- #1 Here Comes The Swarm
97% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, RTS 12.5%, Tower Defense 12%, Base Building 11.2%
- #2 Freaking Meatbags
96% matchVery Positive86% of 173 reviews2015
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.8%, Real-Time with Pause 15.4% ★, RTS 13.6%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Strategy 9%
- #3 Zombie Warz
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GobiGD
Windows · Mac
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.3%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #4 They Are Billions
95% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 20.7%, RTS 15.6%, Tower Defense 14%, Real-Time with Pause 8% ★
- #5 Repterra
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chute AppsPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 26.4% ★, RTS 14.4%, Tower Defense 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★
- #6 From Glory To Goo
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,455 reviews2024
Dev: Stratagem Blue
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.5% ★, Tower Defense 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%
- #7 Cataclismo
93% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 15% ★, Tower Defense 13%, RTS 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%
- #8 Deep Among the Swarm
92% matchVery Positive88% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.6% ★, Tower Defense 16.5%, RTS 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #9 Astra Sentinel
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Somnambulist Games
Windows
Astra Sentinel is a wave-based survival RTS where endless alien hordes relentlessly assault your planets. Build defenses, colonize planets and manage resources under constant pressure. Will you be able to recover the control of the galaxy?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.3% ★, RTS 16.6%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 10.3%, Tower Defense 8.6%
- #10 Bunny Bunker
90% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Polyspice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 15.1%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Resource Management 11.4%
- #11 Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,761 reviews2014
Dev: Knuckle Cracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 77.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 44.9%, Real-Time with Pause 18.6% ★, RTS 12.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Base Building 5.4%
- #12 Insect Empires
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Base Building 14.2%, RTS 13.9%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #13 Stellar Infestation
89% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
Dig minerals, manufacture ammunition, and build defense towers to fend off swarms of insects. A tower defense game with light production line elements.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, RTS 19.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 11.5%
- #14 Total Tower Engine
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RubyRTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tired of RNG and card draws? Experience a "Plan first, pay later" economy where construction scales with your income in real time. As the map grows massive, only careful planning. Not a lucky roll, will keep you alive.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.4%, RTS 25.1%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 16%, Strategy 6.6%
- #15 Giantfall
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Birchwood Games
Windows
In a minimalist medieval world, every decision counts. Build, research, and fortify your kingdom as towering Giants and monstrous creatures lay siege to your land. Raise armies, manage your economy, and construct powerful defences to protect your people and hold the line against overwhelming odds.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.8%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, RTS 17%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #16 Mega Prison
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chute Apps
Windows · Mac
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35% ★, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 10.1%, RTS 7.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #17 Rift Riff
85% matchVery Positive96% of 365 reviews2025
Dev: Adriaan de Jongh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. A strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 21.8% ★, Tower Defense 21.5%, RTS 15.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Isometric 8.1%
- #18 Phoenix Hope
86% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Tower Defense 19.6%, Base Building 16.7%, RTS 15%, Survival 8.9%
- #19 Cosmic Castaway
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 8.4%
- #20 Terminal squad: Swarmites
84% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: Droid RiotPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Terminal squad: swarmites is a game with indirect control where you must erect a chain of buildings, which generate resources for construction or the combat units for destruction of an enemy.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 19.4% ★, Tower Defense 17.1%, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 6.9%
- #21 Alien Marauder
84% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, RTS 16.2%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #22 Lanternia
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skill Potion
Windows
Lanternia is a survival RTS with roguelite and deckbuilding elements. Build, defend, and expand the village in a dark wood, illuminated only with lanterns.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.6% ★, RTS 17.7%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #23 Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS
82% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Milky Way is a unique mix of Tower Defense, RTS, Auto-Battler and Survivors. Build your base, choose random upgrades and use powerful skills to survive against hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.1%, RTS 21.8%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 9%
- #24 Railblazer
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buff Studio
Windows
As a veteran train operator, you must manage the train. What decisions will you make to confront the enemies? Command the train in real-time as it desperately crosses through the chaos of the storm. Manage resources and the train to survive the treacherous tracks and make it to the end.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.4% ★, RTS 13.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #25 Tin Lord
79% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: LegionSword
Windows
Tin Lord is a hybrid of strategy and tower defense in a post-apocalyptic world where you control robots that rebuild technology and fight monsters in a destroyed world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, RTS 21.6%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 11%, Isometric 7.9%
- #26 Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS: Earth
80% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2024
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Milky Way is a unique mix of Tower Defense, RTS, Auto-Battler and Survivors. Build your base, choose random upgrades and use powerful skills to survive against hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24%, RTS 21%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 8.7%
- #27 Atahion - Tower Defense
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
Build your defense base to repel alien invaders. Atahion is a strategy and tactical defense game in which you have to extract resources, build defense towers and use bonuses to complete the mission.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.6%, RTS 25.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #28 Defence to death
81% matchMixed55% of 272 reviews2017
Dev: Laush Dmitriy SergeevichPub: Laush Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
"Defence to death" - game in genre "Tower Defence". Defend Your castle from monster! Show Your's strength and wisdom.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.2% ★, Tower Defense 22.6%, RTS 11.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 6.4%
- #29 Diplomacy is Not an Option
77% matchVery Positive85% of 11,517 reviews2024
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Real-Time with Pause 16.9% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Tower Defense 10.3%
- #30 Hold The Roost
78% 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: Tower Defense 26.8%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 9.1%
- #31 New Cycle
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 7.7%
- #32 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
76% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #33 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
74% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Tower Defense 19.5%, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 7.4%
- #34 Don't Mind the Robots
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2bitleft
Windows
Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, RTS 20.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 8.4%
- #35 After Long Night
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #36 Plasma Dome
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yoberu
Windows
Plasma Dome is a tactical tower defense with roguelite progression and no predefined paths. Defend your city from an aerial assault of geometric entities from another dimension.
