The Best Base-building colony simulation Games for Xbox One

Update, : Garbage added at rank #12.
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RimWorld (2018)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android Mac OS Linux

RimWorld is a life simulator and management game set in a remote planet in the distant future. It features a unique character generation system to create complex personalities with flaws, drives and needs, as well as a story generator that creates unexpected scenarios for players to face.


Pros:
  • Unique character generation system
  • Story generator creates unpredictable scenarios
  • Tons of mods for everything
  • Includes interaction bubbles to show interactions as they happen
Cons:
  • Unintuitive UI
  • Busy work tasks can be tedious

  • colony
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • management
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • farming
  • sci-fi
  • building
  • construction
  • ottawa
  • firefly
  • western
  • colony-building
  • moddable

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Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


Pros:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
Cons:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • lore
  • nature
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • science
  • management
  • base-building
  • economy
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • space
  • resource

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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.


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!


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 Mars (2018)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4

There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • mars
  • space
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • survival
  • base-building

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Planetbase (2015)

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Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

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.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • space
  • survival
  • management
  • robots
  • building
  • base-building
  • mars
  • strategy
  • trading
  • sci-fi
  • resource-management

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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.


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.


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

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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!


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

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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.


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

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