The Best Colony Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Landnama added at rank #4.
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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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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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

Beastie Bay DX (2021)

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Android Xbox Series X Xbox One IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!


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

7

Shiny Ski Resort (2017)

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Enjoy building and running a ski resort in this cool simulation game!


  • simulation
  • skiing
  • colony
  • sport
  • city-building
  • snowboarding
  • racing
  • strategy
  • pixel
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • real-time
  • crafting

8

RAILROADS Online! (2021)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows j

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

9

Common'hood (2022)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!


  • colony
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • automation
  • economy
  • management
  • minimalist
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • in-game
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • resource-management

10

Farworld Pioneers (2023)

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

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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