- #1 Planetbase
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 33.7%, City Builder 17.8%, Space 13.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 5.8%
- #2 Venusville
96% matchNo user reviews2026
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 28.9%, City Builder 15.4%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #3 Aven Colony
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 41.8%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 8.2%, Space 7.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #4 IXION
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Space 17.2%, Base Building 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #5 Virum:Colony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 16.3%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #6 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 34.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 7.8%, Survival 6.5%
- #7 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 36%, Space 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Simulation 7%
- #8 Rise Against the Invaders
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #9 The Blighted Frontier
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 38.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 6.2%
- #10 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 18.8%, Space 18.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #11 Quriocity
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 7.9%, Survival 6.4%
- #12 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
89% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 40.8%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.6%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #13 Founders' Fortune
88% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 45.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 6.6%, Survival 5.1%
- #14 Starship Colony
86% 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 32.8%, Base Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.2%, Space 9.7%, Survival 7%
- #15 OBRII
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, City Builder 20.9%, Space 12.2%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 8.9%
- #16 Maia
87% matchMixed44% of 1,064 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 45%, Space 11.2%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.9%, Simulation 7.3%
- #17 Oxygen Not Included
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 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 44.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 8.8%, Space 6.7%
- #18 Space Haven
83% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 13.4%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #19 Generation Ship
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scifan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 7.2%
- #20 Possible One: Lunar Industries
82% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Space 9.8%, Science 9.7%, Base Building 7.3%
- #21 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
84% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 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 44.6%, City Builder 26.3%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 5.3%, Strategy 5.2%
- #22 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Space 14.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #23 Generation Exile
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2026
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 18%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.5%
- #24 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
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 35.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.5%, Space 8%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
80% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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 29.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 7.3%
- #26 Windowed Realms
79% 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 39.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Simulation 8%
- #27 Spirit & Stone
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
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 35.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 6.9%
- #28 Orc Colony
79% 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 50.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #29 Isla Paradiso
78% 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 36.1%, City Builder 22.3%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #30 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 37.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 8.1%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #31 Subzero Tides
76% 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 34.9%, Space 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Building 7.7%
- #32 Buoyancy
77% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 7%, Survival 5.5%
- #33 Banished
76% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 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 46.4%, City Builder 27.6%, Survival 7%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6%
- #34 Nova Origin
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZapNova Games
Windows
Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 9.5%, Space 5.7%
- #35 Outer Space Shack
75% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Open Lowcode SAS
Windows
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Space 14.1%, Science 12.3%, Base Building 10.2%
- #36 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 42.1%, City Builder 25.1%, Strategy 13.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #37 Paleon
74% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Survival 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%, Building 7.3%
- #38 Avian Colony
73% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 7.9%
- #39 One Hunread-Year Kingdom
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DerstyPub: HappyForest
Windows
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, City Builder 23.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 6.9%
- #40 FireMatch Empire
73% 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: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 8.8%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #41 Fio and the Doomed City
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 5.9%
- #42 Mars Colony Builder
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Space 10.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #43 NOVA ATLANTIS
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, City Builder 25.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #44 Abyssals
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, City Builder 22%, Simulation 10.8%, Building 6%, Base Building 5.3%
- #45 Peasants
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meeki Games
Windows
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 7.4%, Building 7.4%
- #46 Outlands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Base Building 5%
- #47 Offworld Trading Company
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,684 reviews2016
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, City Builder 15.1%, Space 11.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.4%
- #48 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
70% 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 35.8%, City Builder 21.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #49 Mound Kingdoms
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RVA Devs
Windows
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 38.8%, City Builder 22.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Base Building 7%, Building 5.9%
- #50 Resort Galactica
69% 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 32.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #51 Arcane Shores
68% 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 40%, City Builder 23.5%, Building 8.1%, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 6.9%
- #52 Patron
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 8.5%, Base Building 7.8%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #53 Our Freedom: Prologue
68% 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 32.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%
- #54 Compact Colonies
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 7.9%, Base Building 7%
- #55 Outpost Surge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thrive Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Outpost Surge is a society survival game on Mars, where players balance resource management, city growth, and settler health to turn a barren landscape into a thriving, vibrant city.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Science 12.3%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #56 The Population Must Grow
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, City Builder 23.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #57 Clan & Flood
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 10.4%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #58 Colonization Simulator
66% 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 36.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 8%, Building 6.6%