- #1 Idyll
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdyllWorks
Windows
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 43.5%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 5.3%, Simulation 5.2%
- #2 Embark
96% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 53.5%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 6.1%, Strategy 5.2%
- #3 Rise And Grind!
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AkdumanDev
Windows
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!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Survival 9.1%, Grid-Based Movement 9%
- #4 Dwarf Things
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
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 43.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #5 SuperColony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 40.3%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 8.3%, Roguelite 7.1%
- #6 Penta Terra
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barking Mudpuppy LLC
Windows
An enchanting fantasy colony simulator where the world comes alive through intricate simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47%, Immersive Sim 17.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Grid-Based Movement 9.1%
- #7 Oxygen Not Included
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,054 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 49.7%, Base Building 25.9%, Survival 14.2%, Simulation 3%, Strategy 2.7%
- #8 Rows Of Earth
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glasworks Studios
Windows
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, Base Building 23.5%, Survival 12.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7%
- #9 Wild West Simulator
91% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: DIG Games
Windows
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Western 22.9% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Open World 7.1%
- #10 Breadoria
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8%, Base Building 22%, Survival 12.6%, Simulation 5.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #11 The Five Monks
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mad GoblinsPub: team BLACKCODE Inc.
Windows
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%
- #12 HullRats
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8.7%, Isometric 8%
- #13 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
89% matchMixed69% of 367 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 48.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Survival 14.8%, Isometric 6.8%, Strategy 5.4%
- #14 TFM: The First Men
88% matchMixed60% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 48.6%, Base Building 25.7%, Survival 8.4%, Open World 7.3%, Strategy 4%
- #15 Greenfeet Haven
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
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 37%, Base Building 19.8%, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 6.2%
- #16 Realm Keep
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harry Mahal
Windows
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 44.5%, Base Building 22.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 6.9%
- #17 Paleon
85% matchVery Positive81% of 420 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 55.7%, Survival 15.9%, Historical 7.8%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #18 Edge Islands
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 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 42.1%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #19 Maia
86% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 13.9%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #20 Never Secure
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 16%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 6.8%
- #21 Colony of the Forsaken
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tazdingol
Windows · Mac
Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you control multiple villagers, build up your settlement during the day, and defend it from enemy waves at night. The focus is on managing villagers, surviving losses, exploring for progress, and shaping each villager through skills and spells.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Strategy RPG 7.7%
- #22 Total World Liberation
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Open World Survival Automation Crafting Building Turn-Based game, yup that's a huge mix of genres and it works!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 18%, Survival 11.1%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #23 Beneath a Dead City
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 14.1%, Simulation 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #24 Colony Survival
82% matchVery Positive92% of 8,956 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 49.9%, Base Building 23.2%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 7.8%, Strategy 4.3%
- #25 Meowdieval Clowder
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DrillMind
Windows
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 46.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Open World 6%
- #26 Last Monument
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Levikinco
Windows
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11.7%, Roguelite 8.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #27 Ascent of Ashes
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 302 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 17.1%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy RPG 7.5%
- #28 Buoyancy
81% matchMixed55% of 830 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 58.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Open World 5%
- #29 Surviving Ceres
77% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
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 38.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 10.1%, Immersive Sim 7.8%
- #30 Sheltered 2
79% matchMixed45% of 2,210 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Strategy RPG 4.6%
- #31 Nuclear Crawler
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, Base Building 28.9%, Open World 8%, Strategy 6.9%, Isometric 6.8%
- #32 The Wild Age
78% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, Base Building 23%, Survival 14.7%, Isometric 7.3%, Strategy 6.9%
- #33 Castle Formers
76% matchPositive96% of 48 reviews2021
Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
Windows
Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Strategy 7.6%
- #34 Pawns Survival
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pawn Bros Games
Windows
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 40.5%, Base Building 21%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 4.6%
- #35 From Nothing
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
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 42.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.4%, Grid-Based Movement 5.1%
- #36 DuneHaven
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LokaFab
Windows
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 10.1%, PvE 8.4%, Survival 5.4%
- #37 Zenith Expanse
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Dynamic Narration 14.7% ★, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 4.9%
- #38 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Base Building 23.1%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 6.2%, Strategy 4.3%
- #39 The Colony
76% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 80.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 9.8%
- #40 Aztecs: The Last Sun
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 129 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Historical 11.3%, Survival 11%
- #41 Compact Colonies
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Historical 9.6%, Strategy 6.8%
- #42 RimWorld
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 244,068 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.5 hrsMean: 265.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 45.5%, Base Building 24.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 6.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #43 Founders' Fortune
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 58.1%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 5.2%, Strategy 4.7%
- #44 Arcbound
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.2%, Base Building 24.4%, Survival 8.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 4%
- #45 Settlers of Pineshore
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Masseli Art
Windows
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6%, Western 13.8% ★, Strategy 13%, Open World 9.7%, Survival 8.9%
- #46 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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 42%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 11.4%, Historical 11.2%, Simulation 10.7%
- #47 Tiny Factions
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Uğur CANPub: Stechkom Software
Windows
Produce, build your city, manage your people, and conquer the islands! Become a legend under your own banner with Tiny Factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #48 Terrahold
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SMAR Studio
Windows
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 47.9%, Base Building 23.5%, Isometric 8.1%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 5.3%
- #49 Horizon 1990
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 18.4%, Strategy 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #50 Malignus
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
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 49.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Survival 5.2%
- #51 Primage
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Fadzior
Windows
As the leader of a Stone Age tribe, gather resources, develop your settlement and lead your people through the challenges of a world full of danger and mystery. Your survival skills, strategic planning and decision-making will be key in this battle for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Dynamic Narration 12.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Strategy RPG 10.6%
- #52 Diseased
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yavuz Kala
Windows
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen 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 36.8%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 11.3%, Roguelite 7.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #53 Wastelander
68% matchPositive89% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: Appstronaut Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms. Build a colony from nothing, find and unlock unique buildings and re-activate powerful relics to protect yourself. Will you survive and get off the planet?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Base Building 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Isometric 9%, Roguelite 8.6%
- #54 White Signal
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Frenari
Windows
Manage a remote mountain shelter, rescue stranded survivors, and survive the brutal cold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.6%, Immersive Sim 18.9%, Survival 12.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #55 Underground Nomads
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7%, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 13.7%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #56 The Omins
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 7.2%, Historical 4.4%
- #57 Planetbase
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,401 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 50.2%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 3.5%
- #58 Type2
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2%, Base Building 24%, Isometric 11.7%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7%
- #59 Galaxy Scavengers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
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: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 29.7%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Open World 7.2%
- #60 The Blighted Frontier
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 51.1%, Base Building 23.1%, Survival 10%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7%