- #1 Settlements Rising
97% matchVery Positive81% of 430 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 21%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Medieval 8.6%
- #2 Kingdoms and Castles
96% matchVery Positive94% of 31,238 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 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: City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 8.6%, RTS 8.6%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #3 Foundation
96% matchVery Positive87% of 23,903 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 26.9 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 28.5%, Medieval 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Resource Management 7.3%, Management 7%
- #4 Manor Lords
95% matchVery Positive84% of 88,470 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Medieval 10.8%, Colony Sim 7.5%
- #5 Tokeis
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 15.2%, RTS 9.2%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #6 VENOY
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis WischeroppPub: LaboratoryGames
Windows
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 14.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #7 Royal Lord - 王权领主
93% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: 开发鸭
Windows
In "Kingdom Monarch", you are a monarch and can build the kingdom of your dreams! You need to build city walls, assign jobs to villagers, recruit soldiers, repel hordes of monsters at night, and expand your village during the day.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Base Building 12.6%, RTS 10%
- #8 Norland
92% matchVery Positive82% of 10,106 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.7%, Medieval 7.8%
- #9 Fata Deum - The God Sim
91% matchMixed59% of 459 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: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.6%, RTS 8.8%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #10 Against the Storm
91% matchVery Positive95% of 36,338 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Grand Strategy 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Medieval 7.3%
- #11 Settletopia
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 21.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #12 Of Life and Land
89% matchVery Positive86% of 360 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.9%, RTS 9.5%, Medieval 7.9%
- #13 Forgotten Vale
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 9.1%, RTS 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #14 Gnome Glen
88% 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 19.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 9.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #15 Quriocity
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, RTS 8.8%
- #16 Architect of Ruin
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
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 18.5%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Medieval 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #17 Patron
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,181 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 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 23.6%, City Builder 21%, Base Building 8.4%, Survival 7.9%, Medieval 7.8%
- #18 Galaxy Scavengers
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 8.6%
- #19 Kingdoms Reborn
84% matchVery Positive90% of 9,656 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 26%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 8.3%, Medieval 6.9%
- #20 Settlement Survival
84% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 21.4%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Medieval 11.3%, Management 9%, Base Building 7.7%
- #21 Bread & Bravery
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ennoble Studios
Windows
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
Why similar: City Builder 15.7%, Colony Sim 13.3%, RTS 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Medieval 8.7%
- #22 First Feudal
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 635 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21.5%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Medieval 10%
- #23 Randoville
82% matchMixed66% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: AVE Team
Windows
Randoville is a medieval chill-builder where everything is decided by your luck! Will you get a shabby hut or a gorgeous palace? Throw D20 and find out!
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 10.3%, RTS 9.4%
- #24 Angkor: The Holy City
81% 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 20.7%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9%, RTS 8.2%
- #25 Edge Islands
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Management 9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #26 Blacksmith Master
80% matchVery Positive83% of 2,646 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Medieval 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #27 Pawnholm
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 8.6%
- #28 Ever Onward
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artificium Games
Windows
Build the town of your dreams in this cosy fantasy city-builder. Pass policies which impact future gameplay, unravel the mysteries which led to the horrifying downfall of your predecessors and try to keep things together as invisible forces claw at the edges of your hard-fought peace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, City Builder 16.6%, Grand Strategy 12% ★, Medieval 9%, Management 8.8%
- #29 Noble Legacy
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 731 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Medieval 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #30 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.1 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%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 6.7%, Management 5.9%
- #31 Our Freedom: Prologue
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
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 20.8%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #32 DarkSwitch
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 627 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
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 19.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.8%, RTS 8.1%
- #33 Insect Empires
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Insect Empires TeamPub: Countryball Team
Windows
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, RTS 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #34 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
77% matchMixed66% of 6,003 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 30.8%, City Builder 28.2%, Resource Management 9.7%, Medieval 8.5%, Survival 5.5%
- #35 KingForge
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Open World 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Medieval 8.9%
- #36 Fosoria
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
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 29.6%, Base Building 16.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #37 Banished
76% matchVery Positive90% of 43,196 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 30.9%, City Builder 28.5%, Survival 7%, Medieval 6.1%, Strategy 5.6%
- #38 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.7%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #39 Planetbase
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,370 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 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 27.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 7.2%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #40 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
72% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Grand Strategy 18.6% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11%, Management 8.1%
- #41 Venusville
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, RTS 8.8%
- #42 Humanica
71% matchVery Positive94% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
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: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #43 SuperColony
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Roguelite 8.5%, Management 8.1%
- #44 Worlds Explorers
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #45 Oxygen: First Breath
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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 20.5%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 7.9%
- #46 Windowed Realms
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Management 7.7%
- #47 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
69% matchVery Positive85% of 752 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 17.3%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 10.2%, RTS 10.1%, Management 7.6%
- #48 Nova Roma
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,044 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #49 The Blighted Frontier
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 28.2%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #50 Beyond These Stars
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
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 20.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.8%
- #51 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Medieval 9.8%, Management 8.4%
- #52 Whiskerwood
67% matchVery Positive93% of 3,148 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #53 Kingdom Islands
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victor Skillerstrand
Windows
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 25.7%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Medieval 12.5%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #54 Airborne Empire
66% matchVery Positive88% of 891 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, RTS 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
- #55 Starship Colony
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
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 23.9%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 11.5%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #56 Lil Guys
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 16%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #57 Make Your Kingdom
68% matchMixed58% of 196 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 11.8%, Management 10.3%, RTS 8.6%
- #58 Oxygen
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 20.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%