- #1 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
97% matchVery Positive90% of 1,300 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 10%, Building 9.5%
- #2 First Feudal
96% 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 26.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #3 Founders' Fortune
96% 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 40.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 9.8%, Management 6.5%, Resource Management 5%
- #4 SeaColony
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #5 Oxygen Not Included
94% 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 39.6%, Base Building 20.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8%
- #6 Farmman
94% 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 29.2%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Economy 10.1%
- #7 Tree House Colony
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #8 Kingdom Workshop
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Economy 9.7%
- #9 Common'hood
91% matchMixed52% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 10.5%
- #10 Red Dust Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panic Spreadsheet
Windows · Mac
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.4%, Management 8.4%
- #11 Paragon Pioneers
90% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Management 10.2%
- #12 Arcbound
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 7.1%
- #13 Anvil Saga
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,803 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.4%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #14 Oxygen: First Breath
88% 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 26.3%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 8.9%
- #15 TFM: The First Men
87% matchMixed62% of 406 reviews2022
Dev: Gathering Tree
Windows
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, Base Building 20.3%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #16 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
86% 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 38.2%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 9.5%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #17 Lil Guys
85% 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 33.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 11%, Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #18 Prison Architect
86% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.5%, Management 11%, Capitalism 9%
- #19 Grim Realms
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.1%
- #20 CLOUD DWELLERS
82% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 13.9%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #21 Artificer's Tower
83% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: RodentGames
Windows · Linux
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 14%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 8.1%
- #22 The Blighted Frontier
82% 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 36.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 7.3%
- #23 Embark
84% matchMixed61% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
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 46.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Management 6.3%
- #24 MicroFab
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Flirp
Windows
Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Capitalism 12.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Economy 7.6%
- #25 Dig a Little Deeper
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11%, Management 9.8%
- #26 Autumn Leaves
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yamakoshi Hiroyuki
Windows
An artsy, text-based, fantasy management game. Not as difficult as it looks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Management 10.8%, Building 8.4%, Capitalism 7.3%
- #27 Frontera
79% 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 32.8%, Building 12.9%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Crafting 9.9%
- #28 Underground Nomads
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Survival 7.1%
- #29 My Drug Cartel
77% matchMixed51% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Gigicom
Windows
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, Capitalism 11.4%, Management 10.9%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%
- #30 Oxygen
78% 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 26.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%
- #31 Resort Galactica
77% 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 28.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 13.1%, Management 10.9%, Economy 8.1%
- #32 Dinky Guardians
76% matchVery Positive81% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 10.7%, Building 10.7%
- #33 Monastery: Ora et Labora
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dragonkin Studios
Windows
Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Management 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.4%, Economy 9%
- #34 Ratopia
73% 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 29.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #35 Kingdoms and Castles
76% 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 32.4%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.4%
- #36 Gateworlds
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hydrarch
Windows · Mac
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Base Building 14%, Building 9.1%, Management 9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #37 Evoker's Gambit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
Play alchemy by building a city and meeting the needs of the population. Extract matter from demonic rift and transform it into a resource. Explore your paths of transmutation. Exploit the synergy of systems to save the visiting deity. Protect it from corporate fools who do not see its power.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Capitalism 16.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Management 9.9%, Building 9%
- #38 One More Island
75% 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 30.4%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Economy 10.6%, Management 10.4%
- #39 Settletopia
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 10.9%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.3%
- #40 King's Keeper
72% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Clément Andraud
Windows · Linux
A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 10.8%, Management 8.7%
- #41 Mission: Rift seeker
71% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: OneManGames
Windows
Mission: Rift seeker is a colony simulation game about building and managing your base on an unknown planet and exploring the surrounding void rifts that are full of horrific and mysterious entities that you are tasked to capture before they to eat the brave and fluffy seekers that you command.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Capitalism 12.6%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.4%
- #42 Isla Paradiso
71% 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 34.1%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Economy 12%, Management 11.3%
- #43 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
73% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 8.2%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 6.6%
- #44 KingForge
71% matchNo user 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 31.2%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Economy 8.1%
- #45 Nuclear Crawler
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 14.6%, Management 13%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #46 Settlement Survival
70% 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: Colony Sim 30.2%, Building 13.3%, Management 11.4%, Base Building 9.8%, Medieval 8.7%
- #47 Frostpunk: 1886
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Steampunk 15% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10.3%
- #48 Odd Realm
69% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Management 10.8%, Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #49 Blacksmith Master
68% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.8%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.8%
- #50 Vilset
72% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #51 Frontier Roots
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoroiGames
Windows
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 10.6%
- #52 Voxelony
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: ShinyScale Games
Windows · Linux
Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Economy 10.4%, Management 9.2%
- #53 Space Architect
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 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 27.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Management 11%, Building 10.1%, Economy 8%
- #54 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #55 Surviving Ceres
67% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 13.5%, Management 11%
- #56 Reclaim Earth
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Radish Games
Windows · Mac
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 7.8%
- #57 Settlements Rising
66% 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 33%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 9.8%
- #58 Mind Over Magic
65% matchVery Positive87% of 4,367 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%
- #59 Tokeis
66% 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 23.5%, Economy 12.5%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 11.1%