- #1 Bonfire Kingdom
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bonfire Forged Games
Windows
Bonfire Kingdom is a survival city builder mixed with RPG elements in a dark medieval fantasy world - like a hauntingly beautiful German fairy tale. Superior enemies are creeping out of the darkness. Protect your village by leading your band of loyal knights into battle.
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Colony Sim 14.1%, City Builder 12%, Hack and Slash 10.6%, Strategy RPG 10%
- #2 Arcane Rings
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.2%, Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%
- #3 Portal Sentinels
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Astrow Games
Windows · Linux
Portal Sentinels is a pixel-art, grid-based tower defense blending labyrinthine strategy and rich tower evolution. Choose a class, create the path the army will take and wipe them out before they reach their destination.
Why similar: Tower Defense 29%, Base Building 22%, Strategy 14.2%, PvE 13%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
- #4 The Citadel Must Hold
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Klenisho Games
Windows
Build a fortress, command your army, and survive escalating Monster Tides in a fantasy base-building RTS. Explore the wilderness with your hero, claim Places of Power, and shape every run through powerful Oaths and Decrees.
Why similar: Base Building 29.1%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Strategy 8.7%, City Builder 8.7%
- #5 Fio and the Doomed City
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
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: Tower Defense 23.1%, Base Building 23%, City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Strategy 6.3%
- #6 Sylox
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
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: Tower Defense 23.9%, Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 10.9%
- #7 clickyland
93% matchVery Positive85% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.1%, Base Building 26.8%, City Builder 17.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Medieval 5.8%
- #8 Awakening of Darkness: Build, Survive and Defend
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orivion Games
Windows
Build your village by day, survive the darkness by night. Awakening of Darkness is a 2D base-building survival game combining city building, tower defense, and roguelike mechanics in a day-night cycle.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.1%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Medieval 8.1%
- #9 NuTREEnts
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goose Machine
Windows
NuTREEnts is a strategic tower defense roguelike about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!
Why similar: Tower Defense 30%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 11.9%, PvE 8.6%
- #10 Lattice Defense
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TripleAIndie
Windows
A tower defense game meets top-down shooter. Build a maze of walls and elemental towers by day. Defend yourself by night. Dash, build, and blast your way until dawn. Play solo or in online co-op.
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Base Building 25.7%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, PvE 11.9%, Strategy 10.8%
- #11 The Riftbreaker: Prologue
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,130 reviews2020
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Online Co-Op 18.2%, Hack and Slash 15.2%, Crafting 9.5%
- #12 Towerfolk
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Tower Defense 15.3%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Crafting 9.6%
- #13 Vain Uprising
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VainXD
Windows
A dark fantasy blend of RTS and RPG where you liberate slaves and lead them against their former masters. Expand your home encampment. Equip your army. Build outposts and crush your enemies, as long as they don't destroy you first.
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, PvE 9.9%, Crafting 9.9%
- #14 HZ Industry
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sade_112
Windows
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, City Builder 18.5%, Strategy 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Base Building 8.3%
- #15 Harrowlands
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Strategy RPG 7.7%, Strategy 7.1%
- #16 Zomboard
86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
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: Base Building 23.5%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Crafting 8.8%
- #17 Rise Under the Warstorm
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Crafting 13.2%, City Builder 11.2%
- #18 Sovran's Crusade
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NewFireGames
Windows
Explore, build, defend, and lead the crusade. Gather resources, build castles, and protect the Altar from swarms of minions as you traverse a world where idyll turns ineffable. Play this minimalist strategy-adventure horror pixel art game as the sovereign.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.5%, City Builder 19.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Colony Sim 14.1%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #19 Zukontide
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sindre
Windows
Swarm-scale tower defense: up to 40,000 aliens per siege, thousands on screen, physically crushing into your chokepoints. You are expected to fall — every kill banks credits, even in defeat. Grind the war economy, research deadlier guns, mount them on the ruins, and return to hold the line.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.9%, Base Building 24.3%, Strategy 13.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #20 The Blighted Frontier
83% 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: Base Building 22.4%, Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 7.3%
- #21 Outland Kingdoms
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: GBL
Windows
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
Why similar: City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Strategy RPG 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
- #22 We Are The Wall
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NorthWall Studio
Windows · Mac
We Are The Wall is a city-builder / RTS where you lead a hardy dwarf settlement fighting to protect their mountain home. Train armies, gather vital resources, explore the surrounding lands, and defend the Heart of the Mountain at all costs. We Are The Wall!
