- #1 Project Apocalypse
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 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: Colony Sim 15.3%, Real-Time with Pause 14.3% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Zombies 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%
- #2 The Blighted Frontier
96% 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 25.8%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 12.3%, Management 7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%
- #3 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 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%, Base Building 12.8%, Real-Time with Pause 12.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, City Builder 8%
- #4 Zombie Colony
94% 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 23%, City Builder 17.9%, Zombies 15.2%, Outbreak Sim 10.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%
- #5 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
95% matchVery Positive86% of 2,047 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 17.5%, City Builder 13%, Real-Time with Pause 11% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Zombies 9.1%
- #6 After Inc: Revival
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,446 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 15.2%, Outbreak Sim 11% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Zombies 10.1%
- #7 They Are Billions
94% matchVery Positive85% of 51,351 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 56.6 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 23.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Zombies 12%, City Builder 9.4%, Tower Defense 8.8%
- #8 New Cycle
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 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%, Real-Time with Pause 17.1% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Base Building 10%
- #9 Surviving the Aftermath
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 23.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #10 Infection Free Zone
90% matchVery Positive81% of 18,524 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 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 17.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Zombies 12.9%
- #11 Settlements Rising
89% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 23.3%, City Builder 21.1%, Medieval 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 7.5%
- #12 Hamlet
89% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 20.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 10%
- #13 Undead Defense TD
87% 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: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 15.5%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Zombies 11.2%, Outbreak Sim 10.9% ★
- #14 Founders' Fortune
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8%, Survival 5.7%
- #15 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 26.2%, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #16 Oxygen: First Breath
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 20.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 7.9%, Survival 7.6%
- #17 Zomboard
84% 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 28.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Zombies 11.7%, Building 7%
- #18 Endzone - A World Apart
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,980 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 29%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #19 Cloud Exiles
84% 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 16.4%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Zombies 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
- #20 Kingdom Workshop
83% 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 17.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Medieval 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.1%
- #21 Shanhe Builders
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Build an ancient mountain settlement in a deterministic 3D colony survival sim. Choose settlers, plan shelters, farms, workshops, storage and defenses, then survive hunger, winter, illness, trade demands and social strain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 9.2%
- #22 Doomsday Train
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Dystopian 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #23 Zombie Cure Lab
81% matchMixed68% of 468 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 17%, City Builder 13%, Outbreak Sim 10.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Zombies 9.8%
- #24 First Feudal
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 644 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23.4%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.1%, Medieval 10.6%, Building 9.1%
- #25 From Glory To Goo
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,792 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Tower Defense 9.4%
- #26 The Last Haven
79% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, City Builder 14.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Colony Sim 7.7%
- #27 Make Your Kingdom
80% matchMixed58% of 197 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 20.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.7%
- #28 Settletopia
78% 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 18.7%, Base Building 14%, Building 8.4%, Management 8%
- #29 King's Keeper
77% 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 24.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #30 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
79% matchMixed69% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 16.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.6%, Building 7.7%
- #31 Harrowlands
76% 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 22.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Medieval 8.2%, Survival 7.8%
- #32 Towerfolk
75% matchPositive82% of 17 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: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Medieval 11.3%, Tower Defense 8.7%
- #33 NecroCity
77% matchMixed50% of 80 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 24.9%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10%, Zombies 8%
- #34 After the Collapse
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 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 24.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Management 8.2%
- #35 Settlement Survival
75% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #36 Lands of Koastalia
74% 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 24.8%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 10.6%, Building 10%
- #37 Lil Guys
74% 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 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 8.8%, Management 8.6%
- #38 Mega Prison
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chute Apps
Windows · Mac
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #39 That's My Village!
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateusz Binięda
Windows
A roguelite village builder. Assign every job, keep morale from collapsing, and hold the line when fire, plague and monster waves arrive. Win or lose, your Legacy carries into the next run.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Real-Time with Pause 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 8.6%
- #40 Arcane Rings
71% 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 16.7%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Tower Defense 11.5%, Medieval 9.8%
- #41 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed59% of 53 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 16.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Real-Time with Pause 12.4% ★, Management 9.5%
- #42 After Long Night
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 459 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 20.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Zombies 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #43 Civitatem
72% matchMixed63% of 134 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 27.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Real-Time with Pause 11.5% ★, Medieval 10.8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #44 HolyZone
70% 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 19.8%, Real-Time with Pause 17.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 7.8%
- #45 Greedy Little Kingdoms
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil 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 15.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Building 9.7%
- #46 Here Comes The Swarm
68% matchVery Positive85% of 330 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 20% ★, Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Tower Defense 9.2%
- #47 Oxygen
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 19.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
- #48 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive82% of 1,472 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 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 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 8.4%
- #49 Warranted Humanity
69% 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: Colony Sim 16.9%, Outbreak Sim 14.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Zombies 11.4%
- #50 What's Left Behind
72% 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 27.6%, City Builder 26.7%, Building 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Management 9.2%
- #51 The Wild Age
71% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 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 27.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Survival 9.3%, Medieval 8.8%
- #52 Siege of Irdor
68% 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 20.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Tower Defense 10.1%, Medieval 10%
- #53 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
66% matchVery Positive92% of 802 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Medieval 8.5%
- #54 Colony Survival
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 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 31.9%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9.7%, Survival 9.6%
- #55 Frostpunk: 1886
67% 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: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 20%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 8.1%
- #56 Colony Simulator
69% matchMixed66% 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 29.5%, City Builder 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #57 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Medieval 10.5%, Building 9.2%
- #58 Lost Heaven Station
66% 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 23.8%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Building 8.3%
- #59 Frostpunk
67% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 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 25.3%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 6.6%