Games Like Synergy

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Nature 20.2%, Isometric 14.5%, Relaxing 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on ecological restoration and environmental management in a stylized, nature-centric world.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique symbiotic relationship between your settlement and a giant creature, emphasizing ecosystem management.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Diplomacy 18% ★, Colony Sim 14.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that requires constant adaptation to harsh, changing environmental conditions.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Diplomacy 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a charming, stylized fairy-tale aesthetic that matches the colorful and approachable feel of Synergy.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.9%, Nature 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to control nature and influence the growth of human settlements through god-like powers and ecosystem manipulation.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build settlements on treacherous mountain terrain, requiring careful management of the environment.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Diplomacy 27.2% ★, Trading 18.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game where players must build a civilization while managing the delicate balance of a global ecosystem.

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: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Nature 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on water and environmental engineering to help your beaver colony survive in a changing landscape.

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Economy 10.2%, Nature 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines planetary management with the challenge of maintaining a sustainable ecosystem while expanding your city.

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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Building 11.7%, Management 9%, Base Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A robust colony-sim that requires careful resource management and adaptation to environmental disasters.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 9.9%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features organic, gridless building mechanics that allow for more natural and aesthetically pleasing settlement layouts.

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 21.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony-sim mechanics with complex economic management in a stylized, underground setting.

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Uses hex-based resource management and stylized graphics to create a strategic city-building experience.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Trading 14.7%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic side of city-building with a relaxing, real-time management loop.

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Economy 13.6%, Colony Sim 13.3%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy city-builder that tasks you with building a sustainable home for penguins in a harsh environment.

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Economy 15.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized, casual city-builder that balances resource management with underground exploration.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Building 20%, Sandbox 17%, Relaxing 12.1%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on surviving and thriving in the harsh Scottish Highlands, emphasizing nature and seasonal cycles.

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 19.9%, City Builder 18%, Trading 14.5%, Economy 12.1%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and colony-sim mechanics as you expand your settlement across multiple islands.

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 30.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes building and managing the needs of your settlers in a colorful, stylized world.

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 20.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 12.7%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and resource management within a colorful, block-based world.

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 34.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 7.1%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on environmental survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 31%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 13.9%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, offering deep management of both the environment and the needs of your settlers.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 32.3%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Economy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that forces players to manage limited resources and adapt to the changing seasons.

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 18.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder where managing the atmosphere and environment is key to your colony's success.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Economy 9.1%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a large-scale management experience that focuses on the complex supply chains of a growing city.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Building 35.8%, Sandbox 28.7%, Relaxing 23.9%, Simulation 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes community building and living in harmony with nature in a prehistoric, stylized setting.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 21%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder set on the ocean floor, requiring players to manage underwater resources and ecosystems.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Colony Sim 17.6%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly realistic and organic approach to settlement building with a focus on historical accuracy.

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 21.2%, City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a blend of simulation and resource management that mirrors the core loop of Synergy.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Economy 14.7%, Colony Sim 14.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, hex-based city-builder that focuses on expanding your civilization across different planets.

Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Economy 8.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 7.2%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Management 9.3%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Colony Sim 14%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.2%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Diplomacy 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14%, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 8.9%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 14.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.7%

Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.

Why similar: Diplomacy 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Isometric 9.5%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%

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 18.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 11%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 9%

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 16%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 8.6%

Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Stylized 8.2%

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 19.8%, City Builder 17.4%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8%

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Trading 13.1%, Economy 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.2%, Isometric 9.5%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 9%, Management 8.8%

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 21.8%, Economy 11.2%, Trading 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 8.8%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, City Builder 15.4%, Management 14.4%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

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 26.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.5%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Economy 15.6%, Building 13.2%, Management 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

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 36.7%, City Builder 31.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 4.9%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: Diplomacy 14.6% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Trading 9.8%, Isometric 8.2%

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 22.4%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Economy 8%, Sandbox 8%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 13.3%, Isometric 10.6%, Base Building 10%

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: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 7.4%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Economy 16%, Isometric 12.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.6%

Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.

Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Economy 14.8%, Isometric 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.2%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 13.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Building 10.7%, Nature 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%