- #1 Our Freedom: Prologue
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Strategy 17%, Simulation 13.6%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 9.4%
- #2 Resort Galactica
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
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 20.5% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 9%
- #3 Orc Colony
95% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 14.8%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #4 Prison Architect
94% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.6%, Building 8.9%
- #5 Oxygen: First Breath
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 10.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #6 Founders' Fortune
93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Base Building 12%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #7 Edge Islands
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 10.5%
- #8 Settletopia
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 10.3%
- #9 Farmman
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
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 24.2% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, City Builder 11%, Management 10%, Building 9%
- #10 Blueprint Tycoon
90% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Management 18.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, City Builder 8.2%
- #11 Sect Leader's Decree
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #12 Egypt
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 10.6%
- #13 Shopping Center Tycoon
88% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 17.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #14 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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 25% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 15.7%, City Builder 11.9%, Base Building 8.2%
- #15 Oxygen
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, City Builder 10.2%, Strategy 9.8%
- #16 Lost Heaven Station
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 11.6%, City Builder 10.4%
- #17 First Feudal
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 9.2%, Building 8.6%
- #18 WildRoot
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Lead a small community as you farm, craft, cook, and expand your settlement. Colonists form friendships, help each other, and trigger soft story events that shape your colony. Cozy vibes, but plenty happening.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 11.5%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 10.6%
- #19 Ratopia
83% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #20 Country Architect
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
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 21.5% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.2%, City Builder 10.7%
- #21 Orrstead
82% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
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 23.3% ★, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 11.3%, City Builder 11%, Base Building 9.9%
- #22 Isla Paradiso
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
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 26.3% ★, City Builder 13%, Strategy 11.3%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.7%
- #23 Diluvian Winds
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #24 Crowded Blue Dot
81% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 9.9%
- #25 Quriocity
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, City Builder 11.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 10%
- #26 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
79% 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: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Strategy 19%, Simulation 18.5%, City Builder 12%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #27 Starship Colony
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 9.6%
- #28 Dungeon Overseer
78% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 10.2%, Management 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #29 Lil Guys
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 11.5%, City Builder 9.3%
- #30 Settlements Rising
76% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #31 Dubai Builder
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: Strategy 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 11.4%
- #32 Little Big Workshop
76% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 20.3%, Strategy 19.9%, Management 15.4%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #33 Beyond These Stars
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 9.8%
- #34 Blacksmith Master
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Sandbox 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10.5%, City Builder 9.3%
- #35 Make Your Kingdom
75% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Management 12.1%, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10.2%
- #36 Kingdoms and Castles
74% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 30.7% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.4%
- #37 Maia
74% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Base Building 9.7%
- #38 Embark
73% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 9%
- #39 CLOUD DWELLERS
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Management 13.6%, Base Building 13%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 10.3%
- #40 Sigma Draconis
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 9.6%
- #41 Kolo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MTandi
Windows
Kolo is a medieval settlement simulator where you lead a group of adventurers ready to start a new life in the wilderness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Strategy 11.2%, City Builder 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Management 9.5%
- #42 Seeds of Resilience
72% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Management 10.6%
- #43 Ostriv
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #44 Crowncity
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 12.2%, Strategy 12%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Colony Sim 10.8% ★
- #45 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.7% ★, Strategy 19%, Simulation 16.3%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #46 Dream Corp 梦想公司
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zhangkun
Windows
Build a company where you can indulge your whims, but remember, staff have tempers too; don't hurt their feelings. Beyond overseeing operations, manage every staff's life, emotions, and relationships. Direct them to fulfill your demands and discover their hobbies, embarrassing moments, and talents
Why similar: Management 19.5%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #47 Gnomoria
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, City Builder 13%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 9.7%
- #48 Idle Terra
68% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 9.9%
- #49 VENOY
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Strategy 18%, Sandbox 12.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%
- #50 Camplandia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OddBall Interactive
Windows
Build and manage a thriving summer camp. Provide your campers with a place to catch fish, kayak, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. Will you create the ultimate summer camp? Or will your reputation as camp director plummet from a bunch of unhappy campers?
Why similar: Sandbox 13.7%, City Builder 12.2%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 11%
- #51 Age of Pyramids
69% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Strategy 19.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 10.9%
- #52 Cliff Empire
69% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 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 19.8% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #53 Angkor: The Holy City
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 9%
- #54 Architect of Ruin
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 10.1%
- #55 Colonization Simulator
67% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 10.6%, City Builder 9.1%
- #56 Gnome Glen
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%
- #57 Lords and Villeins
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 26.2% ★, Management 12.2%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 10.3%
- #58 Buggos 2
64% matchVery Positive84% of 509 reviews2025
Dev: Intrepid Marmot
Windows
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Strategy 20.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Simulation 14.6%, City Builder 10%