- #1 Truck City
97% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 14.9% ★, Colony Sim 14.8% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Mining 10.2% ★, Automation 9.2%
- #2 Striking Gold
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sluff Gaming
Windows
Control a western mining town and build it up to become the largest mining operation in the race for finding gold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Western 24.1% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Mining 8.7% ★
- #3 Factory Town
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.4% ★, Automation 10.9%, City Builder 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Transportation 9.2% ★
- #4 Mini Settlers: Prologue
95% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, Automation 10.1%, City Builder 9.8%, Trains 9.4% ★
- #5 Ranchbound
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Grow your ranch, raise cattle, lead cowboys, and trade with settlers in a new real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: Western 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Economy 7.4%
- #6 Times of Progress
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: Trains 15.5% ★, Colony Sim 13% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Transportation 12.6% ★, Sandbox 8.6%
- #7 Founders' Fortune
93% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 41.3% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #8 Wild West Pioneers
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Mining 9.9% ★, Sandbox 9%
- #9 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 26% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #10 Factory Town 2: Paradise
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Trains 13.9% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 11%, Base Building 9.3%
- #11 Seeds of Resilience
90% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 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 27.2% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 9.1%
- #12 After the Collapse
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #13 Country Architect
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Transportation 11.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 6.7%
- #14 Beyond These Stars
88% 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 26% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #15 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Trains 14.3% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Automation 7.9%
- #16 Space Architect
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Mining 9.8% ★, Automation 9.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #17 Logistik
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Trains 13.4% ★, Transportation 12.8% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Automation 9.3%
- #18 Settler's Domain
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Survival 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Resource Management 8%
- #19 Architect of Ruin
84% 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 25.9% ★, City Builder 12.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Automation 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #20 Settletopia
84% 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 30.3% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #21 Farmman
83% 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 30.4% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.6%
- #22 Wild West Simulator
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: kg games
Windows
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Western 35.5% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #23 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
82% matchVery Positive81% of 1,740 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: Trains 13.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Transportation 11.6% ★, Isometric 8.9%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #24 Moose Miners
81% matchMixed68% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 146.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Mining 15.5% ★, Trains 12.4% ★, Capitalism 8.5%, Automation 8.4%
- #25 Frostliner
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nathan Gane
Windows · Linux
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Trains 17.5% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Transportation 11.6% ★, Survival 7.9%
- #26 Infindustry
80% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Transportation 15.6% ★, Mining 13.4% ★, Automation 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%
- #27 Lost Heaven Station
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 10.2%, Trains 10.1% ★
- #28 Deep Space Directive
78% matchPositive87% of 15 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 28% ★, Automation 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #29 Dungeon D14
79% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: EhtChaos
Windows
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Mining 18.8% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 11.3%, Procedural Generation 9.4%
- #30 Settlements Rising
77% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 30.9% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Resource Management 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #31 MicroTown
78% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Economy 7.8%
- #32 Mini Settlers
76% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Transportation 12.8% ★, Trains 10.3% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Automation 9.5%
- #33 Depraved
77% matchMixed61% of 1,237 reviews2019
Dev: Evil Bite
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Western 19.6% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 8.5%, Economy 7.5%
- #34 Starship Colony
75% 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 31.5% ★, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, City Builder 8.8%
- #35 Cargo Company
76% matchMixed59% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Why similar: Trains 19.9% ★, Transportation 18.7% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #36 Sandustry
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Trains 13.4% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Automation 10.5%, Base Building 9.8%
- #37 Spaceflight Factory
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, Transportation 14.8% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Automation 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%
- #38 Beneath a Dead City
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 10.5%
- #39 Iron Roads
73% matchPositive85% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Linux
Optimise and grow your railways in this challenging train management game. Instead of waiting for money to arrive, earn resource tokens by refining your network until your towns are thriving. Avoid queues, jams, or angry passengers to be recognised as the unsung train hero you know you are.
Why similar: Trains 20.3% ★, Transportation 17.1% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Base Building 9.2%
- #40 Prison Architect
74% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 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 28.3% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Capitalism 7.4%
- #41 Quriocity
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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 30.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%
- #42 Gnomoria
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #43 Plan B: Terraform
69% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Transportation 16.1% ★, Trains 14.4% ★, Automation 10.4%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #44 Banished
72% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 42.9% ★, City Builder 23%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #45 Metroland
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anglia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a transport tycoon in 1900s London. Expand transport lines, housing, and businesses to fund your transport empire. Make use of urban planning to create communities that will use your services.
Why similar: Transportation 20.6% ★, Trains 15.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Capitalism 11.2%, Economy 8.5%
- #46 TFM: The First Men
71% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Procedural Generation 8%, Survival 7.3%
- #47 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
71% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 8%, City Builder 7.1%
- #48 Survival Vacancy
71% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, Mining 10.5% ★, Automation 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #49 Pawnholm
69% 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 26.3% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 8.8%
- #50 Lil Guys
69% 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 35.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Survival 11.6%, Management 7.5%
- #51 Another Dead World
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another Dead World
Windows
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Western 26.4% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 12%, Survival 7.3%
- #52 My Drug Cartel
67% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Crime 11.6%, Automation 10.4%, Capitalism 9.2%, Economy 8.7%
- #53 Blocktopia
67% 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 31.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.3%
- #54 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 25.5% ★, Trains 15.8% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 8.3%
- #55 1849
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2014
Dev: SomaSim
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Why similar: Western 35.8% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Economy 7.8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Management 7.2%
- #56 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
68% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9% ★, Survival 13%, City Builder 12.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #57 Oxygen
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%
- #58 Patron
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 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 34.3% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 7.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #59 Mars Rapid Transit
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Engineer a fast and efficient train network on Mars. Build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy in this Transport and Economy Management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Trains 18.3% ★, Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Capitalism 7.5%