Games Like What's Left Behind

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: City Builder 28.4%, Colony Sim 26.9%, Building 12%, Economy 11.7%, Management 8.5%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Colony Sim 28.9%, Economy 11.8%, Building 9.4%, Management 6.4%

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: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 28.3%, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 9.1%

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 32.5%, City Builder 27%, Management 9%, Building 7.3%, Simulation 7.2%

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: City Builder 28.2%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Economy 12.4%, Building 12.3%, Management 8.6%

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: City Builder 30.8%, Colony Sim 30.5%, Economy 11.7%, Building 11.6%, Management 5.6%

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: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 30.7%, Simulation 10%, Building 9.1%, Economy 8.8%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Building 13.9%, Management 10.2%, Economy 5.4%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Building 14.3%, Economy 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Colony Sim 32%, Economy 12.6%, Building 7.8%, Simulation 6.3%

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: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 12.7%, Economy 10.5%, Management 10.1%

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: City Builder 26.8%, Colony Sim 24.6%, Building 10.5%, Economy 10.3%, Management 7.8%

Viceria is a minimalistic colony simulator. Build cities, develop your economy, build trade, defend your colony from threats and decide the fate of your people. Will you serve the metropolis or will you oppose it? It's up to you!

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 12.2%, Management 10.3%

City Builder Pro lets you unleash your inner ruler—design your dream base, prepare for epic battles, and feel the thrill of watching your city grow and dominate. Build smart, strike hard, and rise to power!

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Management 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, City Builder 20.2%, Management 16.3%, Economy 10.1%, Simulation 7.5%

A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 29%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.5%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Colony Sim 38.5%, Simulation 5.3%, Strategy 4.2%, Economy 3.9%

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: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 28.7%, Management 10.5%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8.3%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Colony Sim 38.7%, Building 8.4%, Resource Management 4.5%, Simulation 3.9%

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: City Builder 33.7%, Colony Sim 31.7%, Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Simulation 5.8%

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: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 31%, Management 11.1%, Building 6.6%, Economy 6.5%

Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Colony Sim 30.4%, Building 17.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 7.7%

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 28.9%, City Builder 28.1%, Building 13%, Economy 12.3%, Management 9.1%

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 40.6%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 11%, Management 6.3%, Economy 5.7%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 30.4%, Building 9.2%, Economy 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%

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 27.7%, City Builder 27.7%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11.3%, Management 9.7%

What if aliens helped create Earth’s ancient civilizations? Play as a reluctant alien-human hybrid in this story-driven city building game! Manage resources, manipulate primitive humans, and help promote scientific discovery as you build the colossal pyramids—to uncover the secrets that lie within!

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Colony Sim 30.5%, Building 13%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 5.3%

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: City Builder 29.9%, Colony Sim 26.7%, Economy 14.2%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.9%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 28.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%

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 31.4%, City Builder 30.8%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.7%, Management 7%

Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 11.8%, Economy 9.6%, Management 7.9%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Building 11%, Economy 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

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 28.7%, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11.6%, Management 7.4%

Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, City Builder 17.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.5%

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: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 25%, Building 10.6%, Economy 9.5%, Management 6.7%

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Colony Sim 19.2%, Building 15.4%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 6.7%

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: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 26.6%, Building 10.6%, Economy 10.5%, Management 8.1%

This is a tower-building simulation where you place offices, homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, and more inside a growing high-rise. People move autonomously toward their destinations, using elevators as the building comes to life. Balance profit and expansion as you create a busy tower of your own.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Building 13.9%, Economy 10.6%, Simulation 10.1%

Lead your settlers to build cities in a medieval island world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 26.2%, Economy 13.6%, Management 9.7%, Building 9.7%

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 31.2%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Economy 13.8%, Management 12%, Building 9.2%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 45.9%, Colony Sim 42.6%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 4.6%

In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie. Sacrifice villagers to the flame to unlock new structures and upgrades, and keep the flame alive.

Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 29.1%, Building 13.1%, Economy 12.1%, Management 8.2%

Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8%, City Builder 25.4%, Economy 10%, Management 8.3%, Building 8.3%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 25%, Economy 10.4%, Building 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

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: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Economy 12%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.6%

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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 28%, Building 12%, Management 8.8%, Economy 8.6%

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: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Building 13.7%, Economy 13.5%, Management 11.8%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Colony Sim 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Building 6.9%

What if crows had evolved like humans? In this cozy city builder, build a thriving civilization in the treetops, discover unique avian technologies, manage your flock and logistics, and harness the power of the wind.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, City Builder 28.7%, Building 12.4%, Economy 12.1%, Management 10.9%

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 29.6%, City Builder 26.1%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.6%, Economy 9.9%

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 27.8%, Building 10.5%, Economy 10.3%, Management 7.9%

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: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.5%, Economy 6.6%

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: City Builder 35.8%, Colony Sim 33.8%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 5.1%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 45%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Building 9.4%, Economy 9.4%, Management 8.3%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Management 9.2%, Economy 9.2%, Building 6.9%

Chaos Cities is a city builder where your citizens directly react to everything you do. Build a futuristic city or plunge it into chaos, the choice is yours!

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Economy 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Management 11.8%

The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 27.3%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 8.5%

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: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 23.4%, Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Economy 7%

Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 26.8%, Zombies 11.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Building 6%