- #1 Isla Paradiso
97% 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: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Economy 12%, Building 11.9%, Management 6.9%
- #2 Arcane Shores
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 27.6%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Survival 6.8%
- #3 Settlement Survival
96% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Building 13.3%, Management 8%, Survival 6.9%
- #4 Frontera
95% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 26.6%, Building 12.4%, Economy 12.4%, Simulation 6.7%
- #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%, City Builder 24.3%, Building 11.9%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 6.9%
- #6 One More Island
94% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 25.2%, City Builder 23%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 7.5%
- #7 Founders' Fortune
93% 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 37.2%, City Builder 22.7%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 5.4%
- #8 What's Left Behind
92% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 29.1%, Building 13.1%, Economy 12.1%, Management 8.2%
- #9 Pixel Colony
91% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, City Builder 28.6%, Management 8.5%, Economy 6.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #10 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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: City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.2%
- #11 Terra-7
90% 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 28.1%, City Builder 27.2%, Economy 13%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 7.9%
- #12 Deep Space Directive
89% 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 21.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Hex Grid 13.7% ★, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 10%
- #13 Drownlight
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #14 Make Your Kingdom
88% 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 24.9%, City Builder 24.9%, Building 12.7%, Economy 10.8%, Management 8.3%
- #15 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
86% 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 26.1%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 8.4%
- #16 Mox Modular
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows · Linux
Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Colony Sim 31.8%, Economy 13.1%, Building 7.9%, Simulation 4.7%
- #17 Containcorp
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Plasmarc Studios
Windows
An absurd Corporate Horror & Logistical Management Sim where you contain & milk anomalies for tremendous profit. Construct your facility across multiple floors, design containment areas, employ brilliant minds to study anomalies. Contain, Research, and build a machine of Profit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 16.2%, Lovecraftian 12.1%, Economy 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #18 Exile
83% 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 26.7%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 7.8%
- #19 Crowded Blue Dot
84% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.9%
- #20 Patron
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, City Builder 28.2%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.8%
- #21 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
82% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 31.7%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 7.1%
- #22 Worshippers of Cthulhu
81% matchVery Positive81% of 1,552 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Lovecraftian 12.4%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.5%
- #23 The Blighted Frontier
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 7.8%, Building 7.7%
- #24 Seeds of Resilience
82% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 23.8%, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.4%, Base Building 8.5%
- #25 Goblin Colony
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.4%, Management 8.7%
- #26 Hexagge
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, City Builder 30.7%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #27 Viceria
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayfulFoxStudio
Windows
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 26.4%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.2%, Management 8.5%
- #28 Kingdoms Reborn
78% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 9%, Management 7.3%
- #29 IXION
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 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: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.7%
- #30 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 28.5%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 8.7%, Economy 8.6%
- #31 Project Oasis
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, City Builder 24.4%, Building 11.6%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #32 DarkSwitch
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 783 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 24.1%, City Builder 22.9%, Building 10%, Economy 8.3%, Base Building 8%
- #33 Radia Island
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 24.2%, Building 9.8%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 7.3%
- #34 Rise Against the Invaders
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 31.5%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 6.4%
- #35 Property Pro
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Economy 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.6%
- #36 Settlements Rising
74% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 28.2%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 7.2%, Management 6.8%
- #37 Ratopia
73% 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 27.2%, City Builder 21.3%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 7.6%
- #38 Dungeon Overseer
74% matchMixed55% of 51 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 28.2%, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #39 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
What if crows had evolved like humans? In this cozy city builder, build a thriving civilization in the treetops, discover unique avian technologies, manage your flock and logistics, and harness the power of the wind.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 12.3%, Building 12.2%, Management 8.8%
- #40 Banished
73% matchVery Positive90% of 43,352 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 39%, City Builder 38.3%, Survival 6.9%, Economy 4.1%, Simulation 4%
- #41 Paleon
72% matchVery Positive81% of 424 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, City Builder 23.6%, Building 11.4%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 5.4%
- #42 NecroCity
72% 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 29%, City Builder 27%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Horror 7.5%
- #43 Gnome Glen
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 23.4%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%
- #44 Tokeis
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Economy 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.8%
- #45 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 24.8%, City Builder 24.8%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9.9%
- #46 Skyline Settlers
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riza Ozhan
Windows
Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Colony Sim 31.9%, Economy 13.6%, Building 10.5%, Management 5.9%
- #47 CENTAVO
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Economy 14.9%, Management 8.2%, Building 8%
- #48 United Penguin Kingdom
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Economy 14.4%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.3%
- #49 Landnama
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 475 reviews2023
Dev: Sonderland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 23.3%, Hex Grid 15.8% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #50 Forgotten Vale
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 11.9%, Building 11.5%, Base Building 7.1%
- #51 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 6,027 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 31.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, City Builder 38.4%, Building 8.7%, Survival 5.5%, Resource Management 3.2%
- #52 Planetbase
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35.2%, City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 7.2%, Building 6.4%
- #53 Lil Guys
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.5%, Management 8.5%
- #54 Pixel Vale
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BoZo Studios
Windows
Pixel Vale is a medieval fantasy city-builder game, focused on building up your city while managing external threats. Fight or trade with other cities, explore through the fog of war, and defend against goblin raids. Research new buildings to expand and keep your citizens happy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 28.3%, Economy 11.8%, Building 9.5%, Management 6.6%
- #55 Devouring City
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Colony Sim 31.4%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 5.8%
- #56 Greedy Little Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 8.3%
- #57 MicroTown
68% matchVery Positive95% of 478 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Economy 11.7%, Hex Grid 10.4% ★, Base Building 9.6%
- #58 Resort Galactica
67% 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 27.2%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #59 Cloudlings
66% 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 26.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%