- #1 Planetbase
97% 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 31.9%, City Builder 31.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 6.1%, Management 5%
- #2 IXION
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 7.4%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #3 Cliff Empire
96% 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: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 11%, Time Management 9.1%, Management 8.7%
- #4 Surviving the Aftermath
95% 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: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8%
- #5 Power to the People
94% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 26.3%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Time Management 9.9%, Isometric 8.8%
- #6 InfraSpace
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Base Building 18%, Management 13.1%, Economy 9.3%, Simulation 6.9%
- #7 Flooded
93% matchVery Positive81% of 139 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Time Management 14%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%
- #8 The Crust
91% 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 29%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 20.6%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 6%
- #9 Aven Colony
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35.4%, City Builder 35.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5.7%
- #10 Oxygen
91% 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: City Builder 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 17.5%, Management 7%, Strategy 6.8%
- #11 Space Haven
89% 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 28.2%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #12 Endzone - A World Apart
90% 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 43.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 5.6%
- #13 Industries of Titan
89% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #14 Per Aspera
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 6.7%
- #15 The Final Earth 2
87% matchVery Positive97% of 437 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 11.4%, Time Management 8.3%
- #16 Oxygen: First Breath
86% 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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Management 7.7%, Strategy 6.8%
- #17 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
86% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
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: City Builder 35.9%, Colony Sim 30.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.9%
- #18 Endzone 2
85% 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: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 7.6%, Economy 6.1%
- #19 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
84% 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 32%, Time Management 20.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 11%, Isometric 8.3%
- #20 Space Drilling Station
82% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Time Management 11.1%, Management 9.6%
- #21 Generation Exile
83% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
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: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 11%, Procedural Generation 6.4%
- #22 After the Collapse
84% 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 28%, City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.2%
- #23 Flotsam
81% 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: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Economy 6.2%
- #24 New Cycle
80% 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: City Builder 30.3%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #25 Sol 0: Mars Colonization
82% matchMixed69% of 410 reviews2016
Dev: Chondrite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
Why similar: Base Building 47.2%, Strategy 29.5%, Simulation 23.4%
- #26 My Colony
81% matchVery Positive90% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: Ape Apps
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: City Builder 46%, Colony Sim 38.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%
- #27 Settlement Survival
78% 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: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 28.1%, Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Simulation 5.2%
- #28 Post-Apo Builder
79% 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: City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 26.2%, Time Management 18.4%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 10%
- #29 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Base Building 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Isometric 9.4%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #30 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
78% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Management 5.8%
- #31 Urbek City Builder
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 42.5%, Management 15.7%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #32 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
77% 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 35.3%, Base Building 21.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Management 6.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #33 ALL WILL FALL
74% 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 28.2%, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 7.5%, Simulation 6.2%
- #34 Farlanders
75% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 16.2%, Management 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #35 Farlanders: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive93% of 289 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 15.4%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Management 7.2%
- #36 Mini Settlers
73% matchVery Positive81% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.9%, City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 10.3%, Procedural Generation 6%
- #37 Possible One: Lunar Industries
73% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #38 Timberborn
69% 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: City Builder 34.4%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 5.3%
- #39 The Colonists
74% 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: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.5%, Economy 7.4%
- #40 Plan B: Terraform
71% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 21%, Management 12.5%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%
- #41 Ragnorium
75% 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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 18.9%, Strategy 6.9%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #42 Maia
76% matchMixed44% of 1,065 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 47.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.8%
- #43 Infection Free Zone
71% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Colony Sim 19%, Management 9.8%, Time Management 7.8%
- #44 Colony Simulator
73% 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: City Builder 39%, Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #45 Before We Leave
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,731 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.9%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 9.3%, Simulation 6.2%
- #46 SteamWorld Build
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 41.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Management 14.2%, Economy 10.6%, Strategy 7.8%
- #47 Derelict Void
72% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Stirling Games
Windows · Linux
Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive.
Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 8.5%
- #48 Exogate Initiative
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 18%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 7%
- #49 Frostpunk
68% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #50 Terra Nil
68% matchVery Positive87% of 8,852 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 43.5%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Isometric 12.5%, 2.5D 12%
- #51 Odd Realm
67% 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 26.6%, City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Management 10.5%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #52 Sphere - Flying Cities
70% matchMixed50% of 243 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 32.7%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 6.3%
- #53 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Colony Sim 30.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Blueprint Tycoon
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, City Builder 21.5%, Management 17%, Simulation 8.7%, Economy 5.6%
- #55 Solargene
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 855 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Management 9.7%, Economy 6.2%
- #56 Base One
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 479 reviews2021
Dev: PixFrozePub: Blowfish Studios
Windows · Mac
Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!
Why similar: Isometric 29.9%, Management 27.9%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 20.9%
- #57 The Wandering Village
63% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Management 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Simulation 7.1%
- #58 Aztecs: The Last Sun
65% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 9.1%, Economy 6.4%