- #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 23.1%, Incremental 14.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #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 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Mining 7.6% ★
- #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% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 7%
- #4 SeaColony
95% matchMixed65% of 82 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 8.4%, Management 7.8%
- #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 26.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.9%
- #6 Space Architect
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 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 23.2%, Base Building 13%, Mining 9.8% ★, Sandbox 9%, Management 7.8%
- #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 39.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 6.9%, Crafting 6.1%
- #8 Gridmax
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%
- #9 Wall World Strategy
91% 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 23.4%, Tower Defense 15.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Mining 11.5% ★, Economy 9%
- #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 26.6%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Economy 7.3%
- #11 CryoFall
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,472 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 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%
- #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 22.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.8%
- #13 Sylox
89% 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 34.9%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 7.8%
- #14 Terra Crafter
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greenway Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi 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 25.8%, Incremental 15.8%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 6.8%
- #15 Mars Colony Builder
87% 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 7.7%
- #16 Oxygen Not Included
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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 9.2%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #17 Worlds Explorers
85% 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 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
- #18 Odd Realm
84% 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 24.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Mining 12.9% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8%
- #19 Colony Survival
86% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.7%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9%, Survival 8.8%
- #20 King's Keeper
83% 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 8%
- #21 TFM: The First Men
84% matchMixed59% 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 35.2%, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 7%, Open World 6.9%
- #22 Starship Colony
82% 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 10.2%, Management 8.2%, Survival 7.5%
- #23 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 8.2%, Building 8.1%
- #24 Zomboard
81% 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 16.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.1%
- #25 Scuttled
80% matchNo user reviews2026
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 26.6%, Mining 20.7% ★, Incremental 20%, Space 11.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #26 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 17.4%, Mining 15.6% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Building 8.2%
- #27 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 8.4%
- #28 Starfall Protocol
78% 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%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 8.6%, Building 6.4%
- #29 KingForge
77% match8 user reviews75% of 8 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 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #30 First Feudal
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #31 Planet Barren Objective
78% 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 12.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #32 Horizon 1990
76% 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%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #33 Resort Galactica
75% 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 8.5%
- #34 Harvesters
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Gold Coin Interactive
Windows
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Mining 18.7% ★, Incremental 17.5%, Building 9.8%, Space 9.5%
- #35 Edge Islands
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 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 10.8%, Management 8.5%
- #36 Maia
77% 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 40.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.6%, Survival 8.8%, Space 8%
- #37 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
76% 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 32.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 9%, Crafting 6.2%
- #38 Facrobry
73% 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 28.1%, Incremental 17.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Space 9.9%, Economy 9.7%
- #39 Galaxy Scavengers
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Base Building 21.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8%
- #40 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 40.9%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.4%, Survival 5.8%
- #41 HullRats
72% 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 16.8%, Management 9.4%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 8.2%
- #42 Pick Me Up
72% 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 30.1%, Incremental 15.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 7.9%
- #43 Dungeon D14
73% 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 19.9% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 8.6%
- #44 Noble Legacy
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 805 reviews2025
Dev: 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 10.8%, Economy 9.8%, Open World 8.1%
- #45 The Last Starship
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,705 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 16.6% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space 9.2%
- #46 Oxygen
71% 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: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8%
- #47 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 17.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Top-Down 6%
- #48 Hello the undead are coming
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YouKnowMe
Windows
An incremental roguelike tower defense colony sim where you command your colonist to farm, craft, mine and defend waves of the undead. Progressing towards your skill tree after each run to survive further and further!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Tower Defense 27.1%, Incremental 11.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #49 Illuminaria
71% 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 19.1%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Mining 16.3% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 9.1%
- #50 Grim Realms
69% matchVery Positive80% of 429 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 30.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 8.1%
- #51 Terra-7
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 12.7%, Building 10.2%
- #52 Ratopia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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 8.4%
- #53 SuperColony
68% 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 17.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
- #54 Keep The Ammo Flowing
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YCF Productions
Windows
A top-down incremental logistics and tower-defense game. Mine resources, produce ammunition, build tracks toward the exit, and upgrade your mobile furnace and turret while defending it from underground swarms.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.9%, Incremental 18.8%, Mining 13.9% ★, Building 9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #55 DuneHaven
67% 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 36.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Base Building 13.7%, Open World 9.4%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #56 Castle Story
70% matchMixed65% of 10,656 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 39.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 13.1%, Tower Defense 10.2%, Strategy 7.1%
- #57 Moon Rocks and Slimes
67% 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 17.9% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 11.9%, Space 11.4%
- #58 Space Station Tycoon
67% matchMixed60% of 218 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 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 23.3%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 9.8%, Space 9.5%
- #59 Starbound Settlers
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bitwright Games
Windows
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.2%
- #60 Villagedom
66% 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 32.7%, Tower Defense 19%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 9.4%, Economy 6.5%