- #1 Outlands
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 26%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Exploration 6.3%
- #2 OBRII
96% 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 33.8% ★, City Builder 28%, Strategy 12.8%, Stylized 8.7%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #3 Dwarven Realm
96% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Resonance Software
Windows
Explore an epic fantasy medieval world where dwarves fight for survival in a hostile universe. Guide your colony of dwarves through unique challenges, tough moral choices, and unforgettable encounters. Explore, mine, build, trade to ensure the prosperity of your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Exploration 5.7%
- #4 Aven Colony
95% 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 44% ★, City Builder 33%, Strategy 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Space 4.7%
- #5 Colonization Simulator
94% 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 31.8% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Aliens 8.1%, Strategy 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #6 Titan: The Ascension
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wildercroft Studio
Windows
Embark on an exciting mission to establish a colony on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon. Following Earth's collapse, humanity's fate rests in your hands. Gather essential resources, excel in trading, and combat ancient technology to secure our future on Titan's harsh frontier. Will you prevail?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Space 9.4%, Aliens 8.2%, Strategy 8.1%
- #7 Orbiteers
93% 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 28.5% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Minimalist 9%, Top-Down 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%
- #8 Mozi
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozi
Windows
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Aliens 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #9 Sky Base Venus
91% 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 39.2% ★, City Builder 21%, Space 10.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 6%
- #10 Mossfield Origins
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Any Percent
Windows · Linux
A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Minimalist 8.3%, Top-Down 7.4%, Relaxing 6.1%
- #11 Wastelan Wars
90% 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 30% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Strategy RPG 18.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Futuristic 5.2%
- #12 Orc Warchief: Prologue
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Iron Wolf StudioPub: Iron Wolf Studio
Windows
Prologue version of Orc Warchief. Become an Orc warchief and fight for survival of your race. Rebuild your village and train your warriors. Gather resources and craft your weapons. Raise your warbanner and gather The Horde.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Real Time Tactics 19%, Strategy RPG 16.4%, Exploration 6.5%
- #13 Windowed Realms
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #14 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
88% 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 33.8% ★, City Builder 27%, Strategy 13.7%, Futuristic 6.4%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #15 Little Porp
87% 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 40.3% ★, City Builder 36.1%, Strategy 13.6%, Top-Down 9%, Singleplayer 1%
- #16 Skyberry Garden
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Exploration 11%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #17 Planet Pioneers
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Desert Dev
Windows
Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Minimalist 9.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Relaxing 6.9%
- #18 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
85% 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 37.1% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Stylized 5%, Futuristic 4.9%
- #19 Black Metal
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inverse OntologyPub: Avaris AS
Windows
Colonize. Explore. Survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Minimalist 9.4%, Strategy 6.5%
- #20 Beware of Light
84% 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 39.7% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #21 Exone Rift
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Faraway Home
Windows · Mac
Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Minimalist 13%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Futuristic 8.2%
- #22 Hexagge
81% 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 37.8% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Exploration 7.7%, Stylized 7.4%, Top-Down 7.3%
- #23 My Colony
82% 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 48.1% ★, City Builder 43.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #24 Abyssals
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 30.3%, Exploration 7.3%, Stylized 6.8%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #25 The Promised Land
82% matchVery Positive87% of 776 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 58.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Adventure 5.4%, Resource Management 3.6%
- #26 Banished
81% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, City Builder 38.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Resource Management 3.4%, Relaxing 2.7%
- #27 Venusville
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 8%, Resource Management 7%
- #28 Planetbase
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 40.8% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Space 10.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Resource Management 4.6%
- #29 Cosmic Resistance
78% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: We Cure Boredom
Windows
You are the fleet commander. Different alien races invade the universe. Find and fight for saving scattered human colonies, integrate them in your ship fleet to help you create a powerful army that will liberate the universe and humankind from extinction.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 22.8%, Aliens 17.6%, Minimalist 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%
- #30 Space Drilling Station
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%, Futuristic 8.1%, Space 7.2%
- #31 Doomsday.Inc
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Tarakan Game Studio
Windows
