- #1 Project Apocalypse
97% matchMostly Positive70% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 14.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.2%, Real-Time with Pause 12.9% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Zombies 9.4%
- #2 Zombie Colony
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Outbreak Sim 17.2% ★, City Builder 16%, Zombies 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%
- #3 After Inc: Revival
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,271 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Outbreak Sim 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Zombies 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #4 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
95% matchVery Positive86% of 2,031 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 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: Colony Sim 16.4%, Outbreak Sim 12.3% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Real-Time with Pause 10% ★, Zombies 9.4%
- #5 The Blighted Frontier
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 25.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 6.5%, Zombies 5.8%
- #6 Undead Defense TD
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Zombies 11.2%, Tower Defense 10%
- #7 Infection Free Zone
93% matchVery Positive81% of 17,669 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Outbreak Sim 16% ★, Zombies 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%
- #8 Cloud Exiles
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: City Builder 14.9%, Zombies 13.3%, Outbreak Sim 13.1% ★, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%
- #9 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
92% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 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 24.2%, Real-Time with Pause 12.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #10 Warranted Humanity
91% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Zombies 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%
- #11 Zomboard
90% 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 26.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Zombies 12.2%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Outbreak Sim 9% ★
- #12 They Are Billions
89% matchVery Positive85% of 50,888 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 56.2 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: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Zombies 13.2%, City Builder 9.2%, Tower Defense 8.6%
- #13 New Cycle
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,809 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.7 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: Colony Sim 18.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Real-Time with Pause 16.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%
- #14 Surviving the Aftermath
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 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 23.4%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #15 Cataclismo
86% matchVery Positive89% of 4,143 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 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: Real-Time with Pause 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Zombies 9.8%, Base Building 8.5%
- #16 Rise Against the Invaders
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
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 26%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
- #17 Endzone - A World Apart
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.8%
- #18 Settlements Rising
84% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Medieval 8.1%, Building 8%
- #19 Founders' Fortune
84% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 8.4%, Survival 6.1%
- #20 Oxygen: First Breath
83% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 21%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.2%
- #21 The Last Haven
82% matchMixed61% of 1,529 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 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, City Builder 14.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #22 Make Your Kingdom
82% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
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 22%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.3%
- #23 Zombie Survival
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Dragon Games Inc.
Windows
The theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Zombies 10.6%, Base Building 7.5%
- #24 From Glory To Goo
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,633 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Tower Defense 9.6%
- #25 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
81% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 31.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Building 8.1%
- #26 NecroCity
80% matchMixed51% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.4%, Zombies 8.8%
- #27 Zombie Cure Lab
78% matchMixed69% of 455 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Zombies 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #28 Kingdom Workshop
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 16.9%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Medieval 10%
- #29 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 23.7%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.6%, Medieval 9.2%
- #30 After Long Night
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 442 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Zombies 13.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #31 Settletopia
77% 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 24.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.4%
- #32 Lil Guys
76% 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 27.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.1%
- #33 Kingdoms and Castles
77% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 25.5%, City Builder 24.9%, Medieval 9.5%, Building 7.7%, Management 7.7%
- #34 After the Collapse
75% 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 24.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #35 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 21.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8.4%
- #36 King's Keeper
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.3%
- #37 What's Left Behind
75% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Zombies 8.4%
- #38 Colony Survival
74% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.1%
- #39 Harrowlands
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 8.7%, Medieval 7.1%
- #40 Settlement Survival
72% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 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.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Building 10.8%, Medieval 10.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #41 HolyZone
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Real-Time with Pause 16.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #42 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 24.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Real-Time with Pause 12.1% ★, Management 8.8%
- #43 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
71% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 28.9%, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #44 Greedy Little Kingdoms
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Real-Time with Pause 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Colony Sim 13%, Building 10.2%
- #45 The Wild Age
73% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Survival 10.3%, City Builder 8.4%
- #46 Lands of Koastalia
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.7%, Medieval 9.2%
- #47 Frostpunk: 1886
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #48 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Real-Time with Pause 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.8%
- #49 Civitatem
70% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Real-Time with Pause 11.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 9.3%, Strategy 8.5%
- #50 Arcane Rings
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Medieval 8.5%
- #51 Towerfolk
67% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Medieval 9.7%, Building 8.3%
- #52 Frostpunk
70% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 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 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 10.5%, Building 6.5%
- #53 DUSK OF WAR
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: oedipe games
Windows
DUSK OF WAR is a base-building game with resource and human management in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are limited. The game is played in real time and allows you to alternate between base management phases and real-time tactical combat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Outbreak Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Strategy 7.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
- #54 Farmman
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
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 25.7%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #55 Repterra
66% matchVery Positive94% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Chute AppsPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.2% ★, Outbreak Sim 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 15%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 9.4%
- #56 Colony Simulator
69% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Simulation 8.9%
- #57 Lost Heaven Station
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Building 8.6%
- #58 Here Comes The Swarm
65% matchVery Positive88% of 258 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Tower Defense 8.9%
- #59 Siege of Irdor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Medieval 8.6%