Games Like The Colonists

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Base Building 11%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same cute aesthetic and focuses heavily on programming robots to automate repetitive tasks, making it the closest thematic match.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Automation 15.8%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep water management and vertical building mechanics that provide a similar satisfaction to optimizing a growing colony.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 10%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the logistics-heavy gameplay of The Colonists, focusing on building complex supply chains to transport goods across a map.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 11.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder requires constant optimization of supply chains and resource management to survive in a challenging, ever-changing environment.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 32%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Resource Management 8.2%, City Builder 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation, it offers the ultimate experience in building complex, interconnected production lines.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the automation concept to a galactic scale, requiring players to manage logistics between multiple planets.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 31.9%, Base Building 19.3%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person automation game provides a highly immersive experience in building massive, efficient factories on an alien world.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 12%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep dive into industrial automation and resource management, perfect for players who love optimizing production lines.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on survival, its deep colony management and emergent storytelling make it a must-play for any fan of the genre.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines detailed medieval city-building with intricate logistics and supply chain management that feels rewarding to master.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 16%, Economy 11%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends automation and colony management with a voxel-based aesthetic that feels very similar to The Colonists.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★, Economy 10.2%, Building 8%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its gridless building system allows for organic city growth that feels very satisfying to manage and expand.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a complex simulation of town growth with a heavy emphasis on managing intricate resource production and storage.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 5.1%, Economy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that focuses on resource management and survival, providing the foundational experience for the genre.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Automation 18.3%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This lunar base-building game focuses on automation and resource extraction in a challenging space environment.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Automation 14.5%, City Builder 13.8%, Robots 10.3%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with terraforming Mars through large-scale automation and planetary-wide resource management.

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: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Economy 9.8%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly detailed supply chain system where every resource movement is simulated, offering a realistic management experience.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 13.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It brings colony management into a 3D space with vertical building and survival elements that challenge your planning skills.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 22%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.7%, Economy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation of town growth with a strong emphasis on managing resources and surviving environmental disasters.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Automation 17.9%, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.3%, Building 13%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing a factory floor, requiring you to optimize production lines and worker efficiency.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Automation 13.3%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique mobile base-building mechanic where you build your city on the back of a giant, moving creature.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Economy 15.3%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, hex-based city-builder that focuses on expanding your civilization across multiple planets at a gentle pace.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on survival and resource management through difficult environmental challenges.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for massive-scale colony management, handling thousands of citizens with complex needs and production requirements.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A spiritual successor to classic city-builders that focuses on exploration and building a thriving community.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This space station management game forces you to balance resource logistics with the survival of your crew in a high-stakes environment.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3% ★, Building 20.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Relaxing 9%, Cute 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes family management and seasonal preparation in a harsh environment.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Automation 24.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This space-based automation game allows you to build interconnected colonies across an infinite universe.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 33.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, pure automation game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the logic of production lines.

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.8%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19% ★, Automation 15.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Automation 16.3%, City Builder 14.3%, Robots 11.6%, Base Building 8.4%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Economy 12.5%, City Builder 11%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.9%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 8%, Building 5.8%

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Automation 18.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.2%

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 32% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.9%, Economy 5.7%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 3.4%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.8%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Automation 16%, City Builder 15.7%, Building 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7.6%

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 32.5% ★, Base Building 13.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Automation 19.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.4%

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Economy 14%, Management 10.3%, Survival 8.4%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Management 16.3%, City Builder 16%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 6.4%

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 18% ★, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Robots 12.3%, Building 11.7%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 12%, Economy 11.2%, City Builder 9.9%, Building 9.6%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Automation 17.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Robots 9.4%, Base Building 9.3%

Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Why similar: Automation 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.8%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.6%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 6.8%

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 22.1% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 8.3%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 24.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 8%

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Automation 23.7%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.7%, Building 8.6%

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 8.7%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.5%, Base Building 7.5%

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11%, Base Building 9.2%

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 27.2% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.5%

The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Automation 22.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.9%, Management 9%