- #1 Embark
97% matchMixed60% of 389 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #2 TFM: The First Men
96% matchMixed60% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 6.7%, Open World 6%
- #3 Seeds of Resilience
96% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9%, Nature 7.7%
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 6.2%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #5 Galaxy Scavengers
94% 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 20.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 9.1%
- #6 Settletopia
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 7.5%, Management 7.2%
- #7 Worlds Explorers
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.3%
- #8 Humanica
92% matchVery Positive93% of 175 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 9.5%, Management 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #9 Edge Islands
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Survival 7.7%
- #10 Starship Colony
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.5%
- #11 Meowdieval Clowder
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DrillMind
Windows
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #12 Idyll
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdyllWorks
Windows
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Base Building 20.7%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Management 6%
- #13 Maia
90% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 8.5%
- #14 RimWorld
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 6.8%
- #15 SeaColony
86% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 7.9%
- #16 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
87% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 8%, Open World 5.2%
- #17 Founders' Fortune
86% 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 42.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Sandbox 8.1%, Survival 7.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #18 Dwarf Things
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #19 On & Under
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crabtr1
Windows
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Base Building 9%
- #20 Last Monument
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Levikinco
Windows
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Roguelite 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.8%
- #21 Lil Guys
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 11.7%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%
- #22 Malignus
82% 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 36.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 8.4%
- #23 Pawnholm
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.5%
- #24 Beneath a Dead City
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 12%, Management 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #25 Beyond These Stars
80% 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 26.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Management 7.4%
- #26 Colony Survival
81% matchVery Positive92% of 8,976 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 6.8%
- #27 Fosoria
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, Base Building 20.2%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #28 Breadoria
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 11.8%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.5%
- #29 Children of Mare
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starfall Games
Windows
Venture into the host's mind and extracts all its fears to feed Mare. Build, explore, mine and conquer ruins to please the goddess of nightmares.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 11.2%, Roguelite 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%
- #30 KingForge
77% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Survival 12.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #31 StoneEra
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 6.7%
- #32 Architect of Ruin
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 7.2%
- #33 Mars Colony Builder
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.7%, Management 7.8%
- #34 Settlements Rising
75% matchVery Positive81% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%
- #35 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #36 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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 28.3%, Base Building 19%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #37 HullRats
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 11.7%, Management 8.9%, Open World 8.3%
- #38 Nuclear Crawler
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 23.7%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Open World 7.1%
- #39 Starfall Protocol
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #40 Orc Colony
76% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Management 7.2%
- #41 CLOUD DWELLERS
71% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 5.5%
- #42 Gateworlds
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #43 Windowed Realms
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #44 Rows Of Earth
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glasworks Studios
Windows
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 8.9%
- #45 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #46 Exile
70% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Nature 8.5%, Management 8.4%
- #47 Stonedeep
72% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 7.1%
- #48 Zenith Expanse
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 8.6%
- #49 Ecopunk
68% matchVery Positive83% of 133 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Management 9.8%
- #50 Endless Vine
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Circuit Root
Windows
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 10.2%, Nature 9.6%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #51 Stranding Echoes
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 8.3%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #52 After the Collapse
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 8.5%
- #53 The Blighted Frontier
68% 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 39.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 8.6%, Management 8.5%
- #54 Oxygen
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 27.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #55 Odd Realm
67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 29%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.2%
- #56 Offshore Prophets
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Roguelite 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9.3%
- #57 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 28.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Management 8%
- #58 Satus Colony Survival
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Re³ Studios
Windows
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.3%
- #59 Gnome Glen
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 7.2%