- #1 Dream Town Island
97% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Farming Sim 18.4%, City Builder 18.1%, Sandbox 6.7%, Building 5.9%
- #2 Cog Foo
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.2%, City Builder 14.2%, Automation 13.8%, Time Management 8.4%
- #3 Havendock
95% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Farming Sim 15.1%, City Builder 13.7%, Automation 12.1%, Time Management 9.5%
- #4 Meu Mundo
96% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Tiago PortellaPub: DuPortella
Windows
More than a game, a new way of seeing the world
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Farming Sim 17.8%, City Builder 16%, Time Management 11%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #5 STARIO: Haven Tower
94% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Automation 13.4%, Time Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #6 Tap Craft
94% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, City Builder 17.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 5.8%
- #7 Agromatic
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Farming Sim 21.9%, Time Management 12.1%, Automation 7.4%, Building 6.5%
- #8 All Roads Connected
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Farming Sim 15.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Economy 7.1%
- #9 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
91% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.6%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 5.8%
- #10 Founders Legacy
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMESPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Automation 12.6%, Time Management 11.4%, Building 6.2%
- #11 Mistpaw Ravine
90% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, Automation 8.5%, Building 8.1%
- #12 Autonauts vs Piratebots
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.1%, Automation 17%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #13 Flotsam
88% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Farming Sim 15.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Automation 12.8%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #14 Farmman
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 9%, Building 8.7%
- #15 Halloween Store Simulator
87% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Automation 10.8%, Economy 7.5%, Building 6.9%
- #16 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 7.4%
- #17 The Colonists
86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Automation 15.9%, Economy 8.7%, Building 7.7%
- #18 Assembly Planter
85% matchVery Positive91% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Timon Herzog
Windows
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.5%, Automation 16.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Time Management 8.1%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #19 Forest Camp Story
84% matchVery Positive84% of 217 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.8%
- #20 Lords and Villeins
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 7.5%, Economy 7.3%
- #21 Ostriv
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Farming Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 8%, Building 7.2%
- #22 Factory Town 2: Paradise
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Automation 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.8%
- #23 Diluvian Winds
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Economy 7.5%, Building 7.5%
- #24 Resort Galactica
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.4%, Economy 6.9%
- #25 Cozy Garden
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frozen Logic Studios
Windows
A relaxing farming sim where you manage adorable creatures that grow crops, gather resources, and build your cozy garden right at the bottom of your screen.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Farming Sim 16.4%, City Builder 15.7%, Automation 13.5%, Building 6.7%
- #26 Village Tale
79% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Why similar: Farming Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 7%
- #27 Settler's Domain
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 8.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Economy 6.1%
- #28 Terrarium Builder
80% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Farming Sim 22.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #29 Islandustry
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 8.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #30 Dungeon Overseer
78% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 10%, Building 8%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #31 Pixel Colony
77% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #32 Infinite Construction
78% matchMixed47% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: BackSnow Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is an infinite sandbox construction game with no boundaries. The game is simulating the reconstruction of a post-war town; there are 18 kinds of resources in the game, and the construction strategy is to increase the resources and maintain the dynamic balance of different resources.
Why similar: Farming Sim 29.9%, City Builder 24%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8%, Economy 6.3%
- #33 Catizens
75% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.5%
- #34 The Wandering Village
74% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Farming Sim 14.6%, Automation 11.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #35 Beer Factory Crew
76% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Milos Trickovic
Windows
Beer Factory Crew puts you in shoes of a production facility manager. Your goal is to produce finished shipments of beer and sell them. You can manage inventories and work in progress, machine orders, worker assignements and research new items.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Automation 14%, City Builder 13.8%, Time Management 12.4%, Economy 8.3%
- #36 Blossoming Ruins
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Numor Games
Windows
Reclaim your land in this cozy idle kingdom simulator that quietly grows at the bottom of your screen as you go about your day. With 'The Great War' behind you, lead your villagers into an era of peace and prosperity, cultivating crops and rebuilding from the ruins.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Farming Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18%, Automation 13.3%, Economy 6.2%
- #37 Fantastic Haven
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Restore the equilibrium of magic by saving endangered fantasy creatures. Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Farming Sim 17.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Economy 7%
- #38 Prison Architect
75% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Management 6.2%
- #39 Arcane Shores
73% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #40 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 30.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 7.3%, Farming Sim 6.4%
- #41 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Automation 13.2%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #42 Factory Town
72% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Automation 18.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #43 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.3%, Management 6.9%
- #44 Kingdoms and Castles
73% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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 31.8% ★, City Builder 31.4%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #45 Timberborn
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Farming Sim 14.9%, Automation 13.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #46 Food Industry
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Evolugame
Windows
Build and expand in agriculture, industry and commerce. Evolve in the food industry sector, and weather the storms by helping your people build the new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 15.8%, Time Management 7.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #47 Venture Towns
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Farming Sim 19.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #48 Kingdom Workshop
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Automation 13.1%, Building 9.7%, Economy 9.2%
- #49 Founders' Fortune
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 37.8% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8%, Strategy 4.5%
- #50 My Townies
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erkurheart Inc.Pub: N/A
Windows
My Townies is an immersive mixed city-building game, you’re not just an overseer. Begin with a modest farm settlement and transform it into a sprawling metropolis, with every townie, building, and resource under your command. Relax watch your city grow and play mini games
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Farming Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Time Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #51 Frontera
68% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 25%, Economy 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 7.9%
- #52 Beyond These Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 13.7%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.6%
- #53 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Automation 17.3%, Time Management 9.7%, Building 7.9%, Resource Management 7%
- #54 Keeping It Shrimple
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Random Order
Windows · Mac
"Keeping It Shrimple" is a management game where you breed, feed, and care for your adorable shrimp. Experiment with breeding pairs. Manage the water properties of your tanks. Sell rare breeds on the market. With planning, experimentation, and a dose of luck, you may just breed the perfect shrimp!
Why similar: Farming Sim 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Time Management 15.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.5%
- #55 Idle Grid
67% matchMixed61% of 46 reviews2025
Dev: Lake Country Games
Windows
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, Automation 16.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Time Management 13%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #56 Of Life and Land
66% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 20.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7%
- #57 Oh! Edo Towns
67% matchVery Positive87% of 100 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Plunge into the past for a rousing romp through Edo period Japan!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Farming Sim 20.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 6%
- #58 My Tiny Park
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Cabin
Windows
My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%