- #1 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,330 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 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 18.3%, Capitalism 14.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Economy 9.6%, Management 9.1%
- #2 First Feudal
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 635 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 22.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9%
- #3 Kingdom Workshop
96% 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 18.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.8%, Economy 11.7%, Crafting 11.6%
- #4 Anvil Saga
95% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,811 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 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 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.3%, Medieval 9.6%
- #5 SeaColony
94% matchNo user reviews2026
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 25.9%, Base Building 14%, Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #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 25.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.7%
- #7 Noble Legacy
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 731 reviews2025
Dev: Studio 369Pub: Ultimus Rex LLC
Windows
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 11.2%, Economy 10.3%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.7%
- #8 Paragon Pioneers
93% 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 24.2%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.7%
- #9 Evoker's Gambit
91% 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: Capitalism 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.7%
- #10 Autumn Leaves
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yamakoshi Hiroyuki
Windows
An artsy, text-based, fantasy management game. Not as difficult as it looks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 9.6%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Capitalism 8.2%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
90% matchVery Positive80% of 2,187 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 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 36.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 9.9%, Management 6.3%, Survival 6.3%
- #12 Artificer's Tower
89% 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 25.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.5%
- #13 Prison Architect
89% matchVery Positive89% of 73,513 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 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 23.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.1%, Capitalism 10.6%, Management 10.3%
- #14 Oxygen: First Breath
88% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 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 23.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 10.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Building 9.8%
- #15 Frostpunk: 1886
87% 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: Steampunk 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.3%
- #16 Oxygen Not Included
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 142,307 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.4 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 35.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 9.6%
- #17 Common'hood
86% matchMixed51% 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 21.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 10%
- #18 Tree House Colony
84% 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 27.2%, Base Building 14.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 11%
- #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 27.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 9.6%, Economy 8.7%
- #20 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
85% matchMixed69% of 365 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 33.6%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Crafting 9.5%
- #21 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 31.8%, Capitalism 14.5%, Simulation 10%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.3%
- #22 TFM: The First Men
83% matchMixed61% of 412 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 33.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 8.8%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #23 My Drug Cartel
82% 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 19.4%, Capitalism 13.3%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #24 CLOUD DWELLERS
79% matchVery Positive88% of 80 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 31.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #25 Red Dust Colony
81% 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 33.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Survival 9.4%, Building 8.4%
- #26 Monastery: Ora et Labora
80% 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 21.6%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 10.9%, Economy 10.8%
- #27 Lil Guys
78% 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 30.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 10.7%, Survival 10%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #28 One More Island
79% matchMixed67% of 260 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 26.2%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.8%, Management 9.6%
- #29 Arcbound
78% 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 33.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Management 11.2%, Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.5%
- #30 Arcane Rings
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Steampunk 19.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.8%, Medieval 9%
- #31 Space Architect
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 290 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 23.6%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 10%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.4%
- #32 Dungeon Renovators
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sentient Play
Windows
Dungeon Renovators is a base-builder and action RPG with online co-op. You are a Renovator: combat-ready craftsmen who reclaim dungeons for humanity, demolish evil structures for materials, then build bases to train, craft equipment, attract workers, level up and rebuild civilization!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Steampunk 18.5% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.2%, Dungeon Crawler 10.1%
- #33 Frontera
76% 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 29.1%, Economy 14.1%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 9.6%
- #34 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 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 25.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 12.8%, Management 9.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #35 Settlement Survival
75% matchVery Positive85% of 7,980 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 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 25.7%, Building 12.7%, Medieval 11.4%, Management 10.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #36 Dig a Little Deeper
75% 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 26.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 9.5%
- #37 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 28.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.5%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.4%
- #38 Mission: Rift seeker
73% 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 20.9%, Capitalism 14.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.7%
- #39 Voxelony
73% 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 23.4%, Economy 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Medieval 8.8%
- #40 Cloudlings
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.4%, Economy 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%
- #41 Blacksmith Master
71% matchVery Positive83% of 2,646 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 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 21.7%, Base Building 13%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #42 Endless Vine
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Circuit Root
Windows
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Steampunk 27.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 8.3%, Crafting 7.7%
- #43 Oxygen
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 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 23.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 10.1%, Building 9.9%
- #44 Frontier Roots
71% 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 26.3%, Economy 12.7%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%
- #45 Resort Galactica
71% 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 25.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 12.9%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.9%
- #46 KingForge
69% match5 user reviews80% of 5 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 26.6%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 10.1%
- #47 Underground Nomads
70% 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 32.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #48 King's Keeper
70% 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 27.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.6%
- #49 The Blighted Frontier
70% 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 33.7%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 7.7%
- #50 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Steampunk 16.9% ★, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 9.6%
- #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 20.1%, Economy 14.8%, Management 11.4%, Building 10.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #52 Odd Realm
68% matchVery Positive84% of 1,012 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 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 24.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.4%
- #53 Havenrail
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Punchers
Windows
“The Last Train of Humanity” is a survival strategy game. Manage your train, oversee resources, and make tough decisions that determine the fate of your passengers. Will they survive the perilous journey?
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Steampunk 18.1% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #54 Lords and Villeins
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 974 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Management 11.2%, Economy 10.5%, Building 10.4%, Medieval 10%
- #55 Dungeons & Kingdoms
67% matchMixed43% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Uncle Grouch GamingPub: Camlann Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Medieval 11%
- #56 Mind Over Magic
65% matchVery Positive87% of 4,414 reviews2025
Dev: SparkypantsPub: Klei Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 20.6 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 22.7%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.7%
- #57 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
66% 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 26.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Medieval 9.8%, Management 9.5%
- #58 Dinky Guardians
67% 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 26.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 10.7%
- #59 Corbel
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Not A Robot Games
Windows · Linux
Play as a giant and build a micro medieval city in this unique city builder. Pick up villagers and command them to do your bidding, create production lines and manage resources while defending against hoards of pillaging gnomes. Get involved yourself and help gather resources, transport, and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Economy 12.6%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 8.5%