- #1 Diseased
97% 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 19.2%, City Builder 14.6%, Tower Defense 11.3%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%
- #2 Planet Barren Objective
96% 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 19.7%, Tower Defense 13.4%, City Builder 11.6%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Survival 8.7%
- #3 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,561 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 8.2%
- #4 Endzone - A World Apart
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,962 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Survival 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Base Building 8.7%
- #5 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
93% matchMixed65% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 25.2%, Tower Defense 9.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #6 Rise to Ruins
94% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.8 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 26.7%, City Builder 21.8%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 7.5%
- #7 Drill Core
91% matchVery Positive85% of 2,424 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #8 Until We Die
92% matchMixed63% of 4,618 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Survival 13%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%
- #9 Make Your Kingdom
91% matchMixed58% of 197 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%, City Builder 21%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #10 Lost Heaven Station
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #11 Sovran's Crusade
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NewFireGames
Windows
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, earn upgrades, build castles, and protect the Altar from waves of minions, all while searching for the "Dragon" and uncovering the truth behind his power. Embody the Sovran in this pixel-art adventure minimalist strategy game.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Tower Defense 17.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 6.7%
- #12 Final Frost
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #13 Scavenger T.O.M
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Scavenger T.O.M is a survival crafting game set in a radiation-contaminated world. Use your exploration robot, T.O.M, to gather resources, craft tools, and survive. With radiation spreading, efficient resource management is key. Plan expeditions strategically and craft wisely to stay alive
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 14.2%, Survival 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%
- #14 The Blighted Frontier
87% 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 29.9%, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.2%, Simulation 8.1%
- #15 Oxygen: First Breath
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #16 Song of Slavs
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Side Scroller 10%, Base Building 8.5%
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,368 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Tower Defense 10.6%, Futuristic 8.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #18 Faraway Lands: Rise of Yokai
84% 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 19.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Tower Defense 12.7%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #19 Hellcrown
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Astral Hearts
Windows · Linux
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Tower Defense 16%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Side Scroller 13%, Base Building 8.4%
- #20 Settlements Rising
83% matchVery Positive81% of 432 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 25%, City Builder 23.4%, Tower Defense 8.1%, Survival 7.4%, Base Building 7.4%
- #21 After the Collapse
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #22 Kingdom Eighties
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,297 reviews2023
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #23 Settlement Survival
81% matchVery Positive85% of 8,017 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Survival 11.6%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #24 Sylox
80% 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 32.4%, City Builder 24.5%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 7.3%
- #25 Kingdom: Classic
81% matchVery Positive91% of 22,662 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%
- #26 Paleon
78% 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 36.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Survival 14.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #27 Banished
79% matchVery Positive90% of 43,242 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 32.4%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 6.8%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #28 Founders' Fortune
79% 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 35.9%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #29 Endzone 2
77% matchMixed68% of 1,055 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #30 Rise Against the Invaders
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #31 Gnomoria
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 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 31.4%, City Builder 25.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 9.5%, Strategy 7%
- #32 Beneath a Dead City
76% 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 29.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 9.9%
- #33 Space Haven
73% matchVery Positive86% of 11,024 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #34 The Wild Age
76% 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 27.9%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 9%
- #35 Settletopia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 25.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.7%
- #36 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 899 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #37 Dawn of Man
74% matchVery Positive87% of 17,803 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Colony Sim 33.3%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #38 Aven Colony
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,775 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, City Builder 30.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.1%
- #39 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
72% matchVery Positive86% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 28.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.1%
- #40 Latticefall: Zombie setting
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Artur Kasimov
Windows · Linux
Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%
- #41 Horizon 1990
71% 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 19.5%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%
- #42 Planetbase
73% 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 31.4%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11%, Strategy 6.1%
- #43 Galaxy Scavengers
71% 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 19.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 12.6%, City Builder 9.6%
- #44 NecroCity: Prologue
71% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
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 23.7%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Colony Sim 17%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.4%
- #45 Windowed Realms
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #46 Ratopia
68% matchVery Positive88% of 4,803 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #47 Wall World Strategy
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 16.3%, Tower Defense 14.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 9%
- #48 Guardians of the Sanctree
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 373 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 18.8%, City Builder 16%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Pawnholm
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 20.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.6%
- #50 Fio and the Doomed City
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 26.3%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 5.8%
- #51 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
70% 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 29.3%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, City Builder 10.2%
- #52 The Crow King
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amanita Games
Windows
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Adventure 7.8%
- #53 Hive and Seek
67% matchMixed60% of 15 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 17.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #54 Edge Islands
66% 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 28.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #55 Orc Colony
69% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, City Builder 14.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Survival 7.1%
- #56 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 24.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 12%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #57 Arcane Shores
66% 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 30.2%, City Builder 28.1%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #58 Castle Formers
67% 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 26.8%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 8.6%