- #1 Planetbase
97% 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 26.9% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 14%, Space 9.8%, Survival 7.6%
- #2 CrafTAE
96% matchPositive94% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: mappe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stack cards 🃏 to collect food, craft equipment, build structures and defeat the dungeon ⚔️ in this village builder roguelite. Discover new cards, gather new resources and craft new recipes every run! Combine, survive and thrive!
Why similar: Card Battler 15.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Card Game 13.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Management 8.9%
- #3 Venusville
96% 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 23% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #4 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
95% 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 29.3% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #5 Type2
94% 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 27.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Isometric 11.9%, City Builder 11.2%, Space 9.8%
- #6 Sky Base Venus
94% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #7 Aven Colony
93% 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 33.7% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Strategy 6%
- #8 Quriocity
92% 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 23.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Survival 7.7%
- #9 Lil Guys
91% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #10 NecroCity
91% matchMixed52% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, 3D Vision 17.1% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Isometric 9.8%
- #11 Oxygen: First Breath
90% 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 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #12 Astro Architect
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Crown Studio
Windows · Linux
Astro Architect is a city-builder game, where your employees' votes define what you build. As an architect working for the corporation, build your own space station, expand your influence, take care of your employees' needs, manage logistics and space expeditions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Card Game 13%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #13 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 21% ★, Space 13.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%
- #14 Starship Colony
88% 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 25.1% ★, Base Building 14%, City Builder 11%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #15 Tree House Survivors
86% 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 24.6% ★, 3D Vision 13.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 9.8%
- #16 First Feudal
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 9.5%
- #17 After the Collapse
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #18 Tokeis
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 17.9% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%
- #19 Maia
85% 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 34.9% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10%, Survival 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #20 Derelict Void
83% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Stirling Games
Windows · Linux
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Roguelite 13.9%, Space 11.8%, Base Building 10.8%
- #21 Founders' Fortune
82% 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 35.8% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 6.5%, Resource Management 6%
- #22 Oxygen
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 8.5%
- #23 Windowed Realms
81% 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 29.4% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 11%, Management 7.6%
- #24 Colonization Simulator
81% 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 26.2% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Isometric 7.7%
- #25 Avian Colony
80% 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 26.5% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #26 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
79% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Isometric 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%
- #27 Idle Terra
78% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 8.6%
- #28 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
79% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #29 Border Base
78% 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 24.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.3%
- #30 Settletopia
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #31 Coralland
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CLASSYXOCEAN
Windows
Coraland is a unique simulation and strategy game where you take on the role of a marine biologist tasked with restoring and protecting a fragile coral reef. Every coral you place, every fish that spawns, and every structure you build affects the ecosystem, for better or worse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, 3D Vision 22% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 7.4%
- #32 Frontier Roots
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #33 FarHearth
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: matchaserf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your last home in a desperate world. Grow your settlement from a humble hamlet to a great city-state. Manage resources. Appoint leaders. Pass laws. Shape the soul of your city. Save your people and build a glorious beacon to last the ages, or fall to ruin.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 9.1%
- #34 Farmman
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.8%
- #35 Offshore Prophets
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Management 10%
- #36 Numbers & Nodes
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LPT Games
Windows
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Resource Management 18%, Crafting 13.8%, Strategy 9%
- #37 Generation Ship
73% 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #38 Generation Exile
72% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
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 24.7% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.7%, Space 8.7%
- #39 Mars Colony Builder
73% 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 24.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 11.6%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.9%
- #40 Crowded Blue Dot
74% 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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 10.8%
- #41 Orrstead
71% 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 12%, Isometric 10.4%, Management 9.9%
- #42 Sphere - Flying Cities
72% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Cyberpunk 11.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%
- #43 Gnomoria
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Crafting 8.9%, Isometric 7.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #44 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 23.4% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Space 10.3%
- #45 Rise Against the Invaders
70% 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 29.3% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #46 T-Minus 30
70% 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 25.1% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 9.9%, Isometric 8.1%
- #47 Space Haven
70% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 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 22.6% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9%
- #48 Comet Tycoon
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 16.9%, Colony Sim 14.7% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Isometric 12.7%
- #49 Oxygen Not Included
69% 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 36.1% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Management 6.8%
- #50 Offworld Trading Company
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,669 reviews2016
Dev: Mohawk GamesPub: Stardock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 34.8 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 20.9% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Management 8.3%
- #51 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
69% 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: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Space 13.7%, Resource Management 12.1%
- #52 Meeple Station
71% matchMixed57% of 941 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Isometric 12.2%, Space 9.8%
- #53 Sect Leader's Decree
68% 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 27.7% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, City Builder 9.8%
- #54 Kingdom's Deck
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Card Game 12.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.4%
- #55 Pixel Colony
68% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #56 Isla Paradiso
68% 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 28.4% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.7%, Survival 7.2%
- #57 Odd Realm
66% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%
- #58 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
66% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11.1%, Management 10.8%
- #59 Kingdoms Reborn
67% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8%