The Best Colony Games for Xbox One

Update : Landslide added at rank #10.
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RimWorld (2018)

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PC Windows Xbox One Mac OS 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
  • survival
  • base-building
  • management
  • farming
  • pirates
  • sci-fi
  • sandbox
  • building
  • card

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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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Kingdom Eighties (2023)

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Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

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

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Ratopia (2023)

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early access Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS

New game with combined genre of strategic survival, Sandbox, and city building simulation. Enjoy the simulation with vast world to adventure with a great number of contents. Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.


  • colony
  • base-building
  • management
  • city-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • cute
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • avatar
  • 2d
  • open-world

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Kingdoms and Castles (2017)

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Linux Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 5 Playstation 4 j

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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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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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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Quriocity (2022)

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

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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Match Village (2022)

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Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.


  • hex
  • colony
  • match-three
  • city-building
  • minimalist
  • relaxing
  • procedural
  • logic
  • grid
  • attack
  • score
  • medieval
  • puzzle
  • experimental
  • family-friendly

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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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