
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Base Building, City Builder.

Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.

Colonization Simulator
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.

They Are Billions
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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 31.2%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Isometric 6%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1%, Base Building 23.1%, RTS 17.4%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Survival 5.6%
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 14.3%, RTS 14.1%, Tower Defense 9.9%, Sandbox 9.3%
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, RTS 16.1%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Isometric 7.6%
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, RTS 16.4%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Sandbox 9%, Isometric 7.6%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, RTS 15.5%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Isometric 6.6%, Exploration 5%
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Tower Defense 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
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 32.1%, Base Building 15%, RTS 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, City Builder 8.1%
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Isometric 9%
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, RTS 22.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.4%, RTS 38.1%, Base Building 7.9%, City Builder 6.2%, Strategy 4.5%
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, RTS 19.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Tower Defense 13%, City Builder 5.7%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, RTS 15.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Sandbox 8.8%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Survival 7.3%, Isometric 7.2%
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, RTS 14.9%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.9%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, RTS 14.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 6.9%
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, RTS 16.4%, Tower Defense 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 7.2%
Box Nation [ ] is a sandbox kind of game. In this box world, you can become a leader of your own nation. Your main goal in the game is to create and develop your nation of boxes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, RTS 16.6%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 38.5%, Tower Defense 20.9%, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 8.9%, Sandbox 5.7%
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Tower Defense 19.4%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 9.5%, Strategy 8.5%
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 31.5%, RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 16%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 8%
Ifectra is a strategy game set in 2124 on the distant planet Emevera III, ruled by the Maxploit Corporation, where an epidemic of a yet unknown virus broke out. Your goal as the corporation security commander is to evacuate as many healthy people as possible and to eliminate infected individuals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, RTS 21.8%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Real Time Tactics 5.9%
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 52.7%, Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 5.7%, Survival 5.3%
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 38.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Tower Defense 19.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Strategy 5%
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 18.1%, Tower Defense 16.6%, RTS 16.5%, Survival 7.1%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Base Building 20.2%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Top-Down 3.7%
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, RTS 20%, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%, City Builder 8.8%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 15.2%, RTS 14.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 7%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 6.4%, Isometric 5.7%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 20.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Survival 7.1%
Take direct control of your hero on a hostile planet. Build your base, gather resources, expand your territory your way, and survive against the planet’s deadly wildlife.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, RTS 21.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Tower Defense 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 6.2%
Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, RTS 14.3%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 52%, Base Building 15.4%, RTS 9.4%, City Builder 8.8%, Strategy 6.8%
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, RTS 21.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Isometric 6.8%
The Omins have taken their first step through mysterious portals, discovering new lands to explore and settle, inhabited by fantastic creatures and shaped by unknown forces. Guide them in this real time fantasy settlement game blending exploration, survival, and RTS mechanics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, RTS 25.3%, Base Building 18.6%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 6.2%
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 49.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Sci-fi 6.3%
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9%, Base Building 17.7%, RTS 15%, Tower Defense 8.1%, City Builder 8%
KOF is a magic background real-time strategy game, which is based on the method of dispatching troops to occupy the city, and combines the elements of resource collection, construction, upgrading, tower defense and so on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, RTS 20%, Base Building 16.7%, Tower Defense 16%, City Builder 6.8%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Base Building 20.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Isometric 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%
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 34.1%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 7.7%, City Builder 7.1%
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Base Building 23.7%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 4.7%, Strategy 4.2%
Your people are the power, and the problem. Build, manage, and defend humanity's future on a hostile planet. The greatest danger is not what hunts you, but what changes you. Will your colony survive, or will it break itself apart?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, RTS 18.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, City Builder 8.1%
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, RTS 21.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 6.6%
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 18.1%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Sandbox 9.6%, City Builder 6.8%
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 43.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, City Builder 9.9%, Isometric 7%, Strategy 6.3%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Base Building 20.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8%, RTS 4.8%
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, RTS 18.7%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 7.2%
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Isometric 8.9%, Survival 6.9%
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, RTS 20%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, City Builder 7.5%
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 51%, Base Building 19.7%, Sandbox 9%, City Builder 8.4%, Survival 5%
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, RTS 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Strategy 5.6%
Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Tower Defense 11%, Strategy 8.4%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7%, Base Building 19%, RTS 13.8%, City Builder 8.7%, Survival 6.3%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.6%, Base Building 25.7%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Strategy 3.1%
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Tower Defense 16.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, City Builder 8.3%
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 43.5%, Base Building 21.2%, City Builder 10.3%, Survival 6.6%, Strategy 5.5%
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, RTS 17.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Isometric 9.6%
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, RTS 18.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, City Builder 6.8%