
Crash-land on a dying alien world and bring it back to life. Build automated factories, master real chemistry and nuclear physics, and terraform the atmosphere one gas at a time — while sandworms hunt the power signature of everything you build.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation, City Builder.

Crash-land on a dying alien world and bring it back to life. Build automated factories, master real chemistry and nuclear physics, and terraform the atmosphere one gas at a time — while sandworms hunt the power signature of everything you build.

Stelvyr: Colony Defense
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.

Colonization Simulator
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, RTS 21.2%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Aliens 5.5%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, RTS 14.4%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Futuristic 4.9%
The third iteration of the game that invented the Factory genre, FortressCraft :Phoenix takes the over-the-top base building and survival gameplay and cranks it up a hundred times. Build your mining base with hundreds of thousands of machines in it, explore alien landscape, heading deep underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Voxel 18.4% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Futuristic 5.5%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Voxel 17.4% ★, Strategy 10.1%, Automation 10%, Base Building 6.7%
Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 8.8%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Sandbox 5.7%
Build a city that grows together with its people. Start with a small settlement in the wild lands and turn it into a thriving medieval city. Construct housing, develop production, meet the needs of your population, and maintain a stable economy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, RTS 21.1%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Third Person 5.9%
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, RTS 16.5%, Strategy 12.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Automation 7.2%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, RTS 22.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Base Building 6.6%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.4%, Voxel 10.4% ★, Strategy 10%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 5.9%
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, RTS 21.3%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Top-Down 5%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 64.4%, Strategy 19.3%, Simulation 16.3%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.7%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 13.9%, Adventure 6.4%
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!
Why similar: RTS 37.4%, Strategy 31.2%, Voxel 15.1% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Indie 2.6%
Build a steampunk colony, put robots to work and connect a growing network of steam-powered machines. Mine resources, research new technology and defend your Steam Core when night falls. Play solo or join friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Strategy 18.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Voxel 14.2% ★, Third Person 5.7%
Trollskog is an open-world citybuilder RTS, with economic engine-building, tactical battles and player choice. Explore a forested world inspired by Swedish folklore, filled with both friendly and hostile NPCs, solve quests and secure resources through force or diplomacy.
Why similar: RTS 43.1%, Colony Sim 42.7%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 2.9%, Indie 1.3%
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 16.3%, Aliens 10.1%, Automation 6.4%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Automation 10.1%
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 32.7%, RTS 15%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%, Base Building 7.3%
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
Why similar: RTS 33.2%, Strategy 27.8%, Voxel 16.6% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Base Building 4.2%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, RTS 21.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 17.6%, Indie 0.9%
VENOY is a relaxing roguelite real-time strategy game with deep settler logistics, true sandbox freedom and exciting meta progression. Build your medieval colony, optimize production chains and defend it against enemies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, RTS 26.1%, Strategy 19.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 5%
在群雄割据的三国乱世中,从零开始建设村庄,发展势力、抵御敌军,最终统一天下。
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.6%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18%, Sandbox 12.9%, Top-Down 5.6%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 18.6%, Top-Down 6.7%, Space 4.4%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 19%, Sandbox 11.7%, Futuristic 5.4%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 20.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 3.9%
Age of Beast is a real time dinosaur survival strategy game where you take control of a species and guide it through generations of survival on a massive tropical island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 24.3%, 3D 5.2%
Command Hell's horde in a colony-building sandbox. Reshape a voxel world, gather physical resources, build your infernal stronghold block by block, create production chains, and defend Hell’s newest territory from the forces of mankind.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Voxel 21.3% ★, RTS 20.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 10.7%
IT HAS GONE ROGUE You are sent to an hostile Space-Station with the mission to stop an AI-Super-Computer that has gone rogue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, RTS 16.9%, Voxel 16% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 8%
In Project Ark, the land has become uninhabitable after the apocalypse. The sea has become the only habitable place. Transform your ship into a floating city. Build, produce, and collect resources, research technologies, take care of your health, and rescue survivors!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Aliens 7.3%, Adventure 6.9%
On a planet with a biome climate similar to Earth, manage your residents from basic construction and planting, develop and research various cutting-edge technologies, recruit soldiers to form troops, resist foreign enemies or actively conquer other countries, and unify this distant planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Voxel 19.2% ★, Strategy 11%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 9.1%
