- #1 KingForge
96% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.8%, Medieval 8.8%
- #2 Embark
97% 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 41.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #3 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
95% matchVery Positive84% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, RTS 13.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.3%, Survival 7.7%
- #4 Colony Survival
96% 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 35.7%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #5 TFM: The First Men
94% 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 36.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 7.9%, Building 7.7%
- #6 Settletopia
94% 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 28.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.9%, Open World 8.8%
- #7 Tokeis
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, RTS 13.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.8%
- #8 Kingdoms and Castles
92% matchVery Positive94% of 31,326 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, RTS 12.8%, Sandbox 8.5%, Medieval 7.5%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #9 Gateworlds
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, RTS 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Survival 10.5%, Base Building 8.4%
- #10 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
91% 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 37%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.5%
- #11 Oxygen Not Included
90% 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 39.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.7%
- #12 Galaxy Scavengers
89% 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 21.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #13 First Feudal
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 639 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Medieval 10.8%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #14 Koloni
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UnwareStudio
Windows
Koloni is a city-building strategy game that puts you in charge of a group of pioneers who have discovered a new land to colonize. However, you're not alone in your quest to settle on this uncharted territory, as other groups have their sights set on the same land.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, RTS 21.1%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Medieval 10.1%
- #15 VENOY
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
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 29.7%, RTS 22.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 8.1%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #16 On & Under
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Medieval 7.7%
- #17 Of Life and Land
85% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, RTS 14.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Medieval 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #18 Castle Story
86% matchMixed65% of 10,615 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 7.7%, RTS 7.6%
- #19 The Omins
84% 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 31.5%, RTS 23.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #20 Malignus
84% 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 35.4%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 6.4%
- #21 Noble Legacy
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 768 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Medieval 9.5%, Open World 9.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #22 Founders' Fortune
82% 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 42%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 7.6%
- #23 Dwarf Things
81% 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 36.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Building 7.7%
- #24 Phoenix Hope
82% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, RTS 15.4%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Medieval 9.1%
- #25 Worlds Explorers
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 7.3%
- #26 Gnomoria
81% 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 37.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%
- #27 Forgotten Vale
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, RTS 13.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 9.5%, Medieval 9.2%
- #28 Bread & Bravery
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, RTS 17.5%, Medieval 9.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #29 SuperColony
78% 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 34.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.2%
- #30 Vilset
79% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #31 Colonization Simulator
77% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, RTS 14.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.5%
- #32 Insect Empires
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, RTS 15.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #33 Edge Islands
76% 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 32.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 8.4%
- #34 Oxygen
76% 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 26.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #35 Angkor: The Holy City
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, RTS 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #36 Breadoria
75% 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 37.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #37 Architect of Ruin
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Medieval 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 8.9%
- #38 Gnome Glen
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.8%
- #39 Feudal Craft
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, RTS 15.5%, Medieval 11%, Building 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #40 Blacksmith Master
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,704 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Sandbox 11%, Medieval 10.9%, Building 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
- #41 Medieval Frontiers
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Medieval 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Open World 9.2%
- #42 Quriocity
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, RTS 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%
- #43 Tides of Tethys
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Rust LLC
Windows
Tides of Tethys: Dive, Build, Survive. A tactical exploration building game where you explore the uncharted depths of Tethys; scavenging lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. As the Overseer, lead expeditions of Knights through the unknown, and help them rebuild their lost Kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, RTS 14.2%, Medieval 10.4%, Sandbox 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
74% 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 34.7%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 6.8%
- #45 Poly Kingdom: Siege
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Mason Brignac
Windows · Mac
Poly Kingdom: Siege is a medieval kingdom-building and strategy game where you rule as a living king in a dynamic, open world. Build your settlement, command armies, and defend your realm in a feudal society shaped by war, economy, and survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, RTS 19.9%, Medieval 13.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 8.1%
- #46 Kopno: Blightfall
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Urar Studio
Windows
Explore the cursed continent of Kopno and shape your path through moral choices. Choose one of six unique races and survive in a living open-world built on two layers, the Surface and the Underground. Gather resources, hunt, and build a thriving fantasy settlement worthy of leading your people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Open World 16.7%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 9.6%
- #47 Settlements Rising
71% 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 31.5%, Medieval 10.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #48 Mars Colony Builder
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Building 9.9%
- #49 Terrahold
68% 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 37.1%, RTS 21.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 6.6%
- #50 Occupy Mars: The Game
66% matchMixed70% of 3,123 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Sandbox 12%, Open World 11%, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #51 Artificer's Tower
68% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.9%
- #52 Patron
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,191 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Survival 12.2%, Medieval 9.4%, Building 7.7%, Open World 7.6%
- #53 Impurity
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Incurso Studios
Windows
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Open World 13.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.6%
- #54 HavenCraft
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 7.5%
- #55 Make Your Kingdom
69% 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 28.8%, RTS 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 10.8%
- #56 Lil Guys
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #57 After Long Night
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 455 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, RTS 19.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #58 Surviving Ceres
66% 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 30.7%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%
- #59 Stonedeep
69% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #60 Maia
70% 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 44.3%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%