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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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 23%, Economy 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.7%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 24.6%, Economy 10.9%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%

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 25.7%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9.1%

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 23.3%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 10.6%

A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 26.4%, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.2%, Management 9.1%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 11%, Economy 9.7%

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: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 21.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Economy 9.6%, Survival 9.6%

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!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 25.1%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.7%, Survival 8.8%

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 26.8%, City Builder 23.7%, Survival 10.6%, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.6%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 27.2%, Economy 11.7%, Building 9%, Strategy 8.9%

What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.7%, Alternate History 9.6%

A secret Soviet research institute is conducting an experiment to create a utopian city. Develop your city, resolve generational conflicts, and overcome the challenges prepared by the institute.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 19.7%, Alternate History 11.6%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 9%

A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 9.6%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.7%

The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 20.6%, Economy 12.6%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.6%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 9%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 31.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 7.6%, Survival 7.2%

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 34.5%, City Builder 31.8%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Resource Management 4.2%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 11.7%, Economy 11.5%, Management 8.2%

Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Economy 12.8%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.5%

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: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 28%, Building 12.6%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.5%

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 25.9%, City Builder 23.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.4%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.6%

A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 24.5%, Economy 12.6%, Building 12%, Management 8.4%

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 36.5%, City Builder 20.9%, Building 10.1%, Survival 7.4%, Management 5.7%

Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 11.2%, Building 11%, Alternate History 9.7%

Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 23.5%, Management 8.8%, Survival 7.6%, Building 7.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 16.9%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 9.8%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 29%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 7.4%

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 25.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11.4%, Survival 9.5%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Economy 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.5%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.1%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Building 12.1%, Economy 10.4%, Survival 9.8%

Pixel Vale is a medieval fantasy city-builder game, focused on building up your city while managing external threats. Fight or trade with other cities, explore through the fog of war, and defend against goblin raids. Research new buildings to expand and keep your citizens happy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 10.7%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.2%

Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 29.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%

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 22.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.7%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 27.2%, Economy 9%, Building 9%, Simulation 8%

Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 9.7%, Building 8.9%

Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 7.4%

Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, City Builder 20.4%, Survival 13%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 6.3%

Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 16.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Management 7.2%

Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.8%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 8.7%, Economy 7.4%

Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.7%, Economy 9.3%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 11.6%, Economy 11%, Survival 9.5%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Colony Sim 34.6%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 6.2%, Economy 4.6%

Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 15%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 10.6%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Building 10.7%, Economy 9%, Management 8.9%

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 32.1%, Colony Sim 24%, Economy 8.8%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 7.3%

Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 11.6%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.6%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Building 9.8%, Economy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%

BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 28.9%, Building 12.3%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 7.2%, Building 6.7%

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: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 19.1%, Building 13.1%, Survival 9.9%, Management 8.8%

Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.6%, Economy 9.1%

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 37.3%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Economy 9%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.4%