The Best Colony Games for Xbox One

Update : One Lonely Outpost added at rank #11.
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RimWorld (2018)

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Mac OS Xbox One PC Windows Linux

RimWorld is a life simulator and management game set in a remote planet in the distant future. It features a unique character generation system to create complex personalities with flaws, drives and needs, as well as a story generator that creates unexpected scenarios for players to face.


What we like:
  • Unique character generation system
  • Story generator creates unpredictable scenarios
  • Tons of mods for everything
  • Includes interaction bubbles to show interactions as they happen
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive UI
  • Busy work tasks can be tedious

  • colony
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • survival
  • management
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • sci-fi
  • moddable
  • pirates

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Beastie Bay DX (2021)

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Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!


  • simulation
  • colony
  • city-building
  • economy
  • rpg
  • farming
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • casual
  • battle
  • strategy
  • 2d
  • cute
  • survival

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Cafe Master Story (2023)

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Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!


  • simulation
  • colony
  • life
  • cooking
  • city-building
  • 2d
  • sandbox
  • table
  • pixel
  • casual

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Kingdom Eighties (2023)

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Kingdom Eighties is a standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series. A singleplayer epic adventure of micro-strategy and base building. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed, and discover the secrets of your family lineage!


  • pixel
  • micro-strategy
  • colony
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • survival
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • building
  • skateboard
  • medieval
  • procedural

5

Jumbo Airport Story (2022)

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Jumbo Airport Story is a fun and wholesome simulation game where you get to run your very own airport! With a vibrant pixelated style, the game offers a lot of buildings and items to purchase, and finding the perfect combinations is rewarding. The game also offers a constant flow of activity, making it addictive and enjoyable to play.


What we like:
  • Lots of buildings and items to purchase
  • Constant flow of activity
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Rewards in medals
  • Carries over progress to new games
What could be improved:
  • Annoying menu for building placement
  • Text appears as blocks sometimes
  • A few translation issues
  • Touchscreen functionality not fully optimized
  • No multiplayer mode available

  • flight
  • colony
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • 2d
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • entertainment
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • casual
  • building
  • cute

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Ratopia (2024)

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Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • cute
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • open-world

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Landnama (2023)

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Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.


  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • hex
  • vikings
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • grid
  • build-em-up
  • economy
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • building

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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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Bridges & Docks (2024)

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Build the island of your dreams - either by hand or using procedural generation tools. Create cozy islands while completing objectives to unlock new items & tools. Adjust the quantity of bridges, the maximum height of the terrain, and meticulously tweak configurations to create unique island worlds!


  • city-building
  • colony
  • god-game
  • building
  • procedural
  • nature
  • relaxing
  • minimalist
  • editor
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • level
  • stylized
  • base-building
  • medieval

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Landslide (2024)

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Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.


  • skateboard
  • simulation
  • government
  • skater
  • god-game
  • city-building
  • colony
  • strategy
  • 2.5d
  • political
  • management
  • endless
  • building
  • base-building
  • casual

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