60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Strategy, Colony Sim, Indie.
Build a steampunk colony, put robots to work and connect a growing network of steam-powered machines. Mine resources, research new technology and defend your Steam Core when night falls. Play solo or join friends in online co-op.
Industeria
Build and defend a growing industrial colony on a hostile alien world. Mine resources, automate production lines, expand a massive factory, and protect your territory from relentless alien attacks in this top-down 3D strategy game.
Cosmic Castaway
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Build and defend a growing industrial colony on a hostile alien world. Mine resources, automate production lines, expand a massive factory, and protect your territory from relentless alien attacks in this top-down 3D strategy game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Tower Defense 15.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Automation 6.5%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Exploration 5.9%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 65.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 16.1%
Crash-land on a dying alien world and bring it back to life. Build automated factories, master real chemistry and nuclear physics, and terraform the atmosphere one gas at a time — while sandworms hunt the power signature of everything you build.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Voxel 14.2% ★, Third Person 5.7%
An incremental roguelike tower defense colony sim where you command your colonist to farm, craft, mine and defend waves of the undead. Progressing towards your skill tree after each run to survive further and further!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Tower Defense 29.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 12.4%, 3D 2.2%
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Tower Defense 22.4%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Automation 8.3%
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Tower Defense 23.8%, Strategy 21%, Simulation 11.5%, Exploration 6%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Building 6.1%
Colony Siege combines the best of RTS and tower defense, including base building, mazing, and unit physics. Defend Earth's remaining colonies using an arsenal of deadly weapons to torch, slice, throw, and impale swarms of alien invaders.
Why similar: Strategy 31.7%, Tower Defense 25.6%, Simulation 19.3%, Co-op Campaign 9.9% ★, Co-op 6%
Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Strategy 24.4%, Simulation 23.8%, 3D 5.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Building 10.9%, Voxel 6% ★
A hololive fan-game for factory (and jetpack) enthusiasts! Build, explore, survive, and grant the Chattini some jetpacks!
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Simulation 22.7%, Automation 15.6%, Stylized 8.5%, 3D 5.5%
A strategy/castle builder. Create a character, build your palace, build up your defenses, craft, adventure and conquer all ancient China. Recruit legendary Heroes to lead into battle and command and fight real-time battles against waves of enemy forces out for your blood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Exploration 7%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.5%, Simulation 17%, Automation 15.7%, Strategy 12.9%, Online Co-Op 4.7%
The Crow King is a 2D side-scrolling action-strategy with a unique Handmade style, where you have to explore and gather resources to improve your strength until you lead your army to victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.3%, Tower Defense 26.4%, Strategy 20.4%, Exploration 5.9%, Simulation 5.6%
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 16.8%, Automation 10%, Third Person 6.1%
Build and direct an isometric colony from its first shelters to automated production. Assign colonists, gather and craft resources, build power and logistics, defend against raids, and lead expeditions across the world map.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52%, Automation 19.2%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.3%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 14.6%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 69.9%, Voxel 10.5% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.7%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 18.4%, Building 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Top-Down 5.5%, Building 4.7%
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, Tower Defense 20%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 6%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Tower Defense 29.6%, Strategy 22.3%, Building 10.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Exploration 5.6%
Insect Wars is a real-time strategy game where you lead an army of insects. Collect resources, build your colony, and destroy the enemy's to win. Scout the enemy, master different unit types and technologies, and face off in 1v1 or team-up against the AI.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.5%, Strategy 26.5%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 7.4%, 3D 5.1%
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Tower Defense 25.5%, Strategy 21.9%, Simulation 17.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.7%, Voxel 19% ★, Automation 17.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 6.6%
HonorOfLord is a UE5 colony sim driven by the Heart of Lord. Build a faithful empire, command multi-race followers, and conquer a vast world under the Abyss' shadow — your will is law.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.1%, Simulation 19.8%, Third Person 6.7%, Building 6%, First-Person 5.7%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 16.6%, Exploration 5.4%, Online Co-Op 5.4%
