The Best Colony Games - Page 5

Update : Memoriapolis added at rank #46.
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Captain of Industry (2022)

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j PC Windows

Embark on an adventure in Captain of Industry, where you transform an abandoned island into a thriving civilization. Mine, farm, and innovate your way to the stars by building rockets, trading with allies, and fending off pirates. With over 150 unique products and the ability to shape the terrain itself, your strategic decisions pave the path to success. Can you conquer the challenges and reach space?

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What we like:
  • Real-time terrain deformation
  • Wide variety of solutions for challenges
  • Handy tools like blueprinting
  • Engaging gameplay
  • Actively developed with promising potential
What could be improved:
  • Lacks clear end goals
  • Some gameplay issues need refining

  • automation
  • mining
  • transportation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • agriculture
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • logic
  • simulation
  • economy
  • building
  • management
  • survival

42

Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


What we like:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • economy
  • planet
  • city-building
  • capitalism
  • science
  • lore
  • management
  • nature
  • sandbox
  • building
  • resource
  • procedural

43

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.

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

44

Land of the Vikings (2023)

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PC Windows

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!


  • vikings
  • colony
  • city-building
  • building
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • mythology
  • resource-management
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • historical
  • survival
  • management

45

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

46

Memoriapolis (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Memoriapolis invites you to construct a city that spans 2,500 years of history, from Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. Choose your culture, manage resources, face historical events, build "Wonders" to achieve the status of Capital of Capitals and leave your mark in history!

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  • city-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • political
  • immersive
  • building
  • base-building
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • procedural
  • choices
  • exploration

47

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.

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

48

My Singing Monsters (2012)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows vita Android

Breed them, feed them, listen to them sing! Create an island full of Singing Monsters, then watch your song evolve as you breed and upgrade them. Design and build unique decorations to make your world look just the way you want. You'll love exploring the wonderful fantasy land of the Monster World!


  • collector
  • creature
  • simulation
  • colony
  • collectathon
  • 2.5d
  • dragon
  • farming
  • cartoony
  • cute
  • dinosaurs
  • family-friendly
  • building
  • colourful
  • nature

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As Far As The Eye (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?


  • hex
  • city-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • tabletop
  • building
  • grid
  • management
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • 4x
  • resource

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Jumplight Odyssey (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Keep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.

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  • simulation
  • colony
  • space
  • management
  • building
  • anime
  • cartoony
  • rogue-like
  • stylized
  • comedy
  • kinda
  • farming
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • funny

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