- #1 Radia Island
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, 4X 17.2% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Automation 7.9%, Economy 7%
- #2 Powerplay
96% matchNo user reviews86% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 8.6%, RTS 8.3%
- #3 Kingdoms and Castles
96% matchVery Positive94% of 31,326 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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: 4X 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 16%, Economy 7.4%, Sandbox 6%
- #4 Wild West Pioneers
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Economy 8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #5 Age of Respair
94% 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 18%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Automation 8.2%, Real Time Tactics 7.7%
- #6 Spaceflight Factory
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 13%, 4X 12.3% ★, Automation 11.8%, Economy 8.1%
- #7 Kingdom Wars 4
93% matchMixed66% of 239 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: 4X 18% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Wargame 9.2%, RTS 6.8%
- #8 Magnery Reign
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Wargame 10.6%, Automation 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%
- #9 Norland
91% matchVery Positive82% of 10,280 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 19.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 8.1%, Historical 7.1%
- #10 Nova Roma
90% matchVery Positive94% of 2,187 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 18.2% ★, Colony Sim 15%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 7.5%
- #11 Arc of Icarus
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.3%
- #12 Whiskerwood
89% matchVery Positive93% of 3,222 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 12.8%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 7.2%
- #13 Pirate Plight
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 20.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16%, Economy 9.3%, RTS 8.5%
- #14 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
88% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, Colony Sim 22%, Automation 10.7%, Base Building 6.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #15 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
87% matchVery Positive91% of 26,779 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 70.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6%, City Builder 15.5%, 4X 14.3% ★, Economy 9.5%, Historical 8%
- #16 Empires of the Undergrowth
86% matchVery Positive94% of 18,599 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 8.5%, Historical 7.1%
- #17 Tokeis
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17%, Economy 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.3%
- #18 Colonial Winds
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark Shift Games
Windows · Mac
Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, 4X 12.3% ★, Colony Sim 12.2%, Political Sim 9.2% ★, Base Building 8%
- #19 Ancient Polis
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PKP Games
Windows
Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on your own terms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19%, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Wargame 12.3%, Historical 10.9%
- #20 Ymir
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,115 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 77.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: 4X 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 12.1%, Strategy 5.7%
- #21 Oxygen: First Breath
83% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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 21.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #22 Heart of the Machine
81% matchVery Positive92% of 2,088 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 19% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 8.5%, Historical 7.3%
- #23 Egypt
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #24 Patron
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,191 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 21.3%, Survival 9.4%, Economy 8.6%, Base Building 6.2%
- #25 Against the Storm
80% matchVery Positive94% of 37,049 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 19% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Economy 8.2%, Historical 7.1%
- #26 Aztecs: The Last Sun
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 129 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Economy 10.3%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 7.9%
- #27 Factory Business Management
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gran Capitan Game Dev
Windows · Mac
Build factories, manage resources, research new technologies, try to locate the best markets to sell your products. Keep building, managing resources, researching and selling. Repeat, fail, learn, repeat, succeed, grow
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Political Sim 17% ★, Economy 12.4%, Management 9%, Sandbox 9%
- #28 Dawn of Man
81% matchVery Positive87% of 17,803 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 30.1 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: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 30.6%, Survival 9.3%, Historical 6.1%, Strategy 5.4%
- #29 Ostriv
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,580 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 19.3%, Historical 9.2%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 7.8%
- #30 Rogue Carrier
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wild FieldsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Lead a perilous expedition to study the mysteries of a sentient world in this roguelite colony management game. Build and manage a city atop an ocean-faring ship, and try to survive as the planet fights back!
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 10.1%, 4X 9.7% ★, Strategy 8.5%
- #31 The Crust
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,693 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 14.7%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #32 The First Explorers®
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buchwald Interactive
Windows
The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 12.9%, RTS 9.7%, Management 6.7%
- #33 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
75% matchMixed59% of 451 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 13.3%, RTS 6.5%, Base Building 6.4%
- #34 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, RTS 7.4%
- #35 Corsair Cove
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,342 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, 4X 15.2% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 9%, Historical 8%
- #36 Arcane Shores
75% 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 27.7%, City Builder 23.6%, Economy 12%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #37 The Colonists
76% matchVery Positive86% of 1,233 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 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 20.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Automation 13.7%, Economy 11.2%, Management 7.2%
- #38 Compact Colonies
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 17.7%, Economy 9.1%, Survival 9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #39 Founders' Fortune
74% 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 34.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 6.4%
- #40 Of Life and Land
71% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 8.4%, Economy 7.6%, Historical 7.4%
- #41 Clan & Flood
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Political Sim 17.6% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 8.4%
- #42 Make Your Kingdom
73% matchMixed58% of 197 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 22.3%, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 10.4%, Management 8.7%, Survival 8.4%
- #43 Oxygen
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 899 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 9.1%, Economy 9%
- #44 Ragnorium
73% 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 19.1%, 4X 15.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Survival 10.3%, Historical 10.2%
- #45 Bread & Bravery
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 14.8%, RTS 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Economy 7.3%
- #46 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 24.8%, City Builder 20.3%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #47 Spaceport Kingdom
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spaceport Kingdom
Windows
Spaceport Kingdom is a sci-fi strategy and siege builder. Construct ship docks to establish new transport routes in a sector caught in an endless war zone. Pirates, meteors, and cosmic anomalies strike without pause. The galaxy doesn’t grant peace; only those who build through the fire survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9.7%
- #48 Beyond These Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16.9%, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #49 Bergfried
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quid Pro Games
Windows
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Wargame 11.2%, RTS 8.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #50 Going Medieval
66% matchVery Positive89% of 21,243 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 9.2%, Historical 7.7%, Base Building 7.5%
- #51 Galaxy Scavengers
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 10.6%, Automation 8.6%
- #52 SimPocalypse
70% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: 4X 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, Automation 12.9%, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 7.2%
- #53 Quriocity
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.2%
- #54 Isla Paradiso
68% 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 26.7%, City Builder 23.7%, Economy 13.1%, Management 8.2%, Base Building 7.3%
- #55 Stronghold 4
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Wargame 11.4%, RTS 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #56 Banished
70% matchVery Positive90% of 43,242 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 33.9%, City Builder 29.1%, Survival 8.3%, Sandbox 6.2%, Strategy 6.1%
- #57 Exogate Initiative
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 723 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 22% ★, Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #58 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
67% matchMixed62% of 116 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Automation 12%, Wargame 10.6%, Economy 8.6%
- #59 After Long Night
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 455 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 13.8%, RTS 9.3%, Base Building 9%, Wargame 8.8%