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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Base Building, Strategy, Building, Simulation.

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In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Reviews: Mixed — 64% — of 88 reviews
Released: 2021-02-19
Developer: Mind Leak
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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  1. #1 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    97% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 30.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6.9%

  2. #2 The Crust
    96% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 15.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 7.8%

  3. #3 Oxygen
    96% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 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 21.7%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 10.5%, Building 8.5%, Resource Management 8%

  4. #4 Until We Die
    95% matchMixed63% of 4,634 reviews2021
    Dev: Pixeye Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 15.6%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.7%

  5. #5 Occupy Mars: The Game
    94% matchMixed70% of 3,170 reviews2026
    Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

    Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Mining 11.9% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.3%

  6. #6 Automation Empire
    94% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

    Why similar: Automation 20.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 7.7%

  7. #7 After the Collapse
    93% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 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 27.7%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 9.8%, Survival 9%, Management 8.8%

  8. #8 Surviving the Aftermath
    92% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 9%

  9. #9 Factorio
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
    Dev: Wube Software LTD.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Sandbox 8.3%

  10. #10 The Last Haven
    91% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
    Dev: Thunder Devs.
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

    Why similar: Base Building 22%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 10.3%, Colony Sim 10.2%, City Builder 10%

  11. #11 Zombie Cure Lab
    91% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025
    Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 10.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

  12. #12 Astro Colony
    89% matchVery Positive81% of 2,730 reviews2026
    Dev: Terad Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%

  13. #13 Swarmdustry
    89% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
    Dev: Mitchy Studios
    Windows

    Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.

    Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Mining 8.9% ★, Inventory Management 8.4%, Survival 8.3%

  14. #14 Colony Survival
    88% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 31.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.1%

  15. #15 Settlement Survival
    87% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 12.5%, Survival 9.2%, Management 9.1%

  16. #16 New Cycle
    86% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.9%, Survival 9.8%

  17. #17 Oxygen: First Breath
    85% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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 21.9%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 11%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.2%

  18. #18 The Colonists
    86% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
    Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 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 21.8%, Automation 14.7%, City Builder 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.6%

  19. #19 Eden Crafters
    82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,696 reviews2026
    Dev: Osaris Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 12%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.4%

  20. #20 Hammerting
    84% matchMixed57% of 2,605 reviews2021
    Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Automation 12.7%, Mining 11.5% ★, Inventory Management 10%, Base Building 9.8%

  21. #21 ReFactory
    84% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
    Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
    Windows

    Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

    Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%

  22. #22 Ragnorium
    83% 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 28.4%, Survival 14.3%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Resource Management 10.8%

  23. #23 Colony Simulator
    82% matchMixed66% of 424 reviews2022
    Dev: Indie Marc
    Windows

    Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Crafting 10.7%

  24. #24 Oceaneers
    79% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2026
    Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
    Windows

    A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.8% ★, Crafting 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 9.7%

  25. #25 Endzone - A World Apart
    81% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 20.1%, Colony Sim 17%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 7.5%

  26. #26 Planetbase
    81% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 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 33.2%, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 14%, Survival 8.7%, Building 5.6%

  27. #27 Guardians of the Sanctree
    80% matchMostly Positive75% of 375 reviews2024
    Dev: HuCang Studio
    Windows

    You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Open World Survival Craft 10.3% ★, City Builder 7.8%

  28. #28 Captain of Industry
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 7.6%

  29. #29 ALL WILL FALL
    78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,442 reviews2026
    Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Automation 10.7%, City Builder 8.3%

  30. #30 Endzone 2
    77% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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 27.8%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%

  31. #31 Common'hood
    79% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
    Dev: Plethora Project
    Windows

    Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Automation 9.9%

  32. #32 Ascent of Ashes
    76% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10%, Crafting 9.7%, City Builder 9.7%

  33. #33 Illuminaria
    77% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: Selva Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Automation 13.2%, Mining 12.7% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10%

  34. #34 Odd Realm
    75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 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 18.9%, Automation 9.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Mining 8.7% ★, Building 6.8%

  35. #35 Stonehearth
    76% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 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 36.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival 8.3%

  36. #36 Flotsam
    72% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
    Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 12.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%

  37. #37 Kubifaktorium
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
    Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Automation 16.5%, City Builder 10.1%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%

  38. #38 Sheltered
    74% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

    Why similar: Base Building 25.7%, Survival 23.6%, Management 10.4%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

  39. #39 AColony
    73% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%

  40. #40 Oxygen Not Included
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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 35.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 8.8%

  41. #41 Stonedeep
    74% 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 24%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.7%, Automation 8.8%, Resource Management 8.4%

  42. #42 Microtopia
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 977 reviews2025
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 15.1%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%

  43. #43 Shelter Manager
    73% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
    Dev: Hamsters Gaming
    Windows

    We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 12%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

  44. #44 Sheltered 2
    73% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    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 31.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 12.6%, Building 9%

  45. #45 Cliff Empire
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
    Dev: Lion's Shade
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

  46. #46 CLOUD DWELLERS
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 92 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 29.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Management 9.5%

  47. #47 Post-Apo Builder
    71% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
    Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, City Builder 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%

  48. #48 Project AURA
    72% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2018
    Dev: Nexcentric Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

    Why similar: City Builder 19%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 10.6%

  49. #49 Timberborn
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
    Dev: Mechanistry
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Automation 13.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.7%

  50. #50 Space Haven
    65% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 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 25%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.8%, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%

  51. #51 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
    69% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
    Dev: Septarian Games
    Windows

    Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

    Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 14%, Resource Management 7.1%, Management 6.9%

  52. #52 Life in Bunker
    71% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
    Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

    Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Survival 18.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.5%

  53. #53 Atrio: The Dark Wild
    68% matchMostly Positive80% of 606 reviews2023
    Dev: Isto Inc.
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

    Why similar: Automation 19.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.1%

  54. #54 Space Architect
    67% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 reviews2024
    Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.3%, Mining 8.1% ★

  55. #55 Stationeers
    68% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
    Dev: RocketWerkz
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Automation 12.6%, Mining 10.5% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Building 7.8%

  56. #56 Rebirth evolution
    69% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2023
    Dev: 异界游网络科技
    Windows

    2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

    Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Survival 15.8%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12%

  57. #57 Autonauts
    67% matchVery Positive89% of 4,970 reviews2019
    Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.3%

  58. #58 Sandustry
    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
    Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

    Why similar: Automation 17%, Open World Survival Craft 15.4% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.4%

  59. #59 Outworld Station
    65% matchVery Positive85% of 859 reviews2026
    Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

    Why similar: Automation 19.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Inventory Management 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

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