
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Singleplayer.

SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.

Kingdom of Bees
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.

The Colony
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.
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Real Time Tactics 27.2%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Tactical 4.4%
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 63%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 17.2%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Automation 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 19.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 19.5%, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, Base Building 6.4%
Colonize new planets from the comfort of Earth with our remote control planet management system. In Hexoplanet, you're in charge of building and managing entire planetary economies from terraforming and infrastructure to tourism and energy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Simulation 19.2%, Automation 17.5%, Real Time Tactics 17%, Base Building 8.5%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 16.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 11.3%
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: Real Time Tactics 28.7%, Colony Sim 26.7%, Strategy 25.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 33%, Strategy 18.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 13.3%, Simulation 11.2%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%
An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Strategy 26.6%, Simulation 25.6%, 2D 3.1%, Indie 1.1%
Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Strategy 24%, Real Time Tactics 23.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 6.2%
1923: Process the Great Kantō Earthquake death. Lead all the miserable souls, battle quake-storms, and make life-or-death choices in collapsing Kanto's Hell. A historical strategy game inspired by true events where you play as Hell Governor. Oh...there is NAMAZU the Catfish Titan wreaking havoc too.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Real Time Tactics 17.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Automation 11.8%
IdleZomb: Manage a ruined hospital, create zombies, evolve them, or sacrifice them for DNA. Every decision counts in this post-apocalyptic management game. Early Access focuses on the basics, with content available up to level 20.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Real Time Tactics 24.1%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Indie 0.9%
Become the architect of a thriving ant colony in this real-time simulation. Establish and evolve your ant colony, grow specialized worker castes, cultivate fungus, and explore a living world above and below ground where day and night bring shifting challenges and resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.4%, Real Time Tactics 16%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Minimalist 6.4%
A WW1 trench warfare colony sim where you build an evolving trench network with layered defenses, manage soldiers under pressure while holding a fragile sector of the front in real-time tactical battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.5%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 15.7%
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 18.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, Tactical 4.8%
Colonial Wars is a sci-fi futuristic real-time strategy and survival game where you face up to three different opponents on battle maps, fighting for control of resources and territory while also contending with the local alien wildlife population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Strategy 27.6%, Simulation 26.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 11.5%
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Automation 11.2%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 7%
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Automation 14.1%, Base Building 11.8%
The Ancient Lands is a top-down survival strategy game featuring you as a Watcher with the task to look over your village people. Guide your people with what to build and gather. At nightfall, enemies will attack your town and you can use your powers to aid in your people's survival.
Why similar: Strategy 34.1%, Simulation 28.3%, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 12.4%, Indie 1.3%
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Strategy 23.9%, Simulation 17.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Indie 2.5%
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 53.8%, Base Building 19.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11%, Indie 1.5%
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Strategy 32.7%, Simulation 28.5%, Automation 20.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Indie 2.6%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.1%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 20.4%, 2D 1.6%, Indie 0.9%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.7%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 20.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
No King No Kingdom VR – First-Person Strategy Game. Ride Dragons! Command peasants! Build towns! Raise Armies! Tame Epic Creatures! Take your own sword and fight side by side with your troops against powerful giant bosses!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Real Time Tactics 25%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 13.4%
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 41.9%, Base Building 18.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Automation 12.4%, Strategy 10.9%
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Real Time Tactics 21.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Automation 13.4%, Simulation 12.6%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Automation 25.9%, Strategy 14.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%
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 46.2%, Base Building 22.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.2%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Base Building 19.9%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 16.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, Simulation 22.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Automation 11.5%, Base Building 9%
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 51.2%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Indie 1.8%
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 33.7%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 20%, Base Building 19.8%, Indie 1%
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 36.1%, Strategy 26.6%, Simulation 21.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, Simulation 26.7%, Automation 22.2%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Shape Together is a factory-building game: lay mines, belts, and machines, automate shapes, and use them to defeat monsters and bosses. Hold back waves, grow stronger over time—solo or with friends on Steam.
Why similar: Strategy 28.9%, Simulation 25.2%, Automation 22.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Indie 3.5%
Sunset Kingdom is a kingdom management game. In Sunset Kingdom your aim is to become the monarch of a prosperous land! Prepare to expand your kingdom, buildings roads and bridges between towns, castles, farms and more! Fend of bandit raids, get crushed by vikings, let your people starve to death and try again!
Why similar: Strategy 42.7%, Simulation 36.8%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Indie 5.1%
A strategy/castle builder. Create a character, build your palace, build up your defenses, craft, adventure and conquer all ancient China. Recruit legendary Heroes to lead into battle and command and fight real-time battles against waves of enemy forces out for your blood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Real Time Tactics 23.2%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Base Building 4.5%
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 33.3%, Strategy 25.9%, Base Building 21.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Build, expand and survive in a magical hand-painted world filled with friends and foes. Grow and manage your settlement in the day, defend it through the night, and rebuild your broken airship to claim your escape!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Real Time Tactics 22.7%, Strategy 19.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 4.7%
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Strategy 26.7%, Simulation 25.3%, 2D 2.5%, Indie 1.2%
A cozy resource management game where you play as the Queen Bee. Good decisions for your loyal subjects will go a long way, as well as taking the time to know each and every one! Build cute new rooms and boost your honey production for a healthy hive. Will you be the next Queen?
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, Strategy 27.7%, Simulation 23%, 2D 3.2%, Indie 1%
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 38.5%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 21.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Strategy 25.6%, Simulation 24.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
"Colorful Party Wars" is a RTS (real-time simulation) game based on "Colorful Party" (a.k.a. "Color-pari") the group in the virtual reality social game VRChat ! Select your favorite club and prove you’re the best to the rest of the members in Color-pari!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 35.4%, Strategy 32.4%, Simulation 25.4%, 2D 4%, Indie 2%
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Real Time Tactics 24.7%, Strategy 22.6%, Base Building 6.5%, Tactical 5.2%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 24.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Automation 11.5%
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 45.7%, Base Building 20.6%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 0.8%
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 54.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Indie 0.9%
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 40%, Strategy 24.6%, Simulation 23.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Indie 0.9%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 74.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Indie 1.6%
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 46.4%, Base Building 19.5%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Syntaris is a logistics and automation strategy game with RTS elements, focused on system design over micromanagement. Build industrial networks, organize local economies, set logistics rules, unlock advanced technologies, and capture enemy infrastructure to integrate it into your own base.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Real Time Tactics 16.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 15%, Automation 13.5%
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 41.5%, Base Building 21.9%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Tactical 4.8%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 21.4%, 2D 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
You are the fleet commander. Different alien races invade the universe. Find and fight for saving scattered human colonies, integrate them in your ship fleet to help you create a powerful army that will liberate the universe and humankind from extinction.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Real Time Tactics 26.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 14.7%, Minimalist 6.2%