- #1 Cliff Empire
97% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 14.4%, Tower Defense 9.5%, Economy 9.4%, Futuristic 8%
- #2 Oxygen: First Breath
96% 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 19.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 8.6%
- #3 Isla Paradiso
96% 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 23.9%, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10%, Base Building 8.5%
- #4 Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
95% matchVery Positive92% of 828 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, City Builder 14.5%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 7.3%
- #5 Rogue Drone
94% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: KBGS
Windows
A sci-fi mining and base-building game where efficient mining is the key to survival. Gather crystals, expand your colony, upgrade your defenses, and withstand increasingly dangerous nightly attacks.
Why similar: Mining 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, Tower Defense 12.8%, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #6 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
94% 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 26.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #7 Virum:Colony
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9.2%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #8 DarkSwitch
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 783 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 13.9%, Tower Defense 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #9 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 21.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.3%, Economy 7.7%
- #10 Sylox
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, City Builder 17.7%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 7.4%
- #11 Goblin Colony
90% 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 28.6%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 8.5%
- #12 Settlements Rising
89% 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 23.3%, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 8.9%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8%
- #13 Terra-7
88% 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 24.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #14 Kingdom: Classic
89% matchVery Positive91% of 22,754 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, Base Building 12.5%, City Builder 10.9%, Tower Defense 10.5%, Building 9.5%
- #15 NecroCity: Prologue
87% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: Tower Defense 16.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.7%
- #16 The Blighted Frontier
86% 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 28.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 7.8%, Survival 6.9%
- #17 Founders' Fortune
86% 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 33.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 8.6%, Survival 6.8%
- #18 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
85% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Baikin
Windows
An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Tower Defense 19.5%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #19 Avian Colony
84% 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 25%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 9.6%, Management 8.8%
- #20 Stranding Echoes
83% 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 29.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.4%, Survival 6.7%
- #21 Border Base
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #22 Settlement Survival
82% 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: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 20.4%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.7%, Management 8.8%
- #23 Fio and the Doomed City
81% 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 26.8%, City Builder 19.1%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #24 Oxygen
80% 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 20.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 8.9%
- #25 Crowded Blue Dot
81% 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 19.1%, Colony Sim 16%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 9.2%
- #26 Farmman
79% 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 24.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%
- #27 One More Island
79% 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 23.4%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.5%, Building 10%
- #28 Arcane Shores
78% 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 27.5%, City Builder 20%, Economy 11%, Survival 9.9%, Building 9.8%
- #29 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 15.8%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 8.4%
- #30 Patron
78% 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 26.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 8.2%, Economy 8.1%
- #31 Bressnath
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morass
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refound a holding in the drowned Vreldsath fens. Nothing regrows, every load is carried home by hand, and what crawls out of the Sundered Places comes without warning. Push outward, dig up the ruins, hold the line, and win by laying a causeway across water that swallowed every attempt before yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Tower Defense 11.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #32 Venusville
76% 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 24.8%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Survival 8.6%
- #33 Aquatico
76% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 22.3%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.4%
- #34 Devouring City
75% 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 26.2%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 8.4%
- #35 Odd Realm
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Mining 12% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #36 Lil Guys
75% 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 27.4%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Survival 10.4%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #37 Country Architect
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 9.1%, Economy 7.7%, Base Building 7.3%
- #38 Pixel Colony
73% matchPositive93% of 46 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 26.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #39 IXION
73% 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: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #40 Exile
73% 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 23.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Economy 10.1%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.3%
- #41 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
72% matchVery Positive89% of 639 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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 19.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 11.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #42 First Feudal
72% 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 24.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 10%
- #43 Gnome Glen
71% 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 23%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #44 Ratopia
69% 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 23.9%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.1%
- #45 ExoColony: Planet Survival
70% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Simplemole
Windows · Mac · Linux
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Mining 13.9% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 7.8%
- #46 Rise Against the Invaders
70% 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 27.7%, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.5%
- #47 SeaColony
68% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 10.2%, Resource Management 9.4%, Economy 9.2%
- #48 United Penguin Kingdom
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 11%
- #49 Planetbase
71% 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 30.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #50 Seeds of Resilience
71% 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 23%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.2%, Building 10.1%
- #51 Tokeis
69% 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 18.2%, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9.3%
- #52 Space Architect
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 309 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 12.1%, Mining 9.7% ★, Building 8.4%, Survival 8.2%
- #53 Make Your Kingdom
70% matchMixed58% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #54 KingForge
66% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: ElykraGames
Windows
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%
- #55 XIRI: Oasis Cities
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bulat Gaineev
Windows · Linux
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. Defend your city from disasters, cyberattacks, espionage, diseases, and growing unrest. Expand through powerful corporations that fuel growth, influence neighboring settlements, and reshape the balance of power.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #56 Subzero Tides
67% 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 26%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10%, Resource Management 8.6%, Economy 7.8%
- #57 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 25.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9.2%
- #58 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: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.2%
- #59 Towerfolk
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Tower Defense 11.6%, Resource Management 8.5%