The Best Base-building colony simulation Games for Nintendo Switch

Update, : Diluvian Winds: Prologue added at rank #9.
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Kingdom: New Lands (2016)

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PC Windows Linux Xbox One Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Mac OS Android

Experience the mystery and challenge of managing a kingdom in Kingdom: New Lands. Explore new lands, build your kingdom, and defeat greedy creatures while discovering the secrets of this minimalist strategy game. With stunning visuals, simple controls, and a haunting soundtrack, Kingdom: New Lands will keep you hooked for hours as you learn and grow your empire.

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Pros:
  • Innovative gameplay mechanics
  • Expanding game world
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Beautiful visual style
  • Rewarding learning curve
Cons:
  • Lack of control over characters
  • Limited diversification of gameplay loop
  • No clear instruction

  • pixel
  • tower-defense
  • colony
  • medieval
  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • scroller
  • base-building
  • survival
  • building
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • side-scrolling
  • defence

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Autonauts (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Autonauts is a charming simulation game that allows you to colonize uninhabited planets and build a civilization of robots to do your bidding. With a fun and unique automation programming system, colorful graphics, and no required programming knowledge, you can explore, gather resources, and create an animal husbandry world. The game offers limitless opportunities for automation and colonization, making it an experience you won't want to miss!

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Pros:
  • Fun and challenging gameplay for management sim lovers
  • Unique automation programming system
  • Colorful and cute graphics
  • No required programming knowledge
  • Large world to explore and customize.
Cons:
  • Steep learning curve
  • Limited inventory space

  • programming
  • simulation
  • automation
  • visual
  • farming
  • agriculture
  • crafting
  • colony
  • attractive
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • robots
  • art

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Surviving the Aftermath (2020)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Surviving the Aftermath is a post-apocalyptic city building and management simulator that focuses on surviving and thriving in a world ravaged by various disasters. The gameplay loop is addictive, with players constantly micromanaging their colony and working towards long-term goals like unlocking upgrades in the tech tree. Your choices affect the colony's happiness and future, making for an immersive and challenging gaming experience.

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Pros:
  • Good variety of starting and difficulty options
  • Interesting story and exploration mechanics
  • Wide variety of buildings and environments
  • Fun hero and exploration system
  • Severely punishing gameplay
Cons:
  • Slow pacing in late game
  • No smart road building/pathing
  • Too many unintuitive blocks in tech and resources

  • post-apocalyptic
  • simulation
  • colony
  • management
  • city-building
  • survival
  • building
  • base-building

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Regions Of Ruin (2018)

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Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • simulation
  • scroller
  • side-scrolling
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • building

5

Kingdom: Two Crowns (2018)

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In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of the Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise!

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  • pixel
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • side-scrolling
  • colony
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • base-building
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • 2d
  • art
  • kingdom-building
  • adventure

6

One More Island (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

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!


  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • trading
  • top-down
  • management
  • exploration
  • ipad
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • 2d

7

Seeds of Resilience (2019)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS Linux

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.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • nature
  • base-building
  • building
  • management
  • procedural
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • rogue-like
  • family-friendly
  • resource-management
  • construction
  • survival

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Sheltered 2 (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Mac OS Linux PC Windows

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.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • colony
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • character
  • building
  • customization
  • post-nuclear
  • combat

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Diluvian Winds: Prologue (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Diluvian Winds: Prologue is a free playable alpha of Diluvian Winds. Survive as you expand your community in your lighthouse.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • nature
  • building
  • management
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • economy
  • 2d

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Farming Life (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Are you tired of corporate life? Create your own farm! Plant vegetables and fruits, harvest crops, employ workers, take care of animals. Buy farm equipment, manage employees and just relax!


  • farming
  • agriculture
  • simulation
  • building
  • colony
  • memes
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • time-management
  • city-building
  • relaxing
  • stylized

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