The Best Base-building colony 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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Endzone 2 (2025)

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j PC Windows

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.


  • colony
  • post-apocalyptic
  • city-building
  • survival
  • base-building
  • economy
  • building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • resource-management
  • nature
  • management
  • criss-crossing
  • atmospheric

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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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Night is Coming (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.


  • colony
  • strategy
  • mythology
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • real-time
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • survival
  • supernatural
  • demons
  • tactical
  • top-down
  • 3d

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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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