- #1 They Are Billions
97% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Base Building 22.6%, RTS 20.7%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #2 Oxygen Not Included
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 41.7% ★, Base Building 21.7%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 5.7%
- #3 Night is Coming
96% matchMixed66% of 441 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, RTS 21.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 9%, Strategy 6.6%
- #4 Phoenix Hope
95% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: Honorable Pixel
Windows
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, RTS 17.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 8.5%
- #5 Underground Nomads
94% matchNo user reviews
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 38% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 7.5%
- #6 Trollskog
94% matchMixed56% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Andreas CarlsonPub: Abstract Void Interactive
Windows
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: RTS 45%, Colony Sim 41% ★, Base Building 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #7 VENOY
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics and true sandbox freedom. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, RTS 26.7%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #8 Zombie Warz
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GobiGD
Windows · Mac
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, RTS 21.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Survival 8.1%
- #9 Gateworlds
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, RTS 16.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #10 Koloni
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UnwareStudio
Windows
Koloni is a city-building strategy game that puts you in charge of a group of pioneers who have discovered a new land to colonize. However, you're not alone in your quest to settle on this uncharted territory, as other groups have their sights set on the same land.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, RTS 25.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Survival 8.2%
- #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 35.6% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%
- #12 Celestial Empire: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, RTS 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 7%
- #13 Architects of Shangri-La
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SlavGames
Windows
Visit the mythical land of Shangri-La! Govern the legendary state, build cities, take care of its citizens, protect them, provide with spiritual and political guidance. Let yourself be amazed by its mountain beauty. Help Shangri-La defend against enemies who do not share its peaceful vision.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, RTS 21.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Fantasy 7.4%
- #14 Infernal Apocalypse: Rise of the Underworld
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonid Bazhanov
Windows
The first online Strategy game based in Hell. As a low-rank demon, you and your friends build your own kingdom, manage slaves and resources, fight hordes of demons, and rise up the ranks until you meet Satan himself. After all, our eternal damnation is certain, so why not practice beforehand?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, RTS 22.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 8.5%
- #15 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
86% matchVery Positive92% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, RTS 21.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 6.1%
- #16 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
87% 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 42.1% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.6%
- #17 Venusville
86% 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 33.4% ★, Base Building 17.4%, RTS 15.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.5%
- #18 After Long Night
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27% ★, RTS 22.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 8.1%
- #19 Goblin Colony
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MonoNord Games
Windows
Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, RTS 20.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 6.1%
- #20 Subzero Tides
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 15.3%, RTS 13%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%
- #21 Oasis RTS
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spackogames
Windows
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2% ★, RTS 28.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Base Building 6.1%, Building 5.2%
- #22 Pirate Plight
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, RTS 22%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 7.9%, Strategy 7%
- #23 Royal Lord - 王权领主
81% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 7%
- #24 TFM: The First Men
82% 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 42.4% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 7.4%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 5.7%
- #25 Powerplay
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, RTS 24.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 7.8%
- #26 Becastled
78% matchVery Positive82% of 5,494 reviews2025
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!
Why similar: Base Building 25.1%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, RTS 21.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 6.7%
- #27 Bunny Bunker
79% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Polyspice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Strategy by day, tactical tower defense by night. Build a bunny colony, manage resources, and defend against nightly monster attacks in this mix of city building and tower defense. Help your bunnies escape to the stars before the darkness destroys everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, RTS 20.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #28 Black Forest
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 409 reviews2023
Dev: LemuriaPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: RTS 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Survival 8.3%
- #29 Buoyancy
80% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7% ★, Base Building 14.8%, RTS 11%, Strategy 9.4%, Survival 8%
- #30 Colonization Simulator
78% 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 34.9% ★, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #31 Windowed Realms
77% 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 39.3% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Strategy 10%, Survival 7.6%
- #32 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
77% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Strategy 15%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #33 Villaging
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Villager Studio
Windows
Villaging is a simple game of strategy where you reign on a kingdom and you need to manage your ressources and your inhabitant .But you will also get threat from other kingdom so you will need to make an army to fight against them .
