
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, City Builder, Resource Management.

Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.

The Blighted Frontier
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.

Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
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.
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 33.7%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Management 8.9%, Survival 6.5%
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 37%, City Builder 24.5%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 6%, Strategy 5.7%
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 35%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 23.7%, Management 10.4%, Underground 9.7% ★, Base Building 8.9%
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: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 26.2%, Survival 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Strategy 7.8%
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 32.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Management 11%, Survival 8.5%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 42.6%, City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 4.1%
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 26.6%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.3%, Management 8.1%
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 44%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 8.3%, Survival 6.9%, Strategy 6.7%
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 33.2%, City Builder 27%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%
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 42.6%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 6.9%, Management 6.3%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.3%, Management 10.2%
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 36.4%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9%, Strategy 5.4%
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 7.2%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, City Builder 29.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 8.8%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, City Builder 32.4%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 4.1%
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: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 27.6%, Management 11%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 5.6%
Restikon Foundry is a village builder / colony simulation game focused on individual villagers rather than abstract systems. Progress from a hunter-gatherer outpost all the way to an industrialized colony with multiple specialized towns connected by a growing logistics network.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 31.1%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 6.9%
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 28.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 8.3%, Survival 6.8%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Management 12.7%, Base Building 11%, Survival 10.7%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 7.4%
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 33%, City Builder 26.7%, Management 10%, Survival 7.3%, Base Building 7.3%
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: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 25.9%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Base Building 8.2%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 9%
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 42%, City Builder 32.6%, Resource Management 7.7%, Survival 7%, Strategy 5.4%
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 35.7%, City Builder 28.9%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Strategy 7.4%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Survival 11.4%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 35.9%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 3%
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 32%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.8%
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 26.5%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Management 11.8%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.8%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 12%, Resource Management 6.8%
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 40.5%, City Builder 18.7%, Survival 12%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
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 31.9%, City Builder 24.9%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8%, Base Building 7.5%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 21.7%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.4%, Base Building 7.9%
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 33.4%, City Builder 19.7%, Management 11.5%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.3%
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10.4%, Survival 9.5%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.1%, Management 17.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 6.1%
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 32.1%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 10.1%, Survival 7.6%
City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 6.9%
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 45.9%, City Builder 20.9%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 5.7%
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 34.4%, City Builder 25.8%, Survival 10.9%, Management 7.4%, Base Building 6.6%
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 36.5%, City Builder 28.2%, Survival 10.5%, Management 6.5%, Strategy 6.4%
Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Underground 23.3% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Management 8.2%, Base Building 8%
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 27.6%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 8.1%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 21.5%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.1%
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 31.1%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Management 10%, Survival 9.5%
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 39.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 11%, Underground 8.7% ★, Resource Management 7.6%
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 9.9%, Management 9.5%
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 Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, City Builder 21%, Survival 9.4%, Management 9%, Base Building 8.6%
Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Underground 16% ★, Survival 7.6%, Simulation 5.8%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
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 28.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.8%
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 30.2%, City Builder 23%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 9%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.3%, City Builder 39%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 1.3%
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 32.9%, City Builder 25.2%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8%
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, City Builder 9.5%, Management 8.3%