- #1 Embark
97% matchMixed61% of 386 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 42.6% ★, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #2 TFM: The First Men
96% matchMixed62% of 406 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 19.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 6.7%, Management 5.9%
- #3 Seeds of Resilience
96% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 25.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.8%, Nature 7.6%
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 38.4% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 6.1%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #5 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 15.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 7.4%, Management 7.4%
- #6 Humanica
94% matchVery Positive95% of 121 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 21.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 9.4%, Management 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #7 Edge Islands
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 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 31.6% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 7.8%
- #8 Starship Colony
92% 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 16.2%, Survival 10%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.7%
- #9 Meowdieval Clowder
91% 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 9.3%, Strategy 8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #10 RimWorld
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 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%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 7%
- #11 Maia
91% matchMixed44% of 1,063 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 42% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 8.9%
- #12 Founders' Fortune
89% 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 42.7% ★, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 8%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #13 Lil Guys
88% 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 18.4%, Survival 11.5%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.9%
- #14 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 34% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #15 Pawnholm
87% 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 15.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 8.7%, Management 7.7%
- #16 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Strategy 13.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 10.1%
- #17 Beneath a Dead City
86% 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 17.8%, Survival 11.8%, Management 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9%
- #18 Beyond These Stars
84% 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 26.7% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.2%, Management 7.6%
- #19 Colony Survival
85% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 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 38.8% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 6.7%
- #20 Architect of Ruin
84% 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 26.6% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9%, Management 7.3%
- #21 Gateworlds
83% 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 33% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Procedural Generation 7.1%
- #22 Children of Mare
82% 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 31.4% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11%, Roguelite 9.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #23 Sect Leader's Decree
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Survival 9.3%
- #24 Settlements Rising
81% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 31.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #25 Ratopia
79% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 8.2%
- #26 Mars Colony Builder
80% 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 30% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 10.6%, Management 8%
- #27 Oxygen: First Breath
79% 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 28.2% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 11%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #28 Orc Colony
81% matchMixed60% of 42 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 47.4% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #29 Nuclear Crawler
78% 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 36.7% ★, Base Building 23.5%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Open World 6.9%
- #30 CLOUD DWELLERS
78% matchNo user 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 37.3% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 5.4%
- #31 Windowed Realms
77% 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 37.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #32 Starfall Protocol
77% 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 16.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Open World 8.2%
- #33 Our Freedom: Prologue
75% 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 29.8% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 10%, Management 7.4%
- #34 Exile
74% matchMixed64% 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 10.9%, Base Building 9%, Management 8.7%, Nature 8.4%
- #35 Ecopunk
73% matchVery Positive84% of 114 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 38.5% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #36 After the Collapse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 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 17.3%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 8.8%
- #37 Stonedeep
76% matchMixed46% of 104 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 17.8%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.3%
- #38 Endless Vine
73% 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 33.9% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Nature 9.6%
- #39 Oxygen
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 17.3%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 7.3%
- #40 Odd Realm
72% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 10.1%, Management 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #41 Underground Nomads
73% 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 39.9% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 12.2%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #42 Offshore Prophets
72% matchNo user reviews2026
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% ★, Roguelite 11.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.4%, Survival 9.1%
- #43 Worlds Explorers
71% matchNo user reviews
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 25.6% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9.1%
- #44 Blacksmith Master
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.3%
- #45 Space Haven
71% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 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 28.3% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10%, Management 8.3%
- #46 Red Dust Colony
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8% ★, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 11.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.2%
- #47 Endzone 2
68% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.8%, Nature 6.5%
- #48 Gnome Glen
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 16.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Survival 8.5%, Open World 7%
- #49 Lost Heaven Station
69% 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 31% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #50 Sheltered 2
71% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #51 Buzzopolis: Hive Incremental
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uberbax Gaming
Windows
An incremental roguelite colony sim about bees, mutations, and controlled chaos. Experiment with management, crafting, research, and upgrades. When mutations spiral out of control — collapse the hive, keep progress, and start fresh. Every run unlocks new strategies and a buzz of unpredictable fun.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Roguelite 10.2%, Nature 8.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #52 Planetbase
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 40.2% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 11%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 4.6%
- #53 Arcbound
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5% ★, Base Building 20.7%, Management 9.9%, Survival 7.7%, Simulation 7.5%
- #54 Greenfeet Haven
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 7.6%
- #55 Never Secure
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #56 Surviving Ceres
66% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 9.4%, Management 8.8%
- #57 Paleon
67% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 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 48.9% ★, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%
- #58 Quriocity
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #59 Dwarf Fortress
66% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 10.7%, Management 9.2%