- #1 The Blighted Frontier
97% 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 28.8%, City Builder 23.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%
- #2 Goblin Colony
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.7%, Management 7.2%
- #3 Founders' Fortune
96% 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 35.2%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9%, Survival 6%
- #4 Farmman
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 23.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7%
- #5 Lil Guys
94% 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 27.7%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.3%
- #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 25.1%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9%, Crafting 7.8%
- #7 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
93% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #8 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 27.8%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 6%
- #9 Mountania
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zemore Indie Games
Windows
Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 25.4%, Building 14%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 5.2%
- #10 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #11 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
90% matchMixed69% of 371 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 32.3%, City Builder 19%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.9%
- #12 One More Island
89% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Trading 12%, Building 10.4%, Survival 7.8%
- #13 Isla Paradiso
89% 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: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Building 11.5%, Management 6.8%, Base Building 6.8%
- #14 Rise Against the Invaders
88% 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: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 7.3%
- #15 AColony
87% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 18.7%, Trading 12.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #16 Settlement Survival
85% 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 30%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Building 12.5%, Survival 8.8%, Management 7.7%
- #17 Gnomoria
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 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 32%, City Builder 27.2%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 7.1%
- #18 First Feudal
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 25.2%, City Builder 19%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 9.5%
- #19 Paleon
84% matchVery Positive81% of 424 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 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 37.5%, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.6%, Strategy 5.4%
- #20 Forgotten Towns
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Taffee Software
Windows · Linux
Build a flourishing settlement above a dangerous cave system. Explore unique biomes, manage happiness and grief, invite traders, defend against invasions, train soldiers, recruit heroes, defeat world bosses, and prepare to dig into the depths below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 23%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Trading 8.3%
- #21 Pixel Colony
82% 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: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Management 8%, Survival 7.9%, Trading 5.9%
- #22 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
83% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 35.2%, Building 7.3%, Survival 6.3%, Strategy 5%
- #23 Make Your Kingdom
82% 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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 24%, Building 11.3%, Survival 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #24 Stonehearth
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 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 34.6%, City Builder 30.3%, Building 11.5%, Survival 7.8%, Crafting 6.5%
- #25 Oxygen
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 9%
- #26 Planetbase
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 32%, City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 8.2%, Building 5.4%
- #27 Above: Colonies of the Mist
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 10%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 8%
- #28 Patron
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 27.4%, Survival 9.5%, Building 7.5%, Base Building 6.2%
- #29 Arcane Shores
78% 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 30.3%, City Builder 29.8%, Building 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 5.8%
- #30 Frontera
77% 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 28.8%, City Builder 28.1%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.2%, Simulation 7.4%
- #31 StoneEra
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 7.7%
- #32 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Base Building 7%
- #33 Banished
78% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, City Builder 36.5%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.1%
- #34 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 25.9%, Building 10.4%, Trading 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%
- #35 Odd Realm
75% 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 24.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.7%
- #36 Clan & Flood
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 14%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #37 Hamlet
74% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 26%, Trading 9.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7%
- #38 Restikon Foundry
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WithFinity
Windows
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 33.9%, Survival 9.9%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 5.4%
- #39 Devouring City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.4%, Survival 6.9%
- #40 Pawns Survival
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Pawn Bros Games
Windows · Linux
Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 21.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%
- #41 By Royal Charter
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dovren Games
Windows
Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 23.3%, Trading 9%, Building 7.3%, Management 6.2%
- #42 Settlements Rising
71% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 27.6%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 7.4%, Management 6.2%
- #43 Dawn of Man
73% matchVery Positive87% of 17,862 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Colony Sim 35.4%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 5.6%, Historical 4.4%
- #44 All Roads Connected
70% 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 23.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Trading 11%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9%
- #45 Catizens
71% 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 25.9%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #46 Spirit & Stone
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 28.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #47 Aven Colony
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 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 39.5%, City Builder 34.7%, Base Building 8.1%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 4.3%
- #48 Island Master
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Cody Cornell
Windows
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 28.1%, Building 7.3%, Management 6.5%, Strategy 6%
- #49 Pharaoh™: A New Era
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Trading 10.9%, Building 10.8%, Management 7.3%
- #50 Humanica
67% matchVery Positive94% of 215 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.5%
- #51 Stone to Stars
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OnlyLogic
Windows · Mac
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 22.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 8.5%
- #52 Colonize Prologue
69% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 24.4%, Trading 12.5%, Building 10.5%, Survival 7.7%
- #53 Exile
67% matchMixed60% 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 26.9%, City Builder 26.2%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.4%
- #54 After the Collapse
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 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 27.5%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9%, Survival 8.8%
- #55 Viceria
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayfulFoxStudio
Windows
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 26.8%, Trading 13.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 8.1%
- #56 Venusville
67% matchNo user reviews2026
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 28.5%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #57 Beneath a Dead City
66% 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%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Management 9.5%
- #58 Terra-7
66% 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 29.4%, City Builder 28.8%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.1%
- #59 King's Keeper
66% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Trading 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.1%