- #1 FireMatch Empire
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: God Game 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 25.1%, Science 8.4%, Strategy 6.8%
- #2 Pioneers
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andy Cadman
Windows
Pioneers is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you transform barren planets into beautiful habitable ecosystems by terraforming the landscape and building a new home for humankind. Explore a variety of inhospitable planets that you turn into a colourful thriving world.
Why similar: God Game 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Space 6.7%
- #3 The Universim
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,560 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 22.3%, Space 6.9%, Survival 6.1%
- #4 Marsbound
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ghost Workshop
Windows
MARSBOUND is a survival game in sci-fi setting which combines elements of economic strategy and psychological thriller. The player assumes the role of an AI manager who must create the first Martian colony from scratch with Earth's brightest minds under their command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 27.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Survival 7.6%
- #5 Sky Base Venus
94% 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 36.1%, City Builder 20.4%, Space 13%, Science 11.7%, Strategy 6%
- #6 Rise to Ruins
94% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 25.7%, God Game 23% ★, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 5.4%
- #7 Aven Colony
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 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 42.6%, City Builder 33.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Space 5.9%
- #8 Alien Land
92% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: liuliu
Windows
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: God Game 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 23.7%, Strategy 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
- #9 Planeta
91% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Tomas Daugela
Windows
Planeta is a planet-building game where you can create and customize your planet as you wish! Main goal is to create conditions for humans to live and build a rocket ship and fly to the moon!
Why similar: God Game 33% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Survival 5.3%
- #10 Surviving the Aftermath
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.9%
- #11 IXION
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Space 14.9%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 6.5%
- #12 Ages of Cataria
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Third Pie Studios
Windows
Set in a new fantastical world, Ages of Cataria is a cozy-friendly town sim. Watch as your village evolves from humble beginnings, with just one family, to a community of multiple families living together across generations of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, God Game 25.4% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Stylized 7.6%
- #13 Dawn of Man
89% matchVery Positive87% of 17,712 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Colony Sim 40.5%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.3%, Choices Matter 2.6%
- #14 Deity's Domain
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unlikely Games
Windows
Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.
Why similar: God Game 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 21%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Stylized 4.4%
- #15 Planetbase
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 38.3%, City Builder 30.4%, Space 12.6%, Survival 8%, Strategy 6%
- #16 Floodland
86% matchMixed56% of 1,068 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Survival 8.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #17 Landslide
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy 10.5%
- #18 The Settlers: New Allies
85% matchMixed49% of 1,156 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 32.9% ★, Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 28.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #19 Beware of Light
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bajka Games
Windows
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, City Builder 35.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Survival 10%
- #20 BroBlast
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evan Peri
Windows
BROBLAST is a top down builder game where you defend your base from enemies
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, God Game 25.4% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Space 9.1%, Strategy 4.8%
- #21 Buoyancy
82% matchMixed56% of 825 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48%, City Builder 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Survival 6.4%
- #22 My Colony
82% matchVery Positive90% of 265 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, City Builder 44.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #23 Banished
81% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8%, City Builder 40%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #24 OBRII
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 12%, Space 10.1%, Stylized 9%
- #25 夕照原
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: 无栈Stackless
Windows
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 29.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Strategy 7.2%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #26 Creature Evolution Simulator
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daniel Lochner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design an ecosystem and watch your creatures evolve through millions of years by means of natural selection. See them fight for survival and produce offspring which share their genes… occasionally mutating to form monstrosities! What will your creature’s final-stage of evolution be?
Why similar: God Game 31.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 18.9%, Science 17.8%, Stylized 5%
- #27 DawnWorld Founders
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Mindful Games
Windows
Shipwrecked and abandoned in an unknown land. Build, expand, and even influence a medieval world where every decision shapes your rise. Establish yourself, repel threats, and guide your people's progress and destiny from above and on the ground in this relaxing single-player city builder.
