- #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: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 26%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.7%, Management 7.2%
- #2 Arcane Shores
96% matchNo user reviews
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 26.9%, Economy 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Survival 6.6%
- #3 Frontera
96% 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 27.5% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Economy 13.3%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 6.7%
- #4 Farmman
95% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Economy 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Management 7.1%
- #5 One More Island
94% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 25.1% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 7.5%
- #6 What's Left Behind
94% 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 29.6%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.4%
- #7 Founders' Fortune
93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 37.4% ★, City Builder 22%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 5.8%
- #8 Pixel Colony
92% matchPositive95% of 39 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 27.9%, Management 8.8%, Economy 6.8%, Survival 6.1%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 24.2%, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%
- #10 Make Your Kingdom
90% matchMixed58% of 195 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 24.3%, Building 12.5%, Economy 11.6%, Management 8.6%
- #11 Drownlight
89% 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 20.9%, Economy 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #12 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
89% 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% ★, City Builder 25%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 9%
- #13 Settlement Survival
88% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 27.8%, Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Building 12.8%, Economy 8.1%, Management 8%
- #14 Containcorp
87% 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 15.8%, Lovecraftian 11.7%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9%
- #15 Kingdoms and Castles
86% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Colony Sim 33.4% ★, Building 11%, Base Building 5.5%, Management 3.3%
- #16 Exile
85% matchMixed64% 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11%, Management 8%
- #17 Patron
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 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 29.7% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Economy 10%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.6%
- #18 Worshippers of Cthulhu
83% matchVery Positive82% of 1,460 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 17.3%, Lovecraftian 11.9%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #19 Crowded Blue Dot
84% matchMixed58% of 52 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 28.5%, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.3%
- #20 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
82% matchVery Positive87% of 188 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: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 9%, Survival 7%
- #21 Seeds of Resilience
84% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 25.5% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 8.4%
- #22 Viceria
82% 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 27.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 13.6%, Building 12%, Management 8.8%
- #23 Hexagge
81% 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 31.7% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Simulation 7.8%
- #24 Kingdoms Reborn
81% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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 34.5%, Colony Sim 24.8% ★, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 7.6%
- #25 IXION
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 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 28.8%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Building 9.7%, Economy 7.9%, Base Building 7.9%
- #26 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 26%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12%, Management 9.1%
- #27 Ratopia
77% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 26.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 7.9%
- #28 Settlements Rising
78% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 28.8% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Building 10.5%, Economy 7.2%, Base Building 7.2%
- #29 Dungeon Overseer
79% 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 28% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 14.5%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.1%
- #30 Rise Against the Invaders
78% 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: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 31.7%, Building 12.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 6.3%
- #31 Gnome Glen
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.5% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 12.4%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%
- #32 Tokeis
76% 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 24.7%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Economy 15.3%, Building 11%, Management 9%
- #33 Banished
77% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 39.2% ★, City Builder 37.6%, Survival 6.8%, Economy 4.4%, Simulation 4.1%
- #34 Oxygen
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 24.1%, Economy 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 10%
- #35 Deep Space Directive
74% matchPositive87% of 15 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Hex Grid 13.4% ★, Economy 11%, Base Building 10.5%
- #36 Settler's Domain
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8%, Survival 7.2%
- #37 Paleon
74% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 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 41.5% ★, City Builder 23%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 5.6%
- #38 Folklands
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
Windows · Linux
Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Economy 14.2%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 8.3%
- #39 Skyline Settlers
73% 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 32.7%, Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Economy 14.4%, Building 10.2%, Management 6.3%
- #40 Blacksmith Master
71% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #41 Forgotten Vale
73% 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 26.1% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Economy 12.8%, Building 11.3%, Management 7.1%
- #42 United Penguin Kingdom
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Economy 15.4%, Management 10.3%, Building 9.1%
- #43 Resort Galactica
70% 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% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Building 13.8%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 10.2%
- #44 Planetbase
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 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 35.5% ★, City Builder 30.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 7.1%, Building 6.4%
- #45 Landnama
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 464 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 24.3% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Hex Grid 15.7% ★, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #46 MicroTown
71% matchVery Positive95% of 472 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% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Economy 12.5%, Hex Grid 10.2% ★, Base Building 9.5%
- #47 Lil Guys
70% 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 32.8% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.9%
- #48 Guild of Dragons
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Building 11.3%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 8.2%
- #49 Endzone 2
68% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 11.8%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #50 Greedy Little Kingdoms
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfill 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 25.7%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Building 12.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #51 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
68% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Economy 12.5%, Management 9.5%, Survival 8.7%
- #52 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
71% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 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 39.8% ★, City Builder 37.8%, Building 8.6%, Survival 5.4%, Resource Management 3.5%
- #53 The HELL Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #54 Foundation
66% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 41.9%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Management 7.1%
- #55 Dawn of Man
69% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Colony Sim 38% ★, Survival 8%, Economy 5.5%, Simulation 3.1%
- #56 Paragon Pioneers
68% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.5%
- #57 Generation Exile
66% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: Sonderlust Studios
Windows
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Building 12.7%, Management 8.8%, Base Building 8.1%
- #58 Lost Heaven Station
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 7.3%
- #59 Frostpunk: 1886
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Building 10.8%, Economy 7.9%, Base Building 7.9%