- #1 IXION
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Space 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #2 Planetbase
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,466 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 11.1%, Survival 6.7%
- #3 Sky Base Venus
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
Windows
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 16.6%, Space 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #4 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
95% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 25.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7.1%
- #5 Oxygen: First Breath
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 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 20.9%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Economy 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #6 Isla Paradiso
94% 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 24.1%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.3%
- #7 Venusville
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 10.7%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #8 Devouring City
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 6.4%
- #9 Founders' Fortune
91% 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 34.4%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5.5%
- #10 Rise Against the Invaders
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 7.9%, Survival 6.5%
- #11 Resort Galactica
90% 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 22.9%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 8.5%, Economy 7.9%
- #12 Goblin Colony
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 6.1%
- #13 The Blighted Frontier
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 6.1%, Strategy 5.7%
- #14 Arcane Shores
86% matchNo user reviews2027
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 28.6%, City Builder 25.9%, Economy 11%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.1%
- #15 Terra-7
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 11.7%, Building 8.5%
- #16 Aven Colony
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 6.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #17 OBRII
84% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Exponenta Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 9.6%, Strategy 9.1%
- #18 The Crust
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 22.7%, Base Building 16.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Space 11.3%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #19 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
85% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 32.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #20 Oxygen
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 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 21.8%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8.3%
- #21 Crowded Blue Dot
84% 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 25.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 6.7%
- #22 Wall World Strategy
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #23 Possible One: Lunar Industries
79% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Upstairs Games
Windows
Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8.7%, Space 7.6%
- #24 Stranding Echoes
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Building 7.8%, City Builder 6.9%
- #25 Patron
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 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 27.6%, City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 8.2%
- #26 Project Oasis
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Economy 8.4%, Building 7.6%
- #27 Farmman
78% 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 25.7%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11%, Building 8.5%
- #28 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: KarmanLine Studio
Windows
Exile 2097: Space Odyssey is a near-future hard sci-fi epic. Lead the Human Continuity Government, build solar-system colonies, upgrade space stations, shape society, uncover the AI rebellion threat, and guide humanity’s final return to Earth amid unknown dangers.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Space 14.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #29 Avian Colony
76% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Ice Crystal Studio
Windows
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 8.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #30 One More Island
77% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 24.9%, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 10.8%, Building 8.2%
- #31 Quriocity
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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 25.3%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 7.2%
- #32 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
76% 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 24.1%, City Builder 21.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #33 Settlement Survival
75% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.3%
- #34 Compact Colonies
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 20.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 8.7%
- #35 Radia Island
74% matchNo user reviews2026
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 23.4%, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.4%
- #36 First Feudal
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 647 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.1%
- #37 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
73% matchMixed70% of 834 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Space 7.9%
- #38 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, City Builder 26.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.8%, Strategy 5.6%
- #39 Space Drilling Station
71% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 9.2%, Space 9%
- #40 Gnome Glen
72% 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 24.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #41 Lil Guys
72% 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 29.6%, Base Building 19%, City Builder 18.9%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #42 Settlements Rising
71% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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 26.7%, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.1%, Building 7.1%
- #43 Mox Modular
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows · Linux
Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 29.6%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 5.5%
- #44 Dungeon Overseer
73% matchMixed55% of 51 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 26%, City Builder 20.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #45 Starship Colony
71% 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 27.1%, Base Building 17.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Survival 8%, Space 8%
- #46 Deep Space Directive
70% matchPositive88% of 16 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 21.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #47 Ratopia
68% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 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 25.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7.6%
- #48 Fill the Sky
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 18.8%, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 8.9%
- #49 Type2
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 14%, Space 12.5%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #50 Fio and the Doomed City
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 4.7%
- #51 Kingdoms Reborn
69% matchVery Positive90% of 9,742 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 24.4 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 31.5%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 8.3%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #52 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 25.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 7.8%
- #53 Astro Architect
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Crown Studio
Windows · Linux
Astro Architect is a city-builder game, where your employees' votes define what you build. As an architect working for the corporation, build your own space station, expand your influence, take care of your employees' needs, manage logistics and space expeditions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 16.6%, Space 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #54 Seeds of Resilience
70% 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 24.7%, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 10.5%, Building 8.4%
- #55 Oxygen Not Included
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Base Building 23.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 7.2%
- #56 Guild of Dragons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Artcue
Windows · Mac
Your settlement-builder with dragon taming. Raise your dragons and build a thriving settlement. Enjoy city-building, dragon taming, exploration, and conquest in a magical world.
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 8.5%, Survival 8.2%
- #57 Exile
66% 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 25.9%, City Builder 23.2%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8%
- #58 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
65% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 10.3%, Economy 6.7%