Games Like Re/terra

Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Real Time Tactics 19.4%, Time Management 18.6%, Building 8.1%, Base Building 5.7%

A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Time Management 14.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Alternate History 8.5%, Building 6.2%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Real Time Tactics 17.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Exploration 6.7%

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 34.4%, Dystopian 14.6%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%

SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Real Time Tactics 23%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14%, Base Building 7.4%

"What a Wonderful Venom World" is a difficult survival sim. All food is poisoned, and you must find an antidote through endless trial and error. Face countless deaths and share info with other players to speed up your research. This game is for players who enjoy a serious challenge.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Real Time Tactics 21.4%, Time Management 14.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Exploration 6.4%

IdleZomb: Manage a ruined hospital, create zombies, evolve them, or sacrifice them for DNA. Every decision counts in this post-apocalyptic management game. Early Access focuses on the basics, with content available up to level 20.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Real Time Tactics 24.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

Will you manage to make a thriving metropolis or will you have to settle for a small rural town?

Why similar: America 24% ★, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Time Management 14.7%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.1%

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 44.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6%

Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Real Time Tactics 23.9%, Strategy 16%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 4.6%

You are the acting captain of the last war vessel of humanity. Now the ship is your home and refuge. "real-time roguelike spaceship sim"

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Real Time Tactics 22%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Strategy 9.3%, Exploration 7.4%

L'Avancée du désert est un jeu de gestion où vous devez développer votre colonie spatiale pour récolter de la nourriture et trouver de nouvelles technologies tout en combattant la désertification.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 30%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.1%

Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Real Time Tactics 21.3%, Time Management 17.7%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.6%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 14.7%, Building 8.6%, Survival 4.1%

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 6.4%

The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.

Why similar: Colony Sim 71.7%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 14%

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 51.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.8%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Survival 7.6%

An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, Time Management 15.7%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Puzzle 8.5%

Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Real Time Tactics 18.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 4.4%

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 56.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.3%

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 38.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 8.5%, Survival 8.4%

Guide fragile homunculi with limited lifespans through humanity's final bid for survival across six hostile worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Survival 7.7%, Time Management 7.6%

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 43.3%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.1%

Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Real Time Tactics 23.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 8.3%, Exploration 6.6%

Manage dev teams. Hit deadlines. Deliver quality. OTIF is a kanban board simulation where every hire, every card, and every decision has a cost — and the client is watching.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 23.5%, Time Management 19.2%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 14%, Puzzle 10.7%

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 51.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10%, Survival 8.5%, Simulation 4.8%

"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Real Time Tactics 32.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 9.7%, 2D 3.1%

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: Colony Sim 34.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Survival 7.8%

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 42.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8%, Strategy 6.5%

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 34.9%, Time Management 17.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Base Building 7.2%

Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Simulation 15%, Time Management 14.4%, Strategy 14%, Alternate History 11.9%

Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Strategy 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.3%

Build a small mining colony in deep space and defend it from alien invaders as you extract precious minerals from asteroids in Astro Mining.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Real Time Tactics 24.3%, Time Management 21.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 6%

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 42.1%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%

Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Building 10.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Time Management 7.3%

A strategy/castle builder. Create a character, build your palace, build up your defenses, craft, adventure and conquer all ancient China. Recruit legendary Heroes to lead into battle and command and fight real-time battles against waves of enemy forces out for your blood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Real Time Tactics 23.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Exploration 8%

Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Real Time Tactics 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 7.9%

License To Clone is a challenging Open World Sandbox Survival RPG where you learn through survival. Explore a desert with a dynamic economy full of rogue factions. Experiment with powerful mutations. Tame creatures and extract powerful body parts to splice your DNA in your cloning lab.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Real Time Tactics 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.6%

Earthlings is a side-scrolling settlement builder. Manage your colonies and survive disasters while you make weird monuments for a space delivery guy pretending to be your God.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9%, Time Management 18.9%, Alternate History 13.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Exploration 5.7%

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: Colony Sim 22.3%, Real Time Tactics 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Strategy 10%, Building 9.4%

Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 13%, Survival 8.5%

Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.8%

Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Time Management 14.3%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%

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 44.5%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Base Building 8%

A single-player survival RTS game about exploring the vast cosmos, the many planets inhabiting it and their countless secrets. You'll need to explore, gather resources and research new technologies in order to survive, thrive, and eventually build a colony on a bizarre, foreign world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Real Time Tactics 19.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Survival 7.3%

The technologically advanced humanity starts looking for other planets to conquer. Now that the Earth is depleted of its resources, we're looking for them elsewhere. The Universe is open for us now - and it cannot hide any secrets. So how will you conquer it?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Time Management 14.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8.5%

A traffic-control incremental game where you click and drag cargo ships, guiding them to docks to unload. With the proceeds, purchase upgrades to enhance your profits, unlock new ship types, build your station, and expand your merchant empire. Try to win capitalism as quickly as possible!

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 34.3%, Time Management 26.5%, Dystopian 14%, Strategy 10.1%, Puzzle 7.1%

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Real Time Tactics 26%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Base Building 6.9%

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 55.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Survival 9.2%

Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Time Management 19%, Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%

Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!

Why similar: Colony Sim 72.2%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 12.8%

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 42.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.2%

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 43.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 13.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 8.2%

Build the future under the sea in this retro sci-fi city tycoon.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Alternate History 17.7%, Time Management 16.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Survive through Lapland's frozen beauty in this Sámi-inspired survival strategy game. Don't conquer nature, listen to it. Master the seasons in a fragile ecosystem where sustainability is the only way to endure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Time Management 26.7%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 10.3%

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 49.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 7.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Alternate History 17.1%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%