- #1 Paper Kingdom
97% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: Solitaire 19.6% ★, Card Game 15.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Management 11%, Deckbuilding 9.7%
- #2 Stacklands
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 19.3%, Solitaire 17.8% ★, Management 13.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Survival 10.5%
- #3 Catizens
96% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: badopticsgamesPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Farming Sim 13.2%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.3%
- #4 IRONHIVE
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wondernaut StudioPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Ironhive is a deckbuilding strategy game about surviving in a dying world. Build your colony, ensure the survival of your people, create a legacy that will be passed on to the next generations. As the Ironlord, you are their only remaining hope.
Why similar: Card Game 19.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Narrative 15.5% ★, Management 11.9%, Building 9.8%
- #5 Frontier Roots
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Time Management 16%, City Builder 14.3%, Survival 11.3%, Management 10.3%
- #6 Kaya's Prophecy
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Card Game 16.7%, City Builder 15.6%, Management 11.5%, Deckbuilding 7.9%
- #7 Agromatic
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
Automated farming sim where specialized workers handle all tasks while you focus on strategic decisions. Design efficient layouts, manage supply chains across zones, and optimize your growing operation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Time Management 15.2%, Building 9.4%, Management 6.5%
- #8 WAGON
92% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: de_husk
Windows
WAGON is a 1-bit card game where you make tough decisions to try and survive winter on the Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Card Game 18.9%, Solitaire 17% ★, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Management 12.2%, City Builder 11.6%
- #9 Surviving Ceres
91% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, Farming Sim 15%, Building 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Management 11.5%
- #10 Summa Expeditionis
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 227 reviews2024
Dev: Lobico GamesPub: Megalevel
Windows
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Farming Sim 13.1%, Management 12%, City Builder 11.7%, Building 10.7%
- #11 Make Your Kingdom
91% matchMixed58% of 195 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 25.2% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Management 13.5%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.1%
- #12 Paleon
89% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Survival 14.8%, Building 11%, Management 6.3%
- #13 Irezumi Defenders
89% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: InkolorGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Irezumi Defenders is a tower defense game where you craft your units in a world inspired by Japanese mythology. Stack cards to craft buildings, gather resources, and build up your defenses to protect your kingdom from Yokai! 👺
Why similar: Card Game 19.9%, Deckbuilding 14.1%, Management 13.6%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 11.1%
- #14 Scaling Up
87% matchPositive85% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Flannel Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.2%, City Builder 16.5%, Time Management 15%, Building 8.7%
- #15 Stonehearth
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Building 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 5.6%
- #16 Farmman
86% 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 28.2% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 12.8%, Management 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%
- #17 Cookard
84% matchVery Positive95% of 2,305 reviews2024
Dev: Panitia GameDev
Windows · Mac
Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.
Why similar: Solitaire 23.4% ★, Card Game 20.3%, Time Management 13.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 10.9%
- #18 Cardness
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Overscoped Games
Windows
Cardness is a card-based management and automation game. Build ingenious systems, optimize your resources, and command troops to face threats. Create autonomous machines and dominate a minimalist, strategic world.
