- #1 Banished
97% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: City Builder 37%, Colony Sim 36.6%, Survival 8.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 4.7%
- #2 NOVA ATLANTIS
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 34.2%, Simulation 17.8%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 3.4%
- #3 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
96% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: City Builder 37.7%, Colony Sim 37.7%, Resource Management 7.2%, Survival 7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #4 My Colony
95% matchVery Positive90% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Colony Sim 40.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 5.2%, Indie 1.3%
- #5 Dawn of Man
94% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 41.6%, Colony Sim 35.9%, Survival 10.3%, Simulation 5.6%, Strategy 4.5%
- #6 Beware of Light
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
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: City Builder 35%, Colony Sim 34.5%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #7 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, City Builder 32.5%, Survival 12.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 5%
- #8 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
91% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 33.6%, Survival 10%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 6%
- #9 Aven Colony
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, City Builder 37.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 5.8%, Survival 3.7%
- #10 Colonus
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, City Builder 30.1%, Simulation 18.2%, Resource Management 6%, Strategy 3.2%
- #11 Orc Colony
90% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, City Builder 17.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 6.3%
- #12 Rise Against the Invaders
89% 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: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 33.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 5.9%
- #13 The Blighted Frontier
88% 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 37%, City Builder 30.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Survival 7.8%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #14 Paleon
87% matchVery Positive81% of 424 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 43.7%, City Builder 25.8%, Survival 13.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 5%
- #15 Devouring City
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Colony Sim 33%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%
- #16 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 41.6%, City Builder 29.7%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 4%
- #17 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
85% matchMixed69% of 371 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 39.8%, City Builder 23.8%, Survival 13.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #18 Buoyancy
84% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, City Builder 29.6%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 6%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #19 Compact Colonies
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
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 36.6%, City Builder 27%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 8.8%
- #20 Gnomoria
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, City Builder 33.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Survival 9%, Strategy 5.6%
- #21 Outlands
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, City Builder 32.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 5%
- #22 Founders' Fortune
82% 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 44.6%, City Builder 28%, Survival 8%, Simulation 7.7%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #23 Goblin Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, City Builder 26%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Survival 8.5%
- #24 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
80% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 33.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 7.4%, Survival 5.2%
- #25 Pixel Colony
81% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
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: City Builder 35.4%, Colony Sim 34.4%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 6.6%
- #26 Isla Paradiso
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
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: City Builder 35.6%, Colony Sim 34%, Simulation 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 5.7%
- #27 Spirit & Stone
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 33.3%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 4.3%
- #28 pyramida
79% matchVery Positive84% of 762 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Colony Sim 33.5%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 2.5%
- #29 Arcane Shores
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
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: City Builder 36.2%, Colony Sim 36.1%, Survival 11.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #30 Mox Modular
77% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows · Linux
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: City Builder 39.1%, Colony Sim 37%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 2.8%
- #31 Planetbase
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 38.6%, City Builder 34.8%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 5.1%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #32 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
75% matchVery Positive89% of 639 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 34.1%, Colony Sim 26%, Survival 12.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 9.6%
- #33 Stonehearth
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, City Builder 37.3%, Survival 9.9%, Simulation 5.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #34 Treetopians
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Colony Sim 31.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Resource Management 7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #35 Age of Pyramids
76% matchMostly Negative35% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Colony Sim 31.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #36 Settlements Rising
73% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 32.3%, Resource Management 8.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 7.5%
- #37 Island Master
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 32.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Resource Management 7%
- #38 Colony Simulator
74% 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: City Builder 40.3%, Colony Sim 37.5%, Simulation 18%, 3D 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #39 Settlement Survival
73% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 37.7%, Colony Sim 32.9%, Survival 11.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #40 The Undercity: Last Light
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 31.1%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #41 Patron
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 34.9%, City Builder 33.9%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 6.4%, Strategy 5.6%
- #42 Marsbound
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, City Builder 35.4%, Survival 11%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 5%
- #43 Abyssals
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Colony Sim 34.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Survival 5.6%, Resource Management 3.1%
- #44 Oxygen: First Breath
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 28.8%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #45 The Population Must Grow
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Colony Sim 36.6%, Simulation 18.4%, Resource Management 6.7%, Indie 0.8%
- #46 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Colony Sim 33.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 3.8%
- #47 Surviving the Aftermath
71% matchMixed70% of 4,648 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 37.5%, Colony Sim 29.5%, Survival 12.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #48 Shanhe Builders
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 33.9%, Survival 9.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 5.4%
- #49 Numbers & Nodes
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 9%
- #50 Sky Base Venus
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, City Builder 26.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Survival 8.2%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #51 Above: Colonies of the Mist
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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 34.9%, City Builder 34.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 4.9%
- #52 City Builder Pro
67% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #53 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 33.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 9.9%, 3D 2.1%
- #54 Our Dear Kingdom
67% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 65%, City Builder 16.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 4.7%, Resource Management 4.4%
- #55 Hexagge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
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 37.6%, City Builder 37.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Resource Management 3.8%, 3D 2.6%
- #56 Exile
66% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.9%, City Builder 31.5%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 5.3%
- #57 SugarMill
69% matchMixed49% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Aatlantis Code
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
SugarMill comes to break the rules of village building simulation. Get ready to deal with food expiration, thirst, real-world measurements, and transportation of goods with horse-drawn carriages.
Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Simulation 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Strategy 12%, Indie 2.8%
- #58 Zeus + Poseidon
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,973 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: City Builder 47.6%, Colony Sim 40%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%