- #1 Zone 1-70
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parenthesix
Windows
Lead a research team to explore and study a strange dimension while fending off the entities that inhabit the Zone. Manage your base and construct experiments and unique machines by harnessing the properties of multiple anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Action RTS 21.4% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Top-Down 4.2%
- #2 三国大陆
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PopStudio
Windows
在群雄割据的三国乱世中,从零开始建设村庄,发展势力、抵御敌军,最终统一天下。
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Life Sim 15.7%, Strategy 15%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 5.4%
- #3 All My Gods
96% matchVery Positive88% of 113 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 71.7%, Strategy 15.8%, Adventure 8%, Simulation 4.5%
- #4 Orc Colony
95% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.8%, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 6.2%, Simulation 5.6%
- #5 Our Dear Kingdom
94% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 76.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Sandbox 7%, Resource Management 4.3%, Simulation 2.9%
- #6 The Promised Land
94% matchVery Positive87% of 779 reviews2014
Dev: Boolat GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 68.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Adventure 8%, Resource Management 4.2%, Simulation 2.1%
- #7 Xenobiome Command
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gergo Nagy
Windows · Mac
A colony survival strategy game on a fungal exoplanet, crossing colony sim, base building and territory control. Survey the fog, claim the ground under it, raise an outpost, and hold the line as the bloom and its ferals close in.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.3%, Strategy 18%, Aliens 7.9%, Top-Down 7.8%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #8 The Colony
93% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 78.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 5.4%
- #9 The Colony Experiment
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bilboldev
Windows
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #10 Ecopunk
91% matchVery Positive83% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Resource Management 6.7%, Survival 6.3%
- #11 On & Under
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7%, Strategy 19%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #12 Survival Bunker
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Action RTS 21% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Survival 8.5%
- #13 Red Frontier
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DW
Windows
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Simulation 5.2%
- #14 The Last Convoy North
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ponder
Windows
The Last Convoy North is a unique survival management game where you take direct control of the convoy. Choose your route, marshal your crew, upgrade vehicles, recruit allies and fight your way north to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Action RTS 27.9% ★, Strategy 10%, Exploration 6.9%, Survival 5.6%
- #15 Another Dead World
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another Dead World
Windows
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Strategy 20.1%, Sandbox 18%, Top-Down 6%, Survival 5%
- #16 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Life Sim 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Resource Management 7.3%, Survival 7%
- #17 Paleon
86% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.5%, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Simulation 4.4%
- #18 MediAevi
85% match1 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Brian De La FranierPub: Tavarin Games
Windows · Mac
A medieval fantasy colony sim based on Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, MediAevi features multiple playable races in a procedurally generated world. Make a sustainable colony and keep your colonists alive through raids and attacks. Research and Advance, to make better weapons, armors, spells, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.6%, Strategy 14%, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 5.3%, Top-Down 4.9%
- #19 Our Freedom: Prologue
84% 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 38.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Action RTS 15.1% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #20 Settlers of Pineshore
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Masseli Art
Windows
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.3%, Strategy 23%, Exploration 7.7%, Survival 5%, 3D 4.6%
- #21 Isolated Island: After the flood
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZHANG FAN
Windows
Survive in a world drowned by disaster. Explore by day, hide by night, fight zombies, scavenge resources, build your shelter, and trade with other factions. Your survival, your strategy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Adventure 10.5%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #22 Colonization Simulator
82% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Resource Management 8.1%, Aliens 5.8%
- #23 Colonus
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 7%
- #24 Pocket Clothier
81% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 54%, Life Sim 22.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 5.6%, Resource Management 4.1%
- #25 Fosoria
80% 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 55.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 8%, Exploration 6.8%
- #26 Embark
82% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 65%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Survival 6%, Simulation 3.4%
- #27 Terra-7
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Resource Management 6.5%, Simulation 6.3%
- #28 Cafe Master Story
78% matchVery Positive96% of 410 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Life Sim 18.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Top-Down 5.1%
- #29 Oxygen Not Included
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,359 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.0 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 59.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 5.7%
- #30 Colonize
76% matchMostly Negative41% of 197 reviews2026
Dev: Rembrosoft
Windows