TimbrianGuard is a voxel-based sandbox colony management sim. Lead colonists to a new home, guide their survival, expand your colony's influence, establish outposts, and attract new settlers as your community grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, RTS 23.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.7%
Space adventure with open world, FPS shooter and a lot of missions. Choose your own carrier. Are you a space pirate or a brave space ranger? Choose your destiny. The galaxy needs you, commander! Openworld game with multiple worlds to explore.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, RTS 13.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Aliens 10.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
Regain control of planet oasis and defeat your opponent! Build your base, monitor the economy, manage your resources, explore the Map, and plan attack and defense. Build 9 different buildings and 19 different units with various abilities and win the chaotic Robot Battles.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, RTS 26.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Top-Down 5.5%, Futuristic 5.5%
A real-time strategy game blending extraction, cards, and fantasy exploration. Lead a modern army through a portal, scout unknown lands, build mines and radar, repel counterattacks, hold your outposts, and extract before the world’s attention overwhelms you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, RTS 25.7%, Strategy 18.7%, Sandbox 8.3%, Adventure 6.4%
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, RTS 23.7%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 15.9%, Top-Down 4.7%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.5%, Strategy 21.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Indie 0.9%
Rule a fantasy realm where heroes don't take orders - they take bribes. Build your settlement, place gold bounties on deadly monsters, and entice autonomous warriors, rogues, and mages to fight for your cause. Expand, defend, and let coin do the commanding in this indirect-control RTS.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, RTS 29.4%, Strategy 23.5%, Base Building 6.4%, 3D 2.8%
Engineer spaceships, compose fleets and command them in in real-time battles. All ships are completely defined by their module composition. Achieve victory with brilliant command on the battlefield and by engineering it into your fleet.
Why similar: RTS 36.9%, Strategy 31.9%, Simulation 27%, Indie 4.2%
VilaGod is a god simulator where you shape the destiny of civilizations on giant maps. Unlike other god games, every action generates dynamic chronicles: from political revolts to legendary discoveries, watch your world's history unfold in 14 different languages
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, RTS 23.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
Red Frontier is a game about exploring the red planet and collecting trash and scrap metal.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Adventure 8.1%
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, RTS 16.7%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 9.8%, Aliens 9.7%
Box Nation [ ] is a sandbox kind of game. In this box world, you can become a leader of your own nation. Your main goal in the game is to create and develop your nation of boxes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, RTS 19.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 10%
Latticefall is a slow-burn colony sim. The disaster doesn't strike — it creeps: an infection seeps quietly across the land. Build your settlement, hold the line, and reclaim ground one step at a time — paused and deliberate, never twitchy. Every advance has a price; you see it before you commit.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Strategy 17.9%, RTS 17.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 12.1%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, RTS 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Automation 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, RTS 9.4%, Voxel 6.6% ★
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 10%, Base Building 6.6%
"Kingdom of Bees" is a game where you try to create a kingdom of bees. Kingdom of Bees is a real-time strategy game where you control a hive of wild bees that are trying to survive in a world full of dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.7%, RTS 24.7%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Top-Down 5.7%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.8%, RTS 22.7%, Strategy 21.4%
Found a colony, dig a nest, and raise an empire of ants in a giant's back garden. A top-down colony sim of pheromone trails, brood and castes, foraging, and three-way war. Survive a whole backyard food chain of spiders, birds, frogs, and rival ant colonies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Strategy 22%, Simulation 17.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, RTS 12.2%
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, RTS 22.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Futuristic 5.7%
Lead a research team to explore and study a strange dimension while fending off the entities that inhabit the Zone. Manage your base and construct experiments and unique machines by harnessing the properties of multiple anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, RTS 24.7%, Strategy 18.9%, Sandbox 12%, Top-Down 5%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, RTS 21.3%, Voxel 14.4% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 7.5%
This is a real-time strategy game where you control soldiers to protect an ancient obelisk from the forces of evil. Call on soldiers for protection. Try to manage your resources correctly!
Why similar: RTS 30.1%, Strategy 29.2%, Simulation 26.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 1.4%
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, RTS 12.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 10%, Base Building 5.9%
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.2%, RTS 23.6%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 16.1%, Indie 0.9%
Armor Clash 3 is an old-school modern warfare RTS game with base building and navies. There are 3 factions with unique units, buildings and technology systems. There are both skirmish and challenge modes. The battle is fast-paced, with realistic graphics and physical effects, and the performance is also optimized.
Why similar: Strategy 36.7%, RTS 31.5%, Simulation 27.3%, Indie 4.4%
In the distant Milky Way galaxy, there hides a mysterious planet named Mozi Planet. This planet has a vast and boundless ocean, and every drop of seawater is shining with a mysterious light, as if telling the ancient interstellar secrets.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Aliens 8.9%, Base Building 6%