- #1 Oxygen: First Breath
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 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: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.3%
- #2 One More Island
96% matchMixed67% of 265 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Trading 13.5%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.6%
- #3 Times of Progress
96% 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: City Builder 19%, Trains 15.8% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Colony Sim 9.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #4 All Roads Connected
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dushman Gaming Studio
Windows
Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Trading 11.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #5 Settlements Rising
94% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 22.8%, City Builder 19.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%, Management 6.8%
- #6 Seeds of Resilience
94% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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 20.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #7 Founders' Fortune
93% 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 32.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 6.9%, Building 5.5%
- #8 Settletopia
92% 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 23%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.9%
- #9 Pixel Colony
91% matchPositive93% of 45 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: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 21.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.3%, Trading 6.6%
- #10 IsleFolk: Build. Trade. Survive.
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Satama Games
Windows
Build and grow your own island colony, gather resources, craft structures, and trade with visiting merchants. Guide your colonists, expand your shores, and defend it from all that threatens it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 17%, Trading 14.2%, Farming 11.9% ★, Base Building 10.4%
- #11 Lost Heaven Station
90% 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 21.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Trains 10.8% ★, Sandbox 9%
- #12 Hamlet
89% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 18.8%, Trading 10.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 8.1%
- #13 Settlement Survival
89% matchVery Positive85% of 8,054 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 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: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22.5%, Management 9.1%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #14 SpellSlinger Towns
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Open Mid Interactive
Windows
Lose yourself in the magical sandbox realm of Spellslinger Towns where city-building meets deckbuilding. Build and manage your city, use powerful spells from your custom deck, and strategically expand your realm through careful resource management and tactical decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Trading 12.6%, Economy 8.6%, Base Building 8.3%
- #15 Idle Terra
87% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 13.3%, Trading 11.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9%
- #16 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%
- #17 Rise of Industry
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 17%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.2%, Trading 10.9%, Resource Management 9%
- #18 Kubifaktorium
85% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 18.9%, Trains 16.6% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 8.5%, Voxel 7.7% ★
- #19 Farmman
84% 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 23.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #20 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Trains 16.7% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Economy 8.7%, Base Building 7.8%
- #21 Isla Paradiso
83% 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: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 11.2%, Management 8.4%, Base Building 8.1%
- #22 Oxygen
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #23 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 19.3%, Trading 11.1%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #24 Angkor: The Holy City
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: William Parsons
Windows
Angkor: The Holy City is a unique village-builder game about growing a thriving town under the all-seeing eyes of the Gods. Construct intricate temples to honor them and research technologies to counter their wrath, all while expanding your village and contending with an ever-growing population.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Economy 8.5%, Base Building 8.2%
- #25 Factory Town 2: Paradise
78% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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: Trains 16.6% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.5%
- #26 Shanhe Builders
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Luyu Games
Windows
Build an ancient mountain settlement in a deterministic 3D colony survival sim. Choose settlers, plan shelters, farms, workshops, storage and defenses, then survive hunger, winter, illness, trade demands and social strain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 21.9%, Trading 11.5%, Base Building 8%, Management 7%
- #27 Tokeis
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toe Key
Windows
Tokeis is a board-like real-time city builder about growing your town from a tiny tile to a hexagonal empire. Collect tokens, manage resources, reorganize inefficiencies, and fortify your economy. Handle the harsh weather and defend against raiders trying to steal your riches!
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Economy 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #28 Ratopia
77% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #29 Resort Galactica
78% 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 22.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Management 8.5%
- #30 Railway Empire 2
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,651 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Trains 18.8% ★, Western 13.5% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Trading 10.9%, Economy 8.6%
- #31 Make Your Kingdom
77% 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: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.4%, Management 9.3%
- #32 StoneEra
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arrock Games
Windows · Mac
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Voxel 9.1% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
- #33 Endzone 2
74% matchMixed67% of 1,067 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 9%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 8.7%
- #34 Crowded Blue Dot
76% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 11.9%, Management 10%
- #35 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
73% 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 22.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 8.2%, Management 7.4%
- #36 KingForge
72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, Voxel 10.4% ★, Resource Management 9.6%, City Builder 8.2%, Base Building 8.2%
- #37 Railway Empire
74% matchVery Positive83% of 9,710 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Trains 23.6% ★, Western 11.2% ★, Economy 10.2%, Trading 10.1%, Management 10.1%
- #38 Depraved
75% matchMixed61% of 1,251 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 20.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Western 12.5% ★, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%
- #39 Gnome Glen
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #40 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
73% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 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: City Builder 17.3%, Trains 16.9% ★, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.6%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #41 Radia Island
72% matchNo user reviews
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 22.2%, City Builder 18.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 8.1%
- #42 Fosoria
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #43 Arcane Shores
71% matchNo user reviews
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 28.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 11%, Building 6.7%, Base Building 6.3%
- #44 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 21.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9%
- #45 Viceria
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayfulFoxStudio
Windows
Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 20.1%, Trading 15.3%, Economy 11%, Management 9.6%
- #46 Dungeon Overseer
71% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #47 Factory Town
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 18.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Trains 10.6% ★, Resource Management 9.9%
- #48 Starship Colony
69% 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 25.5%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Management 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #49 Windowed Realms
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 7.3%
- #50 Mini Settlers
68% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17.5%, Farming 14.4% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Trains 11.9% ★, Base Building 9.1%
- #51 Fjordal
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 9.9%, Management 8.6%
- #52 Patron
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,194 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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 27.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Economy 8.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #53 Worlds Explorers
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Management 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #54 Kingdoms Reborn
67% matchVery Positive90% of 9,712 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.3 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.2%, Economy 7.9%
- #55 Colonize Prologue
68% matchMixed64% of 514 reviews2022
Dev: RembrosoftPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 18.5%, Trading 14.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Economy 9.2%
- #56 Lil Guys
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #57 Ranchbound
66% matchMixed50% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Raise cattle, develop your ranch, hire cowboys, buy land, and invest in local businesses in a real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Western 15.4% ★, Colony Sim 11.9%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%
- #58 Exile
65% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: JD7 Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival city-builder unlike any other—shaped by rolling hills, guide generations, and grow without limits. No cap on scale, no slowdown, just strategy and survival at your pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 10%, Management 8.9%, Building 6.3%