The Best Colony Games for Playstation 5

Update : RAILROADS Online! added at rank #7.
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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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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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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

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Quriocity (2022)

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Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.


  • cluster-head
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • colony
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • building
  • strategy
  • mars
  • management
  • 3d
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • immersive
  • hard

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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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One Lonely Outpost (2023)

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early access Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.


  • farming
  • simulation
  • colony
  • agriculture
  • life
  • space
  • base-building
  • japanese
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • building
  • crafting
  • dating-sim
  • sci-fi

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RAILROADS Online! (2024)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own Single-player sandbox! 


  • trains
  • simulation
  • auto
  • colony
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • building
  • driving
  • nature
  • open-world
  • economy
  • physics
  • cooperative
  • family-friendly
  • team

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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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