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  1. #1 The Crust
    97% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Automation 13.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

  2. #2 Timberborn
    96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 16%, Voxel 15.4%, Automation 10.4%, Base Building 7.9%

  3. #3 Quriocity
    96% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
    Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
    Windows · Mac

    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 22.6%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, RTS 9.8%

  4. #4 The Travelling Land
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Brain Up
    Windows

    Build, sail, and thrive in a strategic floating city! Manage biomes, rescue species, and harness the power of wind to navigate a world shaped by extreme climates. Balance ecology, exploration, and survival in this unique city-builder.

    Why similar: Voxel 18%, City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

  5. #5 The Colonists
    94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 16.1%, Automation 13.6%, Robots 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%

  6. #6 Venusville
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
    Windows

    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 23.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 9.5%, Space 9.3%

  7. #7 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
    93% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
    Dev: Door 407
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Tower Defense 14.1%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 10.2%

  8. #8 Colony Break
    91% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Artical Software
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Your people are the power, and the problem. Land on an unknown planet and build a thriving colony in this sci-fi sim. Humanity’s last hope, rests in a pristine, yet perilous world. Will your COLONY survive, or will their conflicts BREAK it apart?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 16%, Sandbox 11.6%, PvE 9.3%, Cyberpunk 8.7%

  9. #9 Planetbase
    92% 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 28.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 14%, Space 10.3%, Survival 6.8%

  10. #10 Planet Barren Objective
    91% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: Kaan Özgül
    Windows

    Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Automation 12.8%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%

  11. #11 VENOY
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
    Windows

    VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, RTS 17.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 9.8%

  12. #12 Frontier Control : Invasion
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: StarvingFox Studio
    Windows

    Frontier Control: Invasion is a Real-Time Strategy survival game in which you play the commander of a human space colony under the attack of outer space robots. Build your base, train your colony, and fight herds of enemies and bosses.

    Why similar: RTS 14.7%, Voxel 14.3%, City Builder 14%, Tower Defense 13.4%, Base Building 11.2%

  13. #13 Insect Empires
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
    Windows

    Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 14.6%, RTS 11.5%, Base Building 11%, Tower Defense 10%

  14. #14 Sylox
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonz
    Windows

    Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 21%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 6.7%

  15. #15 Make Your Kingdom
    87% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
    Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
    Windows

    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: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 10.4%, RTS 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

  16. #16 Stonehearth
    86% 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 31.9%, City Builder 23.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Voxel 11.1%, Building 9%

  17. #17 After Long Night
    84% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
    Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
    Windows

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, RTS 14.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Tower Defense 9.2%

  18. #18 Facteroids
    85% matchVery Positive80% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: by Jan Zizka
    Windows

    Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 15.7%, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Voxel 11.1%

  19. #19 Colony Survival
    86% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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 30.8%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.5%

  20. #20 Clipper
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Adequate Games
    Windows · Linux

    An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Automation 20.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Robots 10%, Management 9.9%

  21. #21 Age of Respair
    83% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Respair Games
    Windows

    Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 11.1%, Automation 9.5%

  22. #22 Night is Coming
    82% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2025
    Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
    Windows

    Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, RTS 15.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Tower Defense 13%, Base Building 11.1%

  23. #23 Brand New World
    82% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
    Dev: LandS Studio
    Windows

    You are given a chance to influence the development of your characters and settlement, forcing you to think strategically and make decisions that will affect the events in the game. Enjoy this immersive game experience where your every move will have meaning and consequences.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 17.6%, RTS 14.7%, Sandbox 11%, Nature 6.2%

  24. #24 Dawn Apart
    81% matchMostly Positive73% of 239 reviews2025
    Dev: Industrial Technology and WitchcraftPub: Astra Logical
    Windows

    Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

    Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Automation 18.7%, Voxel 18.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Space 7.6%

  25. #25 Going Medieval
    79% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Voxel 17.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 8.8%

  26. #26 Hostile Mars
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Big Rook Games
    Windows

    Hostile Mars is a factory-building game focused on combat! Explore an open world and discover new tech to unlock powerful weapons and structures. Create efficient supply chains using delivery bots. Salvage destroyed enemies for resources. Design your base to withstand increasing waves of enemies!

