
A game that combines elements of strategy, colony simulation, base defense, exploration, and hidden object exploration. All in a roguelike style with meta-progression. Procedurally generated maps and endless replayability.
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A game that combines elements of strategy, colony simulation, base defense, exploration, and hidden object exploration. All in a roguelike style with meta-progression. Procedurally generated maps and endless replayability.

Settlements Rising
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.

Fio and the Doomed City
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
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 25.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Medieval 7.9%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Tower Defense 12.2%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Medieval 9.3%
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.4%, Medieval 9%
Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
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 38.3%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 7%, Building 6.6%
Build a colony from scratch, set up production chains, and defend against raids. Manage resources, research technologies, expand your settlement, and survive each escalating wave!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, City Builder 15.5%, Medieval 10.7%
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Medieval 9.1%
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Medieval 9%
A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Medieval 11.7%, Resource Management 7.5%
The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, City Builder 10%
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 28.2%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Resource Management 9.3%
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Medieval 9.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 8.7%
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 32.2%, Tower Defense 15.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 5.5%
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 14.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 16%, Tower Defense 16%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Resource Management 11.8%
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 37%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, City Builder 8.8%, Procedural Generation 6%
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 36.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 6.1%
Kingdom Islands is a medieval city-building game, where you construct a prosperous city on a distant island. As your village expands and your people begin to develop their knowledge of the land, you may explore and visit new areas of the known world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Medieval 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%
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 25.3%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 12.6%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Medieval 8.3%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, City Builder 8.5%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Procedural Generation 8%
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 29.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 13.6%, Medieval 10.3%, Base Building 7.7%
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 32.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, City Builder 10.2%, Nonlinear 6.6%
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 10.9%
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
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: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 17.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 6.6%
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 13.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Medieval 5.9%
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 39.5%, City Builder 21.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Medieval 8.3%, Building 5.5%
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, City Builder 12%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Base Building 11%
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 25.8%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Building 7%
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Procedural Generation 9%
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 37.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 6.7%
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Tower Defense 14.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 8.8%
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 23.8%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 13.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Medieval 8.3%
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 27.4%, Base Building 16.2%, City Builder 14.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.6%
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 8.8%
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, City Builder 13%, Procedural Generation 7.3%
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Procedural Generation 14%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Building 7.2%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 34.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 8.9%, Strategy 6.8%
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 27.5%, Base Building 17.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, City Builder 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.8%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, City Builder 10.3%, Tower Defense 9.1%
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Strategy 10.8%
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 17.6%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Time Management 10%, Procedural Generation 9.3%
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 32.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Medieval 8.2%, Strategy 7.1%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 14.3%, Medieval 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 7.2%
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Base Building 18%, Tower Defense 12.9%, Medieval 8.3%, Building 8%
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Base Building 6.6%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, City Builder 10.3%, Tower Defense 9.8%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 9%
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 27.6%, Base Building 16%, Tower Defense 12.8%, Medieval 8.6%, Strategy 7.1%
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 36.8%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 7%