- #1 Moons of Ardan
97% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Pandora Technology
Windows
Embark on a space city-building adventure in Moons of Ardan! Develop a thriving civilization in a real-time planetary system. Oversee production chains, cater to the needs of your axonauts, recover their lost technologies, and navigate resource transportation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Economy 12.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 9.8%
- #2 Aztecs: The Last Sun
96% matchMixed69% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 13.8%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #3 The Diner at the End of the Galaxy: Free Appetiser
96% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: General Interactive Co.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Open a diner on a desert planet, grow exotic ingredients, create a menu for intergalactic palates and deal with powerful factions. Free Appetiser is the prologue to Diner at the End of the Galaxy, where you cook and manage your way to intergalactic riches and glory.
Why similar: Cooking 18%, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Management 9.7%, Economy 8.5%
- #4 Feastopia
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 269 reviews2026
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows
Feastopia is a Rogue-lite culinary city-builder, inspired by Against the Storm. Forge a pact with an adorable deity and build a thriving foodie metropolis in a bountiful land. With randomized maps and events, unlock hundreds of wondrous abilities, experience a unique adventure every time you play.
Why similar: Cooking 21.9%, Agriculture 17.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 8.4%
- #5 Diluvian Winds
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 390 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #6 Mars Attracts
94% matchVery Positive91% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 12.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Management 11.2%
- #7 Fabledom
93% matchVery Positive85% of 7,762 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Agriculture 12.8% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #8 Goblins of Elderstone
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 9.7%
- #9 Farm Manager World
91% matchMixed70% of 647 reviews2025
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.
Why similar: Agriculture 22.9% ★, Economy 13.2%, Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%
- #10 United Penguin Kingdom
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 18%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Economy 17.5%, Management 15%, Resource Management 13.7%
- #11 Primitive Society Simulator
90% matchVery Positive84% of 753 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, Agriculture 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, City Builder 9.7%
- #12 NecroCity
89% matchMixed50% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 17.4%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.2%
- #13 Of Life and Land
88% matchVery Positive86% of 364 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 11.4%, Economy 11%
- #14 Make Your Kingdom
89% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 13.7%, Management 13%
- #15 Settler's Domain
86% matchMixed63% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.4% ★, Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 12.3%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #16 StarKeeper
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.
Windows
StarKeeper is a management sim where you run a bar on an asteroid hurtling through the endless cosmos. Unlock new furniture and resources to accommodate your culturally and species-diverse guests. Established relationships will help you survive threats and affect the shape of star systems.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, Diplomacy 13.3% ★, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, City Builder 10.3%
- #17 Synergy
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.1%, City Builder 10%
- #18 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.7%, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Agriculture 12.4% ★, Economy 11.3%, City Builder 10.4%
- #19 Angkor
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trippy Bento Studio
Windows
Build the Khmer empire from a delta village to the temple-city of Angkor. Dig canals, route monsoon floodwater into rice paddies, and raise stone monuments. A compact historical city builder, no combat, where every city you found lives or dies by the water you can hold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Agriculture 16.3% ★, Economy 12.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.3%
- #20 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Political Sim 12.7% ★, Space 11.1%
- #21 HistoriCity: Florence
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
Why similar: Agriculture 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, Economy 12.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%
- #22 DarkSwitch
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 739 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 14%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 10.3%
- #23 Pharaoh™: A New Era
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,357 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 11.4%, Management 10%
- #24 Prison Architect
82% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Management 12.3%
- #25 Cartel Tycoon
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,802 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Agriculture 16.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #26 Settlement Survival
80% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 23.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Agriculture 10% ★
- #27 Gnomepunk
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Create an army of gnomes, train builders, gather resources, develop technology, overcome the fauna, understand the flora and use it for alchemy. Conquer or ally with other factions and dominate the forest!
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.9% ★, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 12%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #28 Exile
79% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Agriculture 15.5% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 12.3%, Management 10.5%
- #29 Frontier Governor
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sedot Games
Windows
Frontier Governor is a city-building game set in 15th-century Korean history. You have been appointed as the local governor, in the historical background of the northern pioneering. Overcome the rough north and lead the frontier through various resources, buildings, technologies, policies, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, Political Sim 13.4% ★, Economy 13.2%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 10.6%
- #30 Amazing Space
78% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.9%
- #31 Isla Paradiso
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 15%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 11.1%
- #32 IXION
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,592 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Space 12.1%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #33 Nuclear Crawler
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 21.3%, Building 12.4%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 9%
- #34 Hamlet
76% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13%, Diplomacy 12.7% ★, Economy 11.2%
- #35 Thveit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winter Cats StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows
Thveit is a cozy Norse settlement builder where changing seasons, ancient beliefs, and folklore creatures shape the fate of your settlements. Guide your settlers, manage resources, and grow a thriving community as humans and mythical beings learn to live side by side.
Why similar: Diplomacy 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.4%
- #36 Ostriv
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,621 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 14.4%, Agriculture 12.3% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 10.5%
- #37 Dungeon Overseer
75% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 16%, Economy 14.9%, City Builder 13%, Building 9.8%
- #38 Terra-7
73% 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 25%, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.5%
- #39 Surviving Mars: Relaunched
72% matchMixed54% of 2,116 reviews2025
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Diplomacy 13.1% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 8.5%
- #40 Oxygen: First Breath
73% 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 21.3%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #41 One More Island
74% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 23.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 13.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.9%
- #42 Whiskerwood
71% matchVery Positive92% of 3,269 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 11%, City Builder 10.1%
- #43 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
72% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Diplomacy 17.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 12%, Economy 12%
- #44 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
73% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 13.2%, Management 11.4%
- #45 Resort Galactica
71% 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 22.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Management 10.9%
- #46 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 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 23%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Management 10.5%
- #47 Deep Space Directive
71% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, City Builder 11.8%
- #48 Nova Roma
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,244 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Diplomacy 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 11.2%, City Builder 10.8%
- #49 MEMORIAPOLIS
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,785 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Political Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10.1%
- #50 Tropico 7
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, Political Sim 17.6% ★, Diplomacy 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Economy 10.2%
- #51 Blocktopia
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Diplomacy 24% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #52 SeaColony
66% matchPositive87% of 15 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 26.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Economy 12%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #53 Fallen Crown
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LongWay Interactive
Windows
You will lead an exiled royal dynasty, building prosperous cities, gaining the trust of the people, and preparing to overthrow the usurper. In the unique dynasty mode, the leader can find a partner and have children to shape the future of the kingdom.
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 13.9%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.7%
- #54 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 10.4%, Management 10%
- #55 Virum:Colony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 14.5%, Economy 13%, Resource Management 10%
- #56 Cloudlings
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%
- #57 Town Keeper
67% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows · Mac
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Agriculture 17.9% ★, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 11%
- #58 House of Legacy
65% matchVery Positive83% of 3,942 reviews2025
Dev: S3 StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Why similar: Diplomacy 37.2% ★, Management 12.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%
- #59 Founders' Fortune
68% 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 34.6%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.3%