    Why similar: Tower Defense 15.2%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Automation 12.1%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%

  27. #27 They Are Billions
    79% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
    Dev: Numantian Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 18.6%, RTS 15%, Tower Defense 12.9%, City Builder 9.7%

  28. #28 Survivors of the Wildstone
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Fire Toast
    Windows

    Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 13.4%, Automation 9.8%, Building 9%

  29. #29 Guardians of the Sanctree
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2024
    Dev: HuCang Studio
    Windows

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Tower Defense 14%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Automation 11.5%

  30. #30 HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea
    80% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2017
    Dev: ActaLogic
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Tower Defense 14.8%, RTS 13.2%, Base Building 9.2%

  31. #31 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
    77% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
    Dev: Axella Games
    Windows

    Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Tower Defense 16.7%, City Builder 16.4%, RTS 14.8%, Base Building 12.2%

  32. #32 Avian Colony
    77% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Automation 10.3%, Management 9.1%

  33. #33 Revive & Prosper
    75% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
    Dev: Mystiqular
    Windows

    A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?

    Why similar: Voxel 18%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%, City Builder 10.1%

  34. #34 Kingdoms and Castles
    76% 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 30.7%, City Builder 28.7%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 8%, Base Building 7.6%

  35. #35 Beyond These Stars
    75% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows

    Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%

  36. #36 Founders' Fortune
    76% 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 36.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.8%

  37. #37 Hive and Seek
    73% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Knight Owl Games
    Windows

    Hive and Seek is a side-scrolling strategy base-building game where you clear space stations infested with monsters. By rallying robots and clearing rooms from all kinds of danger, you will be able to destroy hives and recapture the station piece by piece.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, Tower Defense 14.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Robots 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%

  38. #38 Farmman
    74% 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 25.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.2%

  39. #39 Space Station Tycoon
    74% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
    Dev: Lunheim Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 9.2%

  40. #40 Darfall
    72% matchMostly Positive74% of 470 reviews2025
    Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
    Windows

    Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Voxel 14.1%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 11.6%

  41. #41 Siege of Irdor
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
    Windows

    Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 16.6%, RTS 14.3%, Tower Defense 13.7%, Base Building 10%

  42. #42 Magnery Reign
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
    Windows

    Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 15.4%, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Automation 10.7%

  43. #43 Architect of Ruin
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Linux

    Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Automation 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.8%

  44. #44 Generation Exile
    70% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
    Dev: Sonderlust Studios
    Windows

    Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Nature 9%, Building 8.9%

  45. #45 Starship Colony
    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Black Belt Software
    Windows

    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 26.6%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.2%

  46. #46 Seeds of Resilience
    73% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
    Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.7%

  47. #47 Tokeis
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Toe Key
    Windows

    Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!

    Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.8%, RTS 12%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 9.1%

  48. #48 Cannon Island
    70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
    Dev: PlayDuck
    Windows

    Cannon Island is a roguelike city builder, where you colonize procedurally generated islands and fight rivals. Wise building placement and resource management are the key to victory.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, RTS 12%

  49. #49 Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
    67% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,633 reviews2025
    Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 17.3%, RTS 15.4%, Tower Defense 15%, Sandbox 8.9%

  50. #50 Settlements Rising
    68% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
    Dev: The Catalyst Crew
    Windows

    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 26.5%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 9.8%, Tower Defense 8.7%, Sandbox 8%

  51. #51 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
    69% 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 22.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

  52. #52 Architects of Shangri-La
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SlavGames
    Windows

    Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 19.9%, RTS 15%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.6%

  53. #53 Rise to Ruins
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
    Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 6.8%

  54. #54 Gnomoria
    70% 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 32.3%, City Builder 23.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 8.1%, Survival 6.6%

  55. #55 Arcane Shores
    68% 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 30%, City Builder 25%, Building 9%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 7.3%

  56. #56 IXION
    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Space 13.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.4%

  57. #57 Ignis Corruption
    69% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2022
    Dev: Anderson Marques
    Windows

    In this Procedural City-Building and Survival game, you must manage your resources, expand your village, assemble an army and destroy the source of evil, which changed the entire eco system of a land that was once prosperous and peaceful.

    Why similar: City Builder 17%, RTS 16.1%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 7.6%

  58. #58 Edge Islands
    66% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: LS Games
    Windows

    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 28.5%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 13.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.4%

  59. #59 Kubifaktorium
    67% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Automation 15.4%, Voxel 14.2%, Base Building 9.4%

  60. #60 Drill Core
    64% 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 25.4%, Tower Defense 17.8%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 7.6%

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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