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8% ★, Strategy 17.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Wargame 8.3%, Fantasy 5.4%
- #34 Giantfall
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Birchwood Games
Windows
In a minimalist medieval world, every decision counts. Build, research, and fortify your kingdom as towering Giants and monstrous creatures lay siege to your land. Raise armies, manage your economy, and construct powerful defences to protect your people and hold the line against overwhelming odds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, RTS 22.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #35 Dark Moon
75% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, RTS 19.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #36 Quriocity
75% 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 33.6% ★, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 10%
- #37 Heroes of Orn: Darkness
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BM Studios LLC
Windows
Inspired by Majesty, Heroes of Orn: Darkness is a fantasy base building RTS with a twist - you cannot directly control your units. Build and upgrade your kingdom to gain power and resources. Influence your heroes' decisions and empower them by issuing quests, casting spells, and creating shops.
Why similar: RTS 35.6%, Base Building 21.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 8.3%
- #38 Feudal Craft
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, RTS 19.1%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #39 Siege of Irdor
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HardCodeWayPub: Vision Edge Entertainment
Windows
Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night to survive against the armies of darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, RTS 21.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 6.5%
- #40 Aztecs: The Last Sun
72% 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 26.6% ★, RTS 16.9%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #41 Planet X3 (DOS)
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 8-Bit Productions, LLCPub: NMSE & Co LLC
Windows · Mac
Planet X3 is a new retro real-time strategy game for DOS. You are up against the Protoids. You need to mine resources, build infrastructure and build offensive units to defeat them. All while protecting your bases. Relive the VGA, AdLib and keyboard controls experience of early 90s PC gaming.
Why similar: RTS 35.9%, Base Building 21%, Strategy 17.7%, Resource Management 15.9%, Building 6.8%
- #42 Alien Marauder
73% matchMixed63% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: Vexan Studio
Windows
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, RTS 21.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 9%
- #43 Insect Empires
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Survival 7.9%
- #44 Nuclear Crawler
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 9%
- #45 Egypt
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Base Building 17.5%, RTS 16.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Strategy 8.6%
- #46 Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
69% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Axella Games
Windows
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, RTS 23.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Tactical 7%, Resource Management 7%
- #47 Sheltered 2
71% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 15.4%, Survival 13.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #48 Majesty 2 Collection
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,531 reviews2011
Dev: 1C:InoCoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the Kingdom. Your rule is not absolute, however, as you face subjects that are independent and stubborn. They will need a great deal of persuasion before they carry out your wishes...
Why similar: RTS 47.3%, Strategy 23%, Base Building 16.6%, Fantasy 12%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #49 Dangerous Land
69% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Randi Games
Windows
Dangerous Land is a first-person strategic game enriched with elements of exploration and action. Assume the role of the ruler of your settlement, manage and develop it in real-time, recruit and upgrade units, take care of resources, and participate in epic battles.
Why similar: RTS 27.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 8%, Survival 7.5%
- #50 Icetwine
68% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 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: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, RTS 22.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 7.7%
- #51 Machinefall
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: by Jan Zizka
Windows
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, RTS 23.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #52 Exogate Initiative
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, RTS 18.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Tactical 6.8%
- #53 Airborne Empire
67% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, RTS 16.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7.3%
- #54 Clan & Flood
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%
- #55 Embark
70% matchMixed61% of 386 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 54.5% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 9%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 6.2%
- #56 Of Life and Land
66% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, RTS 19.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 7.8%
- #57 Maia
70% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 10.6%, RTS 5.8%
- #58 Never Secure
66% matchNo user reviews
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 38.9% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 10.1%
- #59 The Wild Age
68% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 10%, Building 6.5%
- #60 Here Comes The Swarm
64% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2026
Dev: CableHook Games
Windows
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, RTS 21.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9.9%