The Best Base-building colony simulation Games

Update, : Diluvian Winds added at rank #1.
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Diluvian Winds (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Diluvian Winds is a management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and help each other to try and survive the unpredictable weather. Grow your hamlet on land, under the sea or among the clouds.


  • colony
  • nature
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • post-apocalyptic
  • rogue-like
  • simulation
  • management
  • building
  • hand-drawn
  • turn-based
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • sandbox

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Blockville (2023)

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early access IOS iPhone PC Windows

Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.

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  • simulation
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • colony
  • immersive
  • resource-management
  • trains
  • stylized
  • relaxing
  • management
  • building
  • atmospheric
  • funny
  • colourful
  • economy

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Organs Please (2023)

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PC Windows

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.


  • political
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • post-apocalyptic
  • dystopian
  • memes
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • management
  • politics
  • survival
  • futuristic
  • gore
  • single-player

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Reshaping Mars (2023)

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PC Windows

In Reshaping Mars, you play as a bold and meticulous base commander tasked with transforming the barren planet into a habitable one. Using a real terrain database, you must mine, build, and manage resources to create a thriving civilization. Manage the behavior of your inhabitants, climb the technology ladder, and engage in production. Once the ecological cycle is formed, the power of nature will help you further complete the transformation to habitability. With different story backgrounds, you can experience exciting new journeys. Enjoy the unique journey of navigating Mars as a pioneer!

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Pros:
  • Good idea with potential for development
  • Fun gameplay mechanics
  • Lots of content and replay value
  • Androids increase productivity
  • Worth the price tag
Cons:
  • Performance: lag and stuttering
  • Unnecessary money system
  • Annoying notifications that can't be turned off
  • Production chains are unbalanced
  • Mining abilities are limited with no option to tunnel
  • Needs more fundamental work for deeper gameplay

  • 4x
  • mars
  • colony
  • base-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • building
  • real-time
  • space
  • resource-management
  • management
  • futuristic
  • mineral
  • chain

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Norland (2023)

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Android

Norland is a medieval kingdom sim that generates stories. Manage your noble family and face with class society, crime, slave revolts, religious conflict, economic issues, personal relations, treachery, secret murders, and spectacular battles.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • sandbox
  • medieval
  • management
  • procedural
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • strategy
  • violent
  • 2d

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Plan B: Terraform (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water and forests.

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  • trains
  • mars
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • hex
  • simulation
  • transportation
  • sandbox
  • minimalist
  • grid
  • management
  • top-down
  • building
  • crafting

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Scorchlands (2023)

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early access PC Windows Linux

The gears of the economy are oiled with magic. Build colonies, connect them with lasers, discover new tech and terraform a hostile moon. Enchanted items will be useful when encountering monsters, but magic tools are not just flashy weapons. They are the fuel which makes wealth and resources flow.


  • transportation
  • colony
  • automation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • magic
  • building
  • relaxing
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • 3d
  • open-world

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Industries Of Titan (2023)

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PC Windows

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

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  • anno
  • space
  • colony
  • 4x
  • post-apocalyptic
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • voxel
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • cyberpunk
  • building
  • pause
  • dark
  • ground

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The Last Starship (2023)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS

Introversion Software, the indie legends behind Prison Architect, Darwinia, DEFCON and Uplink, present to you our most ambitious title ever: Pick a ship hull, kit her out with engines, life-support, sensors and railguns and start your galactic adventure in The Last Starship!


  • colony
  • space
  • mining
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • science
  • automation
  • building
  • sandbox
  • sci-fi
  • top-down
  • 2d
  • strategy
  • management
  • exploration

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Poly Skies (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Poly Skies is a casual village builder and colony sim designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers who are seeking refuge from dangers below the clouds.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • relaxing
  • stylized
  • cartoony
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • casual

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