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 38.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Exploration 7.3%, Building 6.2%
Lead a slime colony through a living pixel world. Take direct control of individual creatures, gather food, expand your underground nest and face rival colonies. Explore unfamiliar biomes and fill your illustrated bestiary with discoveries.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 17.8%, Exploration 7.1%, Top-Down 5.2%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9%, Tower Defense 23.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 7.1%
An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.7%, Strategy 25.9%, Simulation 25.3%, Singleplayer 1%
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Top-Down 3.9%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Voxel 9.2% ★, Co-op 4.9%
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Tower Defense 22%, Automation 17.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%
The time of war has come! Take the command of your kingdom and use your strategic skills to defend the siege against your fortifications. You can’t win only by defending your Kingdom. Develop your economics, assemble and upgrade your army to defeat the enemy forces in a real Battle of Kings.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.6%, Strategy 32%, Simulation 27.5%
This is a special simulation tower defense game, where you need to command each citizen to build a base. To produce food, one also needs to resist monsters from the night.if you want to pass the level, it has a certain difficulty and requires you to have a certain strategy and observation rules.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Tower Defense 23.7%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Exploration 6.5%
Lead a doomsday cult as... a project manager. Doomsday.Inc is a satirical strategy game where you'll manage crazed acolytes, bureaucracy, and divine ambitions. Can you bring about the end of the world without getting bogged down in paperwork?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18.8%, Exploration 7.3%, Top-Down 6.2%
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Strategy 21.1%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Top-Down 4.6%
Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.
Why similar: Tower Defense 40.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Co-op Campaign 11.7% ★, Co-op 11.5%, Online Co-Op 6.8%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Building 7.8%, Top-Down 6.9%
Against The Tide is a simulation strategy game about restoring a dying coral reef. Build your conservation facility, grow your marine gardens, thwart invasive species, and discover new technologies to save the reef.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 14.7%, Exploration 7.9%, Building 7.7%
Gemstone Guardians is a tower defense game where selection and combinations are key. Similar to a game of poker, players are given a set of random towers each round and must make the best combinations to prevent the waves of enemies from reaching the end.
Why similar: Tower Defense 43%, Strategy 34.8%, Building 13.4%, 3D 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Stratum Defence Team is a local co-op base defense game for up to 4 players, set on hostile worlds. Defend your mineral extraction outpost. Build walls and turrets, fight on the front lines, and adapt through evolving upgrades to withstand intensifying assaults.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Co-op Campaign 21.9% ★, Strategy 11.4%, Co-op 4.2%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Strategy 21.5%, Simulation 20.7%, Exploration 7.5%, Building 5.3%
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
Why similar: Strategy 38.9%, Tower Defense 36.8%, Simulation 24.3%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29.1%, Colony Sim 27.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 7.7%
A tower defense game based on Japanese castles. Excavate the ground to create a moat, build walls and turrets, and fight off the enemies that attack you!
Why similar: Strategy 35.5%, Tower Defense 34.9%, Simulation 29.5%
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Automation 14.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Third Person 8%, Online Co-Op 7.9%
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.1%, Strategy 27.3%, Exploration 9.7%, 3D 5.6%, First-Person 5.2%
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 20.6%, Third Person 6.6%, Building 6.1%
Grow your community of froglings by gathering resources, upgrading buildings and building cute homes to live in! As night falls, protect the colony from raiding robots using the hero and towers ready to defend your new home. Build, protect and prosper in this small defense colony building game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Tower Defense 24.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Third Person 7%, Building 6.9%
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 19.8%, Automation 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 10.8%, Automation 10.3%, Building 9.9%
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Tower Defense 22.3%, Automation 13%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 8.2%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39%, Automation 20.5%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 8.6%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9%, Tower Defense 22.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Exploration 5.7%, Top-Down 5.7%
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 39.8%, Colony Sim 35.6%, Strategy 17.2%, Stylized 4%, 3D 3%
Captain a luxury cruise liner, sailing the entire world while entertaining VIPs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1%, Strategy 24.2%, Simulation 23.3%, Building 6.4%, Singleplayer 1%
