The Best Base-building colony simulation Games

Update : Ascent of Ashes added at rank #1.
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Ascent of Ashes (2025)

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PC Windows

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs


  • simulation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • immersive
  • humor
  • survival
  • building
  • crafting
  • management
  • exploration
  • party
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • character

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Drill Core (2025)

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Android PC Windows j Nintendo Switch

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?


  • tower-defense
  • rogue-like
  • colony
  • city-building
  • scroller
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • resource-management
  • stylized
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • management
  • space
  • building

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Hungry Meem (2025)

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j PC Windows

Meems, the hungry creatures that live under the World Tree, are in danger of extinction! Let's make the Meems' lives happy by exploring around the World Tree with them and developing their settlement!

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  • rogue-like
  • agriculture
  • colony
  • humor
  • farming
  • building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • character
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • management
  • customization
  • exploration
  • story

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Final Outpost (2025)

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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?


  • zombies
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • survival
  • base-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • economy
  • simulation
  • resource

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Blacksmith Master (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.


  • automation
  • colony
  • economy
  • moddable
  • management
  • building
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • medieval
  • open-world
  • strategy

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Mini Settlers (2025)

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PC Windows

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.


  • colony
  • automation
  • trains
  • city-building
  • transportation
  • base-building
  • minimalist
  • simulation
  • management
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • building
  • procedural
  • resource-management
  • real-time

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Survivalist: Invisible Strain (2025)

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j Xbox Series X PC Windows

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

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  • survival
  • open-world
  • colony
  • crafting
  • conversation
  • zombies
  • hunting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • character
  • procedural
  • stealth
  • choices
  • customization

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Gnomes DYSTOPIAN (2025)

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PC Windows

Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde

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  • dwarf
  • tower-defense
  • rogue-like
  • colony
  • economy
  • procedural
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • farming
  • turn-based
  • dark
  • replay-value
  • pixel
  • survival

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Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder (2025)

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early access PC Windows

At the northern fringes of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

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  • city-building
  • rome
  • god-game
  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • management
  • resource-management
  • building
  • economy
  • medieval
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • open-world

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Night is Coming a Wrath of the Woods (2025)

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PC Windows

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

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  • colony
  • werewolves
  • mythology
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • lore
  • demons
  • simulation
  • management
  • strategy
  • dark
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • fantasy

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