
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, Simulation, Strategy, Singleplayer.

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

Nest Rivals
Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.

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.
Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Real Time Tactics 24.2%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 15.8%, 2D 1.8%
"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%, Real Time Tactics 27.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Tactical 4.4%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Automation 17.8%, Simulation 16.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 13%
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 63.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 17.1%
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 26%, Real Time Tactics 20.4%, Automation 19.2%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 10.9%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 19.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.8%, Base Building 6.4%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, Automation 22.4%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Indie 1.1%
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 28.9%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Strategy 25.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 37.8%, Simulation 19.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, Automation 16.6%, Base Building 8.6%
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 32.5%, Automation 15.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 11.4%
Build an army, raid rival corporations, and defend your base while it keeps running without you. Research upgrades, arm your Titan, and dig into a moon that isn't as abandoned as it looks. Something was here first. Find out why it's gone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 19.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Tactical 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 43.1%, Strategy 26.5%, Simulation 25.5%, 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 36.9%, Strategy 23.9%, Real Time Tactics 23.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 6.1%
A relaxing and strategic beehive roguelike. Collect honey, hatch bees, and unlock powerful upgrades as your bees defend the hive from hungry invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Real Time Tactics 20.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Automation 13.3%, Simulation 12.1%
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 24.4%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Indie 0.9%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 48.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Minimalist 6.5%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 15.6%
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 23.3%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Simulation 18.6%, Tactical 4.8%
A dark medieval city simulation with procedural generation and emergent storytelling. Play as a vampire and observe, befriend, manipulate, and betray hundreds of fully simulated citizens as they live, work, scheme, and die around you. Shape bloodlines and uncover the forces moving beneath the city.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Real Time Tactics 25.8%, Strategy 24%, Base Building 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.3%, Strategy 27.6%, Simulation 26.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Automation 14.5%, Strategy 10.6%
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 42.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Automation 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%
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 28.7%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 11.6%
Spaceport Kingdom is a sci-fi strategy and siege builder. Construct ship docks to establish new transport routes in a sector caught in an endless war zone. Pirates, meteors, and cosmic anomalies strike without pause. The galaxy doesn’t grant peace; only those who build through the fire survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Automation 14%, Strategy 11.2%
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 28.1%, Real Time Tactics 21.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Automation 10.6%
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 39.8%, Automation 21.1%, Base Building 19.8%, Strategy 12%, 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 33.4%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 15.5%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 12%
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 39.2%, Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 17.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Indie 2.5%
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%, Simulation 28.2%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Indie 1.3%
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 19.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Indie 1.5%
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 39.3%, Strategy 15.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 14.5%
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 30.5%, Simulation 26.6%, Automation 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Indie 2.5%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Automation 20.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 4.9%
Rule a fantasy realm where heroes don't take orders - they take bribes. Build your settlement, place gold bounties on deadly monsters, and entice autonomous warriors, rogues, and mages to fight for your cause. Expand, defend, and let coin do the commanding in this indirect-control RTS.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Strategy 25.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Base Building 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Automate production lines to generate cubes, manage resource conversions, maintain crucial buffs, and build your ultimate production line.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Colony Sim 25%, Simulation 17.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Strategy 5.4%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 11.3%, Minimalist 7.5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.3%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 20.3%, 2D 1.6%, Indie 1%
No King No Kingdom VR is a unique first-person real-time strategy. Rule your servants directly, build your own kingdom, and raise a mighty army in virtual reality. Ride dragons, tame magical creatures, discover powerful artifacts, and become the savior of mankind!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Real Time Tactics 25.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 13.3%
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 22.9%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.2%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Strategy 22.9%, Simulation 21.6%, Base Building 9.5%, 2D 3%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44%, Base Building 17.8%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 17.7%, 2D 2%
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 51.3%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 15%, Base Building 14%, Indie 1.8%
Poly Kingdom: Siege is a medieval kingdom-building and strategy game where you rule as a living king in a dynamic, open world. Build your settlement, command armies, and defend your realm in a feudal society shaped by war, economy, and survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Real Time Tactics 26.4%, Base Building 18%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 9.3%
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 33.8%, Strategy 25%, Simulation 19.9%, Base Building 19.9%, Indie 1%
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 44.2%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37%, Automation 24.7%, Strategy 15%, Base Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 9.1%
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 48.7%, Base Building 23.1%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 34.6%, Strategy 25%, Base Building 21.8%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Real Time Tactics 18.1%, Base Building 5.7%
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Automation 22.1%, Base Building 21.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Minimalist 3.4%
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 23.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Base Building 4.5%
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.1%, Simulation 27%, Automation 21.2%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 42.6%, Simulation 36.7%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Indie 5.2%
A settlement simulation about five monks who survived a burning monastery and set out across the continent. Generate a world, gather scattered companions, and raise a new sanctuary from the ashes. Rebuild a broken world with the hands of those who survived.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Base Building 21%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 14.5%, 2D 1.9%
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 29.2%, Simulation 25.4%, Automation 21.6%, Base Building 20.2%, Indie 3.6%
Design, build, and manage a college campus. Become an architect of a prestigious university that only accepts the most elite students, or a community college that allows for normal everyday folks to pursue an education regardless of their academic background. What will you build, Architect?
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.3%, Simulation 27.6%, Base Building 15.7%, 2D 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 35.5%, Real Time Tactics 23%, Strategy 19.3%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 4.7%