- #1 Plebs and Pillagers
97% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Crafting 7.7%, Management 6.5%
- #2 Above: Colonies of the Mist
96% 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 29.6% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 8%, Crafting 6.3%
- #3 Spirit & Stone
96% 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Exploration 5.6%
- #4 Cavern Adventurers
95% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Underground 10.3% ★, Mining 9.7% ★, Simulation 8.8%
- #5 Aven Colony
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 41.5% ★, City Builder 32.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #6 Hexity
94% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Exploration 4.6%
- #7 ExoColony: Planet Survival
93% 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 18.6%, Mining 17.6% ★, Underground 12.3% ★, Management 6.1%
- #8 Dig a Little Deeper
92% 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 28.2% ★, Mining 15.7% ★, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.5%
- #9 My Colony
91% matchVery Positive90% of 263 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2% ★, City Builder 40.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #10 Keep Them Busy
91% 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 27.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Side Scroller 8.9%, Management 7.8%, Simulation 6%
- #11 Frontera
90% 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 31.6% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Crafting 8%, Building 5.6%
- #12 Scavenger T.O.M
89% 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 25.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Underground 11.3% ★, Side Scroller 11.2%, Crafting 9.2%
- #13 Outlands
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Exploration 5.9%
- #14 CitaDrill
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Moka
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 22.7% ★, Mining 20.2% ★, City Builder 19%, Underground 11% ★, Management 5.5%
- #15 Orc Colony
87% matchMixed60% of 42 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 45.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 7.1%
- #16 Windowed Realms
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, City Builder 26%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 6.8%
- #17 Gnomoria
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 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% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Crafting 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%
- #18 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
85% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 42% ★, City Builder 36.6%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.2%, Building 3.6%
- #19 Kinlings
84% 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 30.4% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Simulation 6.9%
- #20 Sphere - Flying Cities
84% matchMixed50% of 237 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Mining 17.5% ★, Crafting 7.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #21 Skyberry Garden
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Exploration 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
- #22 Diggles: The Myth of Fenris
82% matchVery Positive89% of 643 reviews2020
Dev: Spieleentwicklungskombinat GmbHPub: SNEG
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.6% ★, Mystery Dungeon 24.7% ★, Mining 23.9% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Management 7.1%
- #23 Numbers & Nodes
81% 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 31.1%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.6%
- #24 Banished
82% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 42.5% ★, City Builder 37.4%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Management 2.5%
- #25 Kingdoms and Castles
81% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8% ★, City Builder 36.7%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 5.1%, Building 5%
- #26 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 44.5% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 6%, Management 5.5%
- #27 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
78% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 32.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 6.1%
- #28 Ancient Aliens: The Game
79% matchPositive82% of 34 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 33.2% ★, City Builder 31%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%
- #29 Lords and Villeins
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 23.8%, Management 9%, Crafting 7.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #30 Abyssals
76% 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 33.4% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Exploration 6.3%, Strategy 4%
- #31 Exipelago
77% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: reiti.net
Windows
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Mining 18.1% ★, Underground 10.9% ★, Crafting 7.5%
- #32 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 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 42.4% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 3%
- #33 Skyline Settlers
76% 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 34.9% ★, City Builder 32.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 6.3%, Crafting 6%
- #34 Song of Slavs
75% 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 24% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Management 7.6%, Crafting 6.9%
- #35 Paleon
75% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 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 45.3% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 5%
- #36 Hexagge
74% 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 31.1%, Simulation 14.3%, Exploration 6.8%, Management 5.3%
- #37 Little Porp
74% 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 40.2% ★, City Builder 37.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Building 4%
- #38 Pixel Colony
73% matchPositive95% of 39 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 34.4% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Management 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Strategy 6.5%
- #39 World Cruise Story
73% matchVery Positive96% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
- #40 Dungeons & Kingdoms: Prologue
73% 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 27.6% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Mystery Dungeon 20.4% ★, Dungeon Crawler 12.7%, Strategy 6.8%
- #41 Settletopia
72% 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 32% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #42 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
72% 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 32.6% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 4.4%
- #43 Farmman
71% 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 32% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 6%
- #44 Arcane Shores
71% matchNo user reviews
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 36.4% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 5.5%
- #45 Stonehearth
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 42% ★, City Builder 32.6%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 5.9%, Crafting 5.7%
- #46 NOVA ATLANTIS
70% 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: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, City Builder 35.2%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 1.6%
- #47 Isla Paradiso
70% 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: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.6%
- #48 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%
- #49 City Builder Pro
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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 34.4%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 12%, Management 9.7%
- #50 Our Freedom: Prologue
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 7.4%
- #51 Colony Simulator
69% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.9% ★, City Builder 35.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 3.3%
- #52 Planetbase
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 39.2% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 4.5%, Base Building 4.3%
- #53 Drill Core
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Exploration 6.2%
- #54 Anno 1404 - History Edition
68% matchVery Positive82% of 3,444 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Strategy 12%, Simulation 9.2%, Management 9%
- #55 Wild West Pioneers
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Mining 14.1% ★, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 6.2%
- #56 Steam & Stones
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Mining 13.6% ★, Underground 12.1% ★, Management 7%
- #57 What's Left Behind
69% 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 35.8% ★, City Builder 33.6%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 6.3%
- #58 Village & Monsters
67% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Ilya873Pub: Piece Of Voxel
Windows
Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.9%, Crafting 6.7%
- #59 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk Yurtman
Windows
A side-view colony sim set in feudal Japan, shaped by myth and folklore. Take on the role of a local lord as you build a lively village, explore faraway lands, trade across the world, and defend your people from the Yokai lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 23%, Side Scroller 11%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%