Why similar: Solitaire 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Card Game 16.1%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.4%
- #19 Orc Colony
86% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Management 11%, Strategy 10.8%, Building 9.3%
- #20 Nigredo
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pingado Interactive
Windows
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Time Management 19.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Management 11.8%, Building 10%
- #21 Lil Guys
82% 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 31.5% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Management 13.2%, Survival 12.9%, Building 10%
- #22 Gnomoria
83% 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 34.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Building 11%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.2%
- #23 Arcane Shores
81% 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 32.2% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Survival 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 8%
- #24 Fallen Crown
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LongWay Interactive
Windows
You will lead an exiled royal dynasty, building prosperous cities, gaining the trust of the people, and preparing to overthrow the usurper. In the unique dynasty mode, the leader can find a partner and have children to shape the future of the kingdom.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Time Management 16.4%, Building 12%, Survival 11.3%
- #25 Meu Mundo
82% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Tiago PortellaPub: DuPortella
Windows
More than a game, a new way of seeing the world
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Farming Sim 16.3%, City Builder 15%, Time Management 14.9%, Building 8.9%
- #26 BOOK OF HOURS
79% matchVery Positive89% of 4,152 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Card Game 17%, Time Management 15.2%, Deckbuilding 13%, Narrative 12.4% ★, Management 10.2%
- #27 Above: Colonies of the Mist
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 7.2%
- #28 Ancient Aliens: The Game
79% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Column GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows · Mac
What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Management 14.8%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #29 Tiny Card Farm
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goby Games
Windows
Tiny Card Farm is a cozy farming card game where you grow plants, raise animals and process your products by stacking cards. Discover new technologies, buy upgrades, complete tasks and become a prosperous farmer!
Why similar: Card Game 20.6%, Solitaire 19.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Management 14%, Crafting 10%
- #30 Settletopia
78% 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 28.8% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Management 12.6%, Building 11.1%, Survival 9.1%
- #31 Neon Pulse
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DjMonkey
Windows
Neon Pulse is a casual, relaxing, card game where number logic and colour matching come together to build cities filled with vibrant, neon lights!
Why similar: Solitaire 31.1% ★, Card Game 23.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Building 8.1%
- #32 Card Cultivation: Nine Palaces Illusory Realm
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 木蛙游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
"Card Cultivation: Nine Palaces Illusory Realm" is a card-based cultivation survival game. Experience unique cultivation methods like the Nine Palace Flying Stars and the Five Elements within traditional cultural elements. Confront harsh climates and malevolent spirits from ancient texts.
Why similar: Card Game 22.8%, Time Management 16.6%, Management 15.8%, Survival 12.9%, Mythology 11.6%
- #33 AstronTycoon2: Ritual
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 31 reviews2019
Dev: ANG People s.r.o.
Windows
Build a village on hallowed grounds, in the year 2000 BC. Take care of the needs of the villagers and pilgrims who will want to visit the holy place. Provide enough food to run the village. Build monuments of various shapes from different types of stone. Provide the villagers with clothing and tools
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Farming Sim 13.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Time Management 12.3%, Management 10%
- #34 Isla Paradiso
76% 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 30.8% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Building 13.8%, Management 13%, Survival 9.2%
- #35 Founders' Fortune
75% 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 17.7%, Building 11.3%, Survival 8.9%, Management 8.5%
- #36 Havendock
73% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, Farming Sim 14.3%, Time Management 13.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Management 10.4%
- #37 Dream Town Island
73% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Farming Sim 18.6%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #38 Stack Island - Survival card game
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Interestick
Windows · Mac
Stack Island is a card-based survival game. Explore the island to discover new recipes, craft tools to fend off wildlife and other threats, and survive by using and combing cards.
Why similar: Card Game 31.7%, Survival 17.3%, Solitaire 16.7% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Simulation 6.1%
- #39 My Townies
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erkurheart Inc.Pub: N/A
Windows
My Townies is an immersive mixed city-building game, you’re not just an overseer. Begin with a modest farm settlement and transform it into a sprawling metropolis, with every townie, building, and resource under your command. Relax watch your city grow and play mini games
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Farming Sim 16.7%, Time Management 15.7%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 10.8%
- #40 Stack Slayer
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: LittleArship
Windows
Stack Slayer is defense builder where you stack cards to harvest material, craft equipment, build structures, and upgrade structures for fighting and protect ancient core from the invade monster.
Why similar: Card Game 27.4%, Solitaire 25.2% ★, Management 16.5%, Time Management 13.8%, Strategy 9.1%
- #41 Tokeis
72% 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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Management 14.3%, Card Game 12.2%, Survival 11.7%
- #42 Cats & Cakes: The Card Game
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Cubs Studio
Windows
Cats & Cakes: The Card Game is a cozy card-stacking bakery sim where you bake pastries, serve eccentric feline customers, and manage the chaos of your shop in real time. Build fame, decorate your bakery shop!
