- #1 Factory Town 2: Paradise
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Trains 18.6% ★, Automation 15.8%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #2 Kubifaktorium
96% 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: Trains 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 7.1%
- #3 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Trains 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Automation 11.8%, City Builder 11.7%, Steampunk 9.3% ★
- #4 Factory Town
95% 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 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Trains 12.9% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 10.4%
- #5 Kingdom Workshop
94% 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 16.8% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 8.9%
- #6 Moose Miners
94% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 146.1 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 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, Mining 13.7% ★, Automation 13.6%, Management 8%
- #7 Automation Empire
93% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.8%, Trains 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 8.1%, Economy 7.7%
- #8 Sandustry
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Trains 20.1% ★, Automation 17%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, City Builder 12%, Base Building 9.8%
- #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 26.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Economy 9.2%, City Builder 8.7%
- #10 Automatrain
91% 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 33.7% ★, Automation 19.7%, Steampunk 13.8% ★, Strategy 6.8%, Base Building 6.3%
- #11 Art of the Rail
90% 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 14.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #12 Blockville
89% 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%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Management 8.7%
- #13 The Gears: Factory
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 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 19.7% ★, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Base Building 10.8%
- #14 Mini Settlers: Prologue
88% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 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 21.1% ★, Automation 18.7%, Trains 16.2% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 10.6%
- #15 Founders' Fortune
87% 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 36.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 7.7%, Management 5.8%
- #16 Isla Paradiso
86% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.1%
- #17 Deep Space Directive
86% matchPositive87% of 15 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 23.9% ★, Automation 23.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Economy 8.2%
- #18 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
85% matchMixed42% of 33 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 37% ★, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 16%, Economy 7.5%, Building 7.3%
- #19 Truck City
84% matchPositive83% of 24 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 18.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Colony Sim 14.2% ★, Mining 10.9% ★, Base Building 10.3%
- #20 The Colonists
84% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 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 22.6% ★, Automation 19%, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9%
- #21 Greedy Little Kingdoms
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill 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 18.2%, Automation 17.9%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 8.8%
- #22 Light Up the Dark
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MountQ Studios
Windows · Linux
Light Up the Dark is a colony survival sim set in a dark world filled with unseen horrors. Collect, build, automate, research techs, and explore the procedural map. Manage three classes of colonists; keep them sane, or make use of their insanity. Solve endless interesting problems, your way.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Automation 17.6%, City Builder 17.2%, Steampunk 12.3% ★, Base Building 10%
- #23 Skyline Settlers
82% 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 29.4% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Economy 10.8%, Medieval 8.2%, Building 7.2%
- #24 Lost Heaven Station
81% 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 17.9%, Trains 16.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Management 7.8%
- #25 Frontera
80% 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 28.4% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 11.2%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 9.6%
- #26 Survival Vacancy
81% 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 24.1% ★, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 10%, Mining 9.9% ★, City Builder 9%
- #27 Logistik
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Trains 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Automation 17.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Economy 7.9%
- #28 Another Brick in The Mall
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,425 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 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 23.6%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Building 9.2%
- #29 Kingdoms and Castles
78% 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: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Building 8.3%, Medieval 8%, Base Building 7.5%
- #30 Farmman
77% 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 27.3% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.5%
- #31 STATIONflow
78% matchVery Positive86% of 495 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 30.1% ★, Underground 15.9% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 8.7%
- #32 Corbel
76% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 9.9%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.5%
- #33 Exipelago
77% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: reiti.net
Windows
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Underground 14.2% ★, Mining 13.6% ★, Economy 7.2%
- #34 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
75% 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% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 8.6%, Management 8.5%
- #35 ExoColony: Planet Survival
74% 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 19.6% ★, Underground 17.5% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Mining 14.5% ★, Base Building 9.2%
- #36 Age of Respair
75% 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 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Automation 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.8%
- #37 Death By FrostByte
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Underground 14.7% ★, Mining 14.5% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.7%
- #38 Kolo
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 8.1%
- #39 RAILGRADE
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,194 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 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 30.2% ★, Automation 16.7%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 7.8%, Management 7%
- #40 Dinky Guardians
73% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Automation 23.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.2%, Building 8%
- #41 Paragon Pioneers
73% 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% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.4%
- #42 Oxygen: First Breath
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 24.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.1%
- #43 Clipper
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adequate Games
Windows · Linux
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 28.7%, Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Management 12.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.7%
- #44 Common'hood
72% matchMixed51% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Automation 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.8%
- #45 Steam Revolution: The Age of Rail
69% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Partially Differentiated Games
Windows
Build rail networks that link industries in 1844 Europe. Complete levels to expand across nations, and compare the efficiency of your solutions against a leaderboard.
Why similar: Trains 40.8% ★, Automation 24.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 6.6%
- #46 Arcane Shores
70% 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 31.5% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Economy 11.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7.1%
- #47 Train Station Simulator
72% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Train Station Simulator is a station builder and manager game. Create and maintain your dream station! Ride the rails and operate your ultimate grand central empire!
Why similar: Trains 48% ★, Management 14.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%, City Builder 6.5%
- #48 Wildwood: A Town Building Game
69% 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% ★, Trains 20.7% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 8.1%
- #49 First Feudal
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.2%
- #50 Hammerting
70% matchMixed57% of 2,576 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Automation 17.1%, Mining 14.2% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 8.9%
- #51 Survivors of the Wildstone
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Toast
Windows
Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 17%, Automation 13.3%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 8.9%
- #52 Underground Nomads
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 34.1% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 14.7%, Building 10.2%, Underground 8.3% ★
- #53 Make Your Kingdom
70% 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: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.8%
- #54 Dig a Little Deeper
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Mining 13% ★, Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%
- #55 Factor Y
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Mining 17.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Building 7.4%
- #56 Hexagge
68% 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 31.6% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.1%
- #57 Settlement Survival
67% 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: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Building 10%, Management 9.8%, Medieval 8.8%
- #58 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
64% 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: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Automation 16.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.4%
- #59 Medieval Lord Tycoon
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HayatePub: Onigokko
Windows
A pixel art medieval lord simulator! Farm, chop wood, hunt yourself—or delegate to townsfolk. No meddling in daily lives; govern via taxes & laws. When enemies attack, higher prestige means more peasants rally to fight. Balance survival & strategic rule—build your medieval realm, forge your legacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Mining 12.1% ★, Base Building 9%
- #60 LowPolis
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BroWar Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Medieval 8.4%