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  1. #1 Parabellum: Siege Of Legends
    97% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
    Dev: Studio Baikin
    Windows

    An epic war and strategy game set in the medieval universe.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, Tower Defense 21.3%, Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.9%

  2. #2 They Are Billions
    96% matchVery Positive85% of 50,609 reviews2019
    Dev: Numantian Games
    Windows
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Zombies 13.2%, Strategy 7.4%

  3. #3 Hold The Roost
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Jody HiattPub: Battle Bongo Games
    Windows

    A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 7.1%

  4. #4 Cosmic Castaway
    95% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Vinciware
    Windows

    Cosmic Castaway is a colony building survival game. Gather scarce resources, rescue and assign your crew, build and defend your outpost from hostile forces, and turn wreckage into refuge to repair your ship and escape back to your home planet.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Tower Defense 17%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 8.1%, Crafting 7.7%

  5. #5 Embark
    94% 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 49.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Strategy 8%, Building 6.9%, Crafting 6%

  6. #6 The Wild Age
    94% matchMixed65% of 295 reviews2020
    Dev: McMagic Productions
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    The Wild Age is a micromanagement strategy game with tower defense gameplay mechanics. The game is designed mainly for a peaceful and relaxed gaming experience that offers a break from the busy realities of life.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Base Building 18%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 7.2%

  7. #7 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
    93% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    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 41.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Resource Management 7.4%, Building 7.3%

  8. #8 Fio and the Doomed City
    92% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
    Windows · Mac

    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 36.1%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Base Building 18.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 7%

  9. #9 Never Secure
    91% 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 35.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Simulation 8%

  10. #10 King's Keeper
    91% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: Clément Andraud
    Windows · Linux

    A game of base building and colony simulation in a world where night is permanent. Survive, build, explore, repel enemy raids and tend to the needs of your workers and your king.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 7.9%, Building 7.8%

  11. #11 Underground Nomads
    90% 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 40.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 6.9%

  12. #12 Zombie Warz
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: GobiGD
    Windows · Mac

    Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Tower Defense 20.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Zombies 12.2%, Strategy 7.9%

  13. #13 Zombie Colony
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Juvty Worlds
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Zombies 18.1%, Strategy 10.4%, Outbreak Sim 10.1%, Base Building 6.8%

  14. #14 Phoenix Hope
    88% matchMixed61% of 170 reviews2021
    Dev: Honorable Pixel
    Windows

    Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Tower Defense 17.8%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 7.4%

  15. #15 Oxygen Not Included
    87% 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 45.7%, Base Building 23.2%, Resource Management 8.6%, Building 7.7%, Survival 6.3%

  16. #16 Undead Defense TD
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Sugradh_Dev
    Windows

    Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Zombies 12.9%, Outbreak Sim 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%

  17. #17 Eye of the Void: Unleashed - Tower Defense
    86% matchNo user reviews2024
    Dev: PerpetualOOMM
    Windows · Mac

    The goblin tribes of the realm have united against you and the power of the Eye of the Void. Build towers, fortify walls, construct gold mines to gather resources, and cast powerful spells to fend off waves of determined goblins and their allies who seek to destroy you.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4%, Tower Defense 22.2%, Base Building 19%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 11.1%

  18. #18 Artificer's Tower
    85% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2024
    Dev: RodentGames
    Windows · Linux

    Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 7.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

  19. #19 After Long Night
    84% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
    Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
    Windows

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Zombies 13.2%, Tower Defense 10.9%, Strategy 7.3%

  20. #20 Castle Formers
    84% matchPositive96% of 47 reviews2021
    Dev: Fernando AraujoPub: INK EYE Games
    Windows

    Defend your castle from the attacks of the night creatures. Collect coins, interact with the elements of the game, discover, explore, learn and survive for 30 days or try again.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Tower Defense 18.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Building 8.5%

  21. #21 Founders' Fortune
    83% 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 48.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.1%

  22. #22 Border Base
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bitzooma
    Windows

    Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 17%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Resource Management 7%

  23. #23 Resilient
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: CNRDEV
    Windows

    Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Zombies 12.1%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Outbreak Sim 9%

  24. #24 Sylox
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Moonz
    Windows

    Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 5.2%

  25. #25 Horizon 1990
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
    Windows

    Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Survival 7.5%

  26. #26 Colony Survival
    81% matchVery Positive92% of 8,816 reviews2017
    Dev: Pipliz
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 43.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 9.4%, Zombies 8.5%, Strategy 6.4%

  27. #27 Lil Guys
    79% 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 38.9%, Base Building 20.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 7.7%, Resource Management 7.4%