Why similar: Solitaire 29.3% ★, Card Game 21.6%, Management 14.8%, Deckbuilding 11.5%, Crafting 9.2%
- #43 GlagStone
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valerii KrasnoselskiiPub: VTRON LTD
Windows · Mac · Linux
GlagStone is a story-driven city-builder set on a mysterious island between warring nations, brought to life in a stark black-and-white style. Rebuild a fading settlement, guide its people through hardship, and uncover secrets hidden in diaries, ruins, and the depths of the lake.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Management 12.3%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #44 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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 27.9% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Building 13.9%, Management 13.4%, Survival 11.8%
- #45 Card Cultivation
69% matchMixed65% of 491 reviews2026
Dev: DarkIndexPub: IndieArk
Windows
Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.
Why similar: Solitaire 24.7% ★, Card Game 18.3%, Narrative 16% ★, Management 12.9%, Survival 10.7%
- #46 Beneath a Dead City
70% 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 33.8% ★, Management 16.9%, Survival 13.9%, City Builder 13%, Exploration 6.7%
- #47 Elven City Simulator
70% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Igor Vasilenko
Windows
Revive civilization and save it from mysterious darkness. Story-oriented colony simulator with elvish flavor and indirect control. Demo available!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Time Management 18.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #48 Faust Duel
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Bowl of Shrimp
Windows
FAUST DUEL is a Blackjack-driven roguelike deck-builder. Play as Dr. Faust, who lost his wager and now joins Hell’s games. Within a limited number of rounds, earn enough chips to buy back your soul from its master.
Why similar: Solitaire 43.6% ★, Card Game 25.5%, Deckbuilding 14.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Casual 3.3%
- #49 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
71% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 6%
- #50 Entertainment Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Grizzbera StudioPub: INDIECN
Windows
"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.
Why similar: Card Game 16.3%, Time Management 14.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Management 14.3%, Building 12.7%
- #51 Galactic Pioneers
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Item Games
Windows
Explore space: Colonize different planets, gather valuable resources, and build your own space colony. Travel the solar system and even create your own planet. Your decisions shape the future of the galaxy in this limitless space adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Time Management 16%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.5%
- #52 Life Below
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MegapopPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Time Management 12.4%, Management 11%, Building 10%
- #53 Tap Craft
69% matchMixed56% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: PixelKeep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 7.3%
- #54 Stacks:Jungle!
67% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Linux
Stacks:Jungle is an engaging adventure card game set in the lush heart of the jungle. Unlock new cards with booster packs, combine them to uncover craft recipes, build amazing structures, venture into uncharted territories, make new friends, discover hidden treasures, and so much more!
Why similar: Solitaire 38.6% ★, Card Game 25.9%, Crafting 12.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Survival 6.3%
- #55 Elemental: Story Cards
66% match5 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: 龙星游戏工作室
Windows
A turn-based card strategy game where players score points by playing cards to complete level objectives, trigger multiplier bonuses by combining different suits, purchase items and policy cards in shops to enhance their deck, and challenge four types of progressively difficult levels.
Why similar: Solitaire 37.5% ★, Card Game 21.8%, Deckbuilding 16.7%, Management 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%
- #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 38.3% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Survival 15.3%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #57 Banished
68% 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 40.8% ★, City Builder 28.4%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 7%, Management 3.9%
- #58 Beastie Bay DX
67% matchVery Positive82% of 101 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Farming Sim 19.3%, City Builder 17.8%, Survival 8.4%, Exploration 6.2%
- #59 The Stellar Station Engineer
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbital Flag StudioPub: Unknown
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sci-fi turn-based strategy, station building game where you need to manage resources and protect the station and human inside from the danger of space, and your own action.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Management 12%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.5%