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Games Like Radia Island

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Colony Sim, Management, Survival.

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Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: Radia Studio
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    Dev: Broken Toilet Games
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    Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!

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  2. #2 Kingdoms and Castles
    96% matchVery Positive94% of 31,326 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
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    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.

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  3. #3 Oxygen: First Breath
    96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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!

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  4. #4 Isla Paradiso
    95% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Paradiso Studio
    Windows

    Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.

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  5. #5 Crowded Blue Dot
    94% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
    Dev: cys20 studio
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    Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

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  6. #6 Settlement Survival
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 8,017 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.

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  7. #7 Farmman
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rossoft Interactive
    Windows · Mac

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    92% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

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    91% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

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  10. #10 Beyond These Stars
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

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  11. #11 The Colonists
    90% matchVery Positive86% of 1,233 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

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  12. #12 Wild West Pioneers
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
    Windows

    Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!

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    88% matchVery Positive81% of 432 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

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  14. #14 Galaxy Scavengers
    87% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

    Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.

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    86% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Let's Try Games
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    86% matchMostly Positive72% of 899 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    81% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
    Windows

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    81% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    80% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Linux

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    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,580 reviews2020
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    72% matchNo user reviews
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    72% matchNo user reviews
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    69% matchVery Positive91% of 4,471 reviews2021
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    68% matchNo user reviews2026
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