- #1 The Blighted Frontier
97% 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 26%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #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%, City Builder 14.3%, Card Game 13.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Management 8.9%
- #3 Planetbase
96% 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 26.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 14%, Space 9.8%, Survival 7.6%
- #4 Venusville
95% 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 23%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #5 After the Collapse
94% 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 22.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Management 8.2%
- #6 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
94% 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 29.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Survival 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #7 Virum:Colony
93% 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 22.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Space 8.7%
- #8 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 27.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Isometric 12%, City Builder 11.2%, Space 9.8%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% 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 20.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Survival 8.2%
- #10 Sky Base Venus
91% 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 15.6%, Space 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #11 Aven Colony
90% 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 33.7%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Strategy 6%
- #12 Surviving the Aftermath
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.4%
- #13 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 20.3%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 8%
- #14 Quriocity
88% 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 19%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Survival 7.7%
- #15 Arc of Icarus
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 19.5%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Isometric 7.8%
- #16 Lil Guys
86% 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 26.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #17 IXION
86% 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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Space 12.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%
- #18 Space Haven
82% 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 20.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12%, Space 8.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #19 Sphere - Flying Cities
85% matchMixed50% of 242 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 19.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Crafting 8%
- #20 Fosoria
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #21 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
84% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 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 27.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 9.9%, City Builder 8.6%
- #22 Rise Against the Invaders
82% 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 27.1%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
- #23 New Cycle
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,809 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.7 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: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #24 Astro Architect
81% 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 22.3%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Card Game 12.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #25 Starship Colony
80% 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 25.2%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8.7%
- #26 The Crust
78% 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 21.9%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Space 9.7%
- #27 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 24%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Crafting 9.5%
- #28 Dust Dwellers
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Stone Games
Windows
Lead a group of survivors through a dry and desolate wasteland in this turn-based card game. Outfit your survivors with vehicles to fend off metal beasts at night, scavenge for resources, and uncover the path to your next homestead. Can you outwit the dangers of this harsh new world?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Card Battler 17%, Card Game 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Base Building 9.6%
- #29 Tokeis
77% 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 18.9%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%
- #30 Endzone - A World Apart
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Colony Sim 13.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.4%
- #31 Maia
78% 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 34.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10%, Management 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #32 Colony Simulator
76% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Simulation 9.3%
- #33 CityPunk
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nubosoft
Windows · Mac
Build upward in a city under corporate control. Place tiles, optimize spatial layouts, and manage powerful adjacency effects while balancing profit-driven demands against the needs of your residents in a dense cyberpunk megastructure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 26.3%, Card Game 14.4%, Isometric 9.9%, Base Building 9.4%
- #34 Windowed Realms
74% 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 29.5%, City Builder 20.6%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11%, Management 7.5%
- #35 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 26.5%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 10%
- #36 Founders' Fortune
75% 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 35.8%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 6.5%, Resource Management 6%
- #37 Derelict Void
75% 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 20.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Roguelite 13.8%, Space 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%
- #38 Colonization Simulator
73% 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 15.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Isometric 7.7%
- #39 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
73% 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 21.8%, Isometric 11.1%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #40 Idle Terra
71% 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 24.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.5%
- #41 HullRats
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 15%, Isometric 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #42 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
72% 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 29.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #43 Border Base
71% 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 16.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #44 Settletopia
71% 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 18.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #45 Frontier Roots
70% 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 24.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #46 FarHearth
70% 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 18.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.2%
- #47 Farmman
70% 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 20.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.7%
- #48 Offshore Prophets
69% 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 20.9%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Roguelite 10%, Management 10%
- #49 Numbers & Nodes
68% 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 24.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Resource Management 17.7%, Crafting 13.8%, Strategy 9%
- #50 Generation Ship
68% 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 25.4%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #51 The Last Haven
68% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 10%, Survival 8.9%
- #52 Mars Colony Builder
67% 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 11.7%, Survival 8.9%, Management 8.8%
- #53 Buoyancy
69% 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 38%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Survival 6.8%
- #54 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: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10.7%
- #55 Lost Heaven Station
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Management 7.9%
- #56 Harrowlands
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 9.1%, Management 8.5%
- #57 Sheltered 2
67% matchMixed46% of 2,191 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Survival 11.4%
- #58 Orrstead
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 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 24.8%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12%, Isometric 10.4%, Management 9.8%