60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Colony Sim, 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!
1492 - Colonization of the New World
Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.
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.
Chart your nation’s rise in 1492 Colonization of the New World, a turn-based strategy game where you explore, settle, trade, and lead your colonies to independence amid rival empires and native alliances during the Age of Discovery.
Why similar: 4X 37.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Grid-Based Movement 7.9%
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 36.8% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 7.9%, Survival 7.8%
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 25.3% ★, 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 26% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 8%
Explore, Settle and Expand in this god game of tiny proportions!
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 5.9%
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 31.2% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 11.9%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%
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: 4X 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.3%
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 40.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 11.6%
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 28.1% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8.8%
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 19.1% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.3%
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Survival 8.9%
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 28.6% ★, Colony Sim 20% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 8%
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 14.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.6%, Open World 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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Immersive Sim 8%
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 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.3%
Defensia is a turn-based strategy game. Build structures, Grow carrots, Recruit bunnians, Kill enemies, Keep your castle safe!
Why similar: 4X 37.8% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Building 7%
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 23.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, 2.5D 12%, Survival 9.9%, Building 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 35.7% ★, Base Building 24.1%, Survival 13.2%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
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 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Strategy 7.3%
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 39.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%
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 33.7% ★, Base Building 23.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.4%, Open World 7.7%
An enchanting fantasy colony simulator where the world comes alive through intricate simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Grid-Based Movement 15%, Simulation 14.4%, Base Building 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% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, 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 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.8%
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 29.1% ★, Immersive Sim 15.3%, 2.5D 13.1%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 9.1%
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 19.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Strategy 9.1%
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% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 11.9%
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 35.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Voxel 10.6% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Strategy 7%
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 25.9% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Open World 10.4%
A tactical survival and outpost 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 21.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 6.8%
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 27.1% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.9%, Open World 8.8%
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 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.7% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.2%
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 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%
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%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Voxel 13.3% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.4%
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 25.7% ★, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.1%
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 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.5%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 18% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 8.2%
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 26.4% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 10.9%
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 43.5% ★, Base Building 28.4%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.3%, 3D 2.6%
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 11.1% ★, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.6%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.4%
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 19.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Grid-Based Movement 9.5%
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 26.2% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Building 12.6%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
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 39.3% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.3%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.4%
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.4%
Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
Why similar: 4X 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Survival 9.4%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.3%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 7.2%
Mutant Meltdown is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of mutants, build and upgrade your camp, face hordes of mutants and much more!
Why similar: 4X 32.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Building 6.6%
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 40.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 9.3%
Adventure through a limitless procedural galaxy, as you play the role of a colonist in this epic colony simulator.
Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Open World 9%, Simulation 5.2%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: 4X 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.1%
Welcome to the MEOWFACTORY! Automate production lines and manage limited space to achieve perfection. Connect machines with conveyor lines and minimize hand (well, paw) labour! In the near and depressing future, when the world is on the verge of destruction, ONLY MEOWORKERS can revive production!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Grid-Based Movement 11.5%, Strategy 10.8%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5% ★, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 8.7%
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, 4X 21.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.5%
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Base Building 21%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 9%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 7.6%
