- #1 Maia
97% matchMixed44% of 1,063 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 39.6% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #2 Nuclear Crawler
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, Base Building 18.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Management 8.9%, Building 8.5%
- #3 Terra-7
96% 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 28.5% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.6%
- #4 Orc Colony
95% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5% ★, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 7.2%, Management 6.9%
- #5 Our Freedom: Prologue
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #6 Embark
94% matchMixed61% of 386 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 47% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 6.1%
- #7 Oxygen Not Included
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 41.6% ★, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 6.5%, Management 5.7%
- #8 Type2
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Isometric 10.9%
- #9 Idle Terra
91% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 7.6%
- #10 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
91% 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 31.3% ★, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Isometric 9.3%
- #11 CLOUD DWELLERS
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.2%
- #12 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
89% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 39.7% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 8.2%
- #13 Underground Nomads
89% 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 38.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%
- #14 Arcbound
88% 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 38.9% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Simulation 10.6%, Management 9.2%, Building 7.6%
- #15 Starmancer
87% matchMixed64% of 1,024 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, 2.5D 10.3%, Management 9%, Isometric 8.7%
- #16 Lil Guys
86% 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 35.6% ★, Base Building 17%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.9%
- #17 Landslide
86% 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: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Base Building 8.8%, 2.5D 8.7%
- #18 Founders' Fortune
85% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 7.2%
- #19 Dig a Little Deeper
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31% ★, Base Building 15%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #20 Stonedeep
84% 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 29.2% ★, Base Building 15.7%, 2.5D 11.1%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 7.7%
- #21 Sect Leader's Decree
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Base Building 11.3%
- #22 Hold The Roost
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, Strategy 17%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%
- #23 The Spatials
82% matchMixed69% of 329 reviews2015
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Colony Sim 12.8% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 10.1%
- #24 Exoplanet Outpost
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Strategy 9.5%, 2.5D 9%, Isometric 9%
- #25 Red Dust Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 7%
- #26 Colonization Simulator
80% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sci-fi 9.2%
- #27 Aven Colony
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Simulation 9%
- #28 Dystopians
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Management 9.4%
- #29 Starship Colony
78% 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 33.5% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 8.6%
- #30 Kingdom: Classic
77% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Simulation 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #31 Blueprint Tycoon
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, Management 15.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 9%
- #32 Edge Islands
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 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 35.7% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #33 Venusville
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Simulation 8.5%
- #34 Orrstead
75% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9.2%, Isometric 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%
- #35 T-Minus 30
75% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 10%, Management 9.1%
- #36 The Colony
76% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.6% ★, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 15.3%
- #37 Zomboard
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #38 Tree House Survivors
74% 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 33.1% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%
- #39 The Wild Age
74% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Isometric 7.8%, Simulation 7.2%
- #40 Pico Islands
73% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BitSpree GmbH
Windows · Mac
Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 8.8%
- #41 Subzero Tides
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #42 Windowed Realms
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, Strategy 14.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 12.3%
- #43 L'Avancée du désert
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Ian Corbeil
Windows
L'Avancée du désert est un jeu de gestion où vous devez développer votre colonie spatiale pour récolter de la nourriture et trouver de nouvelles technologies tout en combattant la désertification.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Strategy 24.1%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 14.9%, Building 9.1%
- #44 Lands of Koastalia
71% 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 33.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 8.9%
- #45 The Final Earth 2
70% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, Base Building 13%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #46 Resort Galactica
71% 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 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 9.2%
- #47 Sheltered 2
71% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 13.1%, Management 7.2%
- #48 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 9.5%
- #49 Project: Zenith Expanse
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #50 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
69% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 9.6%
- #51 Buggos 2
67% matchVery Positive84% of 509 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Strategy 22.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 6.8%
- #52 Sky Base Venus
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #53 Adam: Robot World
69% matchPositive81% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: ZGame Studio
Windows
Build your stronghold and survive in the wasteland world controlled by artificial intelligence. Deal with relationships with other strongholds, develop allies or conquer them. Control pollution and fight against bad weather. Protect your base and destroy your enemy.
Why similar: Strategy 29.2%, Base Building 23.9%, Simulation 22.2%, Management 14.3%, Indie 10.4%
- #54 Our Dear Kingdom
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.9% ★, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Resource Management 5.6%, Management 4.6%
- #55 TFM: The First Men
68% matchMixed62% of 406 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 43.4% ★, Base Building 20.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 7%
- #56 Beyond These Stars
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 15%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 8.5%
- #57 Planetbase
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 6.8%, Simulation 5.4%
- #58 Architect of Ruin
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #59 Mercantisle
65% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Forbidden Oak Games Limited
Windows
Living world village simulator with an in-depth economic model. Your villagers lead their own lives, learning skills and setting up businesses, then trading in a free-market simulation. Try out real world economic ideas as you grow from a single house to multiple villages in a vast trade network
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5% ★, Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Isometric 10.6%, Management 5.4%
- #60 Stationbreak
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Spaceship
Windows · Linux
A grounded sci-fi station builder where you hold failing systems together while pursued by a relentless, energy-hungry swarm. As a fleet on the run, drop into hostile systems, gather what you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Try to survive long enough to secure a future for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%