Lead a doomsday cult as... a project manager. Doomsday.Inc is a satirical strategy game where you'll manage crazed acolytes, bureaucracy, and divine ambitions. Can you bring about the end of the world without getting bogged down in paperwork?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Strategy RPG 24.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Top-Down 7.5%, Exploration 7%
- #32 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
78% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9% ★, City Builder 38.6%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #33 The Great Beyond
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Strategy 11%, Aliens 10.9%, Stylized 5.4%
- #34 Sky Tale
77% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: FrostPeek Studio
Windows · Mac
Sky Tale is a cute city building game about creating lovely islands using various tiles and buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Minimalist 12.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Relaxing 8.1%
- #35 Skyline Settlers
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, City Builder 34.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 5.3%, Relaxing 5%
- #36 Venusville - Prologue
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Futuristic 6.7%, Stylized 6.6%
- #37 Rise Against the Invaders
74% 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 38.1% ★, City Builder 33.7%, Aliens 10.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 4.5%
- #38 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
73% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Strategy RPG 20.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Stylized 7.3%
- #39 Spirit & Stone
73% 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 36.1% ★, City Builder 30.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Exploration 7.4%, Atmospheric 4.2%
- #40 Marsbound
73% 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 38% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 15%, Sci-fi 7.9%, 3D 3.6%
- #41 Fleeting World
75% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Strategy 16.1%, Stylized 7%, Resource Management 4.7%
- #42 Island Mojo Blocks
72% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Kyubit DevelopersPub: Kyubit Games
Windows
Organize a sustainable island and survive growing tourism demand, or the game ends quickly. Island Mojo Blocks is a casual island builder and survival game, with unique delivery and production network management. Quick strategy and planning are key to survival in this fun and challenging adventure!
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Resource Management 6%
- #43 AstroScaper
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fun Fortress
Windows
A relaxing puzzle city builder where you expand colonies on all sides of asteroids. Balance three core stats while placing buildings with proximity synergies. Plan efficient layouts, build train networks, and watch your settlements bloom in space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Minimalist 10.4%, Relaxing 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%
- #44 Trailblazers: Into the March
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrangersPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.8%, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Strategy 8.4%, Sci-fi 8%
- #45 Irongrim Tower
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Promeduz
Windows
Tower defense meets city building in a grimdark sci-fi world. Build vertically, manage resources, defend against alien hordes, and command machine priests in humanity's last stronghold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Aliens 12.3%, Futuristic 5.6%
- #46 NOVA ATLANTIS
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2% ★, City Builder 36.6%, Resource Management 7.5%, Strategy 6.1%, 3D 5.2%
- #47 ISLANDERS: VR Edition
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Coatsink
Windows
ISLANDERS is the critically acclaimed minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Now coming to VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 9%, Top-Down 7.2%, Exploration 6.7%
- #48 Whiteverse: No Country for Old Men
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Whiteverse Studio
Windows
This is a game combines SIM and SRPG. Please lead your family, your friends and strangers who come to you to survive in this broken, unknown and fascinating universe, Captain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Strategy RPG 19.7%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Aliens 9.1%, Strategy 8.5%
- #49 Digital Miners
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Trapps
Windows
Colonize, mine, build, and expand your mineral kingdom! As a Digital Miner, your mission is to uncover the richest resources and hidden treasures in new lands. Rise to power by developing your territory or trading with other players. The path to greatness is yours to choose.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Strategy RPG 16.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.1%, Strategy 6.3%
- #50 Kingdom of Bees
72% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: HronPub: Lezy Bee
Windows
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 30.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Top-Down 7%, Minimalist 6.7%
- #51 IXION
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Space 12.9%, Resource Management 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #52 Above: Colonies of the Mist
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, City Builder 30.5%, Strategy 15.1%, Exploration 7.5%, Atmospheric 4.4%
- #53 Oasis RTS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spackogames
Windows
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36% ★, Real Time Tactics 22.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Top-Down 7%, Futuristic 6.9%
- #54 VENOY
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 26%, Strategy 13.8%, Resource Management 6.5%, Real Time Tactics 5.2%
- #55 Exogate Initiative
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 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 23.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Aliens 12.9%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #56 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Space 12.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #57 Drill Core
64% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Strategy 9%, Aliens 7.6%, Exploration 7.3%
- #58 Pelikeeper
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Merge Conflict Studio
Windows
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Stylized 7.1%
- #59 Dawn of Man
67% 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: Colony Sim 45.2% ★, City Builder 44.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%