- #1 Liftlands
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doublecap
Windows
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: God Game 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7.2%
- #2 Icetwine
96% 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: Cozy 16.7%, God Game 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #3 Pick Me Up
95% 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 23.7% ★, God Game 18.5% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Building 8%, Management 7.4%
- #4 Reus 2
94% 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 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 8.2%
- #5 The Universim
94% 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 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Building 9%, Management 7%
- #6 Mistpaw Ravine
93% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: Cozy 20.8%, City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Building 9.8%, Management 9.1%
- #7 MeadowMeld
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeldFire
Windows
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Cozy 21.7%, Building 9.4%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #8 The Mims Beginning
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2016
Dev: Squatting PenguinsPub: The End of the Sun Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a mystical journey with the Mims in this strategic god-like adventure—build, grow, protect, and wield divine powers. Now it's completely free! Also check out our other story-rich fantasy game, The End of the Sun, where you become a tracker of mythical beings and unravel mysteries.
Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Farming 17.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #9 Landslide
91% 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 29.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Building 7.4%
- #10 Pixel Colony
90% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 10.7%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #11 Mossfield Origins
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Any Percent
Windows · Linux
A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Cozy 21.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Building 9.4%, Management 7.8%
- #12 Alien Land
89% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: God Game 29.1% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 19%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%
- #13 Halloween Store Simulator
88% 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: God Game 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8%
- #14 United Penguin Kingdom
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 11.6%, Survival 10%
- #15 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: God Game 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 6%
- #16 Childwood
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oneiric Tales Studio
Windows
Childwood is a survival management horror game in which you help a group of children survive in a hostile environment. Keep the campfire burning to protect them from night creatures, but your kind won’t hesitate to demand immoral sacrifices in exchange for rewards.
Why similar: God Game 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 8.9%
- #17 The Settlers: New Allies
85% 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: God Game 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.6%
- #18 Isla Paradiso
84% 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 26.9% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.6%, Cozy 8.3%
- #19 Fellowship of the Oak
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Red Fur Games
Windows
Fellowship of the Oak is a cozy crafting sim where you gather a fellowship of heroes, providing them with everything they need to succeed on their adventures. Build cozy homes, craft gear, farm provisions and manage expeditions in order to collect powerful loot!
Why similar: Farming 29.6% ★, Cozy 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Management 8.4%
- #20 Sapiens
83% 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: God Game 26.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.8%
- #21 Havenstead
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Cozy 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Management 10.6%, Strategy 7.7%
- #22 Fata Deum - The God Sim
81% 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 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 8.3%
- #23 Stonedeep
82% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, God Game 14.3% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 9.8%
- #24 Zen World
81% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: Cartboard Games
Windows
Zen World is a strategy game that can be as relaxing as you want it to be. Build a calm and colorful landscape with hexagonal tiles, matching their borders to each other, collect valuable boxes, and explore the tech tree.
Why similar: God Game 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 8.9%
- #25 Lil Guys
80% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 10.3%, Survival 10.1%
- #26 Deity's Domain
79% 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 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.5%
- #27 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
79% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 15.3%, Management 11%, Survival 10.8%
- #28 Camplandia
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OddBall Interactive
Windows
Build and manage a thriving summer camp. Provide your campers with a place to catch fish, kayak, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. Will you create the ultimate summer camp? Or will your reputation as camp director plummet from a bunch of unhappy campers?
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Fishing 20.4% ★, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 10.3%
- #29 Lands of Koastalia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asaloda Games
Windows
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 11.6%, Management 8.6%
- #30 Sunset Sprout
76% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Fontty GamesPub: TheGamesFortress
Windows
Sunset Sprout is a cozy farming simulation game where you rebuild a ruined island and grow it into a thriving paradise. Relax, plant crops, raise animals, craft, and connect with your new community in this charming life sim inspired by the classic farming games of the past.
Why similar: Farming 34.3% ★, God Game 22.7% ★, Cozy 20.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Relaxing 7%
- #31 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
78% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 35.6% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 7.4%, Survival 6.8%
- #32 Ancient Cities
76% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
Dev: Uncasual Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Cozy 15.6%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #33 Farming Sweeper
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wild Pepper Games
Windows
Build, manage and grow your farm in a unique way: Solving puzzles with traditional minesweeper mechanics and managing your business finances in a relaxing game with great replay factor.
Why similar: Farming 41.8% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 10%, Relaxing 7.4%, Building 7.4%
- #34 Spherical Symphony
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maaz BaigPub: Night Rain Studios
Windows
Guide tiny planets back into harmony in Spherical Symphony. Balance each world’s living systems, recruit cozy catfolk helpers, befriend cosmic sea creatures, trade between worlds, repel threats, and awaken the sleeping sun at the heart of it all.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 6.8%
- #35 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 9.8%
- #36 Hearthlands
77% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 23.4%, God Game 14.2% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.4%
- #37 Settlements Rising
73% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.7%
- #38 LakeSide
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Massive Galaxy Studios
Windows
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
Why similar: Cozy 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Building 8%
- #39 Beware of Light
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 11.1%
- #40 Spiritstead
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turbo Dog Games
Windows
Build a magical village full of life and wonder, while taking care of the villagers who live there. Expand your territories, add unique buildings and decorations. Along the way, discover hidden spirits who will help your town grow and flourish.
Why similar: Cozy 27.6%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 11.5%, Colony Sim 11% ★, Management 10.4%
- #41 MR FARMBOY
71% matchVery Positive82% of 267 reviews2026
Dev: mrdboy
Windows · Mac · Linux
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
Why similar: Farming 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Cozy 20.7%, Management 7.7%, Building 5.8%
- #42 The Fool's Apprentice
72% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: The Planar Danse
Windows
A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!
Why similar: God Game 28.8% ★, Cozy 21.7%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Magic 10.1%
- #43 Angkor: The Holy City
71% 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 25.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, God Game 17.1% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 10.5%
- #44 Ages of Cataria
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Third Pie Studios
Windows
Set in a new fantastical world, Ages of Cataria is a cozy-friendly town sim. Watch as your village evolves from humble beginnings, with just one family, to a community of multiple families living together across generations of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, God Game 22.4% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.7%
- #45 STARIO: Haven Tower
69% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, God Game 18.2% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 9.7%
- #46 Banished
72% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 36.9% ★, City Builder 32%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 5.8%, Strategy 5.7%
- #47 Keep Them Busy
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hooded Penguin
Windows · Mac
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, God Game 24% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.2%
- #48 Dungeon Overseer
71% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, God Game 18.6% ★, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 10.3%
- #49 Stonehearth
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 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 35.7% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Building 12.2%, Survival 8.8%, God Game 6% ★
- #50 Settler's Domain
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Survival 9.6%, Building 7.3%
- #51 WildRoot
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Building 12%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #52 Tranquil Isle
67% matchPositive93% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Tom Daly
Windows
Tranquil Isle is a lo-fi strategic townbuilder. Create cozy little settlements on the sun-kissed shores of your very own island paradise.
Why similar: Cozy 22.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Building 11.9%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #53 Skyline Settlers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 28%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%
- #54 Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-
70% matchVery Positive81% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: Andymente
Windows
Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)
Why similar: God Game 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Building 8%
- #55 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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, City Builder 17%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.1%
- #56 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 31.3% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Building 11.4%, Survival 10.3%, Management 6.6%
- #57 Kingdoms and Castles
69% 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 33% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
66% matchVery Positive90% of 389 reviews2024
Dev: inDirection GamesPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.
Why similar: God Game 25% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Cozy 18.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 7.8%