 24.4% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Base Building 11.4%
- #56 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, City Builder 7.9%, Strategy 6%
- #57 The Undercity: Last Light
66% 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 39%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #58 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 44.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 4.3%
- #59 Sigma Draconis
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Base Building 16.7%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 9.3%, Resource Management 8%