The Best Base-building colony Games - Page 3

Update : Final Outpost added at rank #20.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (2024)

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PC Windows

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.


  • grand-strategy
  • city-building
  • colony
  • moddable
  • building
  • simulation
  • 4x
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • economy
  • management
  • historical
  • strategy

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Becastled (2021)

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early access PC Windows

Becastled is about building and defending your castle from sieges in a fantasy world!


  • base-building
  • city-building
  • colony
  • building
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • real-time
  • military
  • war

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Academia: School Simulator (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS

If you love management games, then you need to play Academia: School Simulator. You get to build and run your own school, choosing how you want it to function and what your students need. With plenty of customization options, you can make it unique to your preferences. Do you want to be a strict principal who enforces every rule, or will you let things slide? It's all up to you!


What we like:
  • Similar gameplay to Prison Architect
  • Ability to punish misbehaving students
  • Can organize bake sales
  • Customize country flag and uniforms
  • Enjoyable management game
What could be improved:
  • Lack of depth compared to Prison Architect
  • No proper tutorial
  • Annoying goons to deal with
  • Game updates seem abandoned by dev
  • Complex gameplay might affect retention

  • colony
  • capitalism
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • management
  • moddable
  • building
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • family-friendly
  • top-down
  • education
  • cute
  • colourful

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Factory Town (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Dive into Factory Town, a vibrant world where you shape a bustling village into an industrial powerhouse. Master logistics, research technologies, and harness magic to create the ultimate production utopia. With a soothing atmosphere and endless possibilities, you're in control of every conveyor and railway. Turn your creative visions into reality and watch your civilization flourish!


What we like:
  • Deep and complex management
  • Engaging and rewarding gameplay
  • Beautiful, immersive visuals
  • No stressful combat
  • Creative freedom in sandbox mode
What could be improved:
  • Overwhelming tutorial for beginners
  • Potential for repetitive gameplay

  • automation
  • base-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • sandbox
  • transportation
  • simulation
  • buildings
  • crafting
  • management
  • moddable
  • editor
  • economy
  • level

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A Planet of Mine (2017)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

If you're looking for a mobile game that offers space exploration, empire expansion, and natural resource exploitation, then A Planet of Mine is the game for you. With unique gameplay and solid variety, there's plenty of content to keep you engaged. Despite a largely worthless tutorial and out of balance resources, this game offers a compellingly complex economic simulation that will keep you occupied for however long you care to devoted to it. A Planet of Mine is a must-try title for any fan of 4x games.


What we like:
  • Unique gameplay
  • solid variety with 16 species and 15 modes of play
  • compellingly complex economic simulation
  • plenty of content
  • offers a simplified and accessible experience
What could be improved:
  • Largely worthless tutorial
  • Some resources out of balance
  • Mechanics are not fully explained

  • 4x
  • colony
  • mining
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • building
  • god-game
  • minimalist
  • science
  • procedural
  • space
  • sandbox
  • trading
  • resource

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Honey, I Joined a Cult (2022)

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PC Windows

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!


  • management
  • illuminati
  • simulation
  • cult
  • base-building
  • faith
  • sims
  • comedy
  • resource-management
  • dark
  • colony
  • god-game
  • sandbox
  • building
  • political

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Ostriv (2020)

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early access PC Windows j

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • economy
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • management
  • agriculture
  • historical
  • relaxing
  • medieval
  • build
  • replay-value
  • 3d

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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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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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Sapiens Craft (2023)

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PC Windows Android

Begin as a small stone age tribe. End as a global super power in a future age. Craft and research your way through history!


  • colony
  • simulation
  • god-game
  • management
  • crafting
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • life
  • moddable
  • building

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