The Best Base-building colony simulation Games for Playstation 5

Update : Winter Games Challenge added at rank #5.
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Kingdoms and Castles (2017)

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Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • farming
  • management

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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!


What we like:
  • 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.
What could be improved:
  • Steep learning curve
  • Limited inventory space

  • programming
  • visual
  • agriculture
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • attractive
  • crafting
  • automation
  • farming
  • art
  • colony
  • robots
  • base-building

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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation (2018)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?


  • survival
  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • base
  • real-time
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • crafting
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • israeli

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Cartel Tycoon (2021)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Build an empire of drug production and smuggling chains while managing rogue lieutenants, state authorities, and public opinion. Rival gangs, the DEA, the army, and even the CIA all threaten your growing business. When Capo dies, crown your successor, and build your empire from the ruins all over again.


  • empire
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • business
  • management
  • strategy
  • survival
  • agriculture
  • soundtrack
  • narrative
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • building
  • base-building
  • economy

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Winter Games Challenge (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Faster, farther, higher! Fly like an eagle, perform spectacular dramatic half-pipe stunts and race down the ice track or across the slopes. Take on sporting challenges in eight action-packed winter sports disciplines.


  • cooperative
  • colony
  • sport
  • base-building
  • skating
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • skiing
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • snowboarding
  • local
  • 2d
  • survival

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Flooded (2023)

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Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.


  • city-building
  • real-time
  • time-management
  • colony
  • simulation
  • god-game
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • management
  • building
  • isometric
  • pixel
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • clicker

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Farworld Pioneers (2023)

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Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • colony
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • scroller
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pvp
  • space
  • management
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • galactic
  • rimworld

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Ruinarch (2020)

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Ruinarch is an evil overlord simulator with a focus on story generation. Take control of the narrative by spreading rumors, unleashing monsters, and creating chaos on an epic scale!


  • protagonist
  • god-game
  • colony
  • villain
  • base-building
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • politics
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • humor
  • simulation
  • building
  • dark
  • medieval

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