- #1 The HELL : Kanto Earthquake 1923
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
1923: Process the Great Kantō Earthquake death. Lead all the miserable souls, battle quake-storms, and make life-or-death choices in collapsing Kanto's Hell. A historical strategy game inspired by true events where you play as Hell Governor. Oh...there is NAMAZU the Catfish Titan wreaking havoc too.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Immersive Sim 7.7%, Building 5.9%
- #2 The Stellar Station Engineer
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbital Flag StudioPub: Unknown
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 16.4%, Building 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #3 The HELL
96% matchVery Positive92% of 92 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 18.9% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 7.4%
- #4 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
95% 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 8.4%
- #5 Isla Paradiso
94% 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 26.5% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 12.2%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.5%
- #6 Nigredo
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #7 Windowed Realms
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Real Time Tactics 12%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 7.7%
- #8 Rise Against the Invaders
92% 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 28% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 11.6%, Survival 7.5%
- #9 Ascent of Ashes
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.1%
- #10 Founders' Fortune
91% 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 36% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.1%, Survival 6.3%
- #11 Lil Guys
90% 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 28.7% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 10%, Survival 9.6%
- #12 Outlands
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Real Time Tactics 16.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 6.9%
- #13 Oxygen: First Breath
88% 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: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #14 Planetbase
89% 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 31.7% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 8.6%, Building 5.9%
- #15 Arcane Shores
87% 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 29.8% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Building 11.6%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 6.7%
- #16 Generation Exile
86% 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 25% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 11.6%, Management 10%, Base Building 9.8%
- #17 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 32.5%, Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Building 10.9%, Base Building 7.3%, Strategy 5.2%
- #18 Oxygen
85% 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 22.7% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 9.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #19 Settlement Survival
84% 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Building 12.7%, Management 9.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #20 Avian Colony
84% 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 27.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 11%, Survival 9.3%
- #21 LouLan Kingdom
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MockingCrown Games
Windows
Loulan Kingdom is a city-building survival and real-time strategy game. As the ruler of Loulan, you must build your city amid a perilous desert oasis, grow your power through the Silk Road, and fight to protect your kingdom—until the very end.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 7.4%
- #22 Towerfolk
82% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.5%, Management 9.8%
- #23 Havenstead
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovilPub: Kovil Gaming
Windows · Mac
Havenstead is a cozy town-building strategy game where you grow a thriving village, balance resources, and keep your villagers happy through careful planning, trade, and charming design.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 8.6%
- #24 Sect Leader's Decree
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Management 11.4%, City Builder 10.7%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #25 TFM: The First Men
81% 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 34% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Real Time Tactics 9.8%, Building 9.1%, City Builder 8.6%
- #26 Spirit & Stone
80% 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 28.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Building 8.6%
- #27 Age of Respair
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Real Time Tactics 19.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 10.2%
- #28 Patron
79% 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 28.9% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Survival 10%, Building 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
- #29 Farmman
78% 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 27% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 9.5%
- #30 MEMORIAPOLIS
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,686 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Building 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 9.1%
- #31 Venusville
77% matchNo user reviews
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 27.4% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 8.3%, Building 8%
- #32 Make Your Kingdom
78% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%
- #33 Settletopia
77% 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 27.1% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.8%
- #34 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
76% 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 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.3%, Management 9%
- #35 The Fire Must Grow
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elliott Ayling
Windows
In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #36 Edge Islands
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 15%, Building 13.9%, Management 10%
- #37 Recovery Syndicate
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Real Time Tactics 18.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.9%
- #38 Pixel Colony
73% 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 29.6% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Management 11.7%, Survival 8.5%, Building 6.5%
- #39 DarkSwitch
73% matchNo user 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 Veil. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.4%
- #40 Dungeon Overseer
74% 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 26.8% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #41 NecroCity
73% matchMixed52% of 75 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 26% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 6.8%
- #42 Quriocity
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 8.6%, Management 5.7%
- #43 IXION
71% 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%, Building 9.8%
- #44 Above: Colonies of the Mist
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 9.2%, Management 5.2%
- #45 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
72% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 35.2% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.2%
- #46 Ratopia
68% 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 26.1% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 9.9%
- #47 Settlements Rising
68% 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 27.9% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #48 Lost Heaven Station
69% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.7%
- #49 Paleon
69% 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 39.8% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #50 Surviving the Aftermath
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 7.4%
- #51 Aven Colony
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7% ★, City Builder 32.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 3.8%
- #52 Drownlight
68% 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 22.4% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.1%, Survival 8.4%
- #53 Crowded Blue Dot
70% 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 27.4%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Management 11.9%, Building 10.2%
- #54 Our Freedom: Prologue
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.3%
- #55 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% 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 37.7% ★, City Builder 34.5%, Building 8.4%, Survival 6.9%, Strategy 4.8%
- #56 Country Architect
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Building 11.1%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Base Building 7.4%
- #57 Exile
66% 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 26.9% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Building 11.5%, Management 10.4%, Survival 9.3%
- #58 Aztecs: The Last Sun
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.5%, Immersive Sim 9.2%