- #1 Buoyancy
97% matchMixed56% of 820 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 42.8% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #2 Zombie Cure Lab
96% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Time Management 12.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #3 T-Minus 30
96% 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: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Time Management 17.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 7.4%
- #4 Marsbound
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Economy 5.8%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #5 Fishermen's Haven
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Fishermen's Haven is a tranquil manager game in which you take control of a small coastal settlement located on a remote island. Guide your people through the hardships of life on a tropical isle, manage resources, and find the means to expand the village.
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Time Management 23.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Top-Down 9.6%
- #6 Exostation
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 21%, Time Management 16.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 7.7%
- #7 Sylox
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 7.5%
- #8 Aven Colony
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 43.3% ★, City Builder 33.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Sci-fi 4.8%
- #9 Rise Against the Invaders
91% 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 34.1% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #10 Frontier Roots
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Time Management 19.3%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%
- #11 Colony Simulator
89% matchMixed67% 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 36.4% ★, City Builder 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, 3D 4.9%
- #12 Cliff Empire
89% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Time Management 12.3%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 8.8%
- #13 Little Renters
88% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JnB
Windows
Take on the challenge of managing these Little Renters and their needs. Keep them happy with the right decoration and set your rent prices to maximize profits! Stay alert as Thieves, Squatters, Fires, Sick Renters and Broken Decorations can cause you to Fail!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Time Management 22.6%, Economy 11.2%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #14 Surviving the Aftermath
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 10%
- #15 Feluna Base
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LiberaByte
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tiny base builder roguelite where the only enemy is time. Provide food and shelter for your growing outpost. Produce advanced resources for your home station. Discover the mysteries of Feluna with every new run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Time Management 22.1%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #16 Virum:Colony
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A city-building strategy game with colony survival elements. After an alien invasion drained Earth’s resources, rogue machines roam the ruins. Gather resources, lead your colonists, rebuild from scratch, and fight for survival. Survive. Rebuild. Resist.
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Top-Down 11.4%
- #17 Little Porp
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, City Builder 37%, Strategy 12.8%, Top-Down 10.1%
- #18 Harrowlands
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13%, Strategy 6.8%
- #19 OBRII
84% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, City Builder 30.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Top-Down 10.1%
- #20 Motile Works
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Time Management 14.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%
- #21 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
82% 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 36.7% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Time Management 7.5%
- #22 The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emerick GibsonPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Time Management 19.4%, Economy 7.9%, Strategy 7.1%
- #23 The Beardless Wizard
82% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Alawar NorthPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
An evil scientist has kidnapped a kind, old wizard! As the magician's young apprentice, you might not have a beard, but don't let that stop you from saving his wrinkled skin! The journey will be fraught with obstacles but also filled with laughs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Time Management 16%, Base Building 13.4%, Top-Down 9.4%
- #24 H3X@G0N@L
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Top-Down 8.8%, Economy 7.9%
- #25 Sky Base Venus
79% 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 40.3% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Science 7.7% ★, Strategy 7.4%
- #26 Architects of Shangri-La
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 8.1%
- #27 Type2
78% 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 38.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Time Management 12.3%, Strategy 8.4%
- #28 Space Trader: Merchant Marine
80% matchMixed50% of 641 reviews2008
Pub: Meridian4
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Space Trader is an open world trading colony sim wrapped in a shooter. Start as a Rookie and earn your way to Master using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, and well-placed bullet. Buy low, sell high and don’t take no for an answer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Cyberpunk 14.6%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Base Building 9.3%
- #29 Endzone - A World Apart
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 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 38.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 8.8%
- #30 What's Left Behind
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, City Builder 33.4%, Economy 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #31 SCP: Maintain & Control
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glorified Studios
Windows · Linux
Build and manage a top-secret facility. House mysterious creatures and dangerous inmates in this sandbox management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Time Management 13.7%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%
- #32 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
75% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 37.6% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 9.1%, 3D 3.5%
- #33 My Colony
77% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8% ★, City Builder 43.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #34 Isla Paradiso
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 8%
- #35 MOAI 7: Mystery Coast
76% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: GamefjordPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Hika-Ri is strong and brave and Kao-Ri is skilled in magic, but neither of them were prepared for what happened the day bandits landed on their uncharted shores. Guide Hika-Ri as he embarks on an epic adventure to save his sister from an unknown fate!
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Time Management 22.8%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Top-Down 9.9%
- #36 Colony Break
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artical Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Cyberpunk 12.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%
- #37 Lost Heaven Station
74% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Lore-Rich 11%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #38 Orbiteers
72% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Northborne Studios
Windows
Design efficient space stations across the solar system in this minimalist puzzle-builder. Solve unique challenges with help from your assistant L.U.N.A., optimize your builds, maximize your score, and lead humanity’s journey beyond Earth!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Strategy 7.7%
- #39 HolyZone
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Economy 11.2%, Time Management 11%
- #40 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 42.8%, Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Strategy 7.3%, Economy 4.4%, Choices Matter 2.3%
- #41 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Strategy 13.6%, Base Building 7.3%, Top-Down 7.2%
- #42 Time Circuit
71% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: DreamSmith Studio
Windows
Deep integration of city builder and tower defense. Time is the most crucial resource in this world. Lead your clan to construct a base in the dazzling circuit world and fend off waves of enemy attacks!
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Cyberpunk 20.5%, Time Management 11.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%
- #43 MOAI 6: Unexpected Guests Collector's Edition
73% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: GameOn ProductionPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Join two heroes on one grand adventure! Guide Hika-Ri and Kao-Ri on the adventure of their lives and enjoy countless hours of fun on the enchanted island of Tapa-Tui!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Time Management 21.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Top-Down 9.7%
- #44 夕照原
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: 无栈Stackless
Windows
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Choices Matter 6%
- #45 Kingdom Islands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, City Builder 33.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Time Management 13.1%, 3D 2.2%
- #46 Rubbish Paper
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aimer1453
Windows
RubbishPaper: Lab management meets Roguelite. You're a new lecturer, building a lab from scratch—juggling grants, papers, and students. Survive random chaos: funding crises, student meltdowns, rejection letters. No safe retirement—overwork, crash, restart. Until you're a legend, or nothing.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Time Management 20.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Science 10.5% ★
- #47 Tango District
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Maximiliano Rejlis
Windows
Build, earn, negotiate and think your way to the top! Raise the most famous cyberpunk city in this casual puzzle style citybuilder where corporations dominate the world around you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Cyberpunk 15.7%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Strategy 7.4%
- #48 Imagine Earth
71% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #49 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
69% 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 34.2% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 6.7%
- #50 Oxygen: First Breath
69% 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 10%, Strategy 8.1%
- #51 Drownlight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Economy 8.3%
- #52 Founders' Fortune
69% 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 47.7% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 6%, Economy 5.3%
- #53 Scaling Up
66% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Time Management 19%, Economy 7.6%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #54 Escape the End
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Top-Down 7.3%
- #55 Aquatico
68% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 9.7%
- #56 Warehouse Bots
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Time Management 20.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Economy 6.9%
- #57 Hexagge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, City Builder 32.8%, Economy 8.8%, Top-Down 8.2%, Base Building 6.7%
- #58 Death By FrostByte
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Time Management 20%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Economy 7.6%
- #59 Avian Colony
65% 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 35.6% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Top-Down 8.4%, Time Management 8.3%