- #1 Planet Barren Objective
97% 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%, Survival 8.7%
- #2 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 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 24.6%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #3 Endzone - A World Apart
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 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 29.9%, Survival 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Base Building 8.7%
- #4 Rise to Ruins
94% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.7 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 26.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 7.5%
- #5 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
94% matchNo user reviews2027
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 26.6%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Tower Defense 9.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #6 Drill Core
92% matchVery Positive85% of 2,374 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.8 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 23.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #7 Until We Die
93% matchMixed64% of 4,594 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 18.6%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Survival 12.9%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #8 Make Your Kingdom
91% 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%, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%
- #9 Lost Heaven Station
91% 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 22.6%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #10 Final Frost
90% 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 20.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #11 Scavenger T.O.M
89% 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 20.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Survival 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #12 The Blighted Frontier
89% 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 30%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Survival 8.1%
- #13 Arc of Icarus
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 22.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 8.1%
- #14 Oxygen: First Breath
87% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #15 Song of Slavs
86% 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 18.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Side Scroller 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #16 Settlements Rising
85% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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 25.1%, City Builder 23.1%, Tower Defense 8.1%, Survival 7.4%, Base Building 7.4%
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 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 20.3%, Colony Sim 19%, 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 20%, City Builder 16.1%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Survival 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #19 After the Collapse
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 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 17.1%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #20 Kingdom Eighties
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,221 reviews2023
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.0 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 20.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Side Scroller 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #21 Sylox
82% 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 32.5%, City Builder 24.3%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #22 Kingdom: Classic
82% matchVery Positive91% of 22,597 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 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 14.8%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%
- #23 Paleon
80% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 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 36.3%, City Builder 19.5%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #24 Banished
81% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 34.5%, City Builder 32.2%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #25 Founders' Fortune
81% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 36%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #26 Rise Against the Invaders
79% 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 28.5%, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.7%
- #27 Endzone 2
78% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 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 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #28 Space Haven
76% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 16.5%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #29 Gnomoria
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,535 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 31.5%, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 7%
- #30 Beneath a Dead City
77% 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 29.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%
- #31 The Wild Age
78% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.2 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 28%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 9%
- #32 Settletopia
76% 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 20.3%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #33 Horizon 1990
74% 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 17.6%, Survival 16%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%
- #34 Dawn of Man
75% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 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 35.8%, Colony Sim 33.4%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Sandbox 5.8%
- #35 Aven Colony
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 37.2%, City Builder 30.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6%
- #36 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
73% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 29.7%, City Builder 28.7%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.1%
- #37 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 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 22.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #38 Planetbase
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 31.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 6.1%
- #39 Windowed Realms
72% 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 30.3%, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 8.1%
- #40 NecroCity: Prologue
73% 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 23.6%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.5%
- #41 Galaxy Scavengers
72% 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 14.5%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 12.6%, City Builder 9.6%
- #42 Ratopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24.7%, City Builder 18.5%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #43 Guardians of the Sanctree
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 370 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 15.9%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #44 Wall World Strategy
71% matchNo user reviews
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%
- #45 Pawnholm
70% 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 21.7%, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Base Building 10%, Survival 9.5%
- #46 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
71% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 29.4%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, City Builder 10.1%
- #47 Fio and the Doomed City
70% 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 29.2%, City Builder 26.2%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 5.8%
- #48 The Crow King
69% 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 30.9%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Adventure 7.6%
- #49 Orc Colony
71% matchMixed60% of 42 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 39%, City Builder 14.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Survival 7.1%
- #50 Hive and Seek
67% matchMixed64% of 14 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 18%, City Builder 16%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Side Scroller 10.8%, Survival 9.9%
- #51 Edge Islands
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 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 28.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Survival 8.7%
- #52 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
69% 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 28%, City Builder 24.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #53 Zombie Cure Lab
67% matchMixed69% of 455 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Survival 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #54 Castle Formers
68% 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 26.9%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 8.7%
- #55 Arcane Shores
67% 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 30.3%, City Builder 27.9%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 6.8%
- #56 Border Base
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 19.4%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%
- #57 Dubai Builder
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Tower Defense 10.2%, Management 9.6%