- #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 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 7.3%
- #2 WildRoot
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, God Game 16.9% ★, Cozy 14.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #3 Icetwine
95% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 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: God Game 16.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Cozy 15.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #4 Pick Me Up
94% 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 23.8%, God Game 19% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Building 8.1%, Management 7.2%
- #5 Reus 2
94% matchVery Positive94% of 2,295 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 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 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 7.9%
- #6 The Universim
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 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 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Building 9%, Survival 6.8%
- #7 Adhain
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Wormhole
Windows · Mac
Become a god and expand your influence through kindness or fear. Grow your settlements, make villages believe in you, and teach your creature how to follow your example. Play alone or join other gods, as allies or rivals.
Why similar: God Game 29.2% ★, Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.3%
- #8 Mistpaw Ravine
91% matchPositive98% of 40 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: City Builder 20.3%, Cozy 19%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Building 10.2%, Management 9%
- #9 The Mims Beginning
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 295 reviews2016
Dev: Squatting PenguinsPub: The End of the Sun Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Farming 17.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #10 Landslide
90% 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 30% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 18.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 7.4%
- #11 Alien Land
89% match6 user reviews83% of 6 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 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 19.2%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 5.4%
- #12 Pixel Colony
89% matchPositive93% of 45 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 26.6%, City Builder 24%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 10.4%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #13 MeadowMeld
88% 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 28.7%, Cozy 19.9%, Building 9.8%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 8%
- #14 Halloween Store Simulator
87% matchNo 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 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #15 IsleFolk: Build. Trade. Survive.
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Satama Games
Windows
Build and grow your own island colony, gather resources, craft structures, and trade with visiting merchants. Guide your colonists, expand your shores, and defend it from all that threatens it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Farming 25.1% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 7.5%
- #16 Mossfield Origins
86% 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 24.3%, Cozy 19.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.7%
- #17 FireMatch Empire
85% 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 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 22.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 6%
- #18 The Settlers: New Allies
84% matchMixed49% of 1,203 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 26.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 8.7%, Management 7.4%
- #19 United Penguin Kingdom
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 23.2%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 11.3%, Survival 10.2%
- #20 Sapiens
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,162 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 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 18.5%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.5%
- #21 Isla Paradiso
82% 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 27.1%, City Builder 24.9%, Building 11.8%, Management 9.4%, Cozy 7.5%
- #22 Fellowship of the Oak
82% matchNo user reviews2027
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 30.5% ★, Cozy 16.1%, City Builder 15.6%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Management 8.3%
- #23 Boopie Island
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lord Drw Games
Windows
Build a cozy colony for your Boopies! Keep them happy with swings, flowers, and plenty of cozy surprises — and watch your little village grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 20.9%, Cozy 15.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 11.5%
- #24 Settlement Survival
81% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 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 26.3%, City Builder 26.2%, Building 12.8%, Management 10.6%, Survival 9.7%
- #25 Havenstead
79% matchNo user reviews
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 26.8%, Cozy 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Management 10.6%, Building 8%
- #26 Fata Deum - The God Sim
79% matchMixed60% of 460 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 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 16%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.2%
- #27 Stonedeep
80% matchMixed46% of 105 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 23.4%, God Game 14.6% ★, Resource Management 12%, City Builder 11.7%, Building 10%
- #28 Deity's Domain
78% 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 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.3%
- #29 Pixel Vale
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BoZo Studios
Windows
Pixel Vale is a medieval fantasy city-builder game, focused on building up your city while managing external threats. Fight or trade with other cities, explore through the fog of war, and defend against goblin raids. Research new buildings to expand and keep your citizens happy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 22.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Building 8.1%, Management 7.8%
- #30 Thveit
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: God Game 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #31 MR FARMBOY
75% matchVery Positive85% of 508 reviews2026
Dev: mrdboy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 27.7% ★, Colony Sim 21%, Fishing 12.6% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Cozy 7.5%
- #32 Lil Guys
77% 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 29.2%, City Builder 18%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 10.3%, Management 10.1%
- #33 Zen World
75% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2026
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 19.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9%
- #34 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
76% matchVery Positive89% of 636 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 11%, Management 10.7%
- #35 Camplandia
74% 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 22.9%, Fishing 20.5% ★, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10%
- #36 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
76% matchMixed66% of 6,015 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 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 31.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 7.5%, Survival 6.9%
- #37 Lands of Koastalia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
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 26.4%, City Builder 23.9%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 8.4%
- #38 Manus Domini
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gik Studios
Windows
Control multiple nations on their paths through history. While balancing relations with outer powers. Whether your strategy is trade, war or technological superiority you will always need to be one step ahead of your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 24.3%, God Game 20.9% ★, Building 10.6%, Management 9%
- #39 Cozy Garden
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frozen Logic Studios
Windows
A relaxing farming sim where you manage adorable creatures that grow crops, gather resources, and build your cozy garden right at the bottom of your screen.
Why similar: Farming 23% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Cozy 14.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #40 Farming Sweeper
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 6-month initiative
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 42.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 7.5%, Relaxing 7.3%
- #41 Sunset Sprout
71% matchPositive96% of 48 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 35.6% ★, God Game 23.6% ★, Cozy 19%, Resource Management 10%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #42 Spherical Symphony
72% 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: God Game 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 6.6%
- #43 Croakwood
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Texel Raptor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Croakwood, a relaxed town-building and management game where tiny frogs settle into life in the wild woods. Design and create structures, plan and decorate your town, explore an ancient forest filled with secrets, and guide a charming frog community as it grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Cozy 15.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 9.3%
- #44 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 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 25.6%, City Builder 18%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.4%
- #45 Wilderness Survey
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无限工作室
Windows
《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员,建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁,并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务,在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。
Why similar: God Game 30% ★, Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 19%, Building 6.3%, Management 4%
- #46 Settlements Rising
70% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 23.8%, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.4%
- #47 Beware of Light
70% 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 29.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Survival 11.3%
- #48 Hearthlands
73% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 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 23.9%, God Game 14.4% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 9.1%
- #49 STARIO: Haven Tower
68% matchVery Positive95% of 356 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 19.4%, God Game 18.5% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 9.9%
- #50 Spiritstead
67% matchVery Positive84% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Turbo Dog Games
Windows
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
Why similar: Cozy 21.9%, City Builder 21.3%, Colony Sim 18%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.1%
- #51 Ages of Cataria
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 42 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 23.9%, God Game 22.9% ★, City Builder 18%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #52 Angkor: The Holy City
68% 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 21.8%, God Game 17.4% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10.6%
- #53 Keep Them Busy
68% 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 25.3%, God Game 24.4% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.8%
- #54 Stonehearth
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,072 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 35.4%, City Builder 27.6%, Building 12.3%, Survival 8.8%, God Game 6.1% ★
- #55 Dungeon Overseer
69% 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 20.3%, God Game 19% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10.5%
- #56 Little Sheep Valley – Cozy ranch-builder
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redknot Games
Windows · Mac
Tend to a flock of sheep and build your perfect Mediterranean farm in this cozy ranch-builder! Decorate, expand, and create the perfect home for your fluffy friends. Yes, you can cuddle them.
Why similar: Farming 33.5% ★, Cozy 22.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 10.2%, Building 9.4%
- #57 Banished
69% matchVery Positive90% of 43,296 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 36.8%, City Builder 32.5%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 5.6%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #58 Union Of Rivals
65% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: 2Play
Windows
A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements in your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Farming 20.3% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 8.7%
- #59 Arcane Shores
66% 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 31.1%, City Builder 27.2%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.4%, Management 6.3%