- #1 WorldBox - God Simulator
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,884 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: God Game 39.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 8.7%, Management 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar sandbox experience where you act as a deity to influence the development and survival of civilizations.
- #2 Reus 2
96% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 7.6%, Management 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary management and divine intervention, requiring you to balance the needs of your people with the powers of nature.
- #3 Fata Deum - The God Sim
95% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a direct god-game experience where you influence the lives of mortals through divine powers and choices.
- #4 RimWorld
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sim management, offering deep simulation and emergent storytelling similar to the struggles in The Universim.
- #5 Oxygen Not Included
93% 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 42.5% ★, Survival 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex resource management and colony survival in a space environment that requires careful planning and engineering.
- #6 Planetbase
94% 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 32.1% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A focused colony-sim that tasks you with managing a base on a remote planet, mirroring the survival challenges of The Universim.
- #7 SPORE™
92% matchVery Positive93% of 70,545 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Why similar: God Game 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 8.3%, Aliens 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the sense of evolution and planetary progression as you guide a species from cellular life to space exploration.
- #8 Rise to Ruins
91% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 24%, God Game 22.2% ★, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game mechanics with city-building and survival, forcing you to defend your village from constant threats.
- #9 IXION
90% 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 26.4%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Space 12%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends city-building with intense survival management as you guide a space station through a hostile galaxy.
- #10 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Building 16.1%, Space 16%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the space-faring and automation aspects of building a civilization across multiple planets.
- #11 From Dust
91% matchMixed67% of 2,936 reviews2011
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
Why similar: God Game 72.5% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 6.1%, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic god-game centered on terrain manipulation and protecting your followers from environmental disasters.
- #12 Noble Fates
89% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of colony-sim and god-game where you observe and influence the lives of your subjects in a fantasy world.
- #13 Dawn of Man
88% matchVery Positive87% of 17,635 reviews2019
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 36.8%, Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4%
Why You'll Like It: Follows the progression of a civilization through the ages, starting from the Stone Age, much like the early stages of The Universim.
- #14 Space Haven
87% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 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 23.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed colony-sim experience set on a spaceship, focusing on crew management and survival.
- #15 Timberborn
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that emphasizes water management and vertical building, offering a distinct take on civilization survival.
- #16 Foundation
85% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 13.9% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and simulation in a medieval setting.
- #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: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 31.3%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 4%
Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that incorporates survival elements and defense against external threats.
- #18 Settlement Survival
86% 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: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 25.4%, Building 12%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and resource management aspects of building a town in a challenging environment.
- #19 The Crust
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 17%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Space 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony-sim that emphasizes automation and resource extraction on the moon.
- #20 Against the Storm
82% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces you to adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions while managing a growing population.
- #21 Stonehearth
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 25%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony-sim that emphasizes building, crafting, and defending your settlers.
- #22 Songs of Syx
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Allows for massive-scale colony management with deep simulation elements that scale as your civilization grows.
- #23 Frostpunk
81% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 30.4%, Colony Sim 26.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes survival and moral decision-making required to keep a city alive in a frozen wasteland.
- #24 Aven Colony
82% 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 40.7% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Space 4.9%, Strategy 4.8%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that tasks you with building a colony on an alien world with unique environmental hazards.
- #25 New Cycle
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 12.6% ★, Building 10.7%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires careful management of resources to ensure the survival of your people.
- #26 Urbek City Builder
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14%, Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on resource management and building efficiency without the need for traditional money.
- #27 The Colonists
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,205 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and economy management as you build a civilization of robots.
- #28 Planetary Life
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: God Game 35.3% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Management 7.7%
- #29 Endzone - A World Apart
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 37.2%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Survival 12.9%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where radiation and climate are constant threats.
- #30 Sapiens
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #31 Kingdoms Reborn
76% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Management 8.5%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 4.8%
- #32 Godhood
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,081 reviews2020
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create your Religion, raise your Disciples, and guide them to bring you glory! Inspire growth in your Disciples so they may challenge the false gods and convert their followers. Defeat your rivals, and become the One Truth!
Why similar: God Game 76.6% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based god-game where you build a religion and influence your followers through divine guidance.
- #33 Flotsam
74% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.8% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.1%
- #34 Cliff Empire
76% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.4%
- #35 Deisim
74% matchVery Positive93% of 851 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 10%, Building 9.9%
- #36 Plan B: Terraform
72% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, Sandbox 14%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #37 Stranded: Alien Dawn
73% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, Survival 20.8%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.6%
- #38 Imagine Earth
75% matchVery Positive82% of 952 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2% ★, City Builder 29.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 5.1%
- #39 Anno 2205™
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,263 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 45.4%, Space 9%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 6.4%
- #40 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
71% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, God Game 15.8% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #41 Patron
73% 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 31.2% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.1%, Management 6%
- #42 The Wandering Village
70% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 9.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #43 Going Medieval
68% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Sandbox 12%, Management 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
- #44 MMORPG Tycoon 2
73% matchVery Positive86% of 3,013 reviews2020
Dev: VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Why similar: God Game 36.2% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 4%
- #45 Astro Colony
71% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Building 13.7%, Space 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #46 Per Aspera
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.3%
- #47 Exogate Initiative
71% 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 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.3%
- #48 Stardeus
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 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 23.7% ★, God Game 20.6% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.7%, Survival 7.6%
- #49 Trappist
70% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: God Game 22% ★, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #50 Creo God Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Management 8%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #51 The Tenants
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,665 reviews2022
Dev: Ancient Forge
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: God Game 32.9% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #52 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Building 10.2%, Survival 7%, Space 6.7%
- #53 Universe Sandbox
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: God Game 36.1% ★, Sandbox 25.6%, Space 19.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Open World 3.9%
- #54 MEMORIAPOLIS
66% 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: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Building 12.1%, Management 9%, Procedural Generation 6.9%
- #55 Farthest Frontier
64% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Building 17.9%, Management 8.8%, Survival 8.5%
- #56 Captain of Industry
65% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Building 13.9%, Management 12.8%
- #57 Surviving the Aftermath
67% 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 31.8%, Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.4%
- #58 InfraSpace
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Space 11.7%, Management 10.1%
- #59 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
63% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Real-Time with Pause 14.2% ★, Building 10.2%, Management 7.3%