
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, City Builder, Singleplayer.

Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

Fio and the Doomed City
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

Little Porp
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 25%, Tower Defense 18.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Top-Down 6.1%, Building 4.2%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 8.1%
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 34.7% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 7.4%
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Tower Defense 17.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Base Building 7.8%
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 47.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.6%, Building 5.4%
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 14.8%, Base Building 7.9%, Top-Down 6.4%
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 38.1% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 6%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48% ★, City Builder 31.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 8%, Management 1.6%
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: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Strategy 8.7%, Base Building 5.8%, Building 5.7%
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Base Building 7.1%, Building 5.3%
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 34% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Tower Defense 23.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Building 7.5%
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.6% ★, City Builder 30%, Strategy 12.8%, Economy 9.7%, Building 5%
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 34.3% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Tower Defense 9.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Base Building 7.4%
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2% ★, Tower Defense 29.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Base Building 7.2%
Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 7.5%, Economy 5.6%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 8.6%
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Tower Defense 20.4%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 9.6%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.3% ★, City Builder 40%, Strategy 9.7%
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Economy 10.4%, Building 6.9%, Base Building 5.2%
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Top-Down 4.6%
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Economy 9.9%, Building 7.2%, Management 6.9%
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 47.6% ★, City Builder 35.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Economy 3.1%, Building 1.9%
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Base Building 7.4%, Economy 5.7%
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, City Builder 31.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 7.2%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Economy 7.3%
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 32.8% ★, City Builder 24%, Strategy 16.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 5.4%
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Economy 6.2%, Building 4.8%
Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Strategy 10%, Top-Down 5.4%, Economy 5.3%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 8%, Building 7%
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 8.8%
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Tower Defense 25%, Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 5.3%
Embark on a cozy journey to settle and thrive on floating islands in the remnants of a ruptured world. Grow your village, manage resources, and become the renowned pioneer of the clouds. A relaxing city-building experience where you build and optimize your serene sanctuary in the skies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Economy 8.1%, Top-Down 6.6%
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7% ★, City Builder 31.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 6.7%
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 43.4% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 3.3%
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 46.1% ★, City Builder 40.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Economy 3.9%, Management 0.8%
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 27.5% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 8.1%
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 38.5% ★, City Builder 28.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Economy 7.5%, Base Building 6.8%
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Tower Defense 20.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 7.9%
Lead your kingdom to victory! By day, you build and prepare your kingdom for impending threats. But every night, you must defend your kingdom against hordes of monsters, by commanding soldiers, building turrets, and fighting on the battleground yourself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Tower Defense 20.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.6% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Strategy 15.8%, Economy 5.1%, Building 3.7%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 31.7% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 7.2%, Strategy 6.6%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Economy 8.3%, Base Building 8%
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 7.1%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.1% ★, City Builder 36.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 4.5%, Management 0.9%
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 32.2% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 9.7%, Economy 8.7%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 6.6%
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 10.2%, Management 7%, Strategy 6.9%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.9% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Strategy 15.4%
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Management 7.4%, Economy 5.4%
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 7%
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Building 9.2%, Management 5.2%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 10%, Management 6.7%
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Top-Down 6.3%, Base Building 6.3%
Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6% ★, City Builder 39.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Economy 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 7.1%, Base Building 6.1%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.8% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 7.1%