- #1 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Survival 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #2 Make Your Kingdom
96% 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 22.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9.1%, Building 7.8%
- #3 Colony Survival
96% matchVery Positive92% of 8,872 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 11.3%, City Builder 8.7%, Building 7.6%
- #4 Gnomoria
95% 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 31.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #5 Farmman
94% 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 25.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #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 25.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8%
- #7 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
93% 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 28.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Crafting 8.1%
- #8 Lost Heaven Station
92% 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 23.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7%
- #9 Catizens
91% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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%, City Builder 14.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.5%
- #10 The Blighted Frontier
91% 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 31.3%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 7.4%, Crafting 7.2%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
90% 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 36.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 7.2%, Building 6.9%
- #12 Surviving the Aftermath
89% 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: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.1%
- #13 Oxygen
89% 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 15.4%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #14 Oxygen: First Breath
88% 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 23.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 10%, Crafting 7.1%
- #15 Rise Against the Invaders
87% 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 29.1%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.1%
- #16 Final Frost
86% 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 22.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.7%
- #17 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
86% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 33.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%
- #18 Sapiens
85% matchVery Positive83% of 2,122 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Life Sim 8.1%
- #19 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
84% 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 30.4%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9%
- #20 Until We Die
84% 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 20.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.5%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #21 Colony Simulator
83% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #22 Lil Guys
82% 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 29.8%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 14.2%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%
- #23 Stonehearth
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 21.1%, Survival 9.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.6%
- #24 Endzone - A World Apart
81% 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 24.9%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 13%
- #25 Reclaim Earth
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.3%
- #26 Never Secure
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Simulation 6.9%
- #27 After the Collapse
79% 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 26.7%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.4%
- #28 Embark
80% matchMixed61% of 388 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 41.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #29 Paleon
78% 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 39.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Survival 13.4%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.5%
- #30 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 28.3%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Sandbox 9%, Crafting 6.9%
- #31 Dwarf Things
77% 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 33.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #32 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Life Sim 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.2%
- #33 TFM: The First Men
76% matchMixed62% of 406 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 34.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%, Crafting 6.7%
- #34 Restart
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 49Wares
Windows
A scientist with great knowledge about humanity ends up back in the Stone Age and has to build a civilization and develop it into the modern age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 13.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #35 Winter Nest
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
You play as a beetle exploring the underground world, working together with ants. Expand the nest, gather resources, and maintain the nest’s temperature to survive the long winter.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Underground 20.4% ★, Creature Collector 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, City Builder 10%
- #36 First Feudal
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 26.7%, Base Building 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 8.1%
- #37 Nyric
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lovelace Studio
Windows
Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #38 Galaxy Scavengers
73% 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 20.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, City Builder 7.5%
- #39 Mozi
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozi
Windows
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #40 Plebs and Pillagers
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Kloppfer
Windows
Rebuild your kingdom in this village management game. Command your loyal villagers to help you on your quest, and to expand your realm while defending it from unknown threats. The king has returned!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%
- #41 Space Haven
70% 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 24.3%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.2%, Survival 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #42 Greenfeet Haven
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Life Sim 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #43 Cavern Adventurers
70% matchMixed66% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Underground 14.5% ★, Survival 8.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #44 Underground Nomads
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 11.2%, Building 8.9%, Underground 7.5% ★
- #45 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 26.9%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 14.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.3%
- #46 Planet Barren Objective
71% 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 23.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Side Scroller 11.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #47 Planetbase
72% 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 34%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 4.6%
- #48 Tree House Colony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Life Sim 12.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #49 Beneath a Dead City
69% 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 32.5%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Survival 12.3%, Exploration 5.9%
- #50 Microtopia: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive95% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Sandbox 8%
- #51 Song of Slavs
68% 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 21.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 13%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Crafting 9.4%
- #52 Grim Realms
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 15.1%, Side Scroller 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #53 Vilset
70% 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 30.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.1%
- #54 Idlings
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Palatine Games
Windows · Mac
A charming idle colony sim about digging through caves, rescuing lost Idlings, and rebuilding an underground world. Think Terraria meets Lemmings, with a little Oxygen Not Included — or perhaps Rusty’s Retirement underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Underground 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Life Sim 9.8%, Building 8.8%
- #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 32.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Survival 11.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #56 Mars Colony Builder
67% 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 27.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, City Builder 10.4%
- #57 Edge Islands
66% 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 31.2%, Base Building 18.4%, City Builder 11.8%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #58 Odd Realm
66% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.9%