- #1 Oxygen Not Included
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 6.3%
- #2 Underground Nomads
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8.2%
- #3 Adaptory
96% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Automation 7.7%
- #4 Embark
95% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 7.8%, Simulation 6.5%, Building 6.3%
- #5 Vilset
94% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Automation 9%
- #6 Dinky Guardians
93% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Automation 10.5%, Survival 7.4%
- #7 Maia
94% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.4%, Simulation 9%, Management 8.2%
- #8 Arcbound
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Base Building 19%, Simulation 8.5%, Management 8.1%, Building 7.7%
- #9 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 8.8%, Automation 7.1%
- #10 Architect of Ruin
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 8.6%, Automation 7.5%
- #11 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
90% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 6.8%
- #12 Lil Guys
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.8%
- #13 Avian Colony
88% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 8.4%
- #14 Tree House Survivors
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Building 7.8%
- #15 Founders' Fortune
86% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 47.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 7.6%, Building 7.4%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #16 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Mars 16.9% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Survival 7.3%
- #17 Common'hood
86% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 9.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 7.8%
- #18 TFM: The First Men
84% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 7.4%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.5%
- #19 Quriocity
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Mars 11.2% ★, Resource Management 11%, Survival 9.8%
- #20 Wanderers' Outpost
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wind Arthouse
Windows · Linux
A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.4%, Building 8.3%
- #21 Sect Leader's Decree
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #22 Occupy Mars: The Game
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Mars 19.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #23 Venusville
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 9.8%, Simulation 7%
- #24 Sheltered 2
82% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Survival 13.3%, Building 6.3%
- #25 RimWorld
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 38.8% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 10.9%, Moddable 7.8% ★, Management 6.9%
- #26 MARS
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyborg Dreams
Windows
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Mars 20.1% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #27 Oxygen: First Breath
79% 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: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Simulation 7.7%
- #28 DeepWork
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CCS
Windows
Manage your parcel, build, collect and expend. Research to unlock new possibility. Explore to increase profitability. Dive under the surface to discover secrets. Is this planet hiding treasures or threats?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Mars 26% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, Automation 9.5%
- #29 Nuclear Crawler
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 24.7%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.2%
- #30 The Crust
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Automation 10.1%, Building 6.9%
- #31 Never Secure
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, Base Building 17%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 10.7%
- #32 Starship Colony
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.9%
- #33 CLOUD DWELLERS
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
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 41% ★, Base Building 19.1%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.7%
- #34 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 7.5%, Simulation 5.3%
- #35 Dystopians
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 9.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 8.7%
- #36 Farlanders
73% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Mars 19.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 7%
- #37 Mars Colony Builder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 10.7%, Building 7.9%, Management 7.7%
- #38 Stonedeep
75% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.1%
- #39 Farlanders: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, Mars 21.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 7.3%
- #40 Space Architect
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Automation 8.9%
- #41 Settletopia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 8.5%, Simulation 8%
- #42 Sandustry
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11%, Automation 9.3%, Survival 8.6%
- #43 First Feudal
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 8.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #44 Surviving Ceres
70% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%
- #45 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% 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: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #46 Stranded: Alien Dawn
69% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Base Building 24.8%, Survival 15.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #47 Reclaim Earth
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%
- #48 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
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 29.4% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Automation 9.5%, Moddable 8.1% ★
- #49 SuperColony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 11.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.2%
- #50 Planetbase
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 7.3%, Building 4.5%
- #51 Ecopunk
67% 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: Colony Sim 43.5% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #52 Survival Vacancy
70% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 8.8%, Automation 8.8%
- #53 Blacksmith Master
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 9.4%, Moddable 8.5% ★
- #54 After the Collapse
69% 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: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 10.9%, Management 8.3%, Moddable 7.7% ★
- #55 Sigma Draconis
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 7%
- #56 Cosmic Castaway
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #57 Oxygen
67% 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: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Building 7.7%
- #58 Subzero Tides
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #59 Zomboard
66% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Building 7.2%