Why similar: God Game 32% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #28 Keep Them Busy
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hooded Penguin
Windows · Mac
A colony sim where you build, manage, and expand across an open galaxy. Keep NPCs occupied, or they’ll develop autonomous behaviours—leading to crime, chaos, or rebellion. Balance industrial growth with environmental preservation, enforce laws, and defend your colony from extra-terrestrial threats!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, God Game 28.4% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Strategy 5.4%
- #29 Endzone - A World Apart
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Colony Sim 18%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 8%
- #30 Sapiens
77% matchVery Positive83% of 2,122 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 34.1% ★, Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.6%, Survival 6.9%, Strategy 4%
- #31 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
77% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 38.2%, City Builder 35.3%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Stylized 4.9%
- #32 Frostpunk
76% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #33 Pick Me Up
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, City Builder 26.8%, God Game 26.4% ★, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 4.8%
- #34 Space Haven
73% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Space 10.5%, Survival 7.8%
- #35 Venusville
75% matchNo user reviews2026
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 34.1%, City Builder 27.2%, Space 12.3%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #36 Stonehearth
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,005 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1%, City Builder 34.7%, Survival 8.1%, God Game 7.2% ★, Strategy 5.9%
- #37 Little Porp
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VuVuu
Windows
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5%, City Builder 40.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
- #38 Rise Against the Invaders
74% 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 37.6%, City Builder 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Survival 7.9%
- #39 Liftlands
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Doublecap
Windows
You're a god needing followers to become the strongest deity. Lift followers and objects to build, expand, fight, convert, or ally with gods. Gather faith for divine powers with strategic depth, shaping your civilization’s destiny.
Why similar: God Game 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 24.8%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #40 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
73% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.2%, City Builder 40.9%, Survival 6.6%, Strategy 6.3%
- #41 Exodus Borealis
72% matchVery Positive86% of 303 reviews2021
Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
Windows
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, God Game 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 6.4%
- #42 Generation Exile
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 48 reviews2026
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 31.7%, City Builder 28%, Space 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #43 Post Solis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Drunk Fly
Windows
Post Solis is a real-time sci-fi strategy game. Your only ally is a tiny ray of the sunlight. It moves across the planet, and you can only build in its area. Anything plunged into darkness is destroyed. The game is built around the key mechanics of following the slipping ray of light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Science 8.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #44 pyramida
71% matchVery Positive84% of 746 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Colony Sim 35.6%, Strategy 16.1%, Survival 12.3%
- #45 Little Islanders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameDevMikeyPub: Red Dragon Interactive
Windows
Little Islanders is a cozy vibe god game with Base Building, Survival and Colony Sim elements! Create your faction, Protect them and Help rebuild their world after being attacked by 'Skurj' the Demon King. Set in a fantasy universe of airborne landmasses called Islands, YOU ARE THEIR GOD! 🔥
Why similar: God Game 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.9%, City Builder 24.4%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 3.9%
- #46 Eco Park
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: LunaBrod
Windows
Eco Park is a game about ecology and lo-fi hip-hop. Manage a dynamic ecosystem with creatures eating, breeding, and dying in real time. You’ll need to introduce species to increase biodiversity. Keep population sizes under control, or one species might extinguish another.
Why similar: God Game 33.4% ★, Colony Sim 31.4%, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Atmospheric 2%
- #47 Ragnorium
71% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #48 Fata Deum - The God Sim
69% matchMixed60% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 32.1% ★, Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 21.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Survival 6.4%
- #49 Generation Nova
69% 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 33.5%, City Builder 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Space 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #50 Creo God Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 239 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 39.3% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
- #51 SPORE™
70% matchVery Positive93% of 71,309 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Why similar: God Game 35.6% ★, Colony Sim 29%, Science 19.2%, Space 11%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #52 Goblin Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: God Game 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 25.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%
- #53 Paleon
67% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, City Builder 25.7%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
- #54 Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Garan LornPub: Selenodrome
Windows · Linux
A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Space 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%, 1980s 8.7%
- #55 Skyberry Garden
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catculus
Windows · Mac
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, City Builder 38.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
- #56 Soter
68% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Jethro TullPub: The Fridge Network
Windows
Play the role of a planet trying to keep the few humans who remain alive as you travel through an asteroid field in this simulator inspired by the classic Maxis game Sim Earth.
Why similar: God Game 45.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.8%, Survival 10%, Strategy 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #57 Keeper - UnCorruptDead
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaming With Rawr
Windows
Dungeon Keeper-like with electropunk elements. Dig out space for buildings to attract AI-controlled creatures and watch them do your bidding. Cast spells from the god-hand above, and protect your heart while sending minions to defeat theirs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, God Game 27.9% ★, City Builder 19%, Strategy 6.7%, Stylized 5.7%
- #58 Spherical Symphony
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maaz BaigPub: Night Rain Studios
Windows
Guide tiny planets back into harmony in Spherical Symphony. Balance each world’s living systems, recruit cozy catfolk helpers, befriend cosmic sea creatures, trade between worlds, repel threats, and awaken the sleeping sun at the heart of it all.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, God Game 31.2% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Strategy 6.2%, Stylized 5.9%