- #1 H3X@G0N@L
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ManoVersa Studios
Windows
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Incremental 14.9%, Base Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 6.9%
- #2 Malignus
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Mining 7.7% ★
- #3 Factor Y
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: Martin Buck Software
Windows · Linux
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 16.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 7%
- #4 SeaColony
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10%, Economy 8.7%, Management 7.9%
- #5 Farmman
94% 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 26%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.5%, Building 8.8%
- #6 Space Architect
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 294 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Mining 9.9% ★, Sandbox 9%, Management 7.9%
- #7 Embark
94% matchMixed60% of 389 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 39.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 6.9%, Crafting 6.2%
- #8 Wall World Strategy
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Mining 11.6% ★, Economy 9.2%
- #9 CryoFall
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,462 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Mining 12.5% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, PvP 7.3%
- #10 Artificer's Tower
91% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8%, Economy 7.5%
- #11 Sylox
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
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 34.8%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%
- #12 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
89% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Tower Defense 23%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.8%
- #13 Terra Crafter
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greenway Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi first-person survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Incremental 16.2%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 6.7%
- #14 Mars Colony Builder
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameHunters
Windows
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 7.9%, Management 7.8%
- #15 Oxygen Not Included
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,359 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 37.7%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 9.1%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #16 Worlds Explorers
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Management 9.5%, Open World 8.5%
- #17 Odd Realm
85% matchVery Positive84% of 1,016 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 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 24.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Mining 13% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8.1%
- #18 Colony Survival
86% matchVery Positive92% of 8,965 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 34.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9%, Survival 8.7%
- #19 King's Keeper
84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 7.9%
- #20 TFM: The First Men
84% matchMixed60% of 413 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
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 35.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 6.9%, Open World 6.7%
- #21 Starship Colony
83% 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 28.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 8.3%, Survival 7.4%
- #22 Settletopia
82% 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 28%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 8.3%, Building 8.1%
- #23 Zomboard
82% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
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 33.8%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.1%
- #24 Scuttled
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tallboy Games
Windows
Your ship is gone. The derelict freighter you found was scuttled by her own crew - but her reactor is still warm. Shoot asteroids, refine ore, and rebuild her gun by gun to escape an asteroid belt that hunts the powered. A finite tower-defense / incremental crafting hybrid with an actual ending.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.5%, Mining 20.7% ★, Incremental 20.5%, Space 11.6%, Strategy 6.8%
- #25 Hive
81% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Bage
Windows
A tower-defence-like colony sim where you must extract resources from the land and produce fuel to escape the planet. Expand across each map researching various structures, creatively avoiding or engaging with local creatures to take their precious crystals. Research, Build, Expand, Extract!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Tower Defense 17.5%, Mining 15.7% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.1%
- #26 Null Keeper
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Run an evil asteroid base in the void. Dig, claim, and build your lair, summon entities through Warp Rifts, and repel the Vanguard raids hammering your Void Core — while MALACHAR, your AI narrator, judges your every move.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 14.8%, Tower Defense 12.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 8.5%
- #27 KingForge
78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #28 Starfall Protocol
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 8.4%, Building 6.4%
- #29 First Feudal
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 644 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 27.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%
- #30 Horizon 1990
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #31 Resort Galactica
77% 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 26.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.2%, Economy 8.7%
- #32 Planet Barren Objective
77% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Tower Defense 17.1%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.5%
- #33 Facrobry
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Agenosovgame
Windows
Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Incremental 18%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.8%, Space 9.7%
- #34 Edge Islands
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 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 31%, Base Building 18.2%, Sandbox 12%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.7%
- #35 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
76% matchVery Positive81% of 2,263 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 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 32.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.9%, Crafting 6.2%
- #36 Galaxy Scavengers
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 21.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 9.2%, Management 8.1%
- #37 Maia
76% matchMixed44% of 1,064 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 40.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.7%, Survival 8.7%, Space 7.9%
- #38 Pick Me Up
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Incremental 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 7.9%
- #39 Founders' Fortune
74% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 40.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%, Survival 5.8%
- #40 HullRats
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #41 The Last Starship
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,681 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Mining 16.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 9.1%
- #42 Dungeon D14
74% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Mining 20.1% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 8.6%
- #43 Noble Legacy
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 786 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 10%, Open World 7.9%
- #44 Oxygen
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 901 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8%
- #45 Terrahold
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SMAR Studio
Windows
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.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Top-Down 6%
- #46 Grim Realms
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Economy 8.2%
- #47 Illuminaria
72% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Mining 16.4% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 9.1%
- #48 Ratopia
69% matchVery Positive88% of 4,841 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 28.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.5%
- #49 SuperColony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 33.4%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 8.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #50 Space Station Tycoon
69% matchMixed60% of 217 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 10%, Space 9.4%
- #51 DuneHaven
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LokaFab
Windows
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Sandbox 16.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Open World 9.3%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #52 Moon Rocks and Slimes
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voided Pixels Studio
Windows
A sci-fi, base-building adventure where you build a 'ship' on an asteroid; explore space, battle slimes, raiders, space rhinos, and more. A story that includes following orders from a mysterious AI, shooting fish with a space grappling hook, invading space stations, fixing the exploded moon, etc.
Why similar: Mining 18.1% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 11.7%, Space 11.3%
- #53 Castle Story
70% matchMixed65% of 10,627 reviews2017
Dev: Sauropod Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13%, Tower Defense 10.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #54 Villagedom
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dazar
Windows
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6%, Tower Defense 19%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 9.4%, Economy 6.6%
- #55 Death By FrostByte
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Stormee Games
Windows
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Mining 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%
- #56 The Great Beyond
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Rosa Borrego
Windows
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Mining 16.4% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9%
- #57 Terra-7
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Base Building 14%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 11.2%
- #58 Insect Empires
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
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 22.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Tower Defense 12.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8.2%
- #59 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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: Colony Sim 26.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 9%, Building 8.5%
- #60 From Nothing
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Power Hobo Games
Windows
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 8.6%