- #1 Stardeus
97% matchVery Positive87% of 1,534 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Space Sim 10%
- #2 Carden
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eddie Fisher
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the restoration of a storm ravaged island. Recruit scientists, rebuild infrastructure, and shape a thriving research frontier through hands on exploration and card-driven management.
Why similar: Farming Sim 23%, Cozy 15.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 10.7%
- #3 Surviving Ceres
96% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Farming Sim 18.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 11.3%
- #4 Oxygen Not Included
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #5 Zenith Expanse
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 11%, Survival 10.1%, Space Sim 9.5%
- #6 Starfall Protocol
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Space Sim 15.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 7.1%
- #7 Galaxy Scavengers
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 21.5%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Resource Management 14.7%, Survival 12.2%
- #8 Polylithic
92% matchMixed68% of 171 reviews2023
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #9 Starship Colony
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 16.3%, Space Sim 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #10 Resilience
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Samskara Games
Windows
Come face to face with the dangers that await your crew on a distant planet with extreme temperature conditions. Gather resources, explore, defend against aggressive flora and fauna, develop technologies to survive and leave the planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%
- #11 Space Haven
89% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Space Sim 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #12 DISTANT VISITANT
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TriadPixel
Windows
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
Why similar: Aliens 18.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 13.8%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%
- #13 Galaxy Pass Station
89% matchVery Positive86% of 277 reviews2023
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Cozy 15.2%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #14 Pathless Woods
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,102 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 10.6%
- #15 Colonization Simulator
87% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Sci-fi 10%
- #16 PoliPlanet
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: -
Windows
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Colony Sim 11.1%
- #17 No Ticket Back: Craft, Survive & Escape
86% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: GameEraStudios
Windows
As the brave crew sets course for the Red Planet, their mission takes a terrifying turn. In the vast emptiness of space, their once-proud vessel becomes a haunted nightmare. Can they survive the horrors that await them in the darkness and escape or will they succumb before completing their mission?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Farming Sim 18.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Space Sim 12.1%, Crafting 11.6%
- #18 MeadowMeld
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MeldFire
Windows
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Cozy 21.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Farming Sim 9%
- #19 Worlds Explorers
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%
- #20 Order: The New Dawn
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Space Sim 15.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #21 Green Again
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, Sandbox 15.2%, Farming Sim 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Base Building 11%
- #22 All Roads Connected
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Farming Sim 16.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #23 Lil Guys
82% 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 27.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 12.4%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #24 StarDune
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2w Systems
Windows · Mac
Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.
Why similar: Space Sim 18.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #25 Hello World
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Agency
Windows · Linux
A colony sim with turn-based tactical combat, set in a lush, living apocalypse. Build a community of humans and robots while a bioengineered jungle devours the world around you and rogue machines fight you for what's left.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 15%, Farming Sim 14.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9%
- #26 Exot
79% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: PH Networks
Windows
Discover a still unexplored region of space: the Exot galaxy. With your C.L.I.C. as your only ally, obtain the resources necessary for your survival. Develop your ship, improve your workshops, face creatures to conquer these hostile lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.6%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 13.5%
- #27 Artificer's Tower
79% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Cozy 19.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #28 Embark
81% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Base Building 19.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #29 Reprocessed
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Macrostructura
Windows
Factory management and sandbox base building in zero-g environment. Survive, expand and then dominate space industrial market. Build large scale resource processing plant completely from nothing.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Space Sim 12.1%, Crafting 11.4%
- #30 Time to Morp
76% matchVery Positive84% of 231 reviews2025
Dev: Team HalfBeardPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Farming Sim 17.4%, Cozy 15%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #31 Terra Taker
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Craft
Windows
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #32 Mistpaw Ravine
75% matchPositive97% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Jon Nielsen
Windows
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Why similar: Cozy 21.3%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #33 Vilset
78% 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 27%, Base Building 17.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 11.6%
- #34 Last Float
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LapsaDev
Windows
Explore and survive in this shattered world. Build, defend, and repair your raft. Search for secrets and uncover information about what happened - and most importantly, don't drown!
Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 18%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #35 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
78% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #36 Deep In Snow
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Survival in a post-apocalyptic ice age with settlement building. Dig through the snow, find resources, build shelters, and defend yourself from evolved beasts and feral locals. Explore ruins, trade, and rebuild civilization in the harsh world after the icy cataclysm.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.9%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 15.3%, Survival 11.8%
- #37 TFM: The First Men
76% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Base Building 22.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 7.8%
- #38 Greenfeet Haven
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Owlycode makes games
Windows
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Farming Sim 17.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11%
- #39 Kingdom Craft
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Kingdom Craft is a survival game in a world of floating islands with unique gravity. Craft items by combining different materials, explore, build, and progress to reach the ancient portal and return home.
Why similar: Farming Sim 21.5%, Base Building 20.8%, Crafting 17%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #40 SuperColony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 11.8%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #41 Icetwine
73% matchMostly Negative31% of 13 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: Cozy 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #42 Occupy Mars: The Game
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,070 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.5%
- #43 Rebots
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: FlatPoniesPub: Astra Logical
Windows
Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, Aliens 14.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Space Sim 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #44 Minicology
72% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Isaac DennerPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.
Why similar: Farming Sim 17.5%, Space Sim 16.6%, Aliens 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #45 OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: North Channel
Windows
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: Farming Sim 18.9%, Cozy 17.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 9.9%
- #46 HullRats
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 8%
- #47 Medieval Frontiers
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, Farming Sim 15.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #48 Rune Islands
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Entin Games
Windows · Mac
You are the power of runes, shaping worlds. Gather resources and find pedestals to build, craft, and transform islands - until the forgotten archipelago gains a new soul.
Why similar: Farming Sim 22.9%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 12.3%
- #49 Blocktopia
70% 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 26%, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 11.1%
- #50 Settletopia
69% 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 26.1%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%
- #51 Arcbound
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 20%, Space Sim 17.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Survival 7.5%
- #52 _space_train
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Josh McNamee
Windows
What if there was a train, in space? Embark as a simple passenger or take a longer-term role as a member of staff in an asymmetric gaming experience like no other.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Space Sim 18.4%, Aliens 17.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%
- #53 Mozi
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mozi
Windows
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 12%, Aliens 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%
- #54 Island Beekeeper
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Akuseru Studio
Windows
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Why similar: Cozy 21%, Farming Sim 20.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10%
- #55 SeaColony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%
- #56 Retreat To Enen
69% matchMixed61% of 401 reviews2022
Dev: Head WestPub: indie.io
Windows
Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%
- #57 Never Secure
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Resource Management 16.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 9.6%
- #58 Catizens
66% matchVery Positive82% of 368 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Farming Sim 19.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.4%
- #59 Gnome Glen
67% 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 24%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 14%, Sandbox 13%, Survival 8.5%