- #1 Oxygen: First Breath
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 19.1% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 8.8%, Building 7.4%
- #2 Ostriv
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Historical 8.7%, Economy 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #3 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
96% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, 4X 12.8% ★, Economy 8.4%, Historical 7.6%
- #4 Whiskerwood
95% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5% ★, 4X 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Economy 8%, Base Building 7.3%
- #5 Country Architect
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Transportation 9.8% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 7.8%
- #6 Nova Roma
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 15% ★, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Economy 8.2%, Historical 7.5%
- #7 Isla Paradiso
93% 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 23.8% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 7%
- #8 Norland
91% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 15.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.4% ★, City Builder 13%, Economy 8%, Historical 7.2%
- #9 Make Your Kingdom
92% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
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: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Building 9.3%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #10 Patron
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,136 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 24.1% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Economy 7.9%, Survival 7.1%, Base Building 6.2%
- #11 Founders' Fortune
90% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 32.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #12 Manor Lords
89% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Economy 8.1%, Historical 7.3%
- #13 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 19.4% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.7%, Economy 8.1%
- #14 Farmman
88% 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 22.7% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.3%
- #15 Against the Storm
86% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 15.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, City Builder 13%, Economy 7.8%, Historical 7.3%
- #16 Settlement Survival
86% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 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: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 7.2%, Economy 6.6%
- #17 Empires of the Undergrowth
84% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 15% ★, City Builder 13%, Economy 8.1%, Historical 7.3%
- #18 Powerplay
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 21% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #19 Exogate Initiative
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 16.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #20 Arcane Shores
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Absent Slumber
Windows
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 26.2% ★, City Builder 23.5%, Economy 11.1%, Building 9%, Survival 7%
- #21 Heart of the Machine
81% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 15.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 8.1%, Historical 7.4%
- #22 Truck City
81% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: City Builder 16%, Transportation 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 12.5% ★, Mining 9.4% ★, Base Building 8.3%
- #23 Ymir
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,110 reviews2019
Dev: Thibaud Michaud
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 73.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6% ★, 4X 21.8% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Economy 11.5%, Building 5.8%
- #24 Egypt
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ancient Cat
Windows
Command the sands of Egypt in this epic RTS! Build magnificent cities, lead mythic armies, and harness the power of the gods. Shape the Nile, forge alliances, and rise to become Pharaoh in a world of strategy, intrigue, and breathtaking battles. Your legacy awaits—rule wisely!
Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Economy 8.6%
- #25 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
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 23.9% ★, City Builder 21.5%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 8.4%, Historical 8.2%
- #26 Settlements Rising
78% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 23.6% ★, City Builder 21%, Building 7.8%, Base Building 7.4%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #27 Gnome Glen
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Enchanted Pumpkin Co.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gnome Glen is a relaxing survival colony sim / city builder that blends cozy charm with satisfying depth. Gather resources, build homes, farm crops, research techs and watch your gnome village come to life.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #28 Seeds of Resilience
79% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Economy 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Building 9.1%
- #29 Blacksmith Master
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 19.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #30 Terra-7
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, City Builder 10.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #31 Ratopia
76% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 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 22.2% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 10%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #32 Pirate Plight
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7% ★, 4X 17.8% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%
- #33 Aztecs: The Last Sun
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Economy 9.8%, Historical 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #34 Compact Colonies
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 8.6%, Historical 7.1%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #35 Kingdoms and Castles
75% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 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 28.6% ★, City Builder 28.6%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7%, Base Building 6%
- #36 Spaceflight Factory
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Transportation 13% ★, 4X 11% ★, Economy 8.4%
- #37 Tokeis
73% 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: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 8.3%
- #38 Endzone 2
72% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 22.2% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Base Building 7.9%
- #39 Resort Galactica
73% 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 22.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 10.2%
- #40 Ragnorium
74% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, City Builder 15.6%, 4X 12.7% ★, Historical 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #41 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 24% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #42 Celestial Empire: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Historical 8.9%, Building 8.5%, Economy 8.4%
- #43 HistoriCity: Florence
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stratagem Interactive
Windows · Mac
A mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim where you rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, build the Florence Cathedral, hire Michelangelo, and survive the Bonfire of the Vanities with an authentic Renaissance lute soundtrack.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Historical 9.8%, Economy 9.4%, Building 7.5%
- #44 Our Freedom: Prologue
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
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 22.2% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #45 Paleon
71% matchVery Positive83% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: Paleodev
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, City Builder 18%, Survival 8.9%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #46 Humanica
68% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Historical 8.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #47 Dungeon Overseer
71% matchMixed54% of 50 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 23.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Economy 12%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 8.7%
- #48 Above: Colonies of the Mist
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Docklight GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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 25.3% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Building 7.1%, Economy 7.1%
- #49 Crowncity
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Building 11%, Economy 10.9%, Historical 10.7%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★
- #50 Diluvian Winds
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #51 Mad Tower Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 438 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Transportation 11.4% ★, Economy 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #52 Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Romulus
Windows
It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, 4X 18.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #53 Shipwrecked: Lost Colony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Magic Fuel Games
Windows
Shipwrecked: Lost Colony is an 18th Century city-survival builder set on a tropical isle lost to time. Lead a group of marooned survivors and forge a new beginning in an uncharted land, where dinosaurs are the biggest threat and your strongest allies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%
- #54 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
67% matchVery Positive87% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
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: Colony Sim 28.1% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 7%
- #55 Foundation
65% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 32.7%, Colony Sim 11.1% ★, Economy 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Building 7.1%
- #56 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Historical 7.6%
- #57 Banished
68% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 33.3% ★, City Builder 30.1%, Survival 6.6%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 5.3%
- #58 Age of Pyramids
67% matchMostly Negative36% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Historical 9.1%, Strategy 9%