- #1 Dream Town Island
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 549 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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%, City Builder 18.5%, Farming Sim 18.5%, Sandbox 6.7%, Building 6%
- #2 Frostward
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Acres Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Time Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Automation 7.3%
- #3 Agromatic
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Farming Sim 16.5%, City Builder 16%, Automation 12.8%, Economy 6.7%
- #4 Cog Foo
95% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
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 17.8%, Farming Sim 16.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 6.8%
- #5 Terra-7
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 11%, Economy 8.6%, Building 8.6%
- #6 Meu Mundo
94% 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 19.1%, Farming Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Time Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #7 Havendock
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,964 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 17%, Farming Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14.3%, Automation 11.3%, Time Management 9.4%
- #8 Tap Craft
93% matchMixed58% of 19 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 21.2%, Farming Sim 19.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 5.8%
- #9 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 20.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 11.6%, Time Management 11.2%, Building 6.3%
- #10 All Roads Connected
91% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
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 18.8%, Farming Sim 15.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Economy 6.6%
- #11 STARIO: Haven Tower
90% matchVery Positive94% of 360 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 18.5%, City Builder 18%, Automation 12.6%, Time Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #12 Mistpaw Ravine
89% matchPositive95% of 42 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Farming Sim 16.3%, Building 8.3%, Automation 7.9%
- #13 Fill the Sky
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Automation 19.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #14 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 23.2%, Farming Sim 15.4%, Resource Management 6.1%, Management 5.9%
- #15 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
88% 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 22.7%, Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 17.4%, Sandbox 9%, Building 5.9%
- #16 Built by Day, Bitten by Night
86% matchMixed63% of 27 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 27%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Farming Sim 15.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #17 Radia Island
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.7%, Automation 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 6.7%
- #18 Autonauts vs Piratebots
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 526 reviews2022
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.3%, Colony Sim 16%, Automation 15.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #19 Property Pro
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 20%, Colony Sim 19%, Time Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 9.1%
- #20 Farmman
84% 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 25.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #21 Boopie Island
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lord Drw Games
Windows
Build a cozy colony for your Boopies! Keep them happy with swings, flowers, and plenty of cozy surprises — and watch your little village grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 21.2%, Farming Sim 16.1%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #22 Legacy of the Ark: Beneath the Broken Sky
82% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Broken Ark Studios
Windows
Awaken alone at the crash site of a fallen Ark and rebuild from a single handful of scrap. Gather, wake survivors, level them up, send expeditions, chart the deep, and stabilize a broken sky in this cozy, honest idle game. Play at your pace — online or off.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Farming Sim 17.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Automation 10.8%, Time Management 9.8%
- #23 Flotsam
81% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 18.4%, Farming Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #24 Forest Camp Story
82% matchVery Positive85% of 238 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #25 Halloween Store Simulator
81% matchNo 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 22.2%, City Builder 19.9%, Automation 10.1%, Building 7.1%, Economy 7.1%
- #26 The Colonists
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 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 22.1%, City Builder 19.2%, Automation 14.9%, Economy 8.2%, Building 8%
- #27 Tiny Cities
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yep Games
Windows
Settle an island and grow it into a busy town in this relaxed city builder. Create roads, farms, and watch citizens carry every good on foot. Research new technology, upgrade shelters for more citizens, and keep every home supplied.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 23.3%, Time Management 12.1%, Automation 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%
- #28 Lords and Villeins
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 25.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 7.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #29 Assembly Planter
79% matchVery Positive90% of 251 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 19%, Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13%, Time Management 8.2%, Sandbox 8%
- #30 Timberborn
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.3%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Automation 11.8%, Sandbox 8%
- #31 Diluvian Winds
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 391 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 23.1%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.7%, Economy 7%
- #32 Terrarium Builder
78% 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 26.7%, City Builder 23.1%, Farming Sim 22.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.6%
- #33 Factory Town 2: Paradise
75% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Automation 16.2%, Building 8.1%, Economy 7.8%
- #34 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 22.7%, Farming Sim 19.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Automation 12.4%, Economy 5.8%
- #35 Ostriv
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,692 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Farming Sim 12.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Building 7.2%
- #36 Resort Galactica
76% 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 23.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 9.6%, Economy 6.5%
- #37 Odd Realm
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Automation 11.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 6.9%
- #38 Torp
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobblegoat
Windows · Linux
Torp is a viking age colony simulator where you guide a group of norsemen in their quest to build a peaceful and thriving settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 24%, Farming Sim 23.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 4.9%
- #39 Catizens
73% matchVery Positive81% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 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 24.4%, City Builder 19.8%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.6%
- #40 Pixel Colony
73% matchPositive93% of 46 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 28.3%, City Builder 26.4%, Resource Management 7.2%, Management 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
- #41 Infinite Construction
73% matchMixed52% of 21 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 30.1%, City Builder 24.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 8.1%, Economy 5.9%
- #42 The Wandering Village
69% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 21.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Farming Sim 14.8%, Automation 10.3%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #43 Arcane Shores
71% matchNo user reviews2027
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 27.1%, Economy 9%, Building 8.9%, Strategy 5.8%
- #44 Beer Factory Crew
71% 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 18.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Automation 13.1%, Time Management 12.4%, Economy 7.9%
- #45 Dungeon Overseer
72% matchMixed55% of 51 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 25.8%, City Builder 20.4%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #46 Islandustry
70% 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 20%, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9%, Strategy 6.7%
- #47 Prison Architect
72% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 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 24.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.8%, Management 6.1%
- #48 Venture Towns
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 144 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Farming Sim 19.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.8%
- #49 Compact Colonies
70% 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 30.7%, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Economy 6.8%, Farming Sim 6.5%
- #50 Mox Modular
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows · Linux
Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 29.5%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 8%, Building 5.9%
- #51 Settlement Survival
69% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 28%, Colony Sim 27%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 6.4%
- #52 Fantastic Haven
69% matchNo user reviews2026
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 17.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 6.8%
- #53 Crowded Blue Dot
70% matchMixed59% of 53 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 26%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 7.4%, Management 6.7%
- #54 Spaceport Architect
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Djentsoft
Windows
Build, manage and expand a spaceport on a recently colonized planet. Import cargo to grow the colony population. Take care of the resulting passenger traffic to pay the bills. Bring your airport fantasy into space with this sci-fi business tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Building 8.5%, Automation 8.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #55 My Townies
67% 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 21.2%, Farming Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18%, Time Management 12.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #56 Founders' Fortune
68% 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 37.7%, City Builder 21.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 8%, Base Building 4.4%
- #57 Frontera
66% 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 28.6%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 10%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 7.8%
- #58 Factory Town
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 19.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Automation 17.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Resource Management 7.1%