- #1 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
97% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical mountain-based city building where managing logistics across different elevations is the core gameplay loop.
- #2 Timberborn
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Automation 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features advanced vertical building mechanics and water-based resource management that require careful planning to survive environmental disasters.
- #3 Airborne Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 14%, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the vertical sky-city theme and the challenge of managing resources while keeping a floating civilization aloft.
- #4 IXION
95% 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 9.6%, Economy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a space station as a vertical, self-contained ecosystem, requiring strict resource control to survive the void.
- #5 The Wandering Village
94% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Automation 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique take on the colony-sim genre by placing your city on the back of a giant creature, requiring careful management of your limited, mobile space.
- #6 Endzone 2
94% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Economy 10.1%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on post-apocalyptic colony survival and the expansion of settlements in a hostile, ruined world.
- #7 Against the Storm
93% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines resource management and city-building with a unique roguelite structure that forces players to adapt to harsh, ever-changing post-apocalyptic conditions.
- #8 Frostpunk
92% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for post-apocalyptic city-building, offering the same high-stakes survival pressure and resource management found in Haven Tower.
- #9 Captain of Industry
91% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Resource Management 16.7%, Economy 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, City Builder 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides deep automation and complex resource logistics that will appeal to players who enjoy the supply chain management aspects of Haven Tower.
- #10 Havendock
90% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Automation 14%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a thriving settlement on the water, requiring similar resource management and automation skills to Haven Tower.
- #11 Vertical Kingdom
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Farlight Games IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Resource Management 20.4%, Building 19.5%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based city builder that centers entirely on the challenge of constructing upward in a world where space is at a premium.
- #12 Settlements Rising
89% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 9.3%, Management 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A robust colony-sim that focuses on managing the needs of your citizens while expanding your settlement in a challenging environment.
- #13 Synergy
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized colony-sim that emphasizes environmental adaptation and resource management in a harsh, alien landscape.
- #14 Oxygen
89% 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: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder where you must manage oxygen and other vital resources to keep your colony alive in a hazardous world.
- #15 Factory Town
87% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the automation and supply chain aspects of Haven Tower, this game offers deep, satisfying logistics and production chains.
- #16 Ratopia
85% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that blends building with economic management and survival, requiring you to carefully plan your underground city.
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build interconnected cities on high-altitude cliffs, emphasizing verticality and futuristic resource management.
- #18 Sphere - Flying Cities
86% 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 28.5% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a floating city mechanic where you must manage survival and resource gathering while navigating a dangerous, post-apocalyptic atmosphere.
- #19 Airborne Empire
83% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 23%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the floating city concept with added strategy and RPG elements, perfect for those who want more combat and exploration in the sky.
- #20 Diluvian Winds
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Resource Management 10.5%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on building a sanctuary against environmental disasters, mirroring the 'looming disaster' threat in Haven Tower.
- #21 Mad Tower Tycoon
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 438 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Economy 12.2%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the management and construction of a massive skyscraper, emphasizing vertical logistics.
- #22 Thriving City: Song
82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,278 reviews2024
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Economy 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a more historical take on city-building with a strong focus on resource management and population needs.
- #23 Surviving the Aftermath
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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 28.3%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic colony-sim that forces you to manage resources and disasters while rebuilding society.
- #24 Let Them Trade
80% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Economy 17%, Resource Management 16%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and trade port aspects of city-building, which are central to the prosperity of your tower in Haven Tower.
- #25 Aquatico
81% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Economy 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Transfers the city-building experience to an underwater environment, requiring vertical planning and specialized resource management.
- #26 Creo God Simulator
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 22.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to influence the development of your civilization, mirroring the 'Rituals' and miracle-shaping mechanics found in Haven Tower.
- #27 Make Your Kingdom
81% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.9%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes the management of your citizens and the growth of your settlement through survival-based challenges.
- #28 Foundation
76% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 10.4% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Economy 9.4%, Building 7.9%
- #29 Settlement Survival
77% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Building 12%, Management 8.1%, Economy 8%
- #30 Highrise Mogul
79% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Economy 15%, Building 14.9%, God Game 14.2% ★, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed simulation of building and managing a high-rise structure, focusing on the economic side of vertical construction.
- #31 Blueprint Tycoon
79% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game that focuses on the logistics and production chains necessary to keep a colony running efficiently.
- #32 Casino Resort Tower
77% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Economy 13.2%, City Builder 10.4%, Automation 10.4%, Building 9.5%
- #33 Space Station Tycoon
78% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 14.3%, Building 12.1%, Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: Combines vertical station building with tower defense elements, appealing to the defensive and management aspects of Haven Tower.
- #34 New Cycle
76% 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: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #35 Scorchlands
75% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.1% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Automation 12.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
- #36 Dyson Sphere Program
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 30.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, City Builder 14%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #37 Cities: Skylines II
74% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Building 13.3%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 8.5%
- #38 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Resource Management 12%, Automation 11.5%, Building 9.6%
- #39 Endzone - A World Apart
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 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 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Building 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #40 The Universim
73% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, God Game 18.7% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #41 Flotsam
71% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #42 Microtopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 903 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Automation 17.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #43 Moons of Ardan
73% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Pandora Technology
Windows
Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 13.8%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #44 Kingdoms and Castles
71% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 28% ★, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 7.5%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #45 Revive & Prosper
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, God Game 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Building 10.1%
- #46 Celestial Empire
68% matchVery Positive89% of 615 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Economy 16.4%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #47 Infection Free Zone
68% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 8%
- #48 SimPocalypse
72% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: Automation 17%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Idler 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #49 shapez 2
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 29.3%, Building 13.8%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #50 Highrise City
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,282 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.2%
- #51 Patron
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 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 26.3% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 9.3%, Building 8%
- #52 Space Architect
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.2%
- #53 Post-Apo Builder
70% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, City Builder 18.5%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Time Management 11.8%
- #54 Project AURA
71% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 12%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%
- #55 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 33.4%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.3%
- #56 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
64% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, City Builder 19.6%, God Game 11.5% ★, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #57 Before We Leave
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Economy 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #58 Kubifaktorium
67% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 17.4%, Economy 10.8%, Building 9.4%
- #59 The Crust
65% 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 19.6% ★, Automation 17.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 8.1%