- #1 Farmman
97% 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 25.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #2 Oxygen: First Breath
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 22.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8%
- #3 First Feudal
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 644 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 24.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9%, Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,359 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7.3%
- #5 Embark
94% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.9%
- #6 Founders' Fortune
94% 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 36.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 7.7%, Survival 7%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #7 Galaxy Scavengers
93% 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 19.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #8 Common'hood
92% matchMixed51% of 341 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.5%
- #9 Oxygen
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #10 Malignus
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #11 Lil Guys
90% 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 29.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 10.6%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #12 Tree House Colony
89% 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 27.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%
- #13 Terra-7
89% 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 26.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 9.8%
- #14 Breadoria
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 17%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 9.1%
- #15 Stranding Echoes
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 8.6%, Survival 7.1%
- #16 Settletopia
86% 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 27.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.1%
- #17 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 6.7%, Crafting 6.4%
- #18 Dwarf Things
84% 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 33.3%, Base Building 17%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #19 TFM: The First Men
85% matchMixed60% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 7%, Building 7%, Survival 7%
- #20 Ecopunk
82% matchVery Positive83% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #21 Resort Galactica
83% 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 25.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.8%
- #22 The Blighted Frontier
82% 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 33.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 8.9%, Survival 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%
- #23 Maia
84% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.4%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #24 Odd Realm
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,016 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 24.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 8.7%, Survival 8.2%
- #25 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
81% matchMixed69% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
- #26 Vilset
81% 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 29.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #27 Settlement Survival
79% matchVery Positive85% of 8,039 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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 28.8%, Building 11%, Survival 10.8%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.7%
- #28 Space Architect
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 294 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Building 7.6%
- #29 Make Your Kingdom
80% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.8%
- #30 Artificer's Tower
78% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 8.1%, Building 7.5%
- #31 Starship Colony
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 16%, Survival 10.2%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #32 Worlds Explorers
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #33 Frontier Roots
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #34 Red Dust Colony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 18%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.2%
- #35 Tokeis
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.9%
- #36 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,841 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Management 8.7%
- #37 Noble Legacy
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 786 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Economy 8.7%, Survival 8.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #38 SuperColony
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 8%
- #39 Prison Architect
75% matchVery Positive89% of 73,679 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 25.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #40 Edge Islands
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 18.5%, Building 11%, Management 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #41 Arcbound
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 10%, Building 9.1%, Survival 6.9%
- #42 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,346 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.2%
- #43 Isla Paradiso
71% 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 30.8%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.3%
- #44 Underground Nomads
70% 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 33.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 11%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #45 Seeds of Resilience
73% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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 26.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 9.6%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.4%
- #46 Grim Realms
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 428 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 30.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.1%, Management 8%
- #47 Country Architect
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.7%, Economy 7.5%
- #48 KingForge
68% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #49 Kingdom Workshop
69% 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 21.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Economy 10.3%
- #50 My Drug Cartel
69% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #51 Colony Survival
71% matchVery Positive92% of 8,965 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 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 36.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 12.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8%
- #52 Radia Island
68% matchNo user reviews
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 26.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.5%, Management 8.4%
- #53 Cloudlings
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.4%
- #54 Never Secure
67% 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 32%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 13.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 7.8%
- #55 Gateworlds
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 10.3%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #56 On & Under
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 9%
- #57 Fosoria
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Base Building 19.6%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #58 Monastery: Ora et Labora
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dragonkin Studios
Windows
Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 11.6%, Building 9.3%, Economy 9%