- #1 IXION
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 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 21.4%, Colony Sim 19%, Space 12.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #2 Planetbase
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 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 27.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 16.5%, Space 11%, Survival 6.5%
- #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 28.8%, City Builder 16.3%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #4 Oxygen: First Breath
95% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 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%, Base Building 16.4%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 9%
- #5 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% matchVery Positive86% of 194 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 27%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 8.3%, Survival 7%
- #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 25.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 8.2%
- #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 19.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 10.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #8 Founders' Fortune
92% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 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 34.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 6.8%, Survival 5.3%
- #9 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 27.1%, City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 7.9%, Survival 6.4%
- #10 Resort Galactica
91% 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 22.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 8.4%, Economy 8.3%
- #11 The Blighted Frontier
90% 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 30.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 6.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #12 Arcane Shores
88% 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 28.7%, City Builder 25.5%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7.9%
- #13 Aven Colony
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 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 36.2%, City Builder 28.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Strategy 6.2%, Space 6%
- #14 Oxygen
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 21.7%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 8.7%
- #15 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
87% matchMixed70% of 364 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 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 32.5%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #16 Wall World Strategy
85% matchNo user reviews
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 22.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #17 Crowded Blue Dot
86% matchMixed58% of 52 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 24.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 6.6%
- #18 Possible One: Lunar Industries
83% matchMixed68% of 19 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 18.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 9.2%, Space 7.4%
- #19 OBRII
82% 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 28.6%, City Builder 25.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Space 9.5%, Strategy 9.2%
- #20 Patron
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 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 27.4%, City Builder 23.9%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8.7%, Survival 8.3%
- #21 Farmman
82% 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%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 11.6%, Building 8.4%
- #22 The Crust
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 16.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Space 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #23 Exile 2097: Space Odyssey
81% 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 23.2%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 17.8%, Space 14.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #24 Avian Colony
79% 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 18.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 8%
- #25 One More Island
80% matchMixed68% of 254 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 20.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Economy 11.3%, Building 8.1%
- #26 Quriocity
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 7.1%
- #27 Our Freedom: Prologue
78% 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%, Base Building 18.4%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #28 Compact Colonies
77% 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 30.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 9.1%
- #29 Deep Space Directive
77% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 17.8%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 12%
- #30 First Feudal
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 25.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 10%, Building 8%
- #31 Space Drilling Station
75% matchVery Positive92% of 77 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 14.2%, City Builder 13.2%, Economy 9.7%, Space 8.8%
- #32 Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 823 reviews2025
Dev: Tinymice EntertainmentPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Space 7.7%
- #33 Gnome Glen
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #34 Settlements Rising
74% matchVery Positive81% of 426 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 23.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 7%
- #35 Dungeon Overseer
76% 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 25.8%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #36 Lil Guys
74% 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 18.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #37 Starship Colony
73% 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 27.2%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Resource Management 8%, Survival 7.8%
- #38 Ratopia
71% matchVery Positive88% of 4,696 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 25.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 9.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #39 Fio and the Doomed City
72% 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 25.8%, Base Building 19.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 4.7%
- #40 Kingdoms Reborn
73% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 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 30.8%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #41 Guild of Dragons
72% 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: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 9%, Survival 8%
- #42 Astro Architect
71% 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 24.4%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 16.2%, Space 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #43 Seeds of Resilience
73% 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 24.6%, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 11.1%, Building 8.3%
- #44 Exile
70% matchMixed64% 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 25.8%, City Builder 22.7%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 7.8%
- #45 Type2
70% 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 13.8%, Space 12.3%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #46 Oxygen Not Included
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.0 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 23.2%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 9.9%, Building 7.2%
- #47 Aquatico
70% matchMixed67% of 863 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Economy 10.2%, Building 7%
- #48 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.8%
- #49 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
69% 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 24.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 7.1%
- #50 Subzero Tides
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
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 27.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Space 9.3%, Resource Management 8.7%, Economy 8.5%
- #51 Pixel Colony
68% matchPositive93% of 40 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 29.2%, City Builder 26.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 7.4%
- #52 Frontera
67% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 25.5%, Economy 13.1%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
- #53 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
67% matchVery Positive89% of 631 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 10.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #54 Hexagge
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Technical Khaos
Windows
A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 27%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 7.8%, Simulation 7.3%
- #55 Make Your Kingdom
69% 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 24.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 10.8%, Building 8.9%
- #56 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
69% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 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 36.7%, City Builder 32.7%, Resource Management 9.8%, Survival 5.9%, Building 5.7%
- #57 Kingdoms and Castles
68% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 27.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Economy 6.7%
- #58 Settlement Survival
66% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 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 25.7%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.2%, Survival 7.7%