- #1 Another Brick in The Mall
97% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 18.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Management 13.6%, Economy 9.1%
- #2 Terraform Co: Factory and City
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 21.9%, Automation 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.2%
- #3 Agromatic
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Automation 14.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.2%
- #4 Isla Paradiso
95% 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: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Economy 12.8%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.8%
- #5 CENTAVO
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 22%, Economy 13.4%, Management 10.1%, Capitalism 9.9%
- #6 Fill the Sky
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Automation 21.2%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 7.4%
- #7 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 11.1%, Economy 8%
- #8 Resource chill
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asfar GAMES
Windows · Linux
A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 20.5%, Automation 14.6%, Economy 8.6%, Capitalism 8.2%
- #9 Virum:Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 14%, Economy 10.8%, Cyberpunk 10.3%
- #10 Project Oasis
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 21.6%, Automation 14.7%, Base Building 12%, Economy 9.3%
- #11 Property Pro
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Economy 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Base Building 11.3%
- #12 Dystopians
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Cyberpunk 17%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 11.3%, Automation 9.1%
- #13 Biofactory
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bioreactor Studios
Windows
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 10.7%, Cyberpunk 10.6%, Management 9.8%
- #14 Terra-7
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 25.6%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 10%
- #15 Arcane Shores
87% matchNo user reviews2027
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 28.2%, City Builder 28%, Economy 12.4%, Base Building 6.9%, Simulation 6.6%
- #16 Frontera
86% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 13.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 6.4%
- #17 Deep Space Directive
86% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19%, Automation 13.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 13.3%
- #18 Bottlecappers
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShardanaForge
Windows
Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Economy 13.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Management 12.2%
- #19 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Economy 11.8%
- #20 Kingdom Workshop
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Automation 12.5%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 10.9%
- #21 Radia Island
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22%, Automation 11.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.5%
- #22 Factory Town 2: Paradise
81% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Automation 17.4%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 11%
- #23 The Colonists
83% matchVery Positive86% of 1,242 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 20.8%, Automation 16.1%, Economy 11.9%, Management 9.7%
- #24 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
81% 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 23.5%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.7%
- #25 Prison Architect
82% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 11.3%, Economy 8.2%
- #26 Generations: Utopia
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tom Yum Games
Windows
A secret Soviet research institute is conducting an experiment to create a utopian city. Develop your city, resolve generational conflicts, and overcome the challenges prepared by the institute.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Dystopian 10.7%, Economy 10.5%
- #27 Greedy Little Kingdoms
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather timber, craft lanterns and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Management 9.7%
- #28 Industry Unbound:无界工业
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TU HENGYU
Windows
A factory automation strategy game on an infinite canvas. Mine resources, route logistics, balance power, supply settlements, and research new technologies to build a self-sustaining planetary industry.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Automation 21.7%, Base Building 15%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Building 6.4%
- #29 Big Market Simulator
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: mobaroid
Windows
Build and manage a massive supermarket. Order products, stock shelves, serve customers, and expand your business into the ultimate shopping destination.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 23.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Automation 9.4%, Strategy 8.4%
- #30 The Blighted Frontier
77% 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 31.4%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 8.8%
- #31 What's Left Behind
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 28.4%, Economy 13%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #32 Founders' Fortune
77% 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 36.5%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 14%, Management 7.1%, Economy 5.9%
- #33 Warehouse Bots
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Short Story Games
Windows · Mac
Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.
Why similar: Automation 17.8%, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 11.3%, Management 11%
- #34 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 26.4%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%
- #35 Oxygen: First Breath
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.2%
- #36 Farmman
74% 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 26.1%, City Builder 25%, Economy 12.8%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 10.1%
- #37 Aven Colony
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, City Builder 32.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 6.3%
- #38 Resort Galactica
73% 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 24.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 10.9%, Economy 9.6%
- #39 Halloween Store Simulator
74% 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: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 22.2%, Automation 11.3%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 8.8%
- #40 Academia : School Simulator
73% matchVery Positive81% of 3,240 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 20.1%, Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Economy 11.3%
- #41 Factory Town
73% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Automation 18.6%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.3%
- #42 The Hostel Project
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 16.9%, Management 15.3%, Economy 9.3%, Capitalism 8.9%
- #43 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Automation 13.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9.6%
- #44 Capital City
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tjenstech
Windows
Capital City combines city, resource, and transport management within an infinite steampunk fantasy world. Mine resources, build factories and logistics networks. Transport raw and processed materials and goods to your city to ensure it keeps growing and expanding.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Economy 14.7%, Automation 9.7%, Management 9.6%
- #45 Sylox
71% 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: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 27.3%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #46 T-Minus 30
72% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
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: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #47 Beyond These Stars
70% 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 23.2%, City Builder 21%, Automation 13.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.4%
- #48 Kingdoms Reborn
70% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 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 34%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.4%
- #49 MegaFactory Tycoon
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Economy 13.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 10.6%, City Builder 7.9%
- #50 Pixel Colony
69% matchPositive93% of 46 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: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Management 12.9%, Economy 6.9%, Base Building 6.2%
- #51 Goblin Colony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #52 Blueprint Tycoon
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Management 19.4%, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 11%, Simulation 9%
- #53 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Automation 17.1%, Economy 11%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Hexagge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 29.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 9.9%, Management 7.1%
- #55 Passive Income
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReallyMushroom
Windows · Mac
Passive Income is an idle-ish simulator game where you can build houses, get upgrades, and gain money over time! Chill out and relax as you rip rent out of little cartoon people's pockets. Grow your passive income now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 23%, Economy 9.4%, Capitalism 9.1%, Automation 8.6%
- #56 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
Windows
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Automation 21.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Simulation 8.1%
- #57 Settlement Survival
66% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 31.1%, Colony Sim 27.3%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 7.7%, Economy 6.1%
- #58 Comet Tycoon
65% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Cyberpunk 7.5%
- #59 Settlements Rising
65% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 27%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 9.7%, Economy 6.9%
- #60 Make Your Kingdom
68% matchMixed58% of 197 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: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Management 12.3%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%