- #1 Skyward
97% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Whiley Koyote
Windows
Build against the oncoming storm in an island hopping, rune collecting, roguelite citybuilder!
Why similar: God Game 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, City Builder 12.2%, RTS 9.5%, Management 7.6%
- #2 Angkor: The Holy City
96% 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 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, God Game 11.1% ★, Base Building 10.1%, RTS 7%
- #3 Aquacity
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evor Games
Windows
Dive into the sunken world. Face the dangers of the deepness. Build a colony and make it thrive. Conquer or explore the unknown, you decide which way you choose.
Why similar: Underwater 15.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, RTS 8.4%
- #4 Aquatico
95% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Underwater 19.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 6.7%
- #5 Goblin Camp
94% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Agriculture 8.8% ★
- #6 Dungeon Overseer
94% 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 20.9% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 15%, God Game 12.7% ★, Economy 6.8%
- #7 Deity's Domain
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unlikely Games
Windows
Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.
Why similar: God Game 19% ★, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 12.3%, Agriculture 8.9% ★
- #8 Mermaid Colony
92% matchMixed60% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: M. HankaPub: Liu Lidan
Windows
Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.
Why similar: Underwater 23.7% ★, God Game 14.2% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 7.5%
- #9 Fata Deum - The God Sim
91% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 18% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, RTS 8.6%
- #10 A Game of Humans
91% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, God Game 17% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 8.5%
- #11 Cartel Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 13.9% ★, City Builder 12%, RTS 11.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Agriculture 9.5% ★
- #12 Odd Realm
89% matchVery Positive85% of 992 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 22% ★, God Game 17.4% ★, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 12.5%, Management 8.7%
- #13 VENOY
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 14.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 9.1%
- #14 The Settlers: New Allies
88% matchMixed49% of 1,134 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, God Game 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Strategy 7%, Management 6.9%
- #15 Terra-7
87% 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 22% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 10.7%, City Builder 9.8%
- #16 FireMatch Empire
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, God Game 21.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 6.7%
- #17 Halloween Store Simulator
85% 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 19.5% ★, God Game 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 6.8%
- #18 Landslide
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 8.9%
- #19 GARDEN OF EDEN
83% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 凯撒工作室
Windows
Commander, lead your army, build the strongest weapons, conquer the harsh weather and enemies, and build a new Eden on the sea!!!!
Why similar: God Game 20.3% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Agriculture 11.7% ★, Colony Sim 10.7% ★
- #20 Seeds of Resilience
84% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 8.3%, Roguelite 7.3%
- #21 Quriocity
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.1%, RTS 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #22 Oxygen: First Breath
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 20.1% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 6%
- #23 Little Islanders
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameDevMikeyPub: Red Dragon Interactive
Windows
Little Islanders is a cozy vibe god game with Base Building, Survival and Colony Sim elements! Create your faction, Protect them and Help rebuild their world after being attacked by 'Skurj' the Demon King. Set in a fantasy universe of airborne landmasses called Islands, YOU ARE THEIR GOD! 🔥
Why similar: God Game 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Agriculture 12.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%
- #24 Venusville
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 16.1%, RTS 8.2%, Management 6.8%
- #25 Pick Me Up
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 17.8%, God Game 16% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Management 7.5%
- #26 Exile
79% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Agriculture 10.1% ★, Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #27 Surviving the Abyss
79% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Underwater 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 11.9%, RTS 9.1%
- #28 Reus 2
78% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 23% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 8.2%
- #29 Egypt
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Management 9.1%, RTS 8.2%
- #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 23.8% ★, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 14.8%, RTS 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #31 Seven Wonders
77% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, God Game 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, RTS 11.3%
- #32 Our Freedom: Prologue
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #33 Make Your Kingdom
76% 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 21% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 9.7%, RTS 8%
- #34 Founders' Fortune
76% 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 32.8% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 5.8%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #35 Randoville
75% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Roguelite 9.6%, RTS 9.3%
- #36 Resort Galactica
74% 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 21.5% ★, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 15.2%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #37 Icetwine
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Afternoon Games
Windows
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.2%, God Game 14.9% ★, RTS 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%
- #38 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 10.6%, RTS 10%, Agriculture 8.9% ★
- #39 Tides of Tethys
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Rust LLC
Windows
Explore the uncharted depths of Tethys, and scavenge resources and lost technologies, to survive the dangers of the abyss. Lead expeditions of Knights through the dark and the unknown, and help them rebuild their long lost Kingdom.
Why similar: Underwater 21.4% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 10.3%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★
- #40 The Universim
72% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 18%, Management 7.2%, Sandbox 7%
- #41 Goblin Colony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.1%, RTS 11.4%
- #42 Sapiens
72% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 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 21.5% ★, God Game 21.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 7.4%
- #43 Everlords
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Flox Studios
Windows
Everlords is a strategy game where you shape the battlefield itself. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore a fractured world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.
Why similar: God Game 22.5% ★, RTS 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #44 Offshore Prophets
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Roguelite 11.1%, Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #45 Folklands
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.6%, RTS 10.6%, Management 8.6%
- #46 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Management 8.6%, RTS 6.7%
- #47 Settlement Survival
70% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 9.3%, Agriculture 8.5% ★
- #48 Aven Colony
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Strategy 7%
- #49 Kingdoms and Castles
70% 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 28.6% ★, City Builder 27.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 5.5%
- #50 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
68% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, God Game 15.7% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, RTS 9.4%
- #51 Mars Attracts
66% matchVery Positive91% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 8.1%
- #52 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
66% matchVery Positive82% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, God Game 17.2% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10.7%
- #53 Hell Architect
69% matchMixed69% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, God Game 17.8% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 8.1%
- #54 Isla Paradiso
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 23%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.3%, Economy 7.8%
- #55 Settletopia
67% 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 23.9% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #56 Ostriv
67% 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 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Management 8.3%, Agriculture 8% ★
- #57 Tokeis
67% 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: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Base Building 11%, Management 10%, RTS 9.8%
- #58 Startopia
69% matchVery Positive90% of 962 reviews2013
Dev: My Little Planet Ltd
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.7%, God Game 12.8% ★, Management 9.5%
- #59 Planetbase
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 28.9% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 5.5%, Management 4.8%