Why similar: Tower Defense 33.3%, RTS 27%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Roguelike 6.8%
- #37 Protolife
77% matchVery Positive86% of 465 reviews2018
Dev: Volcanic Giraffe
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
Why similar: Tower Defense 28.3%, RTS 25.1%, Base Building 20.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #38 Horizon 1990
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 10.4%
- #39 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Real-Time with Pause 19.9% ★, Base Building 19%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #40 CastleOn Scriptum
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Lord Castleon
Windows · Linux
Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 27.9%, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #41 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 31.2% ★, Tower Defense 22.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.7%
- #42 Fio and the Doomed City
72% matchNo user reviews
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 28.9% ★, Tower Defense 23.6%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Strategy 5.5%
- #43 Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
70% matchPositive84% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, RTS 22.1%, Base Building 16%, Isometric 9.7%, Roguelite 6.8%
- #44 The Omins
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TemesaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, RTS 24.5%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #45 Oxygen Not Included
71% 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 36.3% ★, Base Building 24.3%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 11.1%, Management 6.1%
- #46 Frontline Logistics: Isarian Warfare
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Immersive Pixels Studio
Windows
A tactical survival and outpost management sim driven by dynamic battlefield events. War isn't just about combat—it’s about the daily lives of your soldiers. Keep logistics running, scavenge every usable resource, and do what you can to ease the harsh reality of life on the frontlines.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.1%
- #47 MARS
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cyborg Dreams
Windows
Survival is temporary. Legacy is forever. Rule the last colony on Mars in this RTS x Colony Sim. Build domes for colonists as they harvest crops to survive, and command Mech armies against endless Marsect swarms. With hostile enemies and climate threatening your expedition, every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, RTS 16.9%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #48 The Wild Age
72% 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 28.5% ★, Tower Defense 22%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 7.5%
- #49 This Is Not A Dungeon
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paper Kite Games
Windows
TINAD is a unique tower defense game where you defend your retirement home from overeager heroes. Play as the dungeon itself. Deploy traps, summon minions, and prove you’re just trying to enjoy your golden years in peace against heroes who can’t read the sign and assume every dungeon is evil.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.4%, Base Building 23.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, Strategy 8.9%, Top-Down 8.8%
- #50 Dark Moon
68% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 18.1%, RTS 16.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 10.1%
- #51 Venusville
68% 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 18.4%, RTS 13.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 8.3%
- #52 Bug Bait
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Chimera Unchained
Windows · Linux
Defend your base against relentless hordes of bugs in this single-player survival tower defense game. Strategically build and upgrade your defenses, manage vital resources, and adapt to ever-evolving threats. Can you outsmart the infestation and survive the chaos?
Why similar: Tower Defense 35.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 9.1%
- #53 Calyx
66% matchVery Positive89% of 308 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 568
Windows
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Tower Defense 15.6%, RTS 15.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #54 Border Base
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #55 The White Laboratory
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 361 reviews2019
Dev: Laboratory Systems
Windows
The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.3% ★, Tower Defense 31%, RTS 16.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #56 Crowded Blue Dot
69% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Real-Time with Pause 17.2% ★, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 10.1%
- #57 Quriocity
67% 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 26.6% ★, Base Building 16.2%, RTS 14%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #58 Drill Core
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Tower Defense 23.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Strategy 7%, Roguelite 6.4%
- #59 Colonization Simulator
67% 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 28% ★, Base Building 17.9%, RTS 15.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #60 Infested Planet
69% matchVery Positive94% of 3,014 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Bear Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.9%, RTS 27.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Sci-fi 7.5%