- #1 Punk Wars
97% matchMixed61% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.
Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Steampunk 16.5% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #2 Surviving the Aftermath
96% 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 32.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Colony Sim 12.1% ★, Strategy 10.3%
- #3 Industries of Titan
95% matchMixed63% of 1,604 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★
- #4 Airship Dragoon
96% matchMixed50% of 62 reviews2014
Dev: YorkshireRifles
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uber-Hardcore, Turn-Based, Steampunk, Squad Tactics. Battle 6 other factions for control of Pangea in emergent, tactical gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 31% ★, Steampunk 22% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.3%
- #5 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
94% 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: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Strategy 18.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Dystopian 7%
- #6 Frostpunk
94% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Steampunk 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Survival 7%
- #7 Shardpunk
93% matchVery Positive93% of 758 reviews2023
Dev: Clockwork PilePub: Retrovibe
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Why similar: Steampunk 32.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%, Survival 7.4%
- #8 Post-Apo Builder
92% 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: City Builder 29.5%, Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Base Building 26.1%, Strategy 11.9%, 3D 4%
- #9 KAISERPUNK
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 792 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Why similar: City Builder 54.8%, War 27.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #10 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: 4X 29.8% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★
- #11 New Cycle
89% 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 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Strategy 8.5%
- #12 They Are Billions
89% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Base Building 26.8%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Steampunk 15.6% ★, Strategy 8.8%
- #13 Pandora: First Contact
90% matchMixed63% of 638 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 62.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Strategy 14.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #14 Twilight Wars
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 251 reviews2025
Dev: Comrade Bear Games
Windows
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 30.3%, Turn-Based Combat 20.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #15 After Inc: Revival
86% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: 4X 30.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #16 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
87% 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: City Builder 41.1%, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Survival 7.6%
- #17 Urban Strife
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 371 reviews2024
Dev: White Pond GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Base Building 16.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14.3%
- #18 Stars in Shadow
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 816 reviews2017
Dev: Ashdar GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 54.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.2%
- #19 Frostpunk 2
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Steampunk 15.8% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #20 Neuroshima Hex
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Baked Games
Windows
Neuroshima Hex is a post-apocalyptic tactical game from the designers of Neuroshima, the board game. It is all about strategy and tactics on one hexagonal battlefield. The game offers many different units, technologies and special abilities that can be used for an effective strategy.
Why similar: Steampunk 25.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%
- #21 Kaiju Wars
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 269 reviews2022
Dev: Foolish Mortals Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.3%, Strategy 10.5%
- #22 Pax Autocratica: Prologue
81% matchVery Positive80% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Multiverse
Windows
Free stand‑alone Prologue. Shape a grand colony where every life bends to your will. Feel the weight of absolute power as you decree laws, then march into chaos, leading squads in roguelite FPS battles from brutal skirmishes to large-scale battlefields. Play Sector One now & wishlist the full game.
Why similar: Base Building 50.1%, Colony Sim 49.9% ★
- #23 Pax Nova
81% matchMixed57% of 447 reviews2020
Dev: Grey Wolf EntertainmentPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Why similar: 4X 52.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #24 Dieselpunk Wars Prologue
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 172 reviews2020
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Dieselpunk Wars: Prologue is a free version of an epic vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 140 elements to build an awesome war machine. Build vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat!
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #25 Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue
79% matchMixed67% of 331 reviews2022
Dev: Weasel Games
Windows
Project Wunderwaffe: Prologue is some part of the full version of the game. The gameplay starts in the realities of World War II, the Soviets and Allies are coming. Your task in the game is to keep enemy troops as far away from your base as possible. Fight and survive!
Why similar: City Builder 26%, Base Building 25%, War 20.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Survival 11.4%
- #26 Age of Wonders: Planetfall
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 6,593 reviews2019
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Why similar: 4X 40.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, City Builder 17.7%, Strategy 10.4%, War 6.4%
- #27 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
79% 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: City Builder 41.9%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Strategy 19.6%, Base Building 11.2%, 3D 5.5%
- #28 Revival: Recolonization
78% 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: 4X 53.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, War 14.2%, Strategy 9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #29 Epoch Cycle
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: City Builder 59.4%, Base Building 27.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #30 Heroes of Science and Fiction
74% matchVery Positive92% of 696 reviews2026
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Why similar: 4X 36.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Base Building 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%
- #31 Yield! Fall of Rome
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 258 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 30.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%
- #32 Rise of Humanity: Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: Cybernetic Walrus
Windows
Experience the first events taking place in Rise of Humanity – a game that uniquely fuses turn-based strategy & deck-building. Build decks for each hero, collect, upgrade & merge powerful cards, and plan your strategy wisely to save humankind from the machines!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.3%, Strategy 10%
- #33 Retro Commander
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 355 reviews2023
Dev: Noble Master LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).
