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 27.6%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 8.8%

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Economy 12.5%, Building 9.1%, Management 6.8%

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 28.2% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Economy 13%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 9.2%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 30%, Economy 12.6%, Building 11.4%, Management 5.9%

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 30.6% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 9.4%, Building 8.9%

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 33.6%, Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Building 14.1%, Economy 7.5%, Strategy 6.6%

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 25.6%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Building 12.5%, Economy 11.2%, Management 10.5%

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%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Economy 11%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Management 16.7%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 7.5%

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: City Builder 37%, Colony Sim 33.6% ★, Building 11%, Strategy 4.1%, Management 4.1%

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: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Economy 13.1%, Building 11.9%, Management 10.7%

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 33.9%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Management 11%, Simulation 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%

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: Colony Sim 38.6% ★, City Builder 38.5%, Simulation 5.4%, Strategy 4.3%, Economy 4.2%

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: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Economy 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 30.9% ★, Management 11.5%, Economy 7%, Building 6.5%

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 28.7% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.8%, Management 9.5%

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: Colony Sim 39% ★, City Builder 38.5%, Building 8.3%, Resource Management 4.9%, Simulation 4%

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 12%, Building 11.3%, Management 10%

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 40.7% ★, City Builder 25%, Building 10.9%, Management 6.5%, Economy 6.1%

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 30.1%, Colony Sim 27% ★, Building 13.2%, Management 10.1%, Economy 8.1%

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: Colony Sim 30.1% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Building 9.2%, Economy 8.3%, Strategy 7.3%

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 33.2%, Colony Sim 32% ★, Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Simulation 5.9%

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: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 30.2%, Building 17.1%, Management 8%, Strategy 8%

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 32.3%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Building 12.8%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 5.4%

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% ★, City Builder 30%, Economy 10%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.2%

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 29.6%, Colony Sim 29% ★, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.9%, Management 8.4%

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 28.4% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Economy 14.1%, Building 11.3%, Management 7.6%

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 39.2% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%, Building 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 27.2%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.3%

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 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Building 10.4%, Economy 10.2%, Management 6.9%

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 30.1%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Economy 14.7%, Management 12.3%, Building 9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Economy 14.4%, Management 10%, Building 9.4%

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% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

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 23.5%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

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 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Economy 12.9%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.9%

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 27.9%, Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Building 11.8%, Economy 9.3%, Management 9.1%

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Building 15.1%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 6.8%

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 29.4% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Management 10.9%, Building 10.9%, Economy 10.6%

Crowded is a crow city builder where you strategically design a nest-city to support and shelter your flock. Engineer, scavenge and explore your way to a self-sustaining society in the sky!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 27.8%, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Management 11.3%

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

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Colony Sim 27.7% ★, Economy 11%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.2%

Build your own communist utopia! Take control of the means of production to keep your citizens fed, housed, and happy. Grow your city along with its population, and show the world what REAL communism is!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Building 11.9%, Economy 11.8%, Management 9.4%

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 29.7% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.8%, Economy 7.1%

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 28.3%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Economy 15.7%, Building 13.3%, Management 12.1%

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 37.6%, Colony Sim 26% ★, Economy 9.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 6.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Colony Sim 43% ★, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 4.7%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Economy 13.9%, Building 12.7%, Management 9.7%

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 43.7%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%

The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Economy 7.6%

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 33.7%, Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Simulation 7.4%, Building 6.8%

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 27.4% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.8%

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 35.1%, Colony Sim 34% ★, Building 14.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.2%

The First Explorers® is a settlers-like game, that offers the perfect mix of organic city-building and RTS in a bustling world. Set in the time of antiquity in Europe, you will play as the Romans, Carthaginians or Gauls. Are you ready to raise an army backed by a thriving economy?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Economy 15.1%, Building 11.8%, Management 8.8%

Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.

Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Building 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Zombies 11%, Simulation 6.4%, Management 6.2%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 6.2%

The ultimate management challenge: rebuild the lost utopia of Atlantis after its fall. Restore essential services, appease the gods, and forge a new Atlantean civilization stronger and more resilient than ever, ensuring the cataclysm never returns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 37.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Resource Management 4.9%, 3D 3.5%

Abyssals is a Survival City Builder in the dark depths of an inhospitable planet. Build your underwater colony, explore where light can’t reach, and hunt for scarce resources. Expand your infrastructure and power your lamps, as danger lies in the deep, hidden in the dark.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.5%