  28. #28 Zombie Cure Lab
    78% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
    Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Zombies 10.8%, Building 7.7%

  29. #29 Kingdom: Classic
    79% matchVery Positive91% of 22,529 reviews2015
    Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 23.2%, Base Building 18%, Tower Defense 13.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 9.3%

  30. #30 Arcbound
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Outbreak Interactive
    Windows

    A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Base Building 20.6%, Building 9.1%, Simulation 7.5%, Crafting 5.9%

  31. #31 TFM: The First Men
    78% 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 45.1%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Resource Management 5.1%

  32. #32 Grim Realms
    76% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
    Dev: Edym Pixels
    Windows

    A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Base Building 18.5%, Zombies 11.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8.1%

  33. #33 First Feudal
    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Building 9.5%, Resource Management 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%

  34. #34 Rise to Ruins
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
    Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, Tower Defense 24.4%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 8%, Survival 4.8%

  35. #35 Tree House Survivors
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Jens P. Behrens
    Windows

    Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

  36. #36 Warranted Humanity
    74% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
    Dev: Jovano Software
    Windows

    Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Outbreak Sim 14%, Zombies 12.9%, Strategy 7.5%

  37. #37 Villagedom
    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dazar
    Windows

    Are you worthy of being a king? Test your mettle in this city-builder and resource management game as you develop your kingdom. Face challenges at every turn and transform your village into something mighty. Protect your subjects. Slay your enemies. Be a king!

    Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Tower Defense 19.2%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 7%

  38. #38 Maia
    75% 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 50.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 8%, Survival 6.2%

  39. #39 Red Dust Colony
    73% 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 44.4%, Base Building 21.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Building 7.2%

  40. #40 Sigma Draconis
    73% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
    Dev: Draconis Games
    Windows · Linux

    A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 40%, Base Building 17.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 7.7%

  41. #41 Nuclear Crawler
    72% 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 41.7%, Base Building 25.4%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Resource Management 7.3%

  42. #42 Illuminaria
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
    Dev: Selva Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 18.8%, Tower Defense 18%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 8.5%

  43. #43 Vilset
    73% 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 38.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Resource Management 6.6%

  44. #44 Sect Leader's Decree
    71% 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 38.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 9%, Simulation 8.9%

  45. #45 Rise Against the Invaders
    70% 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: Colony Sim 40.9%, Base Building 20.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 6.9%

  46. #46 Rise Under the Warstorm
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Last Signal
    Windows

    Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Tower Defense 18.9%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10.3%, Strategy 8.2%

  47. #47 Project Apocalypse
    71% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2022
    Dev: Sargonius Games
    Windows

    Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Zombies 13.2%, Outbreak Sim 9.9%, Building 7.3%

  48. #48 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
    69% matchMostly Positive77% of 193 reviews2025
    Dev: Exabyte Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

    Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Tower Defense 14.2%, Zombies 12.9%, Strategy 8.2%

  49. #49 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
    69% 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 42.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 7.3%

  50. #50 Cloud Exiles
    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
    Windows

    Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Zombies 16.3%, Strategy 10%, Outbreak Sim 7.9%

  51. #51 Orc Colony
    71% 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 54.5%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Building 7.5%, Resource Management 6.2%

  52. #52 Oxygen: First Breath
    69% 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 32.8%, Base Building 20.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Building 8.7%

  53. #53 Settletopia
    68% 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 37.5%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 6.8%

  54. #54 Sky Base Venus
    68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
    Dev: Rara Avis Interactive
    Windows

    Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 46.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

  55. #55 Terra-7
    67% 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 36.7%, Strategy 17.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Building 8.5%

  56. #56 Scrap Bulwark Guide
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: CrazyDream Game
    Windows

    "Scrap Bulwark Guide" is a tower defense game blending exploration and RPG mechanics. As a survivor in a post-apocalyptic city, you must recruit others, scavenge building materials from ruins, build street barricades, and fend off nightly zombie hordes to ultimately lead your group to safety.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 26.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Zombies 19%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 11.6%

  57. #57 YORG.io
    67% matchVery Positive90% of 730 reviews2019
    Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%

    YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

    Why similar: Tower Defense 36.7%, Strategy 21.1%, Zombies 18.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Resource Management 6.5%

  58. #58 Planet Barren Objective
    67% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
    Dev: Kaan Özgül
    Windows

    Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.

    Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 9.2%, Resource Management 7.5%

  59. #59 The Colony
    68% 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 73.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 10.9%

  60. #60 Settlements Rising
    64% 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 38.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Tower Defense 10.7%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.7%

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