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Games Like The Gears: Factory

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Base Building, Building, Colony Sim.

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[The Gears: Factory] is a third-person 3D factory-building game where the player's main goal is to build automated systems by mining minerals and producing industrial units.

Reviews: 2 user reviews — 50% — of 2 reviews
Released: 2024-12-23
Developer: StoryBox
Genres: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
    Dev: Endless Loop Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 21%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 8.7%

  2. #2 Make Your Kingdom
    96% 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 20.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.4%, RTS 8.7%

  3. #3 AColony
    96% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
    Dev: ZeroTris
    Windows

    A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Crafting 10.3%

  4. #4 Fill the Sky
    95% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
    Windows

    A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

    Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Crafting 8.4%

  5. #5 Mountania
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Zemore Indie Games
    Windows

    Build and manage a thriving mountain colony. Mine, craft, defend your people, and delve deep as you seek the riches buried below. But beware: the mountain is as abundant in threats as it is in resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 22.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 8.3%

  6. #6 Lil Guys
    94% 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 25.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.1%

  7. #7 Shanhe Builders
    93% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Luyu Games
    Windows

    Lead one to five companions in a Chinese-inspired 3D home-building survival sim. Gather and haul supplies, build timber, stone and adobe homes, and manage farming, cooking and rest. Command your group from above or take direct control as your camp grows into a home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 10.1%

  8. #8 Vilset
    92% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
    Dev: Another Reality
    Windows

    Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Automation 19%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 12.1%

  9. #9 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    91% 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: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.5%, Survival 8.4%

  10. #10 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    91% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.3%

  11. #11 The Crust
    89% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 19.5%, Base Building 15.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 8%

  12. #12 Reclaim Earth
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Blue Radish Games
    Windows · Mac

    Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 10.4%, Survival 8.3%

  13. #13 Techtonica
    89% matchMixed65% of 3,273 reviews2024
    Dev: Fire Hose Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 21.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%

  14. #14 The Blighted Frontier
    88% 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 29%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.5%

  15. #15 Terraform Co: Factory and City
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Melon Dev
    Windows · Mac

    One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 21.1%, Automation 13.9%, Building 6.9%, Third Person 6.6%

  16. #16 Venusville
    86% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 9.5%, Survival 7.7%

  17. #17 Rise Against the Invaders
    86% 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 26.5%, City Builder 25.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.7%, Survival 7.5%

  18. #18 Civica: Italian Renaissance
    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: White Vertex Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

    Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 21.3%, RTS 15.4%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 6.1%

  19. #19 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
    Windows

    Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.

    Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 17.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Building 11.9%

  20. #20 HavenCraft
    84% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dionic Software
    Windows

    Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11%

  21. #21 Industry Unbound:无界工业
    83% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: TU HENGYU
    Windows

    A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.

    Why similar: Automation 24.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 14.6%, Colony Sim 12.8%

  22. #22 Darfall
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 505 reviews2025
    Dev: SquareNitePub: Paradox Arc
    Windows

    Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.

    Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 13.2%, RTS 12.7%, Crafting 10%

  23. #23 Survivors of the Wildstone
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Fire Toast
    Windows

    Survive, build, and conquer in Survivors of the Wildstone! After being shipwrecked on a mysterious island, lead a group of survivors! Manage, expand, and evolve to forge a civilization from scratch in this challenging building and strategy game!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 18.3%, RTS 12.6%, Automation 12.2%, Building 10.8%

  24. #24 Factory Town 2: Paradise
    79% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
    Dev: Erik Asmussen
    Windows · Mac

    A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

    Why similar: Automation 20%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 13%

  25. #25 Kingdom Workshop
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
    Windows

    Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 13%

  26. #26 Greedy Little Kingdoms
    80% 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 20.9%, Automation 17.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Building 10.7%

  27. #27 Colony Survival
    81% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.1%

  28. #28 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
    78% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
    Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 11.1%, RTS 11%

  29. #29 Gridmax
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dream Gears
    Windows

    Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 19%, Automation 17.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11.1%

  30. #30 Tribe: Primitive Builder
    78% matchVery Positive81% of 805 reviews2023
    Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%

    Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Automation 18%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.2%

  31. #31 Spirit & Stone
    77% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Garden Gate Interactive, LLC
    Windows

    A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 9%, Building 7.7%, Crafting 7.6%

  32. #32 Project Oasis
    76% 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 26%, City Builder 20.2%, Automation 17.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 9.9%

  33. #33 Founders' Fortune
    77% 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 34.9%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 9.5%, Survival 6.5%

  34. #34 Lumen Nexus: Core
    75% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: ToddLN
    Windows

    A sci-fi factory automation game where resources move as light instead of belts. Build production chains, expand across asteroid islands, trade your resources, research new systems, and keep your growing factory flowing under rising pressure.

    Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 16.8%, RTS 9.9%, Building 8.1%

  35. #35 Underground Nomads
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Funzen Games
    Windows

    You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Automation 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Survival 9.6%

  36. #36 Steam & Stones
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AnvilWorks
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11%

  37. #37 Survival Vacancy
    76% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, Automation 17.2%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, City Builder 10.4%

  38. #38 CircuitVeil
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
    Windows · Linux

    CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Automation 22.9%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Online Co-Op 7.3%

  39. #39 Seaport Tycoon
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SaintWorks
    Windows

    SEAPORT TYCOON is still under development. follow this game and add it to your wishlist!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Automation 18.2%, Crafting 11.6%, RTS 11.4%

  40. #40 Microtopia: Prologue
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2024
    Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
    Windows

    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 20.1%, Automation 18.3%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.8%

  41. #41 Odd Realm
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
    Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Automation 14.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.6%

  42. #42 Pawns Survival
    71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: Pawn Bros Games
    Windows · Linux

    Pawn Survival is a turn-based survival strategy game where you command a small community of pawns struggling to survive, send them to gather resources, explore unknown lands, grow your village, and forge powerful equipment to withstand whatever this brutal world throws at you.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 10.3%

  43. #43 Gnomoria
    75% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
    Dev: Robotronic Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7.4%

  44. #44 Icetwine
    72% matchMostly Negative38% of 16 reviews2025
    Dev: Afternoon Games
    Windows

    Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.

    Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.1%, RTS 13.6%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.9%

  45. #45 Nyric
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Lovelace Studio
    Windows

    Nyric is a third-person survivalcraft where your words shape the world. Type a phrase—“A storm-haunted wasteland”—and step into a procedurally generated realm built from your imagination. Survive harsh climates and strange hazards using Faebots— AI companions with unique powers tied to their moods.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.4%

  46. #46 Hexity
    71% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
    Dev: Almost Games
    Windows

    Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 23.4%, RTS 15.6%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%

  47. #47 Cog Foo
    70% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
    Dev: Anforus Games
    Windows

    A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?

    Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 10.4%

  48. #48 Settletopia
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
    Windows · Linux

    Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 9.6%

  49. #49 Belts of Iron
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
    Dev: Builderment LLC
    Windows

    Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends

    Why similar: Automation 22.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Third Person 6.2%

  50. #50 Oxygen: First Breath
    70% 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: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 9.4%, Survival 8.9%

  51. #51 Farmman
    69% 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.

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  52. #52 Goblin Colony
    68% 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 30.8%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 18.1%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7%

  53. #53 Avian Colony
    68% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
    Windows

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Automation 13.3%, Survival 9.3%

  54. #54 Arcane Shores
    67% 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 28.5%, City Builder 26.4%, Building 10.8%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%

  55. #55 Common'hood
    69% matchMixed51% of 342 reviews2022
    Dev: Plethora Project
    Windows

    Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 16%, Crafting 15.4%, Automation 13.3%, Building 12.3%

  56. #56 Desynced
    65% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,067 reviews2026
    Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 18.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.8%, RTS 12.9%, Building 8.8%

  57. #57 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
    Windows

    Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 26.1%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%

  58. #58 Empires and Tribes
    67% matchMixed66% of 420 reviews2023
    Dev: White Vertex Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Empires and Tribes is a unique hybrid of a medieval city builder and a role-playing game. You will undertake the duties of a mayor in the 13th century and manage the expansion of your city, ensure the production of resources and raise a powerful army to protect yourself from rival principalities.

    Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, RTS 12.8%, Building 11.9%

  59. #59 FluxWerks
    64% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
    Dev: Metallibitti Oy
    Windows

    Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.

    Why similar: Automation 24.5%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Building 11.3%

  60. #60 Planetbase
    69% 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 30.3%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 18%, Survival 8.5%, Building 5.5%

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