- #1 Periphery Online
97% matchMixed72% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: Aleksandr Nagaev
Windows
A refugee capsule lands on an uninhabited planet. You have to survive, rebuild civilization and, if possible, regain control over the Earth. One big universe, one endless pvp session for all players.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13%, Strategy 10.4%, Open World 10%
- #2 Kingdoms Reborn
96% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 45.9%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.9%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 7%
- #3 PlanetX
96% matchMixed67% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Giedrius Talzunas
Windows · Mac
PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.2% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 5.8%
- #4 Project AURA
95% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 6.9%
- #5 Imagine Earth
94% matchVery Positive82% of 967 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Grand Strategy 30% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Base Building 10.3%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #6 Post-Apo Builder
94% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.8% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%
- #7 Surviving the Aftermath
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 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: City Builder 38.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 7.4%
- #8 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
91% matchVery Positive92% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #9 Revival and Exploration
92% matchMixed62% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: CMS GearPub: HONGKONG DELAN CO., LIMITED
Windows
Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 7.8%
- #10 New Cycle
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 11%, Management 8.7%
- #11 Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
91% matchMixed69% of 208 reviews2017
Dev: Illyriad Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.6% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 6.7%
- #12 One Hour One Life
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,781 reviews2018
Dev: Jason Rohrer
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Hand-drawn 24.6%, Massively Multiplayer 19.8%, Open World 15.5%, Procedural Generation 14.1%
- #13 CivIdle
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,104 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 82.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.5%, Building 8.5%
- #14 Anno 2070™
89% matchMixed60% of 12,702 reviews2011
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Why similar: City Builder 58.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Management 6.5%, Building 6.5%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #15 Foxhole
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 52,913 reviews2022
Dev: Siege Camp
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 77.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 26.4%, Massively Multiplayer 21.8%, Top-Down 18%, Open World 16%, Strategy 14.8%
- #16 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
87% matchMixed65% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a Space 4X and an MMO. An online universe sandbox with 2 galaxies full of planets to colonize. Build structures like Mines to generate resources to build ships and engage in fleet battles with NPCs and other players, or just sit and chat with the friendly community.
Why similar: Strategy 33.7%, Building 21.1%, Massively Multiplayer 18.1%, Open World 10.9%, Trading 9.4%
- #17 Sim Companies
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,093 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 88.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Why similar: Building 24.6%, Management 22.8%, Trading 19.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10.4%
- #18 Planet S
84% matchVery Positive92% of 2,888 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Building 16.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 9.7%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #19 Rebirth evolution
84% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.2%
- #20 Kingdoms and Castles
83% matchVery Positive94% of 31,383 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Building 12.9%, Management 12.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.3%
- #21 Going Medieval
81% matchVery Positive89% of 21,328 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Base Building 18.9%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 12%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
- #22 Per Aspera
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,760 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 10%
- #23 CryoFall
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Building 30.3%, Management 23.9%, Open World 15.3%
- #24 Before We Leave
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,727 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Building 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Top-Down 9.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #25 Ratopia
78% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 11.9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #26 Oxygen
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 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: City Builder 33.2%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13%, Strategy 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #27 My Colony
79% matchVery Positive90% of 279 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 83%, Strategy 16.3%, Indie 0.7%
- #28 The Planet Crafter
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 73,089 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.7 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Building 28.1%, Open World 16%, Exploration 14%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #29 Oxygen: First Breath
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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: City Builder 34.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 10.4%, Management 10%
- #30 Pioneers of Pagonia
74% matchVery Positive81% of 5,473 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 11.6%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #31 Eco
77% matchVery Positive81% of 14,049 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 90.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Base Building 32.4%, Trading 27%, Open World 19.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, Multiplayer 4.2%
- #32 Anno 2205™
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,333 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 52.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Management 9.1%, Building 6.6%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #33 Reactor Tech²
77% matchMixed69% of 367 reviews2021
Dev: 4Co
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, 2.5D 16.4%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%
- #34 Endzone - A World Apart
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,980 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 43.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 7.8%
- #35 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
75% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Strategy 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Top-Down 14.7%, Management 10.6%
- #36 WW2 Rebuilder
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,577 reviews2023
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.
Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 8%
- #37 After the Collapse
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Management 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Strategy 9%
- #38 Cliff Empire
73% matchVery Positive87% of 4,371 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: City Builder 35%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 9.6%
- #39 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
70% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.4% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.3%
- #40 Settlement Survival
72% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Building 18%, Management 13.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #41 Terra Nil
71% matchVery Positive87% of 8,729 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, 2.5D 19.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%
- #42 Prosperous Universe
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,103 reviews2022
Dev: simulogics
Windows
In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Building 14.5%, Trading 13.8%, Management 13.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%
- #43 The Universim
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Building 17.6%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
- #44 AColony
71% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 13.5%, Trading 11.4%, Management 10.5%
- #45 Battle Dawn 2: Terra Reborn
73% matchMixed47% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Zero Games StudiosPub: Gato Games
Windows
Place your colony, find an alliance of like-minded players and triumph over thousands of other players to conquer the world through strategy, tactics, diplomacy and skill in the biggest social-interaction based MMO of all time. Upgrade your colony, collect items for your Avatar and become a legend!
Why similar: Base Building 22.9%, Massively Multiplayer 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Strategy 19%, Top-Down 17%
- #46 Settler's Domain
70% matchMixed63% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #47 Half-Earth Socialism
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,013 reviews2022
Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
Windows · Mac · Linux
Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 51.4% ★, Building 15.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Management 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #48 MiniState
71% matchMixed60% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Nalu Zou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wage war, trade, and build alliances to build the greatest nation the world will ever know.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 52.7%, Strategy 45.5%, Indie 1.8%
- #49 Pompeii: The Legacy
67% matchVery Positive82% of 280 reviews2026
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
Why similar: City Builder 54.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Top-Down 8.9%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #50 Save the Earth
69% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: GameFirst
Windows
Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 54% ★, Strategy 14%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Top-Down 10.8%, Casual 7.8%
- #51 Colonize
69% matchMostly Negative41% of 206 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: City Builder 51.3%, Strategy 15.5%, Top-Down 11.1%, Exploration 11%, Base Building 7.5%
- #52 World Turtles
68% matchMixed67% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Re: cOg Mission
Windows · Mac · Linux
The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.
Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Building 9.6%
- #53 Norland
65% matchVery Positive82% of 10,349 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.2%
- #54 Reshaping Mars
67% matchVery Positive84% of 832 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.2% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 13.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Strategy 9%
- #55 One More Island
68% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Building 14%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 10.6%, Trading 9.8%
- #56 Airborne Empire
64% matchVery Positive87% of 924 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Management 9.1%
- #57 The Final Earth 2
66% matchVery Positive97% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Building 19.1%, Management 17.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 12.3%
- #58 Myths and Legends
65% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Artificial Worlds
Windows · Linux
"Myths and Legends" is our next-gen semi-idle, trading real time strategy, that takes the player 2500 years back in time, but with a sense of humor. The game combines elements of exploration, combat, trade and diplomacy on procedurally generated islands.
Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Building 17.2%, Top-Down 13.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Exploration 9.8%