- #1 Oxygen: First Breath
97% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.3%
- #2 Aquatico
96% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 20.3%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Futuristic 8%, Building 7.1%
- #3 Endzone - A World Apart
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 12.1%, Colony Sim 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #4 Settler's Domain
94% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: rick
Windows
Settler's Domain is a strategy game about building a new settlement in unknown lands. Grow your population, explore the map, and contend with other settlements while keeping your settlers alive.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.2% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Resource Management 11%, Economy 7.8%
- #5 Cliff Empire
95% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19.4%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Futuristic 9.7%, Resource Management 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
- #6 Surviving the Aftermath
94% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Colony Sim 15.9%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 7.9%
- #7 Frostpunk: 1886
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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 19.9%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.5%
- #8 Frostpunk
92% matchVery Positive93% of 137,667 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 11.5%
- #9 Oxygen
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #10 Isla Paradiso
91% 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: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Building 10%, Economy 9.6%, Management 8.1%
- #11 Endzone 2
90% matchMixed67% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #12 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
89% matchVery Positive87% of 207 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: City Builder 27.5%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.3%
- #13 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,853 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #14 Rise Against the Invaders
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
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 26.9%, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Building 9.4%
- #15 The Blighted Frontier
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 8.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
- #16 New Cycle
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #17 Make Your Kingdom
86% matchMixed58% of 197 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: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.9%
- #18 HolyZone
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FiveGuysPub: Devotion Interactive
Windows
It is a strategy and survival game set in a world turned into a desert by nuclear wars. Gather scarce resources, manage your team, build your town, and engage in strategic battles. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Survival 9.8%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Economy 8.8%
- #19 Blocktopia
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stak Games
Windows
Blocktopia is a vibrant and humorous clicker city-builder game. Gather resources, build your town, and defend it against nightly raids! In this chaotic world where justice prevails, survive and dive into a fun city-building experience!
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Diplomacy 18.3% ★, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%
- #20 Wall World Strategy
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.6%
- #21 Recovery Syndicate
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Resource Management 9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #22 Settlement Survival
82% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 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 27.4%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Building 11%, Survival 10.7%, Management 9.3%
- #23 Project Oasis
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #24 Drownlight
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.2%
- #25 Space Haven
78% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 16%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 9%
- #26 Devouring City
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8%
- #27 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
81% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
- #28 Hamlet
79% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: K2 Games
Windows
Hamlet is a medieval city builder where pivotal characters drive your economy and define product quality and quantity. Manage and develop your people wisely because every person counts! Can you grow your hamlet into a powerhouse that rivals even the capital?
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Diplomacy 10.2% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 7.5%
- #29 Frostpunk 2
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 27,213 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #30 Fallen Crown
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LongWay Interactive
Windows
You will lead an exiled royal dynasty, building prosperous cities, gaining the trust of the people, and preparing to overthrow the usurper. In the unique dynasty mode, the leader can find a partner and have children to shape the future of the kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Diplomacy 21.2% ★, Colony Sim 17.5%, Survival 10%, Building 9.2%
- #31 What's Left Behind
79% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Hoovler Industries, Inc.
Windows
A tile-based city re-builder set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Economy 9.4%
- #32 Virum:Colony
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.7%, Economy 8.3%
- #33 Goblin Colony
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 19.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 9.5%
- #34 United Penguin Kingdom
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 25.5%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.4%
- #35 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
76% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.1%
- #36 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
73% matchVery Positive89% of 639 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 26%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.5%, Management 9.6%
- #37 Patron
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,196 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 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: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 20.5%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 8%, Economy 7%
- #38 The Undercity: Last Light
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Survival 10.2%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #39 Pixel Colony
72% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Toilet Games
Windows · Linux
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 27.3%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 10%, Survival 9.8%
- #40 Sheltered 2
73% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 10.9%
- #41 Venusville
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Survival 9.8%
- #42 Pharaoh™: A New Era
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.6%
- #43 The Last Haven
72% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Survival 10.3%
- #44 Gnomepunk
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Create an army of gnomes, train builders, gather resources, develop technology, overcome the fauna, understand the flora and use it for alchemy. Conquer or ally with other factions and dominate the forest!
Why similar: Diplomacy 24% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Resource Management 10.2%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
- #45 Final Frost
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunrise Lake Studios
Windows
Create your own story from the ashes of civilization, navigating treacherous terrains and fractured societies that have adapted to a harsh new reality. Build a base, forge alliances, or roam freely, battling for survival and shaping your journey with every decision.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 8.8%
- #46 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
70% 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: City Builder 19.1%, Diplomacy 14.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #47 Lost Heaven Station
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
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: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Building 8.3%
- #48 Settlements Rising
68% matchVery Positive81% of 436 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: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%
- #49 Lil Guys
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #50 The Crust
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%
- #51 One More Island
69% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.3%
- #52 Terra-7
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
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 25.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Building 10.5%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.1%
- #53 Whiskerwood
66% matchVery Positive92% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Diplomacy 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
- #54 Ratopia
66% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.2%
- #55 TerraStorm
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameLoad
Windows
TerraStorm is a survival city builder set 70 years after the apocalyptic ending of the Second World War. You will be an Architect, responsible for finding a suitable place to start new settlements, self-sufficient Towers, that will become humankind's new bastions.
Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Building 8.9%
- #56 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Diplomacy 20.9% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.8%
- #57 Nova Roma
65% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: City Builder 17.7%, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #58 Crowded Blue Dot
70% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
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 26.9%, Resource Management 13.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.1%