- #1 Crownrats
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KineticFox
Windows
Crownrats is a co-op colony RPG where mouse heroes explore locations, capture rooms, mine resources, build a home colony and resist rival warrens. Play solo with bots or together in quick tactical runs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Mystery Dungeon 16.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Dungeon Crawler 8.3%
- #2 The Undercity: Last Light
96% 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 32.6%, City Builder 24%, Underground 13.6% ★, Management 8.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #3 Hiveheart
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PisiPisi Games
Windows
Your tiny colony's adventure begins! Explore the depths of nature in this pink colony, gather resources, and build your nest step by step. Just don't let the little ones go starve! Command your soldiers and workers to keep your queen safe, and turn your colony into a thriving nest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Mining 11.9% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Crafting 6.2%
- #4 Plebs and Pillagers
95% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Kloppfer
Windows
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 19.6%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Crafting 7.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #5 Above: Colonies of the Mist
94% 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 29.7%, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Crafting 6.2%
- #6 Spirit & Stone
94% 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 29.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Exploration 5.6%
- #7 Cavern Adventurers
93% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 25.8%, Underground 10.2% ★, Mining 9.4% ★, Simulation 8.7%
- #8 Quicksant
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pixelpocalypse Games
Windows · Linux
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Mining 17.1% ★, Side Scroller 16.8%, Management 7.6%, Exploration 7.2%
- #9 Aven Colony
91% 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 41.1%, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #10 Sphere - Flying Cities
91% matchMixed50% of 243 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Mining 16% ★, Crafting 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%
- #11 Hexity
90% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 26.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Exploration 4.7%
- #12 ExoColony: Planet Survival
89% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Mining 17.1% ★, Underground 12.3% ★, Management 5.8%
- #13 The Blighted Frontier
89% 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 35.6%, City Builder 26%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 8%, Management 7.5%
- #14 Keep Them Busy
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hooded Penguin
Windows · Mac
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Side Scroller 9.3%, Management 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%
- #15 My Colony
88% 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: Colony Sim 42.8%, City Builder 40.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%
- #16 Dig a Little Deeper
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Mining 15.4% ★, Crafting 9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #17 Frontera
86% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 27.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.6%
- #18 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
85% 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 38.8%, City Builder 29.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%
- #19 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Mining 23.7% ★, Underground 16.8% ★, Management 7%, Exploration 5.5%
- #20 Scavenger T.O.M
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Side Scroller 11.7%, Underground 11.1% ★, Crafting 9.2%
- #21 Outlands
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 27.9%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Exploration 6%
- #22 CitaDrill
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio MokaPub: CobraTekku Games
Windows
Captain a giant drill-city in this roguelite citybuilder. Dig deep into an infested planet, collect resources, expand your city under the dome, upgrade your drill, and protect yourself against waves of fearsome creatures together with your mettle and paw-some cat crew.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Mining 20.2% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Underground 10.9% ★, Management 5.3%
- #23 Shanhe Builders
82% 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: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 29.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Management 6.5%
- #24 Odd Realm
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 17.6%, Mining 15.9% ★, Management 7.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #25 Exipelago
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: reiti.net
Windows
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.6%, Mining 17% ★, Underground 10.6% ★, Crafting 7.3%
- #26 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
80% 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: Colony Sim 41.7%, City Builder 37.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.1%, Building 3.6%
- #27 Kinlings
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gobbo
Windows
Craft your tale in a whimsical fantasy world. Shape a charming city, fulfill Kinlings' needs, and watch their unique stories unfold. Explore, quest, farm, and build. Experience the enchantment of Kinlings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Simulation 6.8%
- #28 Goblin Colony
78% 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 38%, City Builder 22.6%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.7%
- #29 Gnomoria
79% 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 37.8%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 8%, Crafting 7.9%, Simulation 7.4%
- #30 Numbers & Nodes
77% 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 31.8%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.5%
- #31 Orc Colony
79% 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 46%, City Builder 16.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 6.9%
- #32 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 28.9%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Underground 7.6% ★
- #33 Banished
77% 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: Colony Sim 42.2%, City Builder 38.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Management 2.4%
- #34 Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
76% matchVery Positive89% of 656 reviews2020
Dev: Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbHPub: SNEG
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
It`s impossible to refuse to help Odin when he asks to find his pet, Fenris, the hound of Hell. A mix of cinematic adventure and a colony building strategy that will take you deep down to the underground world of dwarfs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Mystery Dungeon 25.5%, Mining 23.2% ★, Strategy 7.7%, Management 6.9%
- #35 Diseased
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yavuz Kala
Windows
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Management 6.3%
- #36 Lords and Villeins
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 24.4%, Management 8.6%, Crafting 7.1%, Strategy 7%
- #37 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
74% 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: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 6.1%
- #38 Malignus
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6%, Simulation 11%, Mining 10.5% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Underground 8.4% ★
- #39 Abyssals
73% 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: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 30.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Exploration 6.3%, Building 4%
- #40 Founders' Fortune
73% 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 44.3%, City Builder 24.8%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 5.9%, Management 5.2%
- #41 Song of Slavs
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Management 7.2%, Crafting 6.8%
- #42 Ancient Aliens: The Game
72% matchPositive84% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows · Mac
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 33.1%, City Builder 31.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 9.3%, Simulation 7.1%
- #43 Dungeons & Kingdoms: Prologue
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, hunt wild animals and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Reap the rewards, unlock new resources and advance your tech.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 23%, Mystery Dungeon 20.9%, Dungeon Crawler 12.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #44 Hexagge
71% 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 35.7%, City Builder 31.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Exploration 6.8%, Management 5.1%
- #45 Skyline Settlers
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 5.9%, Crafting 5.8%
- #46 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
72% 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 42.3%, City Builder 27%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Building 3.1%
- #47 Apocalipsis Ltd
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BOIRATECH
Windows
A colony sim about managing the end of the world for a company that will never admit anyone died. Dig a bunker, staff every work slot, keep survivors fed and sane through four different apocalypses. When the colony falls, it stays fallen — only your personnel file survives.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 26.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 4.4%
- #48 Paleon
70% 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 45.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 5%
- #49 Riftmoor
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rosko gamesPub: Rosko Games
Windows
A colony sim plus dungeon crawler where you build a thriving settlement, manage your citizens, create a powerful army, venture through mysterious rifts into dangerous dungeons, and return with the resources needed to grow your kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 26.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.5%, Strategy 11.4%
- #50 Little Porp
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8%, City Builder 38%, Strategy 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Building 4%
- #51 Settlement Survival
68% 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 33.1%, Colony Sim 32.4%, Management 9.1%, Building 6.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #52 Pixel Colony
69% 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: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 31.5%, Management 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #53 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 31.9%, City Builder 27.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 7.8%, Strategy 5.9%
- #54 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
67% 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: Colony Sim 32.5%, City Builder 29.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13%, Management 4.2%
- #55 World Cruise Story
68% matchVery Positive90% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 22.1%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #56 Arcane Shores
67% 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: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 32.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 8%, Building 5.5%
- #57 Settletopia
67% 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 31.9%, City Builder 24.2%, Management 8%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #58 Hexfactory
66% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila Industrial
Windows
Build cities and factories in an infinite Hex World. Explore more tiles. Balance your city's production and consumption, attract more citizens of different classes, research new technologies and build more factories and cities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 24%, Mining 12.1% ★, Simulation 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%
- #59 Stonehearth
67% 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 41.7%, City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 6.6%, Building 6%, Crafting 5.6%