Games Like ROWBOTS

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 19.3%, Automation 12.9%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Space 8.5%

Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, RTS 15%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 16.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Voxel 15.2% ★, Automation 9.8%, Base Building 8%

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 22.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, RTS 10%

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 20.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Automation 12.9%, Robots 10.4%, Base Building 8.6%

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 23.7%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 9.7%, Space 9.4%

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 18.3% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 21.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 14.1%, RTS 13.7%, Base Building 10.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, RTS 18%, City Builder 17.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%

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 28.6%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 14%, Space 10.4%, Survival 6.9%

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 14.9%, Voxel 14.3% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Base Building 11.1%

Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Robots 9.2%

Mysticore is a survival strategy game for 1-4 players. Explore the shattered realms, build your base and defend it against massive enemy waves - all while leaving the busywork to your gnomes.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 13.7%, RTS 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%

Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 17.7%, RTS 13.4%, Cyberpunk 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 16.8%, Voxel 16.3% ★, City Builder 12.8%, RTS 11%, Base Building 9.1%

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 23.2%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 13.9%, Space 8.9%, Cyberpunk 7.8%

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 20.4%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Automation 12.1%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 10.4%

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 21.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 10.4%, RTS 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%

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 30.8%, City Builder 21.3%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 6.6%

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 15.6%, Automation 14%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Voxel 11.3% ★

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 19.6%, RTS 14.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Tower Defense 9.2%

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 31.7%, City Builder 24%, Sandbox 11.3%, Voxel 11.2% ★, Building 9.1%

Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 15%, Tower Defense 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

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 30.7%, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.6%

An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Automation 19.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Robots 10.4%, Management 9.7%

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%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 12.3%, RTS 11.4%, Automation 9%

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 21.2%, RTS 15.7%, City Builder 14%, Tower Defense 13%, Base Building 11.1%

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 28.3%, Voxel 18.9% ★, Automation 17.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Space 7.8%

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 21.9%, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 15%, Sandbox 10.9%, Nature 6.2%

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 26.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.3%

Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.7%, RTS 9%, Sandbox 8.7%

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 25.9%, Base Building 18.7%, RTS 15.2%, Tower Defense 13%, City Builder 9.8%

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 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Automation 11.5%, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 10%

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 17.4%, RTS 13.7%, Automation 9.2%, Building 9%

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 18.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Tower Defense 16.6%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%

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%, City Builder 14.2%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Automation 10.9%

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 17.2%, Base Building 14%, Automation 9.8%, Management 8.9%

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 33.8%, Base Building 17%, Survival 9.5%, Voxel 9.3% ★, City Builder 8.1%

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 25.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.3%

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 21.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Tower Defense 14.9%, RTS 13.4%, Base Building 9.1%

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 35.9%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.8%

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 26.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Voxel 15.7% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 13.4%, Automation 12.5%, Base Building 11%, City Builder 10.3%

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 22.5%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 11.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

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 17.4%, Tower Defense 14.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Robots 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%

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 20.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Space 9.3%

Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.4%, RTS 14.3%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 20.6%, City Builder 16.8%, RTS 14.6%, Tower Defense 13.7%, Base Building 10%

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 16.3%, City Builder 15.8%, Voxel 14.2% ★, RTS 14%, Base Building 11.5%

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: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 25.5%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 9%

NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 9.9%

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 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.6%, RTS 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 8.9%

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 23.6%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 8.8%

Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 19.7%, RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 13.9%, Strategy 8.1%

Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 17.4%, RTS 14.8%, Tower Defense 14%, Sandbox 9.9%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Automation 11.3%, Sandbox 10%

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 26.5%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8%

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 15.7%, RTS 14.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 10.2%

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 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, RTS 12.2%

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 21.8%, City Builder 17.5%, RTS 15.7%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Sandbox 9%