
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation.

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.

Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
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....

The Blighted Frontier
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.
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 28%, Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 10.4%, Survival 7.1%
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 29.6%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Simulation 6.6%, Strategy 6.2%
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 28.2%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.3%
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 27.9%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 14%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.3%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
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 24%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 8.7%, Survival 7.7%
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 36.1%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 8.9%, Survival 5.8%
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 31.5%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.4%
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 32.9%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 9.6%, Building 8.4%
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 28.7%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 6.3%
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 34.1%, City Builder 28.8%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 6.2%
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 31.4%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 16%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 5.5%
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 38.6%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 7%, Survival 5.9%
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 37.7%, City Builder 33.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 5.1%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 8.8%, Survival 7.7%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 15%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 6.8%
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 36.1%, City Builder 35.7%, Building 7.1%, Survival 5.9%, Strategy 5.5%
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 30.5%, City Builder 30.1%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 7.8%
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 31%, Colony Sim 27.4%, Building 12.4%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 9%, Building 8.7%
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 32.1%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.7%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Colony Sim 33.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 5.9%
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 33.4%, Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 12%, Survival 8.8%, Building 8.5%
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 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 7.3%
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 37.1%, City Builder 37%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.1%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 7.6%, Building 7.1%
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 28.9%, City Builder 28.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 10%, Base Building 8.6%
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 25.5%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 8.9%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 28%, Base Building 12%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 7.6%
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 34.4%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.3%
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 31.5%, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.3%
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 29.9%, City Builder 28.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.2%, Building 7.5%
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 30.5%, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 7.8%
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 28.4%, City Builder 28.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.3%
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.5%, Survival 8.1%
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 7.9%, Survival 6.5%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Survival 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Base Building 7%
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 28.5%, Building 15.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 5.1%
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%
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: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 9.4%
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 28.2%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 6.6%
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 34.7%, Colony Sim 34.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 6%
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 6.1%
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 34.6%, City Builder 29.6%, Building 9.9%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 6.9%
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 33.2%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Colony Sim 41.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Indie 1.5%
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 40.8%, City Builder 23.8%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 7.1%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Colony Sim 9%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10%, Survival 7.8%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 7.7%
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 6.5%
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 27.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 7.1%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 29.2%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 6.7%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
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 42.1%, Colony Sim 36.7%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 3.9%