- #1 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,358 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 22.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Economy 10.9%, Capitalism 9.7%, Management 8.9%
- #2 SeaColony
96% 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 30.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%
- #3 Hammerting
96% matchMixed57% of 2,605 reviews2021
Dev: Warpzone StudiosPub: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Mod 17.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #4 Rustbound
94% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Wylde Wisp Games
Windows
Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Crafting 14.3%, Economy 13.8%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%
- #5 First Feudal
95% 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 27.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 11%, Crafting 9.8%, Management 7.3%
- #6 Anvil Saga
94% matchMixed70% of 1,838 reviews2023
Dev: Pirozhok StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 11%, Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #7 Breadoria
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #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 21.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 12.6%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #9 Goblin Colony
91% 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 37%, Base Building 18.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 6.1%
- #10 Frontera
90% 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 32.4%, Economy 14.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #11 Paragon Pioneers
91% 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 28.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Economy 12.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Management 8.8%
- #12 Grim Realms
89% matchVery Positive80% of 429 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 32.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Economy 9.1%, Management 7.8%
- #13 Malignus
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mossbomb
Windows
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 16.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 7.5%
- #14 Prison Architect
89% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 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 28%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 9.6%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.5%
- #15 CLOUD DWELLERS
86% matchVery Positive86% of 92 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 36.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.4%
- #16 Farmman
87% 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 31%, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 8.7%
- #17 Dig a Little Deeper
85% 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 30%, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.5%
- #18 Stranding Echoes
84% 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 38.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 7.6%, Management 6.4%
- #19 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 44%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 7%, Resource Management 6.5%, Economy 6.3%
- #20 Property Pro
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 14.7%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #21 TFM: The First Men
84% matchMixed59% of 413 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 39.7%, Base Building 21.6%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%, Building 6.1%
- #22 Resort Galactica
81% 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 29.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #23 Artificer's Tower
82% 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 31.1%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 9.4%, Crafting 7.9%
- #24 Common'hood
82% matchMixed51% of 342 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 26.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.5%
- #25 MicroFab
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 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 37.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 9.9%, Capitalism 9.3%, Building 6.7%
- #26 Dungeon Overseer
81% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 7.4%
- #27 Oxygen: First Breath
79% 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 28.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Economy 12%, Management 7.9%
- #28 Underground Nomads
78% matchNo user reviews2026
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 39.5%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9%, Simulation 7.1%
- #29 Tree House Colony
77% 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 33.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 9%
- #30 Noble Legacy
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 805 reviews2025
Dev: 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 25.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%
- #31 Oxygen Not Included
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8%, Base Building 23.5%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 6.9%, Management 6.7%
- #32 Arcbound
77% 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 39.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Management 10.4%, Building 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%
- #33 Red Dust Colony
76% matchNo user reviews2027
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 39.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 8%, Management 7.6%
- #34 HavenCraft
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows
Build a Safe Haven! An alchemy accident has devastated the mainland and the people are looking for a new home. Take the lead and rebuild society, house by house. HavenCraft is a third-person town builder and management game, playable in single- and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 10.7%, Crafting 10.3%, Management 9.1%
- #35 The Blighted Frontier
74% 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 39.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #36 Autumn Leaves
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yamakoshi Hiroyuki
Windows
An artsy, text-based, fantasy management game. Not as difficult as it looks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.9%, Base Building 19%, Management 9.6%, Fantasy 7.4%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #37 Starbound Settlers
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bitwright Games
Windows
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 7.9%
- #38 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
73% 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 32.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 10.6%, Economy 9.7%
- #39 Frontier Roots
72% 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 31.5%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 13%, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%
- #40 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
72% 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 31.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Resource Management 10%, Economy 9.9%, Management 8.7%
- #41 The Monstrous Frontier
75% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Software WA
Windows
A turn based city biulder, where you have to manage increasingly complex production lines, attract adventurers to your city and create Quests to protect yourself instead of controlling them directly.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Economy 12.9%, Management 8.1%, Building 7.9%
- #42 Necromancer's Workshop
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Easy Anxiety
Windows · Linux
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Resource Management 11%, Economy 11%, Management 9.6%
- #43 Hexagge
71% 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 37.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 8%, Building 6.5%
- #44 Gridmax
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dream Gears
Windows
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 21.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 11.7%, Building 8.8%
- #45 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
74% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 6.9%
- #46 Agromatic
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 12.7%, Management 8.9%, Crafting 7.9%
- #47 Craterville
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fat Plankton
Windows
A base-building, simulation and inventory management game where you build and defend your base in the crater formed when blasting into a new dimension. Hire and equip combat units then send them into battle. Organise loot in your inventory. Complete objectives to advance your reputation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 20.8%, Management 11.9%, Loot 11.1%, Crafting 9%
- #48 Fjordal
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andreasintech
Windows
Establish a Norse village and refine the land's resources. Pay tribute to the King, or grow strong enough to fight back. A Viking colony sim with production chains and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.3%, Crafting 8%
- #49 Odd Realm
69% 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 29.3%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #50 Terra-7
69% 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 34.8%, Economy 15.7%, Base Building 15%, Management 9.5%, Building 9%
- #51 Solargene
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 855 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, Mod 21% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 10%
- #52 Corbel
68% 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 32.6%, Economy 13.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Building 8.2%
- #53 Fill the Sky
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Economy 9.1%, Crafting 8%
- #54 Lil Guys
67% 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 37.3%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #55 Lords and Villeins
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 33.6%, Economy 11.4%, Management 10.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%
- #56 CENTAVO
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Trocado Studio
Windows
A city sim where money never comes from nowhere. You lay the streets and zone the lots; residents build with their own money, open businesses, hire and leave if work or food runs out. Click any payment and see whose pocket it came from. Grow a camp into a metropolis.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Economy 16.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Capitalism 11.2%, Management 10%
- #57 Cloudlings
66% 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 30.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Economy 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Management 9.1%
- #58 Fosoria
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.6%, Base Building 21.9%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 6.3%
- #59 Monastery: Ora et Labora
63% matchVery Positive95% of 78 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 27.3%, Base Building 14%, Management 12.4%, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 10.7%