Why similar: Base Building 65.9%, Strategy 34.1%
- #34 Cataclismo
72% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Steampunk 22.7% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★
- #35 Last Days of Old Earth
77% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Auroch DigitalPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans?
Why similar: 4X 30.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.3%
- #36 Ascent of Ashes
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Strategy 11%, Survival 9.6%
- #37 Burned Land
76% matchMixed56% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Koya Game
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.
Why similar: 4X 47.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.1%, Survival 6.5%
- #38 Ignited Steel: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive94% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: YokaicadePub: Meteorbyte Studios
Windows
Ignited Steel is a mech roguelike turn-based-tactics game. This Prologue features a free standalone campaign where you will discover the origins of the robotic insurrection, as well as the new features added to the main game on Patch v1.1: Uprising.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 34.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 33.3%, Strategy 16.3%, War 16.2%
- #39 Pawns of War
71% matchVery Positive87% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: FLARE
Windows
Dark parallel world in which humanity has destroyed itself. And only small colonies have survived the last centuries holding on to power at the expense of the totalitarian regime of government. You were thrown here after your death, is this how you were given a second chance?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Dystopian 14.8%
- #40 Songs of Syx
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 35.3% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.7% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #41 Castle Empire
73% matchMixed57% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
Why similar: 4X 49.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, War 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #42 Duskpunk
70% matchVery Positive92% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Steampunk 85.4% ★, Dystopian 14.6%
- #43 Star Traders: 4X Empires
74% matchMixed63% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Why similar: 4X 55.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.7%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Strategy 6.5%
- #44 Wizard Warfare
72% matchVery Positive98% of 60 reviews2019
Dev: Psyanotek Limited
Windows
Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.
Why similar: 4X 57.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Base Building 8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #45 Interstellar Space: Genesis
71% matchVery Positive84% of 818 reviews2019
Dev: Praxis Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!
Why similar: 4X 42.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.3%, War 8%
- #46 Dawnmaker
69% matchVery Positive91% of 157 reviews2024
Dev: Arpentor StudioPub: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Steampunk 25.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Strategy 8.4%
- #47 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
69% matchVery Positive89% of 696 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: 4X 38.7% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Strategy 8.8%
- #48 SimPocalypse
70% 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: 4X 40.4% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Colony Sim 11% ★, Strategy 6.3%
- #49 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
68% matchMixed63% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Strategy 11.4%
- #50 Warzone 2100
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,591 reviews2020
Dev: Pumpkin StudiosPub: Underdone Gaming
Windows
In the late 21st century, the world's civilizations are wiped out by a series of nuclear strikes, seemingly caused by a massive malfunction of the new NASDA (North American Strategic Defense Agency) strategic defense system.
Why similar: Base Building 33.9%, Strategy 29.8%, War 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #51 The Last Haven
68% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, City Builder 21.3%, Strategy 16%, Survival 7.2%
- #52 Ecopunk
66% matchVery Positive84% of 114 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: Post-apocalyptic 33.9%, Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Survival 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #53 Cliff Empire
66% 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 38.9%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Strategy 10.4%
- #54 Imperiums: Greek Wars
67% matchVery Positive86% of 540 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
Why similar: 4X 51.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 21%, War 14.5%, Strategy 8.3%, 3D 4.7%
- #55 Airships: Conquer the Skies
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,403 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: 4X 51.3% ★, Steampunk 25.5% ★, War 17.4%, Strategy 5.8%
- #56 Deadlock II: Shrine Wars
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 76 reviews2014
Dev: Cyberlore Studios, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Build your empire upon the bodies of others! Deadlock II: Shrine wars is an exciting game of strategy, resource management and military conquest. Take control of one of seven races as you search for the secret power an ancient civilization.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #57 Dieselpunk Wars
67% matchMixed63% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Why similar: Steampunk 65.2% ★, War 32.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%