- #1 The Diner at the End of the Galaxy
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Influence the fate of the Nusa star system through your clientele’s stomachs. Grow exotic ingredients, create a menu that appeals to intergalactic palates, and discover treasures in the outer worlds. Come on in! The Diner is always open for business.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, Political Sim 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Cooking 10.3%
- #2 Populus
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stalwart Fox Entertainment
Windows · Linux
A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 7.2%
- #3 AstroCore Mining
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gamegine
Windows
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Political Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Base Building 6.3%
- #4 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
95% 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 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Political Sim 19.2% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Building 6.5%
- #5 MEMORIAPOLIS
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: Political Sim 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 6.9%
- #6 Lord Of Anatolia
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
A real-time city-building and strategy game set in 1300s Anatolia. Build your settlement, manage resources, expand your economy, train soldiers, research new technologies, and defend your beylik against enemy forces.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Political Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Time Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.7%
- #7 Colonization Simulator
93% 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 28.8% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Isometric 6.8%
- #8 Venusville
91% 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14.5%, Flight 9.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #9 Aven Colony
92% 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 40% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Simulation 6.3%
- #10 Type2
91% 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 32.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Isometric 11.4%, Simulation 8.2%
- #11 T-Minus 30
90% 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: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Time Management 12.5%, Simulation 7%
- #12 Rise Against the Invaders
89% 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 31.4% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #13 Hexagge
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Exploration 6.6%, Base Building 6.6%
- #14 Abyssals
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Base Building 6.3%, Exploration 6.3%
- #15 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
87% 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 7.4%
- #16 Amazing Space
86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Political Sim 22.8% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Building 7.7%, Aliens 7.3%
- #17 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
86% 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Isometric 10.1%
- #18 Border Base
85% 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 27.8% ★, Political Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Simulation 6%
- #19 Noble Legacy
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 640 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Political Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Diplomacy 13.9% ★, Base Building 8.4%
- #20 Motile Works
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Political Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Time Management 10%
- #21 The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emerick GibsonPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Time Management 13.2%, Isometric 10.7%, Base Building 6.7%
- #22 Frontier Governor
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Political Sim 21.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Building 8.4%
- #23 Time's Up in Tiny Town
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: 6 Toad Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Time's Up in Tiny Town is a fast-paced city-builder, in a pocket-sized world.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 20%, Time Management 12.8%, Isometric 9.9%
- #24 Folklands
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.6%, Economy 7.5%
- #25 Planetbase
82% 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 36% ★, City Builder 28%, Base Building 17.3%, Space 5.5%, Sci-fi 5%
- #26 Kingdom Islands
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 30%, Base Building 15.5%, Time Management 8.7%, Simulation 8.1%
- #27 Exostation
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Openhood SARL
Windows · Mac · Linux
Exostation is a sci-fi real-time strategy game. Reach sustainable planet economies by building, allocating, mining, and selling wisely. Allow humanity to spread and conquer new solar systems not by war but by ensuring its planet's resources are not exhausted.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Time Management 12.5%, Building 6.6%
- #28 The First Settlement VR
78% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Christian Wendt
Windows
Build and manage a growing medieval town in The First Settlement VR. Place over 50 buildings, manage citizens and merchants, run production chains and trade with neighbouring towns – all in an evolving sandbox city builder experienced entirely in VR.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Time Management 14.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 8.1%
- #29 Founders' Fortune
79% 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 43.1% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 7.8%, Simulation 5.9%
- #30 Venusville - Prologue
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Flight 18.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 5.8%
- #31 Make the Empire Great Again
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Cloud Studio
Windows
A simulation + turn-based auto-battle game. The "Dusk Apocalypse" nears; the empire teeters! Your people need food, work, maybe some thrilling fun. But monsters seize Your lands, plunder Your fields & mines! Fight, reclaim lost! Build, forge grandest! Fear not the "Dusk", for a new "Sun" has risen!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Political Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Simulation 6.6%
- #32 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 15%, Building 8.3%, Simulation 6.9%
- #33 Dungeon Overseer
77% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 8%, Economy 7.9%
- #34 Isla Paradiso
76% 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 32.5% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Economy 8.1%
- #35 Sky Base Venus
75% 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 38.2% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Space 6.3%
- #36 Warehouse Bots
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 23%, Time Management 13.6%, Isometric 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%
- #37 Colony Simulator
75% 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 35.8% ★, City Builder 33.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, 3D 3.7%
- #38 Legends of Heropolis DX
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Isometric 10%, Aliens 7.4%
- #39 Fallen Crown
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LongWay Interactive
Windows
You will lead an exiled royal dynasty, building prosperous cities, gaining the trust of the people, and preparing to overthrow the usurper. In the unique dynasty mode, the leader can find a partner and have children to shape the future of the kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, Time Management 13.7%, Building 8.5%
- #40 Cliff Empire
74% 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: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Time Management 9%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #41 My Townies
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erkurheart Inc.Pub: N/A
Windows
My Townies is an immersive mixed city-building game, you’re not just an overseer. Begin with a modest farm settlement and transform it into a sprawling metropolis, with every townie, building, and resource under your command. Relax watch your city grow and play mini games
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Political Sim 19.3% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Cooking 8.7%
- #42 Containment Director
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glamorous Games
Windows · Mac
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Base Building 20%, City Builder 18.9%, Simulation 14%, Building 10.1%
- #43 Generation Nova
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Political Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Time Management 9.2%, Sci-fi 8%
- #44 Frontera
71% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.2%
- #45 Spirit & Stone
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
Windows
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, City Builder 28.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Exploration 6.8%
- #46 The Population Must Grow
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Base Building 12%, Building 7.7%
- #47 Generation Ship
70% 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 30.7% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Flight 9.7%, Building 7.7%
- #48 Epoch Cycle
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 9.3%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #49 Exodus H
71% matchNegative18% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: Silversoft
Windows
Take command of your own colonial ship. Ensure the survival of your inhabitants and try to find a new habitable planet. This is the goal of the the Exodus H Space Commanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Political Sim 23.7% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Building 6.8%
- #50 Arcane Shores
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.6%, Simulation 7.9%
- #51 Ancient Aliens: The Game
70% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows · Mac
What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Isometric 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Simulation 7%
- #52 Generation Exile
67% 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 30.1% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9%, Simulation 6%
- #53 Treetopians
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aparato Games
Windows
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Time Management 6.6%
- #54 Seven Wonders
69% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Time Management 12.6%, Building 8.2%
- #55 FarHearth
67% 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 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Political Sim 15.3% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Isometric 6.2%
- #56 Ancient Polis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PKP Games
Windows
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Political Sim 22.1% ★, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.5%
- #57 Build and Discover: America
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Angry Bulls Studio
Windows
Build and Discover: America is a mixture of real-time strategy game genres combined with a country building simulation and strong economic elements, all based on the history of the USA.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Political Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Isometric 10.3%
- #58 MOAI 6: Unexpected Guests Collector's Edition
68% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: GameOn ProductionPub: Alawar Entertainment
Windows
Join two heroes on one grand adventure! Guide Hika-Ri and Kao-Ri on the adventure of their lives and enjoy countless hours of fun on the enchanted island of Tapa-Tui!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Time Management 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Isometric 10.9%
- #59 Tropico 7
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Diplomacy 8.4% ★