- #1 Colonus
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Badhenke Studios
Windows · Mac
A cozy medieval village-building game about shaping a charming settlement, cultivating the land, and watching a small community flourish.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45% ★, Simulation 25.2%, Sandbox 18%, Resource Management 6.3%, 3D 4.9%
- #2 Embark
96% matchMixed61% of 386 reviews2019
Dev: Overly Complicated Games
Windows
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.7% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Open World 5.3%
- #3 Once Upon a Time in the Colony
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Song Qiang Sheng
Windows
"Once Upon a Time in the Colony" is a third-person game with simulation survival, action and shooting elements. Go to virtual amusement parks called "colony" in parallel time and space. Survive and develop, farm, explore and fight in various harsh environments. Write your own legendary story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Western 28.7% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Base Building 8%
- #4 Containment Director
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glamorous Games
Windows · Mac
You are the Director of a secret government organization that contains all the things that go bump in the night. From tall brutalist towers to hidden underground bunkers, design and build your personalized horror monster containment facility.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1% ★, Simulation 25%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, 3D 3.5%
- #5 Oxygen Not Included
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 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 51.8% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7%
- #6 SuperColony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antic Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 13%, Open World 7.5%
- #7 Terra-7
93% 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 37.2% ★, Simulation 22.6%, Sandbox 18.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #8 TFM: The First Men
92% matchMixed62% of 406 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 49.1% ★, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 9%, Open World 6.3%
- #9 Our Dear Kingdom
91% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Alex Voxel
Windows
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 75.6% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Sandbox 8%, Resource Management 4.6%
- #10 Project: Zenith Expanse
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1% ★, Simulation 17.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #11 Skytropolis
91% matchPositive79% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: Mythical City Games
Windows · Mac
Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.
Why similar: Colony Sim 76.4% ★, Simulation 23.6%
- #12 Desktop Ant Farm Simulator
89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Beef Cat
Windows
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.9% ★, Simulation 27.9%, Sandbox 20.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #13 The Colony
89% matchMostly Negative32% of 22 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Swain
Windows
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 78% ★, Simulation 22%
- #14 Orc Colony
88% matchMixed60% of 42 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59% ★, Simulation 23.4%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #15 Founders' Fortune
87% 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 56.4% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #16 Another Dead World
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another Dead World
Windows
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Western 29.4% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Open World 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #17 Penta Terra
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barking Mudpuppy LLC
Windows
An enchanting fantasy colony simulator where the world comes alive through intricate simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.4% ★, Simulation 29.1%, Base Building 11.4%, 3D 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #18 Settletopia
85% 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 40.7% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 14%, Open World 7.5%
- #19 Union Of Rivals
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2Play
Windows
The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.7% ★, Western 35.5% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #20 Ecopunk
82% matchVery Positive84% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #21 Our Freedom: Prologue
83% 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 38% ★, Simulation 23.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 7%
- #22 Maia
84% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.9% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 2.2%
- #23 Terrarium Builder
82% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8% ★, Simulation 28.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Base Building 7.4%, 3D 4.7%
- #24 NOVA ATLANTIS
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Silvio Reis
Windows
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 51.5% ★, Simulation 31.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, 3D 6.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #25 Wild West Legacy
81% matchMostly Negative37% of 2,108 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Punch StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Conquer the Wild West. Explore the open world of a fictitious American Midwest and survive the harsh environment. Convince other settlers to join you and manage your ever-growing settlements. Build a home, take care of your farm and become a legend in Wild West Legacy.
Why similar: Western 35.9% ★, Colony Sim 28% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Open World 7.9%
- #26 Citizens: On Mars - Prologue
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.1% ★, Simulation 28.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Base Building 7.5%, 3D 4.6%
- #27 Red Dust Colony
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.2% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Base Building 17.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, 3D 1.7%
- #28 Edge Islands
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: LS Games
Windows
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Open World 6.8%
- #29 Realm Keep
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harry Mahal
Windows
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8% ★, Sandbox 18%, Simulation 17.5%, Base Building 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #30 MediAevi
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Brian De La FranierPub: Tavarin Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy colony sim based on Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, MediAevi features multiple playable races in a procedurally generated world. Make a sustainable colony and keep your colonists alive through raids and attacks. Research and Advance, to make better weapons, armors, spells, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.7% ★, Simulation 20%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #31 Quriocity
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #32 Oxygen
76% 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 36.5% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Resource Management 10%
- #33 Starship Colony
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #34 Colonization Simulator
74% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Imperian Online Rakovnik
Windows
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #35 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
75% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.3% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #36 Governor of the West
73% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Birdworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Governor of the West is a turn-based game of exploration, resource management, and outlaw placement set in the Old West. Choose a starting character, explore the West, recruit your gang, build up your town, and maybe -- if you play your cards right -- become the Governor!
Why similar: Western 58.2% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #37 Sect Leader's Decree
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alena Selezneva
Windows
Sect Leader’s Decree is a turn-based colony builder focused on resource and time management. Construct buildings, research technologies, gather resources, and train your disciples to guide your sect to prosperity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8% ★, Simulation 20%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #38 Blueprint Tycoon
75% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.3% ★, Simulation 19.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%, Singleplayer 1%
- #39 Three Blades Ranch
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: QuailCore Games
Windows
Three Blades Ranch is a ranching management simulator set in the wild west with a high fantasy twist. After a dragon destroys your ranch it's up to you to rebuild, resettle, and reclaim your homestead from the beast's fiery claws.
Why similar: Western 37.7% ★, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Sandbox 12.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 4.3%
- #40 Tidal Expanse
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, Sandbox 22.5%, Simulation 20.8%, Base Building 6%, 3D 4.3%
- #41 Meowdieval Clowder
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DrillMind
Windows
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50% ★, Base Building 17%, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 5.6%
- #42 All My Gods
74% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 79.7% ★, Simulation 20.3%
- #43 Ranchbound
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Grow your ranch, raise cattle, lead cowboys, and trade with settlers in a new real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: Western 30.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 11.5%
- #44 Never Secure
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.4% ★, Simulation 20.4%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #45 Nuclear Crawler
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50% ★, Base Building 21.6%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 7.6%, Open World 7.4%
- #46 Colony Simulator
71% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.6% ★, Simulation 28.7%, Base Building 13.7%, 3D 6.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #47 The Population Must Grow
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Helmi Blub
Windows · Linux
Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7% ★, Simulation 29.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #48 Resort Galactica
70% 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 40.4% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #49 CLOUD DWELLERS
69% matchNo user 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 51.1% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Resource Management 9%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #50 Underground Nomads
69% 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 53.9% ★, Base Building 18%, Simulation 17.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #51 Vilset
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #52 Baugarten
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Treibrad Games
Windows · Mac
Baugarten is a new kind of empire-builder. Baugarten plays like a traditional empire builder - but those interested can push the limit by leveraging their math and science skills to optimise everything further and get ahead faster.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%
- #53 Starfall Protocol
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Systematic
Windows
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Open World 8.8%
- #54 Beyond These Stars
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Resource Management 10%
- #55 Pawnholm
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hugimugi
Windows · Linux
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #56 Idle Terra
66% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Boris Naftaliev
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 13%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #57 Type2
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucas LázaroPub: Type 2 Studios
Windows
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.9% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 8%, 3D 3.1%
- #58 Don't get lost
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 479 reviews2023
Dev: Michael HutcheonPub: miicck
Windows · Linux
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Open World 9.3%
- #59 Stonedeep
68% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 10.4%