
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, City Builder, Colony Sim, Simulation.

Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.

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Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Beneath a Dead City
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 8.5%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 8.9%, Survival 7.2%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.5%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6% ★, City Builder 13%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11.6%, Resource Management 8%
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 7.4%
Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.6%
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 40.9% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.7%
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 28.8% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 6.9%
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: Colony Sim 31% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 8.2%, Survival 5.9%
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 25.6% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 7.2%
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 33.6% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Survival 6.7%
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 23.5%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 8.7%, 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: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Strategy 6.5%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 6.7%, Survival 6.4%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9% ★, City Builder 27.9%, Strategy 15.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 7.7%
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 40% ★, City Builder 30.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.7%, Survival 6.2%
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 37.7% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 8.1%
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 37.4% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 7.9%, Resource Management 7%, Management 5.7%
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 36.9% ★, City Builder 28.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 5.1%
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 33.9% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
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 40.2% ★, City Builder 30.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 6.2%, Survival 4.9%
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: Colony Sim 33% ★, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.3%
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Survival 6.6%, Simulation 6.2%
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 6.5%
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 20.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.6%
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 24.7% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.1%
A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 6.4%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 8.2%
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 7%
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 8.5%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.3% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 6.8%
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%
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 29% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Management 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 6.7%
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 32.2% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 7.6%, Management 7.5%
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 28.4%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 36.6% ★, City Builder 31.2%, Resource Management 7.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Base Building 6.5%
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 7.7%
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: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Resource Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 7.8%
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 6.8%, Survival 6.8%
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 32.1% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Base Building 4.1%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.2%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 7.4%
Awaken the first Stickfolk. Explore an endless world. Build your cities. Develop new technologies. Unlock new eras. Shape a peaceful civilization. No war, only creation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%, Strategy 8.7%
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7% ★, City Builder 21%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.9%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 9.9%
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 7.1%
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: Colony Sim 28% ★, City Builder 27.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 9.2%
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 31.5% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 7.5%
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 27% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 7.1%
Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 7.4%
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 31.8% ★, City Builder 24.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Base Building 8.1%
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 28.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 10%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 7%
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1% ★, City Builder 36.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Indie 1.1%
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 26.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Strategy 6.9%
In this management game you’ll control the simulation on multiple levels. Build, connect, create a sustainable industry, with the help of Andy everything is possible. In the end, everything is just Numbers and Nodes
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Resource Management 19.5%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.3%
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 30.8%, Colony Sim 27.4% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 7.2%