- #1 PlanetX
97% matchMixed66% of 50 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% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 5.8%
- #2 Project AURA
96% 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%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #3 Imagine Earth
96% 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: Grand Strategy 29.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Top-Down 9.3%
- #4 Post-Apo Builder
95% matchMixed43% of 63 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 19.6% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%
- #5 Kingdoms Reborn
94% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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 45.1%, Base Building 13%, Management 11.3%, Building 7.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #6 Surviving the Aftermath
94% 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 37.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Strategy 12.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 7.3%
- #7 Revival and Exploration
93% matchMixed61% of 95 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 35.4%, Building 16.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 8%
- #8 Settlement Survival
92% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 40%, Building 16.7%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #9 Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
91% matchMixed68% of 201 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 33.4% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Building 6.7%
- #10 Planet S
89% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 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 40.8%, Building 16.8%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 10%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #11 One Hour One Life
90% matchVery Positive81% of 4,579 reviews2018
Dev: Jason Rohrer
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 25.4%, Hand-drawn 24.8%, Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Open World 15.3%, Procedural Generation 14.4%
- #12 Anno 2070™
91% matchMixed60% of 12,622 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 57.6%, Strategy 18.3%, Management 6.8%, Building 6.4%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #13 CryoFall
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 6,397 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.4 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 30.1%, Management 24.5%, Open World 14.9%
- #14 New Cycle
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 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 27.9%, Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Management 9%
- #15 Per Aspera
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 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 33.5%, Building 15.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 10.1%
- #16 CivIdle
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 974 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 79.6 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 21.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10.8%, Building 8.4%
- #17 Before We Leave
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 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 34.1%, Building 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Top-Down 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%
- #18 Rebirth evolution
86% matchMixed63% of 136 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%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #19 Reactor Tech²
84% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2021
Dev: 4Co
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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%, 2.5D 16.3%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.6%
- #20 Ratopia
81% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.5%, Building 16.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 8.7%
- #21 Anno 2205™
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,263 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 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 51.9%, Strategy 14.9%, Management 9.3%, Building 6.5%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #22 Eco
82% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 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: Building 28.2%, Base Building 22.7%, Trading 19.6% ★, Open World 14.3%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #23 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 8.8%
- #24 Oxygen: First Breath
81% 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: City Builder 33.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 10.2%
- #25 Endzone - A World Apart
79% 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 43.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 7.8%
- #26 Pioneers of Pagonia
77% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 27.4%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #27 My Colony
80% 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: City Builder 82.7%, Strategy 16.6%, Indie 0.7%
- #28 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
79% matchMixed69% of 434 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 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Top-Down 14.8%, Management 10.8%
- #29 Build Master: MarsVille
78% matchMixed50% of 290 reviews2023
Dev: FIRST FUN HONG KONG LIMITED
Windows
Build Master: MarsVille is a city-building and strategy game that invites you to create your Martian colony with your engineering genius and building skills. Form alliances, trade resources, and conquer rival colonies. Embrace the challenge and become the ultimate Build Master on Mars!
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 15%, Base Building 14.5%, Trading 10% ★, Strategy 9.8%
- #30 After the Collapse
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 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 27.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Strategy 9.1%
- #31 Cliff Empire
77% 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: City Builder 34.4%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 9.8%
- #32 WW2 Rebuilder
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,515 reviews2023
Dev: Madnetic Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 35.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 15.2%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #33 Prosperous Universe
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,030 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 16.5%, Building 14.3%, Trading 14.1% ★, Management 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11%
- #34 The Universim
74% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 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 39%, Building 16.7%, Management 12%, Strategy 7.6%, Procedural Generation 7.5%
- #35 AColony
75% matchVery Positive89% of 134 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 28.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 13.5%, Trading 11.8% ★, Management 10.7%
- #36 Kingdoms and Castles
74% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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 52.4%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 5.6%
- #37 Norland
72% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 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 28.2% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 9.5%
- #38 Sim Companies
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 998 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Become a Business Tycoon. Build your own company from the ground up. Do business in a virtual economy with players all around the world! Gain valuable business skills for free. An advanced, proprietary, Economy simulation model is used to deliver the best gaming experience.
Why similar: Building 24.1%, Management 23%, Trading 19.8% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%
- #39 MiniState
75% 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 51.9%, Strategy 46.2%, Indie 1.9%
- #40 Save the Earth
73% matchVery Positive83% of 133 reviews2023
Dev: GameFirst
Windows
Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 53.4% ★, Strategy 14.2%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Top-Down 11%, Casual 7.8%
- #41 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
69% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.2% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.5%
- #42 Terra Nil
70% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 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 37.6%, 2.5D 20%, Strategy 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11%, Post-apocalyptic 6.5%
- #43 Andromeda: Rebirth of Humanity
73% matchMixed65% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Null Reference Games
Windows · Linux
Andromeda is a hybrid between a space 4X and an MMO for Android and PC. Get dropped into 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.
Why similar: Strategy 34%, Building 20.9%, Massively Multiplayer 17.6%, Open World 10.6%, Trading 9.7% ★
- #44 Going Medieval
67% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 39.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Management 17.4%, Strategy 12%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
- #45 World Turtles
71% matchMixed68% of 65 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 43.4%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 11.2%, Building 9.6%
- #46 Reshaping Mars
70% matchVery Positive85% of 831 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 13.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Strategy 9.1%
- #47 The Final Earth 2
69% matchVery Positive97% of 386 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 26.4%, Building 18.8%, Management 17.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 12.5%
- #48 SimPocalypse
71% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Building 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 9.4%
- #49 SteamWorld Build
68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Building 13.7%, Management 13.7%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #50 One More Island
71% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 30.2%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 10.9%, Trading 10.1% ★
- #51 Myths and Legends
68% matchVery Positive92% of 51 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 39.5%, Building 17.1%, Top-Down 14%, Strategy 12.8%, Exploration 9.8%
- #52 Project Of Cooling The Earth
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: 人鱼工作室
Windows
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.2%, Base Building 22.9%, Building 20.5%, Resource Management 15.9%, Strategy 10.5%
- #53 Scorchlands
67% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.4%, Top-Down 9.4%
- #54 Reprisal Universe
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 401 reviews2014
Dev: electrolyte
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.
Why similar: City Builder 60.8%, Strategy 17%, Open World 14.4%, Casual 7.8%
- #55 Revival: Recolonization
67% matchMixed69% of 424 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 55.2% ★, Management 13.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #56 Coronation
69% matchMixed66% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Twin Sword Studio
Windows
Coronation, an online medieval sandbox with player-built settlements, dungeons & economy.
Why similar: City Builder 39.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Open World 8.9%
- #57 The Planet Crafter
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 30.1%, Building 28%, Open World 15.5%, Exploration 14%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #58 Escape Gaia
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Current Games
Windows
you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft, summon a wide range of monsters, and ultimately, devour other shattered wills to repair yourself.
Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 14%, Casual 8.8%