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Games Like Union Of Rivals

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, City Builder, Resource Management, Base Building.

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The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Coming soon
Developer: 2Play
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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  1. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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. #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%

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