- #1 Halloween Store Simulator
97% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: God Game 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Economy 7.9%, Building 7.4%
- #2 Divine Ascendancy
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Command a mortal civilization as a god of Olympus. Build through four ages, unleash 34 miracles, hold the line on the Road of Doubt, slay the dragon — and complete the Ascension Ritual to claim true godhood.
Why similar: God Game 20.2% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Mythology 10.4%, Base Building 8%
- #3 Goblin Camp
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows · Linux
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Mythology 8.3%, Economy 8.2%
- #4 Dungeon Overseer
95% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 16.1%, God Game 13.2% ★, Economy 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%
- #5 Adhain
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Wormhole
Windows · Mac
Become a god and expand your influence through kindness or fear. Grow your settlements, make villages believe in you, and teach your creature how to follow your example. Play alone or join other gods, as allies or rivals.
Why similar: God Game 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #6 Angkor: The Holy City
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
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 19.6%, City Builder 17.5%, God Game 12.2% ★, Building 8.7%, Economy 8%
- #7 Poly Skies
93% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Red Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend sky-high threats.
Why similar: God Game 19.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 15%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.6%
- #8 Fabledom
92% matchVery Positive85% of 7,747 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 16%, Diplomacy 15.2% ★, Economy 8.7%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #9 Ulia Chronicles
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: NioStudio
Windows
Ulia Chronicles is a city-building game set in a fantasy universe. Build your city, gather resources, and make your citizens thrive. Play alone or with your friends in this game inspired by the classics of the genre.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 10%, Building 9.1%, Mythology 8.5%
- #10 Mars Attracts
91% matchVery Positive91% of 260 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8%
- #11 The Settlers: New Allies
90% matchMixed49% of 1,202 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft DüsseldorfPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
Why similar: God Game 21.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 19.8%, Economy 8.4%, Building 8%
- #12 Reus 2
89% matchVery Positive95% of 2,293 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 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 23.6% ★, Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7%
- #13 Diluvian Winds
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 390 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 18%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.5%
- #14 Wilderness Survey
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无限工作室
Windows
《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员,建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁,并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务,在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, God Game 22.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #15 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Diplomacy 10.4% ★, Economy 9.6%, Mythology 9.5%
- #16 Omicrocity 2
85% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Omwekiatl
Windows
A relaxing, cartoonish city builder where success is not just a gray, industrial megalopolis. Create your own hippie, robotic, supernatural, warlike, or artistic city, and discover the chaotic events that will put your city to the test.
Why similar: God Game 20.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 8.7%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #17 A Game of Humans
86% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, God Game 18.7% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #18 WildRoot
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rahul Das
Windows
Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, God Game 15.4% ★, City Builder 13%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #19 Egypt
84% 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: City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 9.3%, Mythology 8.7%
- #20 The Universim
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,638 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 23.3% ★, Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 18.3%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #21 LakeSide
82% matchMixed69% of 199 reviews2024
Dev: Massive Galaxy Studios
Windows
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 15.8%, Diplomacy 13.4% ★, Alternate History 10.2%, Mythology 8.6%
- #22 Synergy
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,086 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 15%, Diplomacy 15% ★, Economy 9.8%, Building 7.8%
- #23 Settler's Domain
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
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 22.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Diplomacy 18.2% ★, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #24 Lands of Koastalia
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Valakh
Windows
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 23%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #25 FireMatch Empire
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FireMatch Studio
Windows
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: God Game 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 7.4%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #26 Blocktopia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
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 23%, City Builder 20.4%, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%
- #27 Pick Me Up
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Sunny Studio
Windows
Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 18.7%, God Game 17.1% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.5%
- #28 STARIO: Haven Tower
76% matchVery Positive95% of 353 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 17.2%, God Game 14.4% ★, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.9%
- #29 Founders' Fortune
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 32.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #30 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive81% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 21.2%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%, Base Building 7.5%
- #31 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 9.4%, Building 8.9%
- #32 Seeds of Resilience
78% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 18.4%, Building 10.1%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #33 Gnomepunk
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Create an army of gnomes, train builders, gather resources, develop technology, overcome the fauna, understand the flora and use it for alchemy. Conquer or ally with other factions and dominate the forest!
Why similar: Diplomacy 18% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Mythology 12.2%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #34 Fata Deum - The God Sim
74% matchMixed60% of 460 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 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #35 Hell Architect
76% matchMixed69% of 451 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, God Game 18.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #36 Landslide
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: God Game 26% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #37 Terra-7
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
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 23.4%, Sandbox 12.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Building 8.8%
- #38 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
72% matchVery Positive91% of 26,981 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 16.9%, Diplomacy 11% ★, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.5%
- #39 Highrise City
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,299 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 20.1%, Diplomacy 14.8% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%
- #40 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
73% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, God Game 16.5% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Mythology 11.2%, Building 8.2%
- #41 Arcane Shores
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 24.4%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Base Building 5.8%
- #42 Hearthlands
74% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 21.7%, God Game 11.6% ★, Diplomacy 8.8% ★, Sandbox 6.9%
- #43 Farmman
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 20.7%, Economy 11.2%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #44 Gnome Glen
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #45 Goblins of Elderstone
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.8%, God Game 15.4% ★, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Building 8.3%
- #46 CivRise
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Catchy
Windows · Mac
Forge your civilization in this strategic idle game. Develop knowledge, build wonders, command armies, and recruit historical figures as you evolve from primitive beginnings to a mighty empire. The Heritage system lets your achievements persist, making each new civilization stronger than the last.
Why similar: God Game 15.9% ★, Diplomacy 13% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Mythology 10.3%, Colony Sim 8.5%
- #47 Pixel Colony
70% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 24%, Resource Management 8.8%, Relaxing 8.2%, Management 6.7%
- #48 Resort Galactica
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
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 22.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #49 Creo God Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 25.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Mythology 7.2%, Economy 6.9%
- #50 Celestial Empire: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive86% of 416 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 21.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Mythology 10.9%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.5%
- #51 Isla Paradiso
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 24.2%, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 7.8%
- #52 Settlement Survival
68% matchVery Positive85% of 8,039 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 8%, Management 6.6%
- #53 Crowded - A Crow City Builder
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nestwork Games
Windows
Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 21%, Economy 10.9%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 9.2%
- #54 United Penguin Kingdom
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 16%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 7.8%
- #55 Empires of the Undergrowth
66% matchVery Positive94% of 18,691 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3%, City Builder 14%, Diplomacy 13.2% ★, Economy 8.6%, Alternate History 8.3%
- #56 Hamlet
67% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 21.4%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Diplomacy 8.2% ★
- #57 Seabed Settlers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tense Games
Windows
An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, God Game 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 6.5%