- #1 Factory Town 2: Paradise
97% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Trains 18.8% ★, Automation 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #2 Agromatic
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Automation 13.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Trains 12.7% ★, Base Building 8%
- #3 Kubifaktorium
96% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Trains 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.4%, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 7.2%
- #4 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Trains 20.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 12.2%, Automation 10.8%, Steampunk 9.6% ★
- #5 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Trains 13.1% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 24.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 11.4%, City Builder 9.6%, Economy 8.2%
- #7 Kingdom Workshop
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Automation 12.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.7%
- #8 Factory on a Train
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Trains 28.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Automation 14.1%, Mining 10.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%
- #9 Fill the Sky
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 22.8%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 6.1%
- #10 Automation Empire
91% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Trains 13.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 8.6%, Mining 7.7% ★
- #11 Havenrail
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Punchers
Windows
“The Last Train of Humanity” is a survival strategy game. Manage your train, oversee resources, and make tough decisions that determine the fate of your passengers. Will they survive the perilous journey?
Why similar: Trains 26.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Steampunk 11.6% ★, Base Building 7.7%
- #12 Automatrain
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Esben Jon Jensen
Windows
Automatrain is a game about building automated railroads and industry, in a world governed by an omnipotent AI. Manage production and traffic to unlock more trains, factories and advanced gameplay features.
Why similar: Trains 34.1% ★, Automation 18.5%, Steampunk 14.5% ★, Strategy 6.9%, Base Building 6.4%
- #13 Moose Miners
89% matchMixed69% of 528 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 144.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Trains 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Automation 13.2%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 8%
- #14 Art of the Rail
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.
Why similar: Trains 37.9% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.8%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
- #15 GearTopia
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Fornax Games
Windows
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Steampunk 16.1% ★, Underground 14.2% ★, Mining 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 12%
- #16 Blockville
86% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: SCT
Windows
Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.
Why similar: Trains 23.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 8.4%
- #17 Terraform Co: Factory and City
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
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 24.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 13.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #18 HavenCraft
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
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 23.9%, Automation 17.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Management 8.1%
- #19 The Gears: Factory
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: StoryBox
Windows
[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11%
- #20 Mini Settlers: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 17.5%, Trains 16.3% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%
- #21 Logistik
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and grow your rail network to fulfill transportation demands. Optimize paths around forests, mountains and rivers, and balance fuel costs. Across real-world continents or on endlessly unique maps, build the best railway company, one train at a time!
Why similar: Trains 28.2% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Automation 13.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 7.7%
- #22 Odd Realm
82% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 13.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Mining 11.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%
- #23 Founders' Fortune
83% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 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 36.6%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 7.8%, Management 5.6%
- #24 Project Oasis
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 17.7%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 8.2%
- #25 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Underground 9.6% ★, Management 9.5%
- #26 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
79% matchMixed57% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
Why similar: Trains 38.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Automation 16.2%, Building 7.5%, Economy 7%
- #27 Isla Paradiso
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 22.6%, Economy 10.4%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.1%
- #28 Lost Heaven Station
79% 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 24.8%, City Builder 18.3%, Trains 16.7% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Building 7.6%
- #29 Truck City
78% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Automation 17.1%, City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Mining 10.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%
- #30 Skyline Settlers
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 24.7%, Economy 10.2%, Medieval 8.4%, Building 7.4%
- #31 Greedy Little Kingdoms
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.1%
- #32 Frontera
77% 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 28.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Economy 10.5%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 9.6%
- #33 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
Windows
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Automation 22.8%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 10.4%
- #34 Exipelago
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: reiti.net
Windows
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 15.7%, Underground 14.1% ★, Mining 13.1% ★, Building 7.1%
- #35 TOWERPUNK
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TESSERAX GAMES
Windows
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Automation 16.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.7%
- #36 The Colonists
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Automation 17.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #37 Another Brick in The Mall
75% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Management 12.5%, Building 9.6%
- #38 Belts of Iron
72% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Trains 21% ★, Automation 21%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 6.7%
- #39 The Undercity: Last Light
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 20%, Underground 19.9% ★, Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #40 Malignus
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 13%, Underground 11% ★, Building 10.2%, Simulation 8.1%
- #41 RAILGRADE
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 31.1% ★, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Economy 7.3%, Management 6.8%
- #42 Survival Vacancy
74% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Mining 9.7% ★, City Builder 9.4%
- #43 The Blighted Frontier
72% 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 33%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 7.7%
- #44 Farmman
71% 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 27.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 10%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.6%
- #45 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
71% 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 26.1%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.7%, Management 8.2%
- #46 Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bernhard Kokesch
Windows · Linux
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Underground 23.4% ★, Mining 19.1% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Management 8.4%
- #47 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 16.2%, Automation 15.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 10.9%
- #48 Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Why similar: Trains 35.4% ★, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 8.4%, Management 7.6%, Economy 6.2%
- #49 Corbel
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Not A Robot Games
Windows · Linux
Play as a giant and build a micro medieval city in this unique city builder. Pick up villagers and command them to do your bidding, create production lines and manage resources while defending against hoards of pillaging gnomes. Get involved yourself and help gather resources, transport, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.9%, Management 7.2%
- #50 STATIONflow
71% matchVery Positive86% of 505 reviews2020
Dev: DMM GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Why similar: Trains 30.2% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 8.5%
- #51 Keep The Ammo Flowing
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A top-down incremental logistics and tower-defense game. Mine resources, produce ammunition, build tracks toward the exit, and upgrade your mobile furnace and turret while defending it from underground swarms.
Why similar: Trains 21.9% ★, Automation 19.4%, Underground 13.4% ★, Mining 12.5% ★, Building 8.6%
- #52 ExoColony: Planet Survival
68% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Underground 17.6% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Mining 14.1% ★, Base Building 9.2%
- #53 Terra-7
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 10.9%, Building 9.8%
- #54 Paragon Pioneers
69% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9.3%
- #55 Age of Respair
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Automation 12.2%, Building 8%
- #56 Mountainhall
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Deepmountain Studios
Windows · Linux
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Underground 14.5% ★, Automation 12.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Mining 12.2% ★
- #57 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 24.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.2%
- #58 The Great Beyond
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Underground 18.2% ★, Mining 14.6% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 8.4%
- #59 Wildwood: A Town Building Game
66% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Thermal Expansion Games
Windows
Welcome to Wildwood, the ultimate town building game. Start from nothing. Provide food, shelter and protection for your settlers. Forage for resources, research new technologies, Craft new items, construct new buildings and grow from a surviving colony into a thriving one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Trains 20.7% ★, City Builder 16%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 7.6%