Build and manage a peaceful 17th-century colony. Gather resources, create production chains, trade with the Old World, and survive without combat or warfare.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Action RTS 23.1% ★, Life Sim 16%, Strategy 10.4%, Exploration 4.7%
- #31 Maia
79% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 4.5%
- #32 Tree House Colony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Life Sim 19.1%, Resource Management 11%, Strategy 9.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #33 Never Secure
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%
- #34 Dream Park Story
74% matchVery Positive87% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Life Sim 19%, Strategy 18.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #35 Rows Of Earth
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glasworks Studios
Windows
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.7%, Strategy 14.6%, Survival 8%, Resource Management 6.7%, Top-Down 5.5%
- #36 Buoyancy
75% 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 64.6%, Strategy 13%, Survival 5.7%, Resource Management 5.7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%
- #37 Menorca Talaiotica
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ChessForEdu
Windows
Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 61.2%, Strategy 25.8%, Exploration 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.7%
- #38 Beware of Light
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.1%, Strategy 25.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 9%
- #39 Gnomoria
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.2%, Sandbox 19.7%, Strategy 12%, Survival 6.5%, Simulation 3.7%
- #40 Nights of Nil
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glass City Games
Windows
Control your villagers one by one in this action-RTS survival game. Build, defend, and survive night after night across procedural islands. Assign tasks, fight off waves, and settle each island to win the run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Action RTS 35.6% ★, Adventure 8.1%, Survival 6%, Simulation 4%
- #41 Project Sol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Reactions
Windows
Project Sol is a Sci-Fi colony sim set in the future when you civilization is just beginning to reach for the stars. Take control of your Empire, build massive orbital satellites, defend from roving pirates, and conquer the galaxy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Action RTS 27.6% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Aliens 6.7%, Exploration 4%
- #42 The Crow King
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amanita Games
Windows
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Strategy 19.9%, Adventure 13%, Exploration 5.4%, Survival 3.8%
- #43 License To Clone
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Jam Donut Games
Windows
License To Clone is a challenging Open World Sandbox Survival RPG where you learn through survival. Explore a desert with a dynamic economy full of rogue factions. Experiment with powerful mutations. Tame creatures and extract powerful body parts to splice your DNA in your cloning lab.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 7.6%, Adventure 6.2%
- #44 SeaColony
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #45 Grocery Simulator
70% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Roman Savenok
Windows
Experience the thrill of managing your own grocery store, from stocking shelves to handling customers, and transforming a small shop into a thriving supermarket. Control prices, Order goods, Hire Staff, Fight with Thieves and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.5%, Life Sim 24.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Exploration 7%, Resource Management 6%
- #46 Castle Story
71% matchMixed65% of 10,627 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 14%, Survival 5.8%, Adventure 1.5%
- #47 Latticefall: Zombie setting
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Artur Kasimov
Windows · Linux
Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Strategy 16.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Adventure 10.8%, Simulation 5.6%
- #48 Malignus
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Top-Down 5.7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #49 Quriocity
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Sandbox 15.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 7.2%
- #50 Project Arsk
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZerrnArsk
Windows
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.7%, Life Sim 16.8%, Survival 10.9%, Exploration 7.3%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #51 Wastelan Wars
69% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Old Can
Windows
A strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world. Different factions fight for supremacy and resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Action RTS 23.1% ★, Strategy 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 4.3%, RPG 4.2%
- #52 Uncolonization
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shuffle Studio
Windows
Tribe survival game where you control the chief. Manage your tribe, delegate harvesting, hunting, crafting and research. Grow your tribes, engage other tribes or outsiders through trading, alliance or war. All through mouse click.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Action RTS 23.7% ★, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 7%
- #53 The Hostel Project
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Life Sim 21.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Top-Down 3.8%
- #54 Dwarf Things
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.7%, Strategy 15.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 7.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #55 Galaxy Scavengers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Sandbox 18%, Strategy 15.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 9.4%
- #56 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,397 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
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 61.2%, Strategy 19.9%, Sandbox 6.5%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #57 The Pyraplex
66% matchVery Positive99% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Life Sim 19.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Adventure 4.3%