Why similar: Base Building 27.7%, City Builder 19.9%, Tower Defense 17.2%, Strategy 11.3%, Dark Fantasy 6.1%
- #23 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
80% matchVery Positive93% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Tower Defense 25%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #24 Doomed Night: Build Base & Explore
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Steppe Wind
Windows
Build your kingdom, expand borders, and face darkness. By day, gather strength, build defenses, and explore the land. By night, lead your army in tower defense, fight monsters with your troops, defend your people, and survive waves spilling from portals threatening all.
Why similar: Tower Defense 31.5%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Hack and Slash 6.6%
- #25 AColony
81% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroTris
Windows
A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Crafting 9.9%
- #26 坍塌世界
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: a1
Windows
"Collapsing World" is an innovative tower defense game blending deck-building and roguelike mechanics. Recruit unique companions, craft powerful skill decks, and tackle randomized stages. Deep strategy breaks the traditional TD mold—every run is a fresh challenge!
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.5%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Online Co-Op 8%, Medieval 8%
- #27 Grimbound
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Forge Loop Games
Windows
A minimalistic blend of RTS, Tower Defence, and Survivors-like. Build your city and take command of your troops in a battle against ruthless monster hordes. Upgrade your hero and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your army in this grimdark fantasy world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 20.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 9%, Colony Sim 8%
- #28 Hold the Dawn
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YogurtGames
Windows
Build by day. Survive the horde by night. Hold the Dawn is a 3D wasteland tower defense with unique auto-fighting heroes, tactical towers, zombie waves, and co-op over Steam, LAN, or local play.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, City Builder 11.3%, Strategy 10.5%
- #29 Survival Machine
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 809 reviews2026
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Hack and Slash 14.2%, Crafting 10.6%
- #30 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #31 Queen's Revenge
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WizradHatDice
Windows
Queen’s Revenge is a fast-paced tower defense game where you play as a fallen queen, betrayed and cast into darkness. Build defenses by day, fight relentless foes at night, and reclaim your throne. Every action counts—plan, battle, survive!
Why similar: Tower Defense 34.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Strategy 13.2%, City Builder 12.4%, Medieval 8.1%
- #32 BEACONFALL
74% matchPositive89% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Game Dynasty
Windows
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Why similar: Tower Defense 36.4%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 15.9%, City Builder 14.7%, Strategy 10.5%
- #33 First Feudal
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Base Building 21.3%, Colony Sim 16.8%, City Builder 14.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Medieval 8.1%
- #34 The Riftbreaker
76% matchVery Positive90% of 24,991 reviews2021
Dev: EXOR Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Tower Defense 20%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Hack and Slash 13.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #35 Foundland City Builders
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Furkan Yıldız
Windows
Foundland is a strategic city-building and resource management game with defense elements. Expand your lands, establish production chains, grow your population, and protect your city against rising threats.
Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Tower Defense 22.4%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 9.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #36 Breadoria
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Colony Sim 21.4%, Crafting 13.5%, PvE 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%
- #37 Dawnkeep
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zang
Windows
Raise a fallen keep by day, and hold it through the dark. Villagers with names and tempers fell timber and work the fields — then take up spears when night comes. A dark fantasy settlement-builder defense game.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Base Building 10.2%, PvE 8.3%
- #38 Kingdom Two Crowns
75% matchVery Positive90% of 39,881 reviews2018
Dev: Fury StudiosPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 16%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.7%
- #39 Resilient
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Tower Defense 14.5%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Crafting 8.5%
- #40 SPQR:Shadows of The Legion
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1k1 studios
Windows
Under the shadow of Rome’s lost legion, survival is only the beginning. Build your headquarters, manage scarce resources, and forge ruthless strategies. Every decision has a cost: become a legend or vanish into the dust of history.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 7.3%
- #41 Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,056 reviews2025
Dev: Rockbee TeamPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
Why similar: Tower Defense 20.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.7%, Strategy RPG 10.4%, PvE 7.6%
- #42 Medieval Survivors: Village Defense
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MadDevs Studio
Windows
A first-person strategy game blending colony building, lane-based battles, tower defense, and action combat.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Strategy RPG 12%, PvE 12%, Strategy 11.4%
- #43 A Million Orcs
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: JD Interactive
Windows
A tower defense where you raise walls, dig traps and field archers, spearmen and cavalry between waves, then sound the horn and hold your keep as over a million orcs flood the valley. Strike back with the powers of a god while your dragon riders burn lanes through the horde.
Why similar: Tower Defense 32.1%, Base Building 25.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Medieval 9.7%, PvE 8.8%
- #44 The Monarch
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Citadel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.8%, Base Building 19.1%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Strategy RPG 10.6%, Medieval 6.7%
- #45 Trials Of The Void
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Farya Wolyo Studios
Windows
Trials of the Void is a co-op survival crafting and base defense game for up to four players. Explore, gather, craft, and upgrade your castle by day. When night falls, the Void awakens. Defend what you've built, survive the relentless siege, and prepare to face another day.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Base Building 17.2%, Crafting 14.1%, PvE 10.9%, Medieval 9.2%
- #46 Diseased
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yavuz Kala
Windows
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Tower Defense 18.6%, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Strategy 8%
- #47 Reclaim Earth
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Base Building 22.8%, Colony Sim 17%, Hack and Slash 16.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Strategy 7%
- #48 Age of Damnation
69% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: WukaStudio
Windows
Age of Damnation — a fantasy medieval strategy with a top-down view. By day, you explore the forest and build your settlement. By night, you defend against waves of monsters born from damnation mist. Gather resources, develop your settlement, research technologies, build defenses, destroy monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 30.1%, Tower Defense 16.8%, Strategy 16.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Top-Down 9.9%
- #49 The Monarch: First Light
70% matchMixed66% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Citadel Games
Windows
Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.
Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Base Building 21%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Strategy RPG 10.7%, Medieval 6.6%
- #50 Hellcrown
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Astral Hearts
Windows · Linux
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Management 7.1%
- #51 Pioneers of Pagonia
67% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Online Co-Op 14%, Colony Sim 13.6%, PvE 8.8%
- #52 Feudal Craft
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: anratio
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting medieval settlement simulator where you will have to fight for your place in the feudal hierarchy. Use a smart strategy to develop your settlement. After all, it is the skills and equipment of each peasant that can make the difference.
Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 14.9%, City Builder 13.9%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%
- #53 Guardians of the Sanctree
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: HuCang Studio
Windows
You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.
Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Tower Defense 19.7%, Online Co-Op 15%, City Builder 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.9%
- #54 Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hectiq
Windows
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
Why similar: Tower Defense 23.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Hack and Slash 19.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #55 Siege of Akanor
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: North Sun Games
Windows
A castle defense you fight in person. Between waves you spend your gold on swordsmen, archers, traps and barricades; when the horn sounds you take the field yourself, sword and bow in hand. Solo, in co-op for up to four, or from the horde's side.
Why similar: Tower Defense 30.3%, Hack and Slash 20.4%, Online Co-Op 14%, Strategy 9.5%, Medieval 9.4%
- #56 Terrahold
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SMAR Studio
Windows
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Strategy 7.1%, City Builder 6.7%
- #57 Song of Slavs
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleeping Fox Studio
Windows
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 18.6%, City Builder 14.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Crafting 8.8%
- #58 Ascent of Ashes
66% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Base Building 18.4%, Colony Sim 14.2%, City Builder 13.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy RPG 9.6%
- #59 Cosmic Castaway
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vinciware
Windows
Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Crafting 12%, Strategy 8.4%