60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation, Base Building.
We call you to survive in a world that only wakes you up once a year. Wake up, collect, build, expand, be prepared for dangers, and sleep for one year! Each awakening brings a new adventure, an opportunity to become stronger!
Embark
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.
Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
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 36.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8%, Survival 7.9%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 7.6%
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 25.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 7.9%
A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Survival 9.1%, Grid-Based Movement 9%
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Open World 12.2%, Voxel 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 12%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 5.8%
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, 4X 24.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.4%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: 4X 40.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 11.5%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 9%
This is a voxel style sandbox game that focuses on survival. You can do anything inside and destroy any block. and cooperatively survive and fight with friends in a world. If you like playing Minecraft, this is a game you must not miss.
Why similar: Voxel 19.2% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 11%, Building 10.3%
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 9.3%
We must revive this post-industrial world. Plant trees to earn Karma, build pipes, join Guilds, and participate in league tournaments to stay alive. Find lost objects to craft secret messages. Go rogue, wander with your dog, steal other players' Karma and grow stronger with every battle
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.2%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Colony Sim 19%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%
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: 4X 27.9% ★, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.4%
A 4x Turn-Based Single Player Strategic Space game. Design and build Your own fleet of space ships, to conquer the Galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 41.9% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%
A turn-based 4X strategy game inspired by classic colony-building games. Explore a new continent, expand across a hex-based world map, and build a network of production settlements directly on the frontier.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Grid-Based Movement 8.3%
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 30.8%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.6%
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Voxel 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.3%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.8%
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 31.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 10%, Strategy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
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 35.4%, Base Building 24.2%, Survival 13.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 7.5%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 18.1%, 2.5D 11.9%, Survival 10%, Building 9.9%
Defensia is a turn-based strategy game. Build structures, Grow carrots, Recruit bunnians, Kill enemies, Keep your castle safe!
Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Building 7%
On a planet with a biome climate similar to Earth, manage your residents from basic construction and planting, develop and research various cutting-edge technologies, recruit soldiers to form troops, resist foreign enemies or actively conquer other countries, and unify this distant planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Voxel 14% ★, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 7.2%
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: 4X 25.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.9%
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: 4X 28.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 9.3%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.1%
A Retro Kingdom Builder RPG where you start with nothing but the fire of imperial ambition burning within your soul. Gather resources to build a fortress and craft weapons which will grant you conquest. Recruit the people of Pyre in your efforts, to hunt, harvest, fight and die at your behest.
Why similar: 4X 32.6% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
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 33.5%, Base Building 23.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.5%, Open World 7.9%
Build modular space stations, manage citizen crews, and master a deep crafting chain in a procedurally generated solar system with real orbital physics. Mine asteroids, smelt alloys, manufacture components, and expand across the planets!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, 4X 20.6% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
A fantasy colony simulator built in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Immersive Sim 17.7%, Grid-Based Movement 15%, Base Building 14.4%, Simulation 14.3%
Underfoot Queens is an ant themed 4x where you will lead your species across generations. Explore, forage for food, expand your colony, fight off competitors, and survive the elements on your path to evolution. In the end, only the most adaptable species will survive.
Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Sandbox 6%
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: 4X 27.4% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 8.7%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 11.8%
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, 2.5D 13.1%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Why similar: 4X 23.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Immersive Sim 8%
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 13.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Strategy 9.1%
Eurekas is a real-time strategy colony sim where settlers battle a hostile, mystical island. Build, survive, use magic, and appease your gods—or risk losing everything to the wild forces that resist your claim.
Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.3%, Voxel 10.7% ★, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 6.9%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.4%
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 27%, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10%, Open World 9%
A pausable real-time tactical and resource management sim driven by dynamic battlefield events. War isn't just about combat—it’s about the daily lives of your soldiers. Keep logistics running, scavenge every usable resource, and do what you can to ease the harsh reality of life on the frontlines.
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 6.8%
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Open World 10.6%
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.6%
A retro-future sandbox RPG set in a frontier era galaxy with procedurally-generated elements. Create, explore, trade, and battle to stake your claim among the stars of a wild galaxy!
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Voxel 13.3% ★, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.4%
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 11.1%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.1%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 8.8%
It's a Chinese ancient city building strategy game that features ancient-style city building, a rich social simulation system, and always dissatisfied citizens. You come to a nice place, and you will become a lord who leads people to live in peace, reclaim wasteland, and build a stable city.
Why similar: 4X 43.7% ★, Base Building 28.4%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12.2%, 3D 2.6%
In STELLARFORGE, you are more than a colony administrator — you are the founder of a civilization at the edge of known space. Build industrial colonies across hostile worlds, command interplanetary logistics networks, and lead humanity through an age of expansion, survival, and discovery.
Why similar: 4X 40.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Base Building 6.2%
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Voxel 12.5% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Grid-Based Movement 9.5%
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 11.1%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Base Building 10.4%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.
Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, 4X 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 11%, Open World 10.9%, Building 10.7%
