Games Like Ratopia

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 10%, Survival 9.5%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in colonist management and emergent storytelling.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features beaver-themed colony building with a heavy emphasis on water management and vertical construction.

A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!

Why similar: Difficult 23.9%, City Builder 20.6%, Survival 19.4%, Strategy 12.5%, 2D 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same universe and aesthetic as the seed game, focusing on card-based defense and strategy.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city builder that demands high-level strategy and constant adaptation to survive harsh environments.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Building 19.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 10.5%, Cute 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game set in the Scottish Highlands that mirrors the survival and management intensity of Ratopia.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13%, Building 11.6%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The legendary progenitor of the colony-sim genre, offering the most complex simulation systems available.

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: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 9.8%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust 3D base-building experience with complex colonist needs and defensive mechanics.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Building 9.2%, Management 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an organic, gridless approach to city building with a strong focus on citizen happiness and resource chains.

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: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 12.3%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that emphasizes complex resource chains and population management.

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: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 11.2%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder with a strong focus on survival, societal management, and technological progression.

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: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 11.2%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale population management and complex economic systems in a fantasy setting.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 19%, Management 11%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival mechanic where you build your city on the back of a giant, moving creature.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the social and economic hierarchy of a medieval colony, requiring careful management of your subjects.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 12%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines detailed city building with challenging survival elements and complex farming systems.

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, City Builder 22.3%, Building 13.2%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, voxel-based colony sim that features similar building and management mechanics to Ratopia.

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: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-heavy city builder set in a harsh post-apocalyptic world that tests your management skills.

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 34.4%, City Builder 26.1%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 5.1%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city builder that emphasizes resource management and preparing for harsh winters.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 17.2%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex automation and crafting systems for players who enjoy the economic optimization side of Ratopia.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.1%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival city builder set on a floating town in a flooded world, focusing on scavenging and expansion.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with RPG elements, allowing you to influence the lives of your settlers directly.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 18.7%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city builder with a heavy emphasis on social dynamics, research, and survival in a medieval setting.

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: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 20%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and defending a kingdom against various threats while managing population growth.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes the needs, personalities, and relationships of your settlers.

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 26.4%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city builder that requires careful management of radiation and scarce resources.

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: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city building with exploration and management in a unique sky-faring setting.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Management 7.6%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique underwater city builder that requires managing resources and pressure in a hostile environment.

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: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city builder set in a post-apocalyptic future where air quality and resource management are key.

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, character-driven colony sim that shares the lighthearted aesthetic and management focus of Ratopia.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city builder that focuses on adapting to a harsh, alien environment.

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: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics, trade routes, and colony management across multiple islands.

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.2%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10%, Management 7.9%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 14%, Building 13.6%, Management 10%, Resource Management 6.5%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 19.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.5%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Management 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 9%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 7.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10%, Management 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.2%

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.8%, Management 7.5%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 13%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.7%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 17.2%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 7.4%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 9.3%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 10%, Management 7.7%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.4%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 12.8%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 8%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 36%, Management 16.1%, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 5.9%

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: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Building 12.7%, Survival 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Building 15.7%, Management 15%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 10.3%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.2%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 13%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 6.2%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 7.7%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 18.7%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 9.6%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.7%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 8.7%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 10.1%

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11.1%, Management 7%, Base Building 6.